Ghosts

[frezal]

Annecdotal evidence is far from proof, but I'll play along.

I once had a ghost haunting me.

How do you know it was a ghost?

One day i woke up and went to the bathroom and a black figure was in my mirror.

Two things come to mind: Your sleep was interrupted and hallucinated the thing. =or= You saw yourself in low-light conditions and your tired brain threw out an irrational explanation.

A month later i woke up in the middle of the night and my T.V was on. I grabbed my remote and clicked the power button 5 times, it wouldn't turn off. So i got and manually pressed the power button on the T.V and it still wouldn't turn off!

Do you ever read the fine print on your electronic devices? Electronic devices easily receive interference, and are legally required to. A far more rational explanation to your TV problem is that the TV was malfunctioning. They're known to do this. Ghosts, however, aren't known to exist.

A couple of days later i was playing my Dragon Ball Z game and my room went black for a split second but the power wasn't out because the downstairs light was still on.

Lights flicker. Just because there was a disruption in your lights, that doesn't mean that the electricity to the whole house was cut off.

A couple minutes later these papers that i had hung up ripped off the wall. I wasn't near them and my fan was off.

What do you mean by "ripped off"? Were they torn? What method of adhesion did you use? (Poster putty, tape, push pins, nails, other?)

The next night i had a dream where a little man with a white mask, pitch-black eyes, and red puffy hair with a chainsaw was chasing people then a filing cabinet opened up and body parts were in it. At the end of the dream he said "You can't hide from me, i know where you are."

That's called a nightmare. We all get them from time-to-time. When I was younger, my nightmares generally involved monsters or other such ghouls. These days, my nightmares typically involve the death of loved ones. Nightmares reflect what you're afraid of. You seem to fear ghosts and other typical horror movie subjects. I fear losing people close to me.

The next day i was on my way to Tae-Kwon-Do and i saw a woman walking towards me from the corner of my eye i turned and there was a front of a bus.

Was it a ghost bus? I don't really see how this relates to anything. Peripheral vision doesn't really see details. It essentially sees the existence of objects and general color.

The next day i was walking to school and i saw a man running towards me i turned and my friends head was there, also a man was meditating around candles. The men and the woman all had gold chains with a cross around there necks.

By now you should realize that you're seeing the existence of objects in your peripherals, and your imagination is filling in the wrong details.

As for people worshipping, what does this have to do with anything? People worship. Just because people pray in public, that doesn't mean ghosts exist.

That is the story of my ghost.

I didn't even have to put much thought into providing rational explanations for all of your encounters. Remember, just because you can't explain what happened, that doesn't mean something supernatural caused it. There is most likely a rational explanation. Until such an explanation can be found, admitting that you don't know what happened is perfectly acceptable.

[NFX]

Remember, just because you can't explain what happened, that doesn't mean something supernatural caused it. There is most likely a rational explanation. Until such an explanation can be found, admitting that you don't know what happened is perfectly acceptable.

I completely agree with this. Human being, as a species, fear the unknown. Which is fine, until we start making up stories in an attempt to explain why we can't explain things. If said explanation is backed up by reasonable logic, then that's fine. When it's backed up by hearsay and "believers", then it's absolute <expletive>. Provide clear, indisputable evidence that it was a ghost, or just admit you're wrong.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

You all raise good points, but isn't everyone entitled to their own views n stuff?

I personally don't believe in ghosts. For me, all "spooks" are created when my subconscious is having a strop, so even if there were such things as ghosts, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them and a figment of my imagination, except for the fact that the ghost might not want to kill me

[NFX]

You all raise good points, but isn't everyone entitled to their own views n stuff?

Yes they are, and I'm expressing mine. =]

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

You all raise good points, but isn't everyone entitled to their own views n stuff?

Yes they are, and I'm expressing mine. =]

That's good

For a second, I thought people were trying to force their opinion on someone else, which isn't really a very friendly thing to do.

[Meganerdbomb]

I believe in ghosts, because I am one!

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

How do your hands work the keyboard? I mean, ghosts are intangible

[NFX]

How do your hands work the keyboard? I mean, ghosts are intangible

And surely you would simply sink through the floor, by the same logic?

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

How do your hands work the keyboard? I mean, ghosts are intangible

And surely you would simply sink through the floor, by the same logic?

Ghosts float

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Korosh**e ageru

No shunning

[Meganerdbomb]

How do your hands work the keyboard? I mean, ghosts are intangible

I'm haunting some poor college kid's laptop and manipulating it with my ghost powers.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Ghosts don't have powers

[frezal]

Ghosts don't have powers

How do you know?

[GoldenFox93]

Probably down to the horn.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I don't, but I don't see how they can at the same time

[Meganerdbomb]

Don't be stupid. How else would we make doors open/shut, or make all those spooky noises, or stop TVs from turning off, or rip papers off the walls?

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Atmospheric pressure is one cause for some of those

[Meganerdbomb]

Except it's not. I'm a ghost, so I should know.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Good for you

You and the evil man who wants to kill me would get along great, I should think

[GoldenFox93]

Except it's not. I'm a ghost, so I should know.

So a ghost pony with a thing for cupcakes? Now I've seen everything