is there such things as ghosts?

Question

if you think they do exist.. what exactly are they? dont hold back on this one. thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this qualifys as a ghost but it actually did happen to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

No, there are no such things as ghosts. (exect for the Holy Ghost as mentioned in the Bible). There are many things about life, about the universe, and even about our own planet that we don't know....only in the past five hundred years have we used electricity and everything else....and yet at the first unexplained phenomenon we immediately jump to the conclusion that it is somebody's soul that has died and can't make it to the other side? The conclusion is completely ludicrous and sounds like something a child would think. Rest assured, that "ghosts" as they are normally thought of today, do not exist.

Answer 3

Yes, there are such things as ghosts. I've never seen one and I hope I won't see one, but there are countless true-to-life ghost stories & experiences of friends, relatives and officemates to tell you to prove my point, but they will occupy too much space in my alloted Answer portion. This was not a pigment of imagination, because the ghosts have shown themselves to countless people already.
I don't know what exactly are they, but they do exist. In our office, there is this "white lady" (lady appearing in all-white night gown), a man in black clothes without face, an old lady in black, and "the others" that try to get your attention by chatting loudly, but when you look at the area where the noise come from, no one is there.
This is really very scary. This is the reason why we avoid overtime work at nigh; but when we do, we see to it that we are in a group of three or four.

Answer 4

i've had a few experiances that convince me that ghosts are real.

a few years ago i was at a friends house and we saw a shadow moving around in the hallway. there was no one else awake in the house except for us. but there was still a shadow of someone moving around.

When me and my family first moved into our most recent house there was just something weird about the basement. i was constantly paranoid that i was being watched and every now and then i would hear a little voice whispering too softly for me to hear. after yelling at the "spirit" to leave me alone i was fine and nothing bothered me for a while. Then my sister confessed to me that something was in her room, whispering and keeping her awake at night. there was another scene of yelling at supposedly nothing to just go away. Last month i had a friend over who says she can kinda comunicate with ghosts and she says that there is an angry spirit in the little place where our hot water heater is. And i have found that i can't go near there without feeling those weird paranoid feelings again.

as for your question on what ghosts are... i guess i would say that they are people who have died and are still here on earth because they have some unfinsihed buisness of some sort.

Answer 5

Ghosts are somtimes a reminder, like i dont know u lost a close friend by drink driving and see him or her while drinking in a pub or sumthin its to remind us of what happened and such or it could be some paranormal matter.

Answer 6

What is “a living soul”? Genesis 2:7 Dust and breath, that is what we are dust and breath. Please turn to Genesis 3:19 Dust you are and to dust you return. Let’s look at a controversial text. The book of Ecclesiastes chapter twelve and verse seven, (read it) dust to the ground, spirit to God who gave it. So one might ask what is the spirit if not what we commonly call a ghost? First we’ll turn to James it’s a little book right after Hebrews. We’ll read in chapter two verse twenty-six. This chapter is mostly talking about faith without deeds being dead, but here in verse twenty-six it states, “The body without the ‘spirit’ is dead.” Not much, we didn’t already know, but what is this spirit? The book of Job sheds some light on the fact in chapter 27 verse three; Job is talking to his friends about God. He states that as long as he has life in him the breath of God in his nostrils he will not…deny his integrity. It goes back to dust and breath again. So what does happen to a person when they die? Ezekiel 18:20 states that the soul that sins, it shall die. In first Timothy chapter six verses 15 and 16 Paul is talking to Timothy and says (read) God is the only one who is immortal. Let’s see if we can find out where the dead are. What is it like for those that have died? Does the Bible give us any indication? Ps 115:17 “The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence.” And again in Ecc 9:5, 6 & 10 “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.” “Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” God says the dead know not anything. In the gospels, John chapter 11, when it talks about Lazarus death, in verse eleven Jesus calls death sleep. How many of you, when you get a good nights sleep realize anything that goes on around you between the time you fall asleep and when you wake up? That is what it is like to be dead. Look up at the light. shut those off for one moment? Okay where did the light go? Where did it go? It doesn’t go anywhere. It takes two things to create light, the bulb and electricity. Without both things, there is no light. You can turn them back on now. When a person ceases to breathe the breath goes out of the body and the body; it goes where we bury it to await the resurrection.
Are we really sure that our loved ones are not in heaven now? Let’s close with reading a couple more texts. The first text is found in Acts 2 (read); Peter is talking to the crowd about Jesus resurrection. The part of the dialogue I want us to concentrate on begins in verse twenty-two and ends in the first part of verse 34. David, the King David, is dead and buried and has not ascended to heaven. When will we expect to see our loved ones again? First Thessalonians chapter four verses 15 though 18 answers this question for us. One minute a person is alive and what will seem to them as the next minute God will call them from their graves. And finally, Revelation chapter twenty one verses one through five, we go to heaven together with our loved ones when Christ comes again and there will be no more death or crying. Won’t that be a glorious day? I can hardly wait. Won’t you wait with me today?

Answer 7

Yes. From my experience there are 3 different types. Evil spirits (avoid them), memories (like photographs or videos from a different time) & spirits who know you're there, but they're not evil. E-mail me & I'll tell you more.

Answer 8

ghosts are nothing else than just an electric field....its complicated to explain but a long story short they are not.....and if they are than they cant nutin and ppl shuld not be afraid

Answer 9

Just the ones your own mind creates

Answer 10

i think that when a person dies thei spirit stays around, sort of like when a snake sheds its skin it doesnt mean its dead. thats how i see it anyway!