Do you believe in ghosts?

Question

If so, have you had any personal experiences with them? Do you know anyone who has?

Intelligent responses only. Don't be stupid like a few folks have been so far.

Answer 1

Hi
I believe in the spirit world and have had lots of experiences when they have made contact. Please dont believe people who will tell you that its demons and fallen angels - Spirits can contact people they care about and let them know that they are around them without the use of a medium, they can do this by:

Lights: Many times some people can experience flickering of lights in the room, or new light bulbs burn out instantly. More often than not your lights are effected when a spirit spends a lot of time around you or when they want to get your attention.

T.V: Spirits have been known to effectively scramble pictures on the tv set.

Radios: Many clock radios next to loved ones' bed will turn on at different hours, sometimes it is the hour that has some importance to the person who has passed away. Many times a radio with go on when a particularly significant song is on the air.

Music: many times in their own way spirits are able to impress you with a song or you may think about them when a song is played on the radio.

Clocks: A clock will stop at the exact moment the person has passed over or a clock or watch will stop working for no reason.

Telephones and answering machines: After someone dies it is possible to recieve a phone call and no one is on the other side, or you could hear the voice of the person . in some cases it has been recorded.

Appliances: Appliances have been know to stop or start working at different times when no one is around them.

Other signs are smells or the scent of the person, a favourite perfume, gifts are another sign, a spirit sends gifts and material items but we do not connect that they are from loved ones. Spirits can impress us to buy things or go to shops where things we like are there and we buy them. Animals are also used by the spirit . Many times a spirit being can influence a bird or small animal to come by us to get our attention in some way.

There are some good books out there one is Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh, also others in the new age section of good book shops.
Please let me share some of my experiences with you.

My dad dies nearly three years ago. He was very sick with a terminal ilness. The final days of his life he was talking about the fact he wanted to catch up with his mum and his brother. And thats all he talked about. All of us kids (there are 6 and we are all adults of varying ages 30 - 40 and all educated to varying degrees). The day before he passed away I felt realy happy and carefree as if I was going on a trip. I was singing a couple of dads favourite songs. I had to remind myself that I was not going anywhere of significance and still I felt light hearted and free. at 7 the next morning mom rang to tell me that dad ghad died at 5.15 that morning. Now I have a clock with a picture of my son as a baby on it on my night stand and it stopped at 5.15. My sister rang me that day and told me when she heard the news that she had thought "poor dad what will become of him? and got a very clear answer back "we have him" in her mind.

The next few months all of us reported that we had had experiences of dad speaking with us in dreams or in my sisters case she actually heard him play his harmonica to her but when she went to investigate it stopped. My pet name that my dad called my was Lucy and when I was in a shopping mall I had this urge to go to the public notices where people advertise things and there was a advert for a lost dog called "hello lucy".

It has been believed for 100's of years that the dead return in spirit and lets us know they are there in lots of subtle ways. Because spirits are energy they communicate through electricity. I asked dad alound once if you are here make a light globe explode and several went off that week, the house was new and all the globes had been replaced a couple of weeks before.

Spirits communicate through so many signs. Keep a look out. When my dad was cremated I stood at a pond and said a prayer and my partner was squinting and could of sworn he saw a old guy in a hat of the 30's walking by out of the corner of his eye and then it was gone..................my dad wore hats and the clothes he described were waht my dad was dressed in at his cremation.............

You might be on the bus and notice something of significance on a bill board. My dad loved the 202 rifle as he had learnt to shoot in the army. After he was cremated my family went to a favourite place and got some fish and chips. THe guy called out their number for their order and it was 202....................

Answer 2

Yes, I believe. I have no choice but to believe because I have had my own personal experiences with them. I know many people that believe. My old house had a spirit in it. My boyfriend did not believe in ghosts. One time we were at my house and the ghost proved him wrong. It was so funny. He got dizzy and pale. He left my house about 5 minutes later. I could not even bring it up to him later because he did not want to talk about it.

Answer 3

Yes. It happened In my home country where I was born a few years after World War 2. But I remember waking up one night and looking out the bedroom window and seeing a machine gun firing loudly. I was a kid at that time but my family slept right through it. Another time at night I'd hear the sound of someone bouncing a ball around our house. It scared me at the time. I always wondered about that.

A few years ago my friend's wife passed away and her family lived in in a far away country. The dishes fell off the kitchen wall right at the same time.

Answer 4

I was told that the family that moved into my Grandparents old house can hear them talking to each other in the middle of the night. I've never had any experiences with ghosts myself though.

Answer 5

I believe in spirits of those who have passed-on before us occasionally showing themselves to watch over us, protect, etc. us. When I was younger, I used to always feel that I was being watched, tho I never saw any kind of "apparition". I have spoken to people who have seen spirits, though. None of these sitings were wicked or mean; they were just there. I think that when children say they have imaginary friends, they actually see someone, but as our eyes get older and more tainted, or maybe we just don't need the spirit to watch over us anymore, they leave.

Answer 6

Yes on all counts.
Started when I was a kid. My buddy had just gotten a bed from the passing of his grandfather. We were playing with army men on the other side of the room. There was a sound from the bed. When we looked, some one looked to be sitting there, but no one was there.

Answer 7

Yes I do, and my sister-in-law was feeding her baby one night, and her grandmother, who'd been dead for years was sitting on the couch. They'd put a house on the property where the grandmother had lived. Scary...and my best friend's daughter had a "being" follow her around the cemetary when she was there with her college class. She didn't see it, but "felt" it, and the others, including her professor saw it.

Answer 8

Yep, although I've never personally had any encounters with them. I live in Japan and supposedly our building is pretty ghost friendly - I have a friend who was awakened one night by "someone" talking to him and lifting his arm.

Answer 9

I believe, We have a female ghost living in our house. She don't make any noise, but at times late at night she becomes some what visible.

Answer 10

i can't say that i do yet because nothing extemely paranormal has happened to me. but i know this lady who said when she was younger like 13 years old she was playing with her dog or cat outside when it's hair rose and it was acting really strange.so she looked up to see a glowing image of i think her grand father who had died a couple years earlier.she looked down then up again and he was gone