Do You Believe In Ghosts?

[OpaQue 15]

Well, Just wanted to share this small incident that happened with my pal. I know him since 5 years now and he would never lie to me. ok, so here it goes..It was midnight.. past 12.00 am and he was riding back home. The street was dark ahead and on his way, he saw a man dressed in white cloths with some load on his head. While going.. this man shoved his hand to him asking for lift.My Pal, ( name : Nazir ) thought about the poor chap and the dark road ahead and decided to give him a lift. He stopped his bike and this guy sat behind. The wierd thing is.. Most of the times, when people sit on your bike, you get a feeling and atleast some part of his body will touch you. but when this guy sat, He didnt even feel it. When he said Ok, My friend Nazir, accelerated his bike and headed straight in the dark road. After some time, Right in the middle, this man starting saying.. STOP STOP.. STOP the bike.. my pal thoughly confused about this.. he stopped the bike. He wondered why would he like to stop at this dark place (in the middle of a jungle like area ).. Anyway, he Stopped the bike, the man got off and Guess WHAT! Patted on my friends back and said "THANKYOU NAZIR! YOU MAY GO NOW!"This friend of mine was like shivering... and dead afraid.. he simply accelerated his bike and went off that scene. All he said that, when I was leaving him, I looked at the rear view mirrror and saw him standing still at the same place.FreakY! Isin'T IT!

[OpaQue 15]

There is yet another fact, on the same road as explained in the above incident, there is a point where you can smell the aroma of diffrent dishes. You feel like someone is cooking something right there.However, If you check that area.. it is a big stretch of land and there is absolutely not a single ray of light anywhere. My point is, it is kinda impossible to find anyone cooking there.

[Joshua 0]

Well, the Bible gives plenty of examples of people seeing angels and demons also work in this world. Hebrews 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?Also, as C.S. Lewis would say, we are all eternal spirits in a world that tries to hide our true identities from us. There are only 2 spiritual realms, God's & the angels, and Satan's/the devils. There is no middle ground. So I'm sure there is something going on in some cases, but I think people are barking up the wrong tree about it being people back from the dead.At work, not also work... Hmm... you'd think if they're dedicating so much effort and focus to this forum they could put in an "edit post" option

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[homeloansnow 0]

I have personally witnessed apparitions, and have recorded EVPs, both on digital recorders and on tape. I use external mics on the tape machines - if you have ever pressed record on one in a quiet room with the built in mic you'll know why... you can hear every little motor and squeak. External mics make it much more likely that what you're hearing is actually there, and not the recorder making noise.In most EVP recording sessions I ask questions. You would be surprised how often you get answers to just the questions you ask. I did one session in an old schoolhouse in North Carolina. Part of the school had burned, and some students died. They later rebuilt an annex on the land where the fire had happened, and almost from the beginning had some strange occurences there. While recording, I asked "What can you tell me about the annex?" Later while playing back the tape, I heard two different voices. One said "they built it later" and another said "smell the smoke...smell the death"I made notes of what I thought I heard. A few days later I played the EVPs for a few friends, and asked them to write down what THEY heard. Their answers were identical to mine.

[Spectrum 0]

I Found This Article On Google.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostsandhauntings/a/Ghosts-What-Are-They.htm

 

You've seen them depicted in movies, read stories of their unnerving activities and have seen television shows and documentaries sensationalizing them. You have probably seen rare photos of them and have likely heard of first-hand ghostly encounters from friends and relatives. I receive dozens of reports from readers every month. Perhaps you have even seen a ghost yourself. But what are ghosts? I'll give you the answer straight out: No one knows for certain.

 

There are, however, many theories to explain the thousands upon thousands of documented experiences that people around the world have had since the beginning of recorded history. Ghosts and hauntings seem to be a relatively common part of the human experience. And there appear to be several types of ghosts or hauntings, and more than one theory may be needed to explain them all.

 

Dead people

The traditional view of ghosts is that they are the spirits of dead people that for some reason are "stuck" between this plane of existence and the next, often as a result of some tragedy or trauma. Many ghost hunters and psychics believe that such earth-bound spirits don't know they are dead. Veteran ghost hunter Hans Holzer says, "A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of his true condition. We are all spirits encased in a physical body. At the time of passing, our spirit body continues into the next dimension. A ghost, on the other hand, due to trauma, is stuck in our physical world and needs to be released to go on."

