Poll: Do you belive in ghosts?

[Katherine Kerensky]

I have no reason to believe in the existence of ghosts, or deny the existence of ghosts.

Today during school our teacher randomly started telling us stories originating from Ireland about ghosts. An interesting one popped up about a little boy, whose was name jack, a very depressed little boy until he was "visited" by a beautiful woman dressed in green. One day after a few of the "visits" the boy told his sister that the woman was going to bring him to a place where he would always be happy. That night the sister heard beautiful singing coming from her brothers room, so she went downstairs only to hear the servants talk about banshees. Now, I must warn you, if you are easily scared stop reading now. I'll wait........ is he gone? Good. The next day jack was found in the basement, dead, in a tub of water. This actually happened, jack was found dead but nobody knows what actually killed him. So, what do you think, do you believe in ghosts?

I just had to make a... smoother version.
But, as I said, I have no reason to believe in or deny the existence of ghosts.
No solid proof either way.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

No. But I do like movies like paranormal activity.

Here I must kindly disagree. I found it dull, predictable at times, and overall a disappointment (No flying box scene)

Out of curiousity, why did you like it?

 

[seious]

Yes. I've had my own experiences that I could only explain by thinking it was paranormal.

Especially since everyone has said there's a ghost in our house before.

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This has been my most popular avatar so far.

I guess people here like violence.

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[Jonesy911]

No. I don't believe in things that have no evidence to back them up

 

[linwolf]

No. Science have found nothing that support that ghost can exists, but there are found a lot of thing in the human brain that explains why people see ghost.

 

[Jaranja]

No, I don't. I've never seen one but I think people that want to believe them, see them. Also, people in extreme fear or depression could see them as a result of their brain basically going "you need help" or "FUCK!"

You know that boy could've just been visited by a serial killer dressed in green.

that theory doesnt match up with so many events.

i think it has something to do with the lack of light, the brain can get overactive and start "filling in the blanks" in the darkness. so you see things in the dark that arent there.

i found this out once when i was trying to fall asleep on the couch, and this picture of the mona lisa was hanging there. the more i looked at it in the dark, the more i could swear it was making faces at me. a car turned on outside and the light flashed directly on the mona lisa's face. the face looked shocked, the mouth a perfect O.

i dont think this actually happened, but i did see it.

Could've been a shadow on it's mouth or just your brain going "What's that?... oh wait" but then the darkness returned, I guess. The fact that you thought it was already making faces at you could've also played a part.

 

[FalloutJack]

I do believe in spooks. I do. I do.

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

Well those things in PacMan definitely weren't jelly moulds.

 

[TimeLord]

I have never had any experiences with paranormal activity however anything can exist

 

[Shaegor]

I don't directly believe in them but I still always look over my shoulder after seeing a horror movie or something.

 

[Skarvig]

No. But I do like movies like paranormal activity.

Here I must kindly disagree. I found it dull, predictable at times, and overall a disappointment (No flying box scene)

Out of curiousity, why did you like it?

It had a real thick atmosphere. What I like is more the subtile things, like the audio, the less "oh, there is the ghost" moments the better. When all out of nowhere the scream came or the door slammed, I instantly had goosebumps. I love it when I'm all alone and my surround system really loud. This also applies to games like Doom3. The scariest parts where the ones you didn't fought, you just listen and you know there is something but you didn't see it yet, chilling.
Other films/series from the horror genre I really enjoyed were Stephen Kings Rose Red and Marble Hornets.

 

[Frequen-Z]

i dont think this actually happened, but i did see it.

I wish more people took that mentality. A more common train of thought of believers would be;

"I did see it therefore it happened."

Thank you. You've proven to me that being a believer doesn't automatically make you an idiot

 

[Ekit]

No. Ghosts, just like unicorns, elves and gods are figments of imagination.

 

[-BloodRush-]

No, I don't. I've never seen one but I think people that want to believe them, see them. Also, people in extreme fear or depression could see them as a result of their brain basically going "you need help" or "FUCK!"

