Do you believe in ghosts?

dbertagni

or every had a ghostly encounter?

The reason I ask is because last night at 2:30 I woke up to DH clanking around. The Leapfrog table had gone off on it's own (which I know it is prone to do). Then we started talking about it being a ghost in the house and I just got freaked out thinking about ghosts and spirits. I don't know why the thought is so scary, it just made me feel creepy thinking about it and I had bad dreams all night. I love scary ghost movies, but I am not sure if I believe in it or not. I have never had a real ghost encounter. I want to believe in an after life but the thought of it freaks me out.

mrsmikey

Yes I do. 

Jules_NC

I'm on the fence.  My family once owned a house outside Atlanta that was 'confirmed' haunted.  A lot of strange things happened in and around the house.  Locals have seen the 'lady in white' outside the house for the last 60 years.  She was killed in a car crash on the road and warns drivers of the dangerous curves (several family members also saw her).  My mom and brother went to visit last summer and there are still abnormal happenings (voices, things moving, doors slamming, etc).  here's a picture - main house was built before the Civil War and has been added on to since.

 

 

lalabee0425

Oh I sure do. I have had 4 encounters. It scared the bejezuz out of me.They are long stories, too long to type.

Short version: staying with my boyfriend in college at his parent's second house--middle of nowhere and built by his great great grandpa. One of gramp's dauthers died there at 16 and I saw her twice. First time I didn't say anything to anyone. I saw a white figure standing outside under the tall "streetlamp" in their large yard by the barn. I thought I was going nuts. Second time (different visit) I was Doing dishes at night and I was looking out the window. Looked down to wash, looked up again and there she was. Looking at me. White nightgown long light brown hair. I almost peed. I flipped out and felt silly about what I saw since I was not expecting or even knew her ghost was there. I thought I was going nuts. When I finally explained why I was freaked out, BF and his family told me about her and said they see her too sometimes. I did not make it up. Really scared me since it was confirmed. FREAKY. 2 other times BF and I were there alone and all the power went out. Remember, middle of nowhere, pitch black. Only house around. It was so dark and we were in a back room cleaning. The dog started going nuts and we heard clicking. We both were clinging to eachother. It wouldn't have been so bad but the dog was in the other room, barking the bark he only has when he he sees someone. When the lights came back on the hair on his neck was standing up. Gives me the chills just to think about it.

Every time I stayed there you could "feel" something. I felt it before I knew what the hell was going on too. 

So yes, I believe. And I know. 

dbertagni

Lala-That gave me chills.Creepy. I was just freaked out by at toy, so I can't imagine that. I think there are spirits, but I just wonder why they would be here or showing themselves to us.

ECUGirl2004

Do you ever watch Ghost Hunters?  That show will freak you out!  DH and I used to watch it all the time, but then we got kind of tired of it.

If you research the show, there are a lot of people out there who can offer scientific explanations for all the "data" that Ghost Hunters collects.

Personally, I believe in energy.  I don't know if I'd take so far as to call the energy a ghost or not.  I think sometimes energy is left behind for one reason or another.  I don't know if it's a spirit or not.  Personally, I have felt the energy of my grandmothers that have passed on, and there have been times that I have felt like they were giving me messages.  Nothing creepy, just helping me out with things. 

One of my grandmothers (the one I'm named after) always had a connection to me though.  She and I often had similar dreams.  The day before she died, I was going to sleep and I had a flash of her eyes in my mind.  I could completely see her eyes in my mind, and I knew that she was going to die very soon.

When my other grandma died, I had a dream later that she came back to me to say goodbye.  I don't know if that was just my subconscious trying to make me feel better though.

AngelPack

I don't know if I do or not, but my mom definitely does.  She also believes that children can see them more because they have not been taught not to believe and are open minded.

One reason she believes is because somehow when I was very young, like maybe 2 going on 3 or somewhere around there my grandfather (mom's dad) passed away.  She didn't want me to know because she didn't know how to explain it to me so my mom and dad had not told me, we were living in Germany so no other family could have possibly gotten to me, but somehow I knew and I went to my mom out of the blue and told her it was ok because Papaw was with Jesus. 