 

Ghosts exist in a kind of limbo in which they haunt the scenes of their deaths or locations that were pleasant to them in life. Very often, these types of ghosts are able to interact with the living. They are, on some level, aware of the living and react to being seen on the occasions that they materialize. Some psychics claim to be able to communicate with them. And when they do, they often try to help these spirits to understand that they are dead and to move on to the next stage of their existence.

 

zSB(3,3) Residual Hauntings or Recordings

Some ghosts appear to be mere recordings on the environment in which they once existed. A civil war soldier is seen on repeated occasions staring out a window at a house where he once stood guard. A dead child's laughter is heard echoing in a hallway where she often played. There are even cases of ghost cars and trains that can still be heard and sometimes seen, even though they are long gone. These types of ghosts do not interact with or seem to be aware of the living. Their appearance and actions are always the same. They are like spirit-level recordings - residual energies - that replay over and over again.

 

"A traumatic moment in time leaves an indelible impression on the building or area," says Strange Nation in "What Is a Ghost?," "replaying itself for eternity. This could be anything from a 'glimpse of the past' - a recreation of some traumatic or emotion-laden event - to footsteps up and down a hallway."

 

What causes these recordings to be made and how and why they are played back is a mystery. "How and why past events are recorded and replayed repetitiously is not understood," writes Lauren Forcella. "Whatever the actual mechanism, it apparently possesses longevity as the encore performances of a haunting can continue for decades or longer. Generally, the haunting is a fragment or portion of an actual event."

 

Messengers

These kinds of ghosts may be the most common. These spirits usually appear shortly after their deaths to people close to them. They are aware of their deaths and can interact with the living. They most often bring messages of comfort to their loved ones, to say that they are well and happy, and not to grieve for them. These ghosts appear briefly and usually only once. It is as if they intentionally return with their messages for the express purpose of helping the living cope with their loss.

 

"This category commonly involves one-time visits to someone with whom the apparition has close emotional ties," says Lauren Forcella at Paranormal Investigations, who calls these ghosts "crisis apparitions." "Though the encounter usually seems to be a type of farewell, sometimes important and useful information is relayed to the 'viewer.' Though dying is the most common crisis, other life-threatening situations can also trigger apparitional visits."

 

Poltergeists

This type of haunting is the most feared by people because it has the greatest ability to affect our physical world. Poltergeists are blamed for unexplained noises, such as wall-banging, rapping, footsteps and even music. They take our possessions and hide them, only to return them later. They turn on faucets, slam doors, turn lights on and off, and flush toilets. They throw things across rooms. They have been known to pull on people's clothing or hair. The malevolent ones even slap and scratch the living. It is because of these sometimes "mean-spirited" manifestations that poltergeists are considered by some investigators to be demonic in nature.

 

Other investigators, however, believe that poltergeist activity is not caused by ghosts at all, but by certain living people under stress. "During a poltergeist experience," writes Lauren Forcella, "the agent, in an attempt to relieve emotional stress, unknowingly causes the physical disturbances using mental forces. The mental mechanism that allows the poltergeist agent to unconsciously cause these physical disturbances is called psychokinesis."

 

Projections

The skeptics' point of view - if they are willing to admit there is anything to haunting experiences at all - is that they are all in our minds, or are products of our own minds. Ghosts, they say, are psychological phenomena: we see them because we expect to or want to see them. A grieving widow sees her dead husband because she needs to; she needs the comfort of knowing that he is alright and happy in the next world. Her mind produces the experience to help itself cope with the stress of the loss. Since we know so little about the power and capacity of our own minds, it's possible that they can even produce physical manifestations, such as apparitions and noises - projections that even others may be able to see and hear. But they are not "real" in any sense, say the skeptics, just the conjurings of powerful imaginations.

 

Are there such things as ghosts? The phenomena of ghosts and hauntings are very real experiences. It is their true cause and nature that is the ongoing mystery.

 

 

I do beleive in ghosts

 

My Story:

At Night I wake Up.

I ask myself how did i wake up?

Because its not normal for me to wake up in the middle of the night Then My Stereo Turns On And Starts Blasting and i get scared as crap then it stops. I look at its cord ITS UNPLUGGED. Then i scremed freaking bloody murder and ran like Heck downstairs and out my door.