Do you believe in ghosts, spirits, dreaming the future [etc.] or are you a skeptic?

Question

I am personally a skeptic, but this seemed like an interesting topic to bring up and talk about.

I'm a skeptic because it all just seems very sketchy, generalized...easy to lie in.

Another thought on this. I had watched a tv show once [god i must have been desperate for entertainment] and the... seer, whatever you want to call her would take questions from the audience. They were awed by her, but honestly, it was awful. Some of the questions were "Should I continue with my career, or find a new one?" things like that, which could be answered with an opinion. And "What will my next boyfriend look like" was answered with "Your next boyfriend will have brown hair, hazel eyes, and be tall. You will meet him through a friend." ?? See what I mean? Very generalized, very sketchy.

Thanks for the tip about where this question should have gone, by the way. I couldn't find it. :]

Answer 1

most people are skeptics. i guess it's because of the upbringing; if you don't believe in that kind of stuff when you are growing up, you aren't opening yourself up to it. :) so later on in life, you completely reject it because you've never experienced any kind of "spiritual phenomena"... my mom was very into anything spiritual when i was little. i was raised to not mess with ouija boards or practice bloody mary or anything like that. my mom was a member of a cult group that basically played with fire and ended up getting burned: each of the girls ended up with cancer and all of them except my mother died before they reached 21... 21 was the name of their group because there were 21 girls. my mom seems to think that the only reason she is the only one who survived was because she refused to partake in the witchcraft activities: ouija, spells, junk like that.
but when i was 4 we moved to california and into a house that was only about 30 years old at the time. every year toward the end of december (after christmas), there was a banging noise in the attic above my bedroom. it only happened at night... and it would only last for a couple days. my mom never believed me about the noise, and thought i was making it all up, until i was 12 years old. after eight years of me waking her up for the same reason every year, she finally got up and out of bed to see if i was just making stuff up. she heard it. and instead of brushing it off as being the weather (as she had for the previous years), she went up to the attic. there she found a few sets of clothes that were apparently from the 70s... when she asked the landlord about it, and if anybody who had lived there before complained of the noise, he told her there had only been one family that lived in that house. and the reason they moved was because the husband of the household had murdered his 17-year-old daughter... in the attic. he attempted to murder his wife, as well, but failed. she called the cops, he got arrested, etc. you get it. but that house had a thing called black shadows. they are just dark shadows that will literally run down the hallways of a house. i only saw them through the mirrors though. it scared the hell out of us. so my mom had a house built on fresh land... no more renting for her. and i don't think i'll be renting, either.
i really do think that you have to open yourself up to those kinds of things for them to actually happen to you, though. if you ignore them and disregard their existance, you'll probably never experience any of it.

Answer 2

I currently live in a house with a ghost, and I have seen the future at times. More often, I see what is happening somewhere else or will happen very soon, somewhere else. I have had prayers answered, especially asking for the safety of people else where, about to have something very bad happen. And still, I'm a bit of a skeptic because there are so many fakers out there. If they charge money, they're probably fake.

Answer 3

I too am skeptic (although if I lived in the UK I would be sceptic). I can't help it if I require evidence in order to believe in something.

BTW, for some strange reason Y!A has the "paranormal" categorized in alternative section of the Science and Math category.

Answer 4

I am totally a believer. I'll play my cards just as close as you play yours, and just tell you this: There is nothing sketchy, generalized, or easy about the things I have experienced. Nothing I say will ever change your mind. Nothing you say can change mine. We disagree.

Answer 5

I didn't use to believe. Now I do. I experienced a ghost in New Orleans - and not on one of those touristy tours either. It scared the living hell out of me. IN the middle of the night, I saw a shadow of a man staring at me in bed. I know my eyes were wide open. I evidently screamed 5 or 6 times, waking my hubby, and half the hotel.

Answer 6

It's easy to be skeptic if you haven't experienced anything paranormal in your life, well in my case I do believe and mainly cause I have lived and seen some things.

Answer 7

I believe in these strange things.But I'm also aware that there are alot of people out to make a fast buck & lie.But sometimes I just have this feeling that there is so much we do not understand & what we do not understand is sometimes easier not to believe in..I couldn't tell you why I believe I just do,& normally I would keep my beliefs to myself...

Answer 8

Yes, I do. I visited a medium in the Channel Islands this summer. I did not know her or anyone else that was there. She spoke to me from my deceased grandmother and told me things that there's no way she could have know. Even something I didn't know myself about my grandfather. I asked my mum and found out it was totally true.

Answer 9

Spirits, yes. My mother lived in an apartment haunted by the spirit of a dead old woman.

P.S. It's only sketchy to those who don't believe.

Answer 10

im on both sides
i have had a few expiernces where somethign super scary and wierd happened when it was just me and my friend home alone and if u think about it it sounds a lil unahppenable but i gues i believe all that stuff but im not like emo into spirts and ghosts