October 2013 Moms

I must know...

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edited December 2013 in October 2013 Moms
How many of us actually believe that ghosts exist and can influence our reality (i.e. writing creepy messages on a mirror)? Personally, I'm a complete skeptic, but there is so much serious ghost-related discussion in the haunted house thread that it got me wondering.
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I must know... 190 votes

Yes, I believe ghosts are really and all up in our business.
50% 95 votes
Are you crazy? Ghosts are whack.
31% 60 votes
SS/Show me the results.
18% 35 votes

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  • I've totes seen one, so I know they're real.

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  • I am unsure. I want to believe, but then my rational brain just can't. I want to believe because then I won't have really "lost" someone, you know?
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  • I've totes seen one, so I know they're real.
    Story time!
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  • I've totes seen one, so I know they're real.
    Explain!
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  • LOLZ at all up in our business.
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  • sleepy33 said:
    LOLZ at all up in our business.
    They're exposing infidelity and everything!
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  • Didn't we do a ghost story post way back in the beginning? I know I've told the story before, and I'm looking for the thread so I don't have to type it all out again (one handed w/ a LO attached to me)...lolz.

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  • I'm not sure. My mom and brother swear the house I was born in was haunted. Creepy stories I will not repeat.
  • SnoopyLuv said:

    I am unsure. I want to believe, but then my rational brain just can't. I want to believe because then I won't have really "lost" someone, you know?

    This!

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  • Ss: I would say I don't believe, but when I hear a personal account, my hair stands up and I get goosebumps because part of me really does think it's possible.
  • Definitely. I also have experiences, way too long/boring to repeat. In short, my deceased grandmother hung out with me one night.


  • I picked SS. The reason why is I don't believe they write on mirrors...lol or do 1/2 the things people accuse ghosts of doing. I am a paranormal investigator so I believe in ghosts but am a skeptic without clear cut evidence.

    On investigations the scariest things that happen are completely non ghost related. Like running into a spider..... Ew ew ew
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  • Didn't we do a ghost story post way back in the beginning? I know I've told the story before, and I'm looking for the thread so I don't have to type it all out again (one handed w/ a LO attached to me)...lolz.

    Yes there was a post.
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  • Lee81 said:

    I voted SS because my belief in ghosts varies based on time of day and whether or not I'm alone. It is currently light out and even though I'm home alone, I firmly believe that ghosts are a bunch of superstitious nonsense. In a few hours, once it's good and dark, I will be questioning my stance if I hear a strange noise or the animals start staring at nothing. 

    This is the kind of mentality that "creates" ghosts. I do it to myself as well. The worse is when the animals or baby stare at something that isn't there.
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  • Nope
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  • edited December 2013
    NRyan55 said:



    Didn't we do a ghost story post way back in the beginning? I know I've told the story before, and I'm looking for the thread so I don't have to type it all out again (one handed w/ a LO attached to me)...lolz.



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    https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/8921155/nbr-ghost-stories

    AWESOME! Except you can't see the story!

    ETA: Wrong smiley :((

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  • I voted ss because while I believe ghosts are possible, I'm not sure they are necessarily all up in our business.

    FTR: I have never see or felt one. I don't definitively believe in them. But I think they could exist.
  • NRyan55 said:



    NRyan55 said:



    Didn't we do a ghost story post way back in the beginning? I know I've told the story before, and I'm looking for the thread so I don't have to type it all out again (one handed w/ a LO attached to me)...lolz.



    @scamberlous3000


    https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/8921155/nbr-ghost-stories
    AWESOME! Except you can't see the story!

    ETA: Wrong smiley :((




    Aww boo! A lot of old threads are messed up :/

    Damn the transition between formats.
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  • I've never had any experience, but I've heard some crazy stories. Anything is possible in my mind.
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  • I am undecided. I want to NOT believe, but I always hear weird things in the early mornings at work, when I'm either alone or my boss is the only other person there. Like the radio suddenly turned up full blast when I was in the other kitchen and my boss was upstairs in the restaurant. I immediately went up to make sure he was there and not fucking with me (which we're prone to doing stuff to each other). Supposedly the building is haunted.

    @scamberlous I think I remember your post specifically, wasn't yours amazingly detailed, really beautifully written?
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  • Yes, I've had experiences that I cannot otherwise explain.
  • kirbabe said:

    I am undecided. I want to NOT believe, but I always hear weird things in the early mornings at work, when I'm either alone or my boss is the only other person there. Like the radio suddenly turned up full blast when I was in the other kitchen and my boss was upstairs in the restaurant. I immediately went up to make sure he was there and not fucking with me (which we're prone to doing stuff to each other). Supposedly the building is haunted.

    @scamberlous I think I remember your post specifically, wasn't yours amazingly detailed, really beautifully written?

    Yeppers, that was me and thank you very much! I'm trying my hardest to find a copy of it somewhere so I don't have to write it again :/

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  • I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I had a tug-of-war with one in college so I find it hard to convince myself that they don't exist or have influence on daily life.  I missed the thread of ghost stories back in April, so here's mine:

    I went to Pitt, and some of the dorms on campus are converted apartment buildings from the turn of the last century, including the dorm that housed the sororities.  Each sorority had its own floor that were set up like large apartments with bedrooms off each end of living spaces.  

