Do you believe in ghosts?

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Fuckin' spooks
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I don't, and odds are likely 99% of people will either ignore such a thread or also state they don't with a high likelyhood of calling anyone who does a retard tacked in. I'd be interested in hearing the perspective of someone who does and their reasoning for why they do though, so hopefully such a believer drops by.
 
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Ah, but do ghosts believe in you?

Serious answer; I don't know. Call me retarded all you want but I've had weird experiences I can't logically explain. The concept of dead folks wandering about seems highly unlikely and just plain stupid, but I think there's more to it than just hallucinations, mistaken perception and bad memory.
 
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I take an interest in the various cultural ideas about ghosts, but I have never seen an evidence that firmly convinces me. There have been some odd happenings over the years however:

During my teenage years, at one point or another the whole family noticed a periodic scraping sound on one of the walls of our house, at any hour day or night. This wall was only shared with our private yard, so at first my parents suspected an animal making a home in the wall. Professional inspections revealed nothing.

The scraping sounds continued to happen now and again for years after, but otherwise things seemed normal and I got used to hearing these noises.

Correction: There was also one very weird but isolated incident elsewhere in this house. I was home alone for a weekend, walking past the master bedroom to the kitchen and I heard a ruckus and a door-rattling coming from the closed master bathroom. I said "no thanks" and closed the master bedroom off. It never happened a second time.

A later place I lived in had no noises or visual spooking, but being in the house amplified my threat perception no matter what room I was in or who I was with. Often very jumpy and feeling a need to scan surroundings, expecting to be startled by something even when I locked myself in the bathroom for a shower. Lights on/off, day/night, never affected this vaguely unsafe feeling.

My current home is very similar to Bad House II in appearance, upkeep, age, and general surroundings. And yet, there is none of that feeling here. In fact no other house or apartment has given me this kind of feeling.

I can't draw any conclusion from these experiences but I think it's better that way.
 
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I think if there are other planes of reality — and there likely are, though we may not be able to access them even in death — it is conceivable that beings in those worlds would be able to interact with our reality in some way. If human spirits persist and enter these other worlds after death, perhaps they could influence events here… though it would be through subtle suggestion, nothing overt.

If I had to give a direct yes or no answer, I’d say that I don’t believe in ghosts of human spirits. Ofc I’m retarded so I have no clue what’s going on. None of us do
 
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I believe in the Holy Ghost, aka the Holy Spirit as part of the Trinity. But that's the only one I believe in. I think the others are manifestations of some phenomenon we don't fully understand yet.
 
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ghosts are genetic memories from the era when protohumans used to sit in campfires in dark. rustling of bushes, shining eyes, shadows, mysterious disappearances

why do ghosts run away after tapping your back, after you turn on lights? it is just your mind playing tricks on you. if you desperately look hard, you might notice some spook in the dark, not because it exists but because you looked for it

i would love to meet some ghostess. why not
 
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Ghosts definitely exist. I'm not sure what they are, for all I know the old Stone Tape idea is valid after all. But I and many members of my family have had multiple experiences dealing with ghosts, and there's really no logical, scientific explanation for those experiences. Multiple people seeing the same thing can't be reasoned away as the mind playing tricks or a hallucination. Seems to show up with very young children more than adults, though, especially around age 2.

What's weird is that most of my experiences weren't frightening, to such an extent that I actively thought "why aren't I more freaked out about this" while staring at my dead grandmother hovering in the hallway. There just wasn't any emotional reaction. Then the she was gone and I sort of shrugged and went back to my room.

Aside from actually seeing a full blown manifestation, maybe the weirdest experience I've had was about a decade ago. I was talking about our haunted house to a younger cousin, and specifically mentioned that objects tend to disappear (always in the Spring months for some reason) and will reappear if we tell my great-grandpa to put them back.

My cousin suddenly noticed that her cellphone was gone from the table where she put it and we couldn't find it. We spent a solid hour searching the house for it, and despite it having a very obvious bright pink case, we couldn't find it. I finally had her ask gramps to put it back, and literally turned around and it was sitting on the piano, exactly in my eyeline. Zero possibility that I didn't see it, as I was searching that room repeatedly moments before. She wasn't in the room at the time, she was out in the hall freaking out, so even if she had hidden the phone herself to mess with me, she couldn't make it reappear like that.
 
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I don’t think ghosts exist in the spooky Halloween sense. I think is something really bad happens in a place, bad energy is there. Like places and objects can be cursed, and that there are ways of cleansing them. I guess it’s a family thing, I know it sounds kooky lol.
 
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