You know that boy could've just been visited by a serial killer dressed in green.

that theory doesnt match up with so many events.

i think it has something to do with the lack of light, the brain can get overactive and start "filling in the blanks" in the darkness. so you see things in the dark that arent there.

i found this out once when i was trying to fall asleep on the couch, and this picture of the mona lisa was hanging there. the more i looked at it in the dark, the more i could swear it was making faces at me. a car turned on outside and the light flashed directly on the mona lisa's face. the face looked shocked, the mouth a perfect O.

i dont think this actually happened, but i did see it.

Could've been a shadow on it's mouth or just your brain going "What's that?... oh wait" but then the darkness returned, I guess. The fact that you thought it was already making faces at you could've also played a part.

the thoughts going through my head were, "this is odd. lemme look closer." the closer i looked the more i saw in the darkness. it was crazy. lmao

the mind and imagination are stronger than people think. the more i tried to play it off as a trick of the light or shadows or something, the more expressive the faces got. i played my psp until i was too tired to care that night. this was recent too. like, a couple days ago.

 

[teisjm]

No.

If ghosts existed, wouldn't one or more of them have come forward and revealed itself to the world?
i mean, everyone dies, even attention-whores who'll do everything they can to be seen and heard. Why should they cahnge just cause they died?
Or why should only shy people who preffered noone to know they existed become ghosts when they died?

Point: if ghosts existed, they would've made it clear to us by now.

And as for the "only the gifted can see them" stuff, i find it hard to belvie, cause most people who take themselves serious as a "medium" and thinks they're special seems to do it eitehr for profit, or to make everyone think they're special.

 

[-BloodRush-]

No.

If ghosts existed, wouldn't one or more of them have come forward and revealed itself to the world?
i mean, everyone dies, even attention-whores who'll do everything they can to be seen and heard. Why should they cahnge just cause they died?
Or why should only shy people who preffered noone to know they existed become ghosts when they died?

Point: if ghosts existed, they would've made it clear to us by now.

And as for the "only the gifted can see them" stuff, i find it hard to belvie, cause most people who take themselves serious as a "medium" and thinks they're special seems to do it eitehr for profit, or to make everyone think they're special.

wow. never have i ever read a post so logical and yet so ignorant. this isnt an insult. youre asking questions i havnt heard before...lmao
*edit* most of them cant exactly reveal themselves to the world on account that theyre dead and not famous celebrities. can you imagine the public relations necessary for a ghost to reveal itself like that? theyre like invisible.

 

[Umberphoenix]

No.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Well as an insomniac sometimes after a few nights of not sleeping my mind will start functioning inefficiently. I used to be convinced that ghosts (or at least some kind of paranormal specter type thing) existed when I was like, 13-14 because of this, because I would hear things that sounded like whispers and my mind would turn certain objects in my room that I couldn't see too well into faces and eyes and things of that nature. I've learned to dismiss it for what it is, because it never happens when I'm fully alert, but it just goes to show how easily your mind can play tricks on you.

When I lost the mentality of "these are ghosts" and it shifted to "I'm sleep deprived" my hallucinations where changed to different things, became more nonsensical and nondescript. There was actually a test done, where they took two groups and put them in the same old empty theatre. They told group A that they where redecorating the theatre and they wanted their opinion, and they told group B some story that the theatre was haunted (which was not ever an actual rumor). To no surprise, group B came back reporting all of these spectral anomalies that where supposedly unmistakeably paranormal. Group A reported absolutely nothing. I realize there is a lot of human factor that makes this test a bit invalid by scientific method, but obviously by observation there is at least some concrete evidence that "ghosts" are more related to mentality than they are to actual physical occurrences.

Edit: also, there's that whole issue with projecting human qualities onto ghosts and such. Since they aren't biological even if they did exist they wouldn't have emotions or motives, so there would be no reