Has anyone ever seen a ghost?

[firefox]

I have two cousins that are brothers that went to a bridge reported to have a ghost. They gave me an account of seeing a ghost. I also have another cousin and friend that said something got in the car with them as they were going past a bar and the next day they found out a man was killed there that night.

I have never seen any ghost and I was just wondering if anyone ever has.

[Gothic Sponge]

1. Yes

Many times

[ok_cpu]

2. Yes

Saw the same one fairly regularly in a house I used to rent.

[Teaser]

3. Yep.

Or something like it.

Was out jogging around 10:30 pm. Saw a deer, reared up on two legs, charging me between 2 trees. I balled up into a protective pose, just hoping it wouldn't collide with me. A half second later, I looked up, there was nothing there. No sound, nothing running away.

The weird thing, the deer was charging me on its hind legs the whole time, like a biped. It also had a suspiciously human mouth.

Some of my friends have suggested I saw the Jersey Devil. I live in a heavily wooded section of Philadelphia, so it's not impossible (well, except that it is impossible).


I'm not a crank, btw. I'm a neuroscientist, with a Ph.D. and am not given to hallucination.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Wo.

You must've been shaking after that...

[Teaser]

16. Oh I nearly shit myself.

I actually finished the run. Had to run past a local graveyard (on an unlit street) to get home. You can imagine how the return trip was.

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Yes, he's called "Current Balance."

He vanishes into nothing with the blink of an eye.

[belladonna]

5. I saw plenty at the hotel I worked at until recently

Lots and lots of weird shit going on in that hotel that just can't be explained away.

[ok_cpu]

6. Like this?

:scared:

[belladonna]

10. Haha, nope!!

I don't buy the whole ghosts are scary and wanna hurt us thing anyway. I'm a little more worried about the people who are alive and want to hurt me than some ghost who just wants to make his or her presence known.

[misanthrope]

8. Such as?

Examples?

[belladonna]

13. One incident in particular

A man came running out of room 105 one night TERRIFIED and refused to go back in there. He swore that he woke to someone pulling him out of the bed by his feet. This after someone else had complained about the same room a month or two before, only this time they woke to someone or something holding them down in the bed.

[Mrs_Beastman]

26. Never stay in room 101 at the Holiday Inn in Heath, Ohio

My dad worked there and all the maids, and I guess some guests, said there was something in there.

[Fud]

7. Never saw one directly

But one night i just got into bed and felt something climb in after. It wasn't my wife or one of the cats and i freaked out. It whatever it was got spooked and i could hear footsteps running away. No i don't do drugs but do think there is some things out there we dont understand fully. Many relatives of mine have seen ghosts and they are not nuts...well sometimes they are. Many liberals are not athiest but mearly agnostic and just don't know for sure. I guess we will find out for sure when we are buried. Though i did see ghosts as a kid growing up in my bedroom i think it was just nightmares and nothing more. The wierd part though is my brother saw the same thing.

[texas1928]

9. Oh the stories I could tell.

But I have already shared.

[belladonna]

14. C'mon, share again

For those who missed the earlier threads.

[Pharlo]

11. We have two of them at work.

Their names are "Don't know" and "Wasn't me".

At first, I thought they were real people. But, when I went to personnel to see about getting them reprimanded or dismissed for all their screw ups, I was told we have no employees by that name.

I may never have seen them, but they do haunt me....

[Lady Effingbroke]

15. No, but my TV switched on by itself the other night.

I was home alone, in another room than the TV, and the remote was nowhere near to hand.

Electrical "glitch", or just a ghost saying "hi" ? :hi:

[Pegleg Thd]

20. There were three

in the house where I grew up. They were there when we moved in in 1945. I learned years after I left that house that three people had died in the house between 1917 and 1939.

Now there probably two more there since my parents both died in that house.

There are also two in the house my wife and I are living in now. We learned recently from a relative of the former owner that the parents of the former owner had died here in the early 1950's. They don't bother us. Some of the things that they do are actually comical.

At our ages it may not be long until we become one of THEM!!!

[MrScorpio]

17. Oh, gimme a break

Stop being children.

There are no such things

They're just mind tricks
http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/cyber_ghost.htm

[belladonna]

18. Nope, not falling for that one

Will. Not. Click. On. Scary. Link. :P

[Pharlo]

19. No, I swear...

EVERY time something bad happens at work and I ask "What happened, who did this?", Don't Know and Wasn't Me pop up. Sometimes, they both appear to my co-workers simultaneously. It's downright eerie...

[Fud]

22. Scorpio thing is that you don't know for sure

Two hotels built on this island i heard firsthand storys of people seeing ghosts. Some were built right over grave sites. I can name a few the Sheraton the Grand Hyatt, the Ritz Carlton.

The later was first started over an ancient burial site and they had to move when they found skeletons and head dresses and they were over 7 feet tall. A friend was doing archeology work on the site had nightmares for months. Probably not related but the same beach DT Flemming had many siting of guys just sitting around at night and all the sudden a bunch of warriours would march by.

Also on the Hyatt site when they were building a bunch of guys working underground saw something. They were so scared shitless that they quit the job. Oh i'm sure some of them were stoned or something but that doesn't explain it at all. Mass hallucinations are ruled out.

[hickman1937]

21. No, but my cats used to stare at the ceiling corners a lot.

I'd investigate-nothing. I'm German-Irish, though. We basically ignore anything that's not work/family related. Alcoholism, nervous breakdowns, phobias, all fine as long as you don't scare the kids and get to work on time. I think ghosts get bored around people like us, and sleep till they find someone more fun.

[onager]

23. The solution is easy...

If you think you might encounter a ghost, take a skeptic with you.

They never show up when we're around.

I was on the Tower Of London tour once with a very crusty old guide. (Not surprising that he was a crusty sort. By law, the Tower "Wardens" or "Beefeaters" must be retired Warrant Officers from one of the British military services: Army, Royal Navy, RAF or Royal Marines. They generally don't tend to be mystical types.)

He said: "I've heard London called 'the most haunted city on earth.' But I always suspected that was because the people in London are the biggest liars on earth."

That sums it up nicely.

[Mrs_Beastman]

24. Yes

a couple times. the one that sticks out is when I had a sleepover at my house as a teenager and we got out the ouija board. We asked if we could see them and they just showed up.

[bigwillq]

25. I believe in ghosts

I have never seen one though.

[giant_robot]

27. Used to think I did and was terrified. Now I don't believe.

When I was a kid, I used to get episodes of isolated sleep paralysis (the hag) on a regular basis. That's when you wake up, fully aware, but unable to move and feeling like you have a great weight on your chest. Some people have vivid hallucinations during these episodes, but I never did. It scared the shit out of me, and, of course, my parents didn't believe a word of it. I eventually grew out of it and have not had a single paranormal (if you want to call it that) experience since.

[Mrs_Beastman]

28. Yes, that is explainable

That 'can't move' feeling is actually just part of the sleep process...I'm paraphrasing and I'm not going to google it...But basically there is a phase of sleep before and after REM that your brain sort of 'cuts off' your body.