Ever seen a ghost?

illfounded21 said:

Sleep paralysis is different though to seeing an apparition?

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If someone's been sleeping, no. You can even have a full blown alien abduction hallucination during sleep paralysis.

deviatus said:

If someone's been sleeping, no. You can even have a full blown alien abduction hallucination during sleep paralysis.

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Sounds intense. Never heard of the hallucinations, only the fear of not being able to move.

illfounded21 said:

I appreciate you spending the time and effort in writing such a post.

Yeah i completely agree with wha you say about don't just assume all stuff is bad stuff. I just think people who do not know or understand something always assume it to be bad- because it is the unknown. I have no idea what happens when you die, no one can be sure of that, so who knows what happens to/if you have energy that stays. If ghosts do exist 100% there is no reason to fear them anymore than living humans- it makes no sense to.

Haha and when I ran away I was a scared kid of 7 or 8 years old- I think it is understandable!

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I should have been doing other things but got distracted.

I don't know either what happens when people die. It is like a closed door and some people on this side are screaming that there is cake or frost on the other side, some even claim there is a refund policy so when you don't "qualify" they can send ya back to mature a bit more... Every day people go through that door but nobody ever returns for a proper review. Still, people shout they know The Truth. lol
To be fair there are some book reports but they are written too long ago to be accurate.
It is not the topic at hand though and it soon touches on religion, something we can't talk about here.

In general I don't think you should be scared of ghosts. But when it comes to hauntings, poltergeists and opening a channel by focus, the rules change.
The human mind is stronger than most people think. If you believe we are all connected or can connect when needed, focussing in a certain way in a combined effort should accomplish something strong right?
Now think back to that Ouijia board...

I have been studying this topic for over 20 years now and still don't have a definitive answer on what "the truth" is. I narrowed it down to 3 different theories that are all possible and don't contradict themselves, just each other.
All I can say for sure is there is more than we can see, more than is taught at school. And also, that it doesn't matter why you think it works, if you do it right it just works. You don't need to understand how gravity works to understand an apple falls down from the tree, not up. That, and to give joy to receive it. Make people happy and reap what you sow.

I think it is understandable to run as a kid though. Kids that run when scared live longer I suspect.

I have had experiences when I was a teenager in my parents home, I have seen a single apparition of a young lady sitting on the kitchen floor almost like a looking at a person who is made up of static from a television, had also heard chairs move in the kitchen in the early morning hours (generally 2-3 am). I am still skeptical about the apparition as I am not 100% sure if I was just seeing things or not. It was startling but not scary.
The spine tingling and creeped out feelings we experience are 99% of the time are made up in our heads or from electrical and or static devices around us. there is the 1% though that can't be fully explained.

I am a fence sitter when it comes to ghosts, I believe that there is a spiritual side in whatever sense it may be after we die. I do keep an open mind though.

illfounded21 said:

All 3 barking towards the exact same spot in the corner. All their head were looking at the same place, genuinely as if they were looking at someone.

The one thing my friend said- which stayed in my memory- is when he was sleeping on his own in the house one time. He has wooden floors and stairs, and remember I said earlier that his house was 5 stories, so that is a lot of staircase.

Well he told me he was lying in bed at night one time when he heard a noise. He listened to what sounded like footsteps in the house. He said he was lying there, really straining to hear, but he was sure they were footsteps. Quiet at first, he said it sounded like they were at bottom of the 1st set of stairs but they were getting louder and closer. As if someone/something was climbing the stairs slowly.

He said he got really worried that someone had broken in to the house, as now he was 100% sure they were footsteps, and were loud and clear now. He said at the time he was frozen there in his bed, as he could hear the last footsteps get to the top of the final staircase on to his hall landing. They then proceeded to walk- with floor boards creaking until it got to the door of his room- he was sure someone was going to walk into his room.

He waited, but nothing happened. Eventually after a fair amount of mins had passed he got out and checked the hall, only to find nothing there. He told me he was more worried someone had broken in and due to the fact the ghost/or whatever had done nothing to him- he wasnt really concerned by it.

Another friend said the same thing about footsteps in the house too.

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You guys are creeping me out. And your friend has balls.

In my country people have strong beliefs about paranormal things, and in my neighborhood whenever someone is pregnant they are always scared about a half bodied lady flying around lurking around to stalk the pregnant. Specially in the middle of the night almost everyone claims that they hear it just hovering above the roof of the pregnant persons house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manananggal

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the question i always ask them is why has everybody seen it or felt it lurking around, and i go home almost every 4am or work until 4am and haven't heard anything hovering or creepy around the house(there is a pregnant woman next to our house).

I guess if you believe this kind of things happen they are true, and if you are a skeptic like me these ghost and other stuff wont bother scaring or showing up to you hahaha

DoorKnocker said:

In my country people have strong beliefs about paranormal things, and in my neighborhood whenever someone is pregnant they are always scared about a half bodied lady flying around lurking around to stalk the pregnant. Specially in the middle of the night almost everyone claims that they hear it just hovering above the roof of the pregnant persons house.



the question i always ask them is why has everybody seen it or felt it lurking around, and i go home almost every 4am or work until 4am and haven't heard anything hovering or creepy around the house(there is a pregnant woman next to our house).

