Ghosts..... Have you ever seen them?

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one day i was home by myself in my basement and i heard the same running sound that the other guy heard and i went upstairs to find a rocking chair in the living room going back and forth violently,no animals in the house,all doors were locked.since then i have heard what sounds like somebody whistling,things falling over,stuff like that
 
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SWIL said:
For the same reason the tooth fairy and easter bunny don't exist; it's completely illogical.
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the fact that their existence is inexplicable with facts doesn't make it illogical.
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I did have one, small experience. Nothing dramatic, but I saw something.

I was at a small party in college. At a girl's house that I was dating, along with about 6 or 7 of her friends. I was standing in the kitchen drinking a bevo when, to my left, down the hall extending to the den, I saw an old woman in a yellow nightgown float right by the doorway. It was like she was on one of those trams at the airport....I didn't see feet, no bouncing motion of someone walking, she floated on a straight line from left to right. But, she wasn't really "ghostly" other than that. She was crystal clear, wearing that yellow nightgown.

Anyway, I said "Is anyone else here?" And, before waiting for anyone to answer the question, I walked down to the den, and there was no one in the room. I walked back into the kitchen, and the girl I was dating looked at me and said "Oh no....You saw her didn't you?"..........I said "who?"......and she said "My grandmother...this was her house.....she left it to me when she died...."

I was skeptical...I told her I had seen an older woman, and then she asked "was she wearing a yellow nightgown?"....that sealed the deal for me. I knew I'd seen her dead grandmother. She went on to explain that she'd had a number of run-ins with the ghost, all very pleasant, but that they were frequent for her. And, anyone who spent a considerable amount of time in the home would inevitably run into her....

Ended up dating the girl for a couple of years after that. Stayed in that house a lot, but never had another sighting. It was always in the back of my mind when I was there though.
 
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wounded mullet said:
That might ruin the love life, wondering if dead grandma is checking out my performance in the background..
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It crossed my mind regularly, but never hindered me.

Granny would have had to do far more than walk through a hallway to prevent me from handlin' my bidness up in there.
 
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Its always interesting to me to hear other peoples stories about this sort of thing. Especially about Civil War ghosts.


I had always heard of a civil war ghost that walked Del Rio Pike in Franklin, near the Harpeth River... Never personally saw him, but had heard stories that he would walk along the road, turn back and look at the car approaching him, and then just disappear
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pantone151 said:
Its always interesting to me to hear other peoples stories about this sort of thing. Especially about Civil War ghosts.


I had always heard of a civil war ghost that walked Del Rio Pike in Franklin, near the Harpeth River... Never personally saw him, but had heard stories that he would walk along the road, turn back and look at the car approaching him, and, and then just disappear
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My father owned a piece of land pretty near the Stones River Battlefield between Smyrna and Murfreesboro. Some of the old timers in the neighborhood told similar stories.
 
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SWIL said:
I'm not calling those who have claimed they saw something liars, per se. I geuss I just prefer psychology books to find answers and justifications to the precieved "paranormal"; not campfire stories.
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You are the poster child for debbie downer!

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SWIL said:
I'm not calling those who have claimed they saw something liars, per se. I geuss I just prefer psychology books to find answers and justifications to the precieved "paranormal"; not campfire stories.
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Because the writers of psychology books are all infallible, and psychology as a science explains all of the workings of the human mind perfectly...

While I can agree that some of the stories we hear are fabrications, I do believe that there are events that can't be explained by what we currently know about our universe. I also think that anyone that can disregard the massive number of personal stories supporting paranormal activities is acting in an egotistical manner.

"I know all of you witnessed these events with your own eyes and ears, but I know that it didn't really happen. Even though I wasn't there."
 
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First&Tenn said:
Because the writers of psychology books are all infallible, and psychology as a science explains all of the workings of the human mind perfectly...

While I can agree that some of the stories we hear are fabrications, I do believe that there are events that can't be explained by what we currently know about our universe. I also think that anyone that can disregard the massive number of personal stories supporting paranormal activities is acting in an egotistical manner.

"I know all of you witnessed these events with your own eyes and ears, but I know that it didn't really happen. Even though I wasn't there."
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Sure, there are many, many things that science hasn't explained.

But does that mean one should automatically assume that the noise, vision, or action that unexplainably happens should be considered as looming spirit or soul of a being long dead? Especially when there is absolutely zero amount of solid evidence supporting the existence of spirits or ghosts?

If I hear a strange noise on Christmas Eve coming from my chimney, should I assume it's Santa?!

I feel we can more accurately explain these events by examining human perception and reality closely to learn about abnormalities and anomalies that exist within our psyche.
 
