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MadassAlex:

--- Quote from: est on 05 Jun 2008, 21:37 ---Sometimes I wonder why there are so many reports of people seeing ghosts and supernatural stuff and so forth, but then I remember that people are stupid and will believe whatever the fuck they want, regardless of whether or not there's any tangible proof for it.



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Not 100% true.

Dr. Whatshisface did a sleep-based experiment to test for out of body experience. He found a very rare kind of person who claimed to have out-of-body experiences every night while sleeping. The experiment took place in a sleep lab with a very, very high shelf. Using a double-blind procedure, a random number was written on a piece of paper and placed on the shelf and the participant was asked to see it in their out-of-body nighttime experience.
Note that the participant was hooked up to a whole bunch of scientific apparatus such as an EEG, EOG and EMG, so if she was to get up she'd interrupt the measurement of her body electrical signals and the researcher would know the whole thing was over.

That didn't happen, however.

The devices took readings over the night, and as usual, she entered the various NREM and REM stages of sleep. In the morning, she correctly gave the researcher the number. I believe the researcher even took repeated measures to make sure it wasn't just chance, but the participant kept getting it right. Craaaazy.

So ghosts probably aren't real, but in the future I believe our perception of the paranormal is going to get more narrow as we research the full capabilities of the human mind.

Dollface:
Only ghost i have seen is my dead social life, I still remember that time when i shot it in the face and still i can remember that look in its eyes.

But seriously some nights i can feel that someone is in my room and watching me and some mornings i find my other pillow next to me and it look like someone has used it but i'm fine with that even it creeps hell outta me.

CamusCanDo:
I just realized what your avatar is Est.

I've had experiences where I think I might kinda could've probably had a paranormal experience but never a 100% Oh Shit That Was A Fucking Ghost moment. Most of them being when I was a kid. For example, when I was five I woke up in the middle of the night with someone touching the side of my neck, or what felt like someone touching the side of my neck. Whether or not that was actually a ghost or a really trippy dream I really couldn't say for certain but it did freak me the fuck out enough that to this day I can't sleep without having a blanket over my neck while I sleep.

A few others are mostly memories of me being completly home alone and having someone standing or sitting behind me, also being very young I chalk this up to having an over active imagination. A few recent ones have left me pretty freaked out though. One night, a couple of years ago, I was taking a shit on the toilet when I noticed that there was a piece of string poking out down under the door to the hallway which I thought was pretty weird because I'm certain I didn't see it there when I first sat down. When I had finished I went to walk out the door to the hallway, when the piece of string along with a big mass of blackness fludidly moved down the hallway and around the corner to the kitchen.

I must've stood there for about a minute looking up and down the hallway trying to figure out what the shit I just saw. It was very likely a rat or a mouse but the way it moved had me think it could've been something else.

I just asked my dad now if he's had any weird experiences in this house, which I've lived in my whole 19 years and he and my family built, and he said no. So maybe it's just me. As to whether I believe in ghosts and things that go bump in the night, I definitely do.

ThePQ4:
I've always believed that my house is haunted, for several reasons. Firstly, my house and the surrounding farm land around it was developed by a wealthy family (at the time) called the Diamonds. I'm sure there is actually information out there on the Hay Creek Diamond's, but anyway... Basically, in lateish 1870s and the original house was renovated by my parents when they were in their late teens, early 20s (1972). Well, in the early 1900s, Mrs. Diamond and two of her daughters died of influenza or something like that, and Mr. Diamond burried them in the backyard under some rose bushes... Well, guess what, those Rose Bushes don't exist anymore... And we found a lot of interesting artifacts including broken china plates (apparently Mr. Diamond liked to through them at his daughter's suitors when they came around, I don't know if this claim is true, but it's funny to think about), purfume bottles, and a rather "grotesque" drawing inside of the outside wall of our house, when we built our additions.

In old sections of the house, particuarly the old master bedroom, seem to be a habitation ground for the disturbing. Every so often, when I would be reading, or watching television I would just feel like someone was watching me or, touching my shoulder or something, even if nothing was there. One of my mom's cousins, who lived with us for a few summers, claims to have been woken up by a shadowy figure coming up from our basement before disappearing. Stereos and televisions have also been known to get turned on or off, when no one is around. I shut off my television to go to school one day, and as I was walking back out of the room, it flicked back on...I started towards it to shut it off, and it turned back off. Like they were toying with me!

Even if we do have ghosts, they're at least friendly. When one of my Aunts was in her crazy-paranormal phase she claims that Mrs. Diamond (I want to say her name was Katherine) is like a protector over my Mom and her kids -and that she disapproves of my father. But I think that's kind of BS... I'll accept ghosts, but I don't think they have any kind of motives.

öde:
My old TV started turning itself on and off, and doing random things like changing channel and volume by itself. Ghosts or crappy old TV malfunctioning? YOU DECIDE.



It was because it was a crappy old TV, by the way.

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