    Everyone was at an event except for me and a friend.  I had gone down the hallway into her room and was about leave when the door slammed shut.  I started to open it and felt it pull shut again.  I managed to open it enough to see a woman's arm in a 1920's style navy dress sleeve yanking on the door handle, closing the door again.  I thought it was someone playing a joke, so I pulled hard on the door again and it flew open.  No one was there; I ran into the living room, chapter room, 2 other bedrooms and kitchen to check.   Oddly enough, I wasn't freaked out.  I think I was more intrigued than anything else.
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  • PalereadheadPalereadhead member
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    I believe because of encounters I've had... Most we're as a child, but somehow I tuned that "sense" off, until I was 19.... Missed the April thread, so here's my full body apparition experience:

    I stayed with this girl in Colorado at her apartment. . . She was short, had long blond hair, pale skin, sleeeender. One night she slept at her bpyfriend's house..

    the access doors to the apartment are two glass doors, 8ft apart, and a flat screen sat on the 8 ft wall directly across from a futon.. This was the "living room".

    I was sleeping on the futon when I heard the main glass sliding door open, I rolled over and looked at the clock : 3:15am. Looked at the door thinking I see Jess walk in in white pjs with her long blond hair in a braid down her back.
    me: hey! What are you doing coming home so late!?.
    she posed fast and stared over at me for a few straight seconds, in which I thought she was thinking I should have no say in when she comes and goes, so I rolled back over to go to sleep.
    3am: door sliding wakes me up again, and I see a blur in the threshold staring back at me whilst walking out and locking the door. Sleep.

    next morning Jess gets homes and I enquire about the night before and her activities.. Nothing, just stayed at the boyfriends house, she says. I call bullshit and told her I saw her.. She FLIPPED out thinking someone broke in and stole shit.. Nothing was missing. Or disturbed.

    moving out a few weeks later! lady brings over a dolly for me to help with all my boxes.. Started talking about the apartment... Tells me an old woman lived there... Used to step out on the balcony to look at the court yard... Saw her wheeled out when she died, looking so graceful in her white pajamas. She lived there since the complex was built.
    Oh shit, you don't say? >.>

    edited for TV, not sat on the living room wall and again for backwards time frame lol
  • My BFF passed away in '08 and ever since we have had weird things happen in our homes...sounds, things falling, etc.

    Also- when I was three I apparently told my mom that my great grandpa was sitting on my bed in my room on the day of his funeral.
  • I want to not believe but I've definitely had a ghost experience. The short story is that I saw a man multiple times standing at the end of my bed at a rental house. I didn't think much of it (thought it was a dream) until it happened multiple times. I casually mentioned my weird dream to my mom one day and she stopped in her tracks and described the same man I'd been seeing. I forgot about this until recently when I was talking to a co-worker that lived on the street where we rented the house. I mentioned what house we rented and he said they have trouble renting it out because everyone says it's haunted. My mom and I didn't tell anyone about our experience, so it really freaked me out that others have said the same thing.

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  • HomcrnHomcrn member
    edited December 2013
    I do not share this with many people but since we are on this subject..here it goes..may be long.
    So I lost my daughter 7 years ago. She was born alive at 23 weeks and lived for about 3 hours unassisted. It took many tries at fertility to get pregnant with her. I was/still am working at hospice. I had one patient who took a particular interest in my pregnancy. She was in her early 40's and was dying of breast cancer. She was on my case load when I lost Sara. I had been off work for about threeweeks after the loss and one Sunday night I woke up out of a sleep at 300am. I had a dream about this patient and she was holding my daughter and she said do not worry I have your daughter and I will take care of her. That Monday in the am I called to work to see how she was. They told me she had passed away at 230am. Mind you last I knew she was alive and doing as well as a hospice patient could.
    Fast forward a few weeks and I returned to work. I got a new patient and about a month into his care, I went to make a home visit. He was in his mid 50's and had liver cancer. He was alert and oriented but on his particular day, when i went in, he asked me why I brought a little girl to the visit with me. Of course I hadn't and looked around to see what he was talking about. He said that she was smiling, not talking and she was beautiful. I had no particular connection with this man. He passed away rather quickly 4 days later.
    Same week but a few days later, I got a new patient who was dying of congestive heart failure. On my first visit she was basicslly unresponsive but did wake to talk to me a little. In the conversation she told me that my little girl that was with me was radient and so happy. She then went on to talk of something else.
    I have not had any patients tell me anything pertaining to me since these incidents, but it certainly changed my perspective on the afterlife. Most of our patients see family members that have passed. Is it a chemical reaction or reality? That is up to each person to draw their own conclusion. One thing I know for sure is there is no way these people knew of my loss. Real or not it brought me comfort in a dark time! Eta:spelling
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  • The mirror is a hoax...but I worked at a lighthouse for years, and that place was deft haunted.

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  • No ghosts but there are definitely monsters in the closet.
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  • And under the bed waiting to grab your feet
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  • I lived in the oldest all-girls dorm in Illinois for a year. It is even featured in those "Haunted America" books. We had some crazy experiences there including some of the ouija board predictions coming true. Made us believers!!
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