Something I thought was very strange is that when my step-brother was about 2 he would ALWAYS wave when we passed this one cemetary.  Like he could see someone and was waving to them and he was excited about seeing them.  There was never a person there...

cate1119

Definitely!  I used to have 2 imaginary friends that I played with in our house growing up - my mom thought they were imaginary, but after a few things - she thinks they may have been spirits....

I never knew this but later on, my friend admitted her mom (and later to my mom) that when she would stay overnight she hated to get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom b/c the 2 kids would always be there waiting for her and wanted to play. 

My boyfriend in highschool also saw 2 kids on our balcony and turned white and got up abruptly and left.  He called me when he got home and told me what he saw and apologized but said he was scared

Coincidentally - my grandmother had twins that died at birth.....I seriously have no idea if it's related, but still....

nark

I do. I grew up in a neighborhood full of, er, activity (Civil War town, with two cemeteries & an old hospital within 1/4 mile of my house), and when I was small I didn't know yet that some people DIDN'T believe in ghosts. They didn't freak me out at all until I was older and watched scary movies about ghosts freaking people out.?

Now, though, I tend to get the heebie jeebies when I sleep at my parents' house. ?

uncharch7

neither DH nor i do.  neither of us have had any experiences with them either to convince us otherwise.

H&W05

I am skeptical. My sister has had an encounter or two and of course I believe her, but I'd have to see it for myself to truly believe.

MrsSavannah

or every had a ghostly encounter?

Yep.  Several times. 

I also used to live in a town with a lot of "activity" and I used to live in a house that was once the master slave's quarters on an old cotton plantation.  The original one actually burned down, but the new one (that we lived in) was built in the same spot.

ETA:  I should have said "newer one".  It was still a pretty old house.  Probably 70 - 80 years old.  Is "newer" even a word?  Doesn't look right.  Ignore me today.  I'm not with it.

 

unc00ref

Yes - I do. I've seen a ghost before. I don't have time to type it out right now, but remind me later and I'll get back to you if you are interested.

kbs0929

yes, I have had several things happen that just can't be explained away.

when I first moved into my house, I lived alone with my puppy.  He went running full speed into the living room barking and sounded like he hit a brick wall, started wimpering and came back and got under the bed, freaking out.  that same night, all the clocks in my house went off at the same time, including my cell phone.  the kitchen chairs were in the living room several mornings when I woke up.  all of the lights would go on and off at different times.  the front door would come open, after I had turned locked the dead-bolt.  just random stuff happened all the time.  after I lived there for about a year, they abrubtly stopped.  almost like the "ghost" "spirit" or whatever knew that I wasn't going to leave.

 

Evans

Eh, I don't know. ?I never have had any first hand experience (and hope never to). ?My mom swears she has had conversations with dead friends when she was a little girl and I believe she believes that it happened, but I have no explanation.

I think there is energy and I think the dead can reach past the afterlife to send messages in the same way you can hear God and Jesus if you are listening.

With that said, Kylie (at 17.5 months) picked up the snow globe my grandmother got her not long after my grandmother died, pointed at it, and said Jesus. ?It was creepy because she obviously had no concept of death to realize her great-grandmother had died and she has always previously called it the "noglobe"

murph04

I've never had any first hand experience, but I have  friends who have had "encounters" for lack of a better word. I'm not sure where that puts me on the believer/non-believer scale, so I'll just say I'm open-minded about it.

When I first moved to NC I lived in what once were military barracks with several other women. Creepy things were always happening in one woman's room and the adjoining bathroom.  Her printer would turn on and off at night for several minutes at a time, even though it was unplugged. The water in the bathroom would turn on and off at night -- not just a drip, drip, drip either. It would gush from the sink as if someone had turned it on all the way, even though no one was in there. And no matter what she used to put up pictures on the wall they'd always fall down, even though the rest of us had no problems. Turns out a guy died in that room years before.

I was skeptical about all of the above, but one day someone/something actually shoved this woman while she was standing alone in the middle of her room. I get the heebeejeebies just thinking about it.

starz080

I definitely believe that supernatural spirits live on the earth.  I think they're all around us and sometimes we see them, but normally we don't see them at all.  Kinda spooky when you think about it really.