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SWIL said:
I feel we can more accurately explain these events by examining human perception and reality closely to learn about abnormalities and anomalies that exist within our psyche.
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While I don't disagree with this it does suggest a bias towards all these events being figments of the mind. I would suggest it is also possible that the mind at times can see things that we normally don't see. Does that mean there are ghosts? No. But it does open the possibility that the visions/sounds are of "real" things that are otherwise hidden to human perception.

I think it's entirely possible that there is much "reality" beyond our perceptive abilities. (Much like animals appear to be tuned into events long before we are)
 
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I was walking one day in Shiloh Park along an old road that had been closed to motor traffic. I usually walked on the main road through the park because traffic is pretty light there (and it wasn't too uphill) :) ). I turned a bend in the road and ahead of me I saw a man with longish hair and a beard coming from the opposite direction. He turned onto the side path about a minute before me but when I got there he was nowhere to be seen. The path was in the middle of open mowed fields but he was not on either side. I got scared and hightailed it back to the car ad never walked on that trail again. I wish I had paid attention to what he was wearing but I never notice stuff like that. Now, when I hear tales of Confederate soldiers still roaming the park, I am not as skeptical as I used to be.

My grandparents, who were deeply religious, once lived in a house that had a door that swung open every night at midnight no matter what they did to it to keep it closed. I added the deeply religious part because they would have rather taken a beating than lie about something like that.
 
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I put a ceiling fan in my living room. I came home from work one day and it was on full speed. I swore I didn't leave it on that speed but wasn't sure. A few days later it happened again. I still couldn't rule out that I had done it until I was sitting on the couch watching TV. The fan had been off but it slowly started to turn then sped up to medium speed.

I thought I must have a ghost that's getting a little warm. Turns out it was my neighbor's garage door opener...the fan had a wireless control and it was on the same frequency as my fan. When ever they opened or closed their garage, my fan would receive the command :)
 
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volinbham said:
While I don't disagree with this it does suggest a bias towards all these events being figments of the mind. I would suggest it is also possible that the mind at times can see things that we normally don't see. Does that mean there are ghosts? No. But it does open the possibility that the visions/sounds are of "real" things that are otherwise hidden to human perception.

I think it's entirely possible that there is much "reality" beyond our perceptive abilities. (Much like animals appear to be tuned into events long before we are)
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This is plausible. Undeveloped or obsolete senses of our ancestors or even evolution of new senses could lead to answers.

I still must suggest that a great majoriety of these events are cognitive and internal events that are precieved as an external reality.
 
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here's one for u. u can say what u want but this is what happened. in huntsville there is a large and very old cemetary downtown. anyways i've always heard all these stories about "childrens playground" which is literally a child's playground at the very back of the cemetary. very odd. i always thought the stories were garbage or the ppl just thought they saw something. ne ways for biology lab we went to the cemetary to look at how the head stones age over time. anyways me and my roommate who had the class w/ me turned in the wrong entrance. ended up driving back to childrens playground. i had never been there so we got out to see what the fuss was about. i swear on everything that on the swing set only one swing was moving. it wasn't barely moving and the wind was not blowing. i mean this one swing was swinging. there was no one else around. my roommate was so freaked out he jumped back in my car. it was the middle of the day, i didn't see anything other than the one swing moving out of 3 total swings on it.
 
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So one of the best cases i have seen of a ghost sighting caught on tape is the one in the impound lot. The women who died a few nights before in a car accident and her truck was taken there. She apparently wore overalls all the time and the "ghost" seems to be wearing

YouTube - Oklahoma Car Impound Lot Ghost
 
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RockyTopVol said:
I'm sorry this is going to be long.

I've got more that I could tell that happened to my brother and his wife while living in a house in Gravel Switch, KY. It's late and I'm tired. If you guys want to hear about it, I'll post it tomorrow.
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Great story, please continue with them.
 
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A&E and the travel show, go to what is described as the most haunted places in the United States to try an film ghosts, but they find very little evidence in my opinion.
 
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wounded mullet said:
So one of the best cases i have seen of a ghost sighting caught on tape is the one in the impound lot. The women who died a few nights before in a car accident and her truck was taken there. She apparently wore overalls all the time and the "ghost" seems to be wearing

YouTube - Oklahoma Car Impound Lot Ghost
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Holy crap that was unreal.

Supposedly that is an admitted hoax where someone dangled an action figure on a string over it.
 
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well there was this one ghost I had a problem with named gozer but me and some buddies used out proton accelerators and aimed for the flat top and crossed the streams so it was no biggie
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