I guess if you believe this kind of things happen they are true, and if you are a skeptic like me these ghost and other stuff wont bother scaring or showing up to you hahaha

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If the Manananggal was real this is what I'd do to it

Someone who is a complete skeptic and believes nothing paronormal ect..
Use the Ouijia board and report back hear and share your experience.
Make sure to read about the topic first from someone more experienced to make sure you do it right. I dont think i ever met someone who said ouiji board was fake.
Thats the main reason im afraid to try it myself. Im very curious though.

i do beleive in ghosts. it is true these things are real

Masterptc said:

Someone who is a complete skeptic and believes nothing paronormal ect..
Use the Ouijia board and report back hear and share your experience.
Make sure to read about the topic first from someone more experienced to make sure you do it right. I dont think i ever met someone who said ouiji board was fake.
Thats the main reason im afraid to try it myself. Im very curious though.

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A simple search yielded this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija#Academic

I am not particularly interested, but thought you might be.

Well guys I can safely say that I wont be trying a Ouija board any time soon. Although, my intrigue and curiosity is strong in this area.

Oooh, I remember one:
I was 8 years I think. I sleeped in bed. Than I awake and opened my eyes. I saw something taller than me, transparent. But I saw the "ghost" few seconds. I was really shocked, but one question - I am not 100% agree that was ghost. Maybe it was in my brains, but I think it was ghost
:saevil: And maybe anyone rememer movie title: One group ghosts hunters go into house and they despised them. Then ghosts got angry. They tryed to go out of house, but it was impossible, becouse there was doors to get in, they broke them and it was just another room... And they killed all humans. This movie is new. I rocommend You to watch ! Sorry my english is bad so I cant write more about movie, but the movies is really great, I was scary so I watched through the hand , but I watched with 3 ppls

lietuvis002 said:

Oooh, I remember one:
I was 8 years I think. I sleeped in bed. Than I awake and opened my eyes. I saw something taller than me, transparent. But I saw the "ghost" few seconds. I was really shocked, but one question - I am not 100% agree that was ghost. Maybe it was in my brains, but I think it was ghost
:saevil: And maybe anyone rememer movie title: One group ghosts hunters go into house and they despised them. Then ghosts got angry. They tryed to go out of house, but it was impossible, becouse there was doors to get in, they broke them and it was just another room... And they killed all humans. This movie is new. I rocommend You to watch ! Sorry my english is bad so I cant write more about movie, but the movies is really great, I was scary so I watched through the hand , but I watched with 3 ppls

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Haha cheers buddy

Btw your rep has soared from this morning!!

illfounded - yeah, You can check thread. Thanks for all who gave me +reps. Don't give me more

So, no one watched this movie? It was popular in cinemas about 1 month ago.

Drago05 said:

You mean ghosts like this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFNxTJo5c8

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Dammit!! This gets me every time even though I knew it was coming.

lietuvis002 said:

illfounded - yeah, You can check thread. Thanks for all who gave me +reps. Don't give me more

So, no one watched this movie? It was popular in cinemas about 1 month ago.

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What's the film called?

My family is from Pakistan and I have been visiting there all my life. People over there vow that there are supernatural occurrences that happen in humans through supernatural, sometimes even evil, forces (known as jinn over there). I didn't believe and was always skeptical about these sorts of happenings and would tell all my cousins/friends that it's not true doesn't happen and ended up looking like I was wrong.

One night I was walking to the kitchen in Karachi, Pakistan in my aunts house to go get myself a bowl of cereal as all the servants were asleep at that hour of the night. As I walked out, I heard a loud noise of someone sobbing as I walked closer it was one of the servants who was sleeping in the living rooms next door! I'm not a person who is really afraid of such things so I called out his name and he just got up standing halfway on his knees looking around crying and sobbing and his eyes were very very glossy and glazed and even a bit discolored as if something had entered him. I stayed away and just sort of observed and ran to go wake my uncle up. My uncle came and after about 20 full minutes of loud prayers the servant seemed unconsumed snapped out of what was going on, apologized and went back to sleep. The next morning I woke up and asked him WTF happened last night and he said he no recollection of what I was talking about. Yiiiikes.

Oh. I remember movie: Title is:
Grave Encounters

Watch it, its really good. I am going to create new thread for this

OldSalt said:

I don't tell many people about this but I do absolutely believe in 'spirits'.

My mom passed away when I was 7 and about 6 months later my family moved to California. The way the houses were in my neighborhood was that the houses were back to back with streets in front and an alleyway between the backsides. Well, since mischievous kids would often break the lights in the alleyway, most the of home owners never replaced them and they were almost completely dark.

I was on my way walking home down the alleyway one night (yea, I know... wtf was an 8 yr old walking home by himself? But keep in mind, this was 40 years ago - and it probably wasn't too late - I don't remember exactly). In either case, I heard a small noise behind me and figured it was a cat in a garbage can or something. I turned around and saw the lighted image of my Mom. Almost immediately after seeing the image, both the image and the light faded away. Now some people would say it was my mind wanting her to be there... but where did the light come from then? Hard to imagine light in my opinion.

I ran home although thinking about it years later it wasn't because I was scared of her, it just startled the crap out of me. In my mind when I think about it - I think she showed herself to protect me from something - to get me to get my butt home pronto cause something could have happened if I didn't.

So do I believe? YES - without a doubt in my mind.

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yep even i believe in spirits as my great grandma used to talk with them(no BS here),no chit chatting thing but if anyone was haunted she used to go there to solve that....