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axerton:
While I am 'sure' that ghosts do not exist, I would love to find out I am wrong because then I would know that there are some things that science can't explain, somehow this knowledge would make me feel a whole lot better about the world.

That said, my mother, normally one of the most logical people you will meet, will when pressed swear that a poltergeist lived in her childhood home, doing all the normal things poltergeists do, until one night a series of very loud thumps coming from the direction of the stairs, after which nothing ever happened again. She has decided that the ghost must have fallen down the stairs and broken it's neck.

Then again mother will also claim - some what more light heartedly in this case - that her grandmother was a witch.

Nodaisho:
I don't get any experiences like that, my house makes a lot of noises, but it was made in 1920, expanded in 1930, and again in '99, but most of the upstairs is old, and there will be noises when nobody is up and around. No footsteps, though, unless it is my dad coming in from the garage or me getting a midnight snack.

Est, I remember reading the thread on that comic, and one of the things that people brought up is how supernatural is a somewhat difficult term. Once it gets explained, it is a natural phenomena, so there can't be anything supernatural.

I don't think that ghosts are that unthinkable of a thing, I can't think of a reason why there shouldn't be ghosts. We do not know nearly everything there is to know, so I don't tend to think of things as impossible.

Dan, things like that also happen when someone else has their remote to the same frequency as you, that happened at my friend's old house, his tv kept getting changed to pay-per-view porn channels by the neighbor one house up.

jhocking:

--- Quote from: axerton on 06 Jun 2008, 05:04 ---While I am 'sure' that ghosts do not exist, I would love to find out I am wrong

--- End quote ---

I suppose it depends on how exactly I'd be finding out. If I'm reading a study about it, sure that's cool. However, I'm not too keen on being in the middle of Poltergeist.

Lines:
My stereo turns itself on and off all the time. But this is only because I need to get some batteries for the remote so I can reprogram it. (When it's not programmed, it does weird shit, but I'm too lazy to go buy batteries.)

The only weird thing that's ever happened to me was we had this old alarm radio and when it was towards the end of its life, it didn't like turning off. You could unplug the damn thing and it would still play. Though rather creepy, I don't think it was ghosts. Especially since nothing weird happened when I put the thing out of it's misery by smashing it.

The only weird things that have happened to my friends is growing up there was a girl I played with and her whole family thought their house was haunted by some little girl. Nothing scary, they'd just see her hovering around sometimes. I didn't see anything and never had any weird vibes from the place and the only thing to suggest that it could have been haunted is that no one stays there for very long. (She moved away after a few years.) But I think this is because the house is really old and the only bathroom is downstairs next to the kitchen, which would be rather irritating, I expect.

Basically, I don't believe in ghosts, but I do like ghost stories and movies involving ghosts. They're kind of interesting.

Katherine:
I guess I would say that I believe in ghosts but I don't want to.  The possibility that they exist frightens me, and I'm a lot like Lunchbox in the sense that I am afraid of looking out my window and seeing something that shouldn't be there (or in the mirror and seeing something behind me!)

I have never had what I would call an encounter, but my father says he has.  He moved in with his sister a few years ago to help take care of her while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.  She had lived in that house since before I had been born, and her husband had died there while I was in high school.  My aunt lost her battle with cancer on New Year's Eve about a year after my father moved in with her, and my father was asked to stay in the house to keep an eye on it until it could be sold and her estate settled and distributed according to her will, which took about a year and a half all told.  Right before the house was sold and my father moved out, he told me as I was visiting him that every night during the week between Christmas and New Year's, he saw the ghost of my Uncle Bucky.  He came up the stairway from the kitchen to the upstairs hallway and walked to their old bedroom, then turned around to go back downstairs again. 

I'm not sure what to make of it.  I don't want to believe him but my father isn't the kind of person who is prone to fits of imagination or being a drama queen.  At least not before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.  If he told me the same story today I would just write it off as the disease talking but this was years before he first started showing symptoms.

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