[OT] Do you believe in ghosts?

[Breakstone]

Do you believe in ghosts?

I mean real life ghosts, of course.

If yes, have you, or anyone you know, personally encountered any?

 

[starwolf]

Yes and Yes

 

[Breakstone]

Please tell!

(And that goes for anyone who says yes to number two)

 

[Corinth]

Yes, but I've had no conclusive encounters with one. The closest I come is the suspicion that my late grandmother didn't like it much that my folks and I moved into her house after she died; weird happenned more often that Occam's Razor allows, and it happenned around things that she didn't like.

 

[Tonguez]

Yes

Yes - Xmas 1997. At Parents house, we were awoken by noise on the verandah and then sat there watching the nephews new toy truck go backwards and forwards across the deck for a good 15 minutes or so.
Next day nephew looses his baloon which suddenly floats across the garden (at about the shoulder height for a 3yr old) and up the stairs back to him.
We think it may have been a cousins baby who had died the year before and came back due to the presence of the children.

Other family members have had various expereinces. eg when my cousins wife died (cancer) he was sitting on his bed when all the cushions she had made suddenly flew off the bed and onto the floor (she use to take them off when going to bed whereas he would just lie on them)

Another uncle had a cigarette pulled out of his mouth at his sisters funeral (she disapproved of smoking)

A couple of cousins report 'seeing ghost' on a regular basis

Oh yeah and my Grandmother was something of a 'Medium' - the ghosts were her friends...

 

[Tonguez]

Now Tsuma,i - why do you want to know?

 

[Frosty]

I don't but my brother swears he has seen one. Our family had just moved into a new house. A cube-shaped villa built in the 1950s. The house have two stories and a basement and it was designed for two families. One family per story. My father is a handyman so he rebuilt the whole house for one family. This meant getting rid of the top floor kitchen for example. In the kitchen my father built a bedroom. The bedroom my brother was going to get. (We are three brothers and we each got one.)

The previous owner had died in the house. It was an elderly woman and at the time of her death she was living alone in this rather large building. She hadn't been able to subrent the ground floor.

After we had been living in the house for a year or so my brother swore that he had heard someone slammering with kitchen utensils, pots and pans in his room. It couldn't be the regular kitchen since that is situated far away from his room. He awoke many nights after that due to the slammering.

At one time when my brother was late home, way past his curfew, he saw someone in his window looking at him as he arrived. It was a femal figure but he couldn't make it out. When he entered the house he was expecting to be yelled at for being late but the house was empty. The rest of the family arrived home after half an hour.

I think he is full of it.

 

[Algolei]

I had sex with a ghost once.

 

[Paul_Klein]

That's cool.

 

[Bonedagger]

No.