Why aren't ghosts seen by everyone?

Question

I know the theories authors of ghost hunting methods teach, but am wondering what your opinion is.

Team I am not talking about ghost hunters who expect to see a ghost everytime they go out. I am talking about ghosts are people without bodies, right? We don't have to go people hunting to see people do we?

think about it. ghost hunters use tools like EMF meters thermo scanners, tape recorders, cameras, and clim to have catured evidence of ghosts, but raree are those who have seen one.

Even the founder of one of the largest ghost orgainzations at the time of the printing of the copy of his book I have admits he has never seen one and only once experienced one.

I have my theory also that excuse is one I have heard ghost hunters use to excuse the fact that they cannot prove ghosts. I am not against that and agree to a point, but still ghost can be seen but not by everyone.

I thought you were wanting to write a book when you first joined. I have seen many do as you do which I am not complainging just observing.

Okay no offense meant but I want to hear from people who are not just spouting what they have learned from the people who run huge ghost organizations which non of them even the ones I like a lot have actually seen a ghost.

I also like thse people some more than others, but honestly that is their living and they make big bucks telling people what and how to believe.

I want to hear from people who thinkf for themselves. Nothing wrong with believeing their theories I did once myself until I got experience using their methods and teachings. I saw a ghost and talked to him but that was before the internet and the popularity of paranormal.

Most people I know get into this to make money and to write books etc. That is not what I am arter in this question. I am not out to make money or write a book so my questions have no hidden agenda. Just courious

Team, I am not asking you to write a book but I do feel you may have the answer I am looking for. Just a short sentence.

As a paranormal investigator myself using the methods others use I know the excuse we like to use, but honestly people who ask us this do have a valid point and question. Just wondering if anyone here thinks like I do.

imapagan I don't think belief has a lot to do with it. It is possible I guess, but I was a staunch unbeliever in 1972 or 73 when I had a ghost appear to me. I have know many believers who have never seen a ghost and non believer who like me were forced to believe because they did see a ghost.

I expereince things on investiagtions that as a ghost hunter/ paranormal investigator I believ is ghostly but I do not see them all the time and have only seen them every now and then. Even in very haunted locations. I have also been with people who say they see one but I did not. and vice versa.

We go to the mall and we see people people are in malls we do not have to tek temp reading tape recordings photos and EMF. readings to know people are there because we see them. We go to a hunted location and may experience a ghost but rarely see one why? You will have EMF readings, temperature difference beyond normal, EVP's but no sightings of a ghost. why?

pagan rider you are almost there

I believe there is a reason we don't see them everywhere and not everyone sees them.

Peter as always I enjoyed your comment.
I understand your view of this although my view is just a little different. But closer than you might guess.

Zachary, I understand your way of thinking because I once believed that too. I too get agravated at the faith believers.

Psi- I thought for this discussion I did define ghosts I thought I said they were people without bodies, maybe I didn't maybe it was an answer to a question I was thinking about, but anytime I talk about ghosts I mean the person who was once alive but their essance stayed on thus a ghost . I don't know why people make things difficult. Traditionally a ghost was a person who was once alive but now dead just like the modern ghost hunters today sometimes call a poltergiest activity caused by adolecent girls, but this is not what the word means, the word means noisy ghost. when i talk about a poltergiest I mean a noisy ghost person who was once dead but their essance is still here but they are noisy.

I am a simple man, a skunk is a skunk a duck a duck and a ghost a ghost.

When I talk about ghosts why should I have to define a ghost?

Kel333, you are very close to what I am looking for in an answer. However those illusions do not work for everyone due to their eyes. I never could see the pictures because my eyes are not like everyone elses. It is not because I did not try but an optomatrist explained it to me but I am not techenical so I cannot repeat it.

Peter did say it boiled down to personl experience and even though I do not agree all of his commenst I do understand and some people do see because they believe thus an illusion, but even real ghosts I think it is due to the individual and their physical and mental makeup.

Just like I cannot see the pictures in those books due to a physical problem some will never see a ghost for a similar reason

Nuff, I think there is something to that also, but we have been taught to ignore these things but I think one good thing that comes from ghost hunting is we start paying attention to these things and from my experience they do not disappear quite as quick as they did. then there is the ghosts like the one who tried to get rid of me. I see my nephew here on my land every now and then he was raised here. I think it is a combination of things and some ghosts are not ghosts but a view of life in another deminsion. Who knows ghosts my be living in another deminsion .

Thank you all for answering. I was pleased so far out of 12 answers I only got one rude answer. The others, I may not agree with some of you all the way but I do understand your thinking. Thankis again

Answer 1

I think most everyone does, they just don't realize it. Have you ever walked past somebody and turned to look but they disappeared? have you ever seen something only to look again and its gone, then you just write it off to a trick of the mind? I don't know about you but I have even seen buildings that were not there when I made a return trip and thinking, I could have sworn there was a building there. Wic, I think more people see things than anyone ever realizes. Does the term, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look, but it was gone?There are answers for 99% of everything we see and interact with in our lives, but everyone, and i do mean everyone has that 1% something that happens that there is no explanation for. Then we shrug and go on with what we are doing. Think about it.

Answer 2

One would have to first define the word ghost. The Society for Psychical Research as long ago as 1882 started using the word apparition to mean "the image of a person known to not be physically present at the reported location" in an attempt t be more precise in their study of this phenomena.

Once one has a working definition one then has to look at the the circumstances, for instance if some YA debunkers were to see an apparition of their deceased loved ones they would conclude immediately that they were hallucinating due to a mental disorder or medical condition of the brain and dismiss it other than perhaps having a medical examination. Thus, many people that may experience an apparition effectively fail to report such experiences.
Likewise one has to have a testable theory of what a ghost is like a surviving spirit (most parapsychologist today reject this view) or a manifestation of ESP. Then it becomes just as sensible to ask why the queen of England isn't seen by everyone (she sometimes chooses to stay home) in the spirit theory or why not everyone can play the piano ( a developed human ability as ESP is suggested to be by most research.

Answer 3

I hate to use what sounds like a tautology, but ghosts are more likely to be seen by people who believe they exist.

Have you ever noticed how some people have never seen a ghost but others claim to see them every day? It reminds me of a person I know who says she sees both auras and angels all the time. I do not imply all believers are like this, but this sort of claim is incredibly suspect. It makes it difficult not to conclude that those who wish to see ghosts do see ghosts.

Also, being impressionable--even temporarily--seems to make a difference as well. Why else would only some people witness paranormal phenomena in a supposedly haunted house while others present (and all objective equipment) don't?

There are some kooks who claim to see ghosts, but I think the vast majority of people are mentally sound. That's why I am leaning toward the opinion that ghost sightings are personal, internal experiences rather than reactions to a specific environment. This is covered in more detail by what is called the Fantasy-Prone Personality. For more on this, check out the link:

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=74

Answer 4

hi wiccan

first what peter said is untrue about ghosts are more likely to be seen by people who believe they exist....
my first and most spectacular, was seeing something fully materialize in our home in italy, and spent the whole night in our home, both seen by myself and my nan, now back then i had NO IDEA about anything of such nature, id never heard of ghosts at all.....and alot of people who i know never believed in them until one would witness a ghost/spirit
im sure thats how most become believers after seeing one......
next training your eyes to see them....i am not a paranormal investigater....first to see one, one must be there to be seen...i can across an interesting trick into training our eyes to focus on the spot where they are lurking around, all from a simple book of illusions, called magic eyes, 3D illusions.....when you look at a page, all you see is a page full of patterns, you *dont* see the picture, but you know there is one there, so by focusing your eyes then keep refocusing until the hidden picture emerges.....i found this same technique helps by seeing some thing that is in the room with you, when you first look all you see is the room, the walls, and everything that is around you, but then by doing the same trick as in the book you will start to notice, someones image/ghost in the room in the void space....most of the time for me, if someone does appear to me, i can see them straight off, whether its just an out line of some one of something simular.....but the 3D book is an interesting tool...like most people they will look in the room/house/place and only see whats there just like the patterns in the book, if you skip through the book quickly you will never see the hidden pictures just like seeing ghosts....most are there but not seen.....

Answer 5

Like the strings of a lute, vibrations create energy.
Through the ages / time, we have been "programed" to believe not to believe. We [humans] USED to have a solid connection to Nature, like the rest of the animal kingdom. We have the ability to "tune" in, as some have prov-en.
We have been told not to listen because there is nothing to hear, not to look for there is nothing to see {except "god"] and not to question because we are not worthy, {as "sinners"}, to receive an answer. ALL untrue and controlled by self chosen leaders who tell us we are not worthy and if we DO experience something para"normal", we are labeled "sinner".
Follow your Heart for it knows TRUTH.

~BLESSINGS~DIVINE LOVE~HEALING LIGHT TO ALL~

Answer 6

"Because ghosts don't act on command" you can't just say walking down the street i want to see a ghost in the window or show me now. I've personally seen em' but i guess it just depends on the people , i mean everyone can see them! They don't have to be sensitive or a remote viewer to see one! I know many people who have seen them and untill that sight of one they were a non-believer, I could go on and on!!!..... But i don't want to write a book :)

Ryan ~Paranormal Investigator/Researcher~
www.theprosonline.com

Answer 7

The first memory of each of you reading this will be different but you can all plainly see it in your minds eye that is how we view spirits. It's like you're aware something is there but it's not really there ;-(

Answer 8

maybe Because they dont believe hard enough I havent seen any ghosts but I have dealed with A poltergeist or something close to that..

Answer 9

I think the answer is very simple.There is no such thing.People who want to see ghosts will see them.The thing that I'm amazed at are the faith believers.They've never seen one,but know they exist.

Answer 10

some people see them
some people hear them
some people smell them
some people hear them
some people feel them
some people have it all
some people cant because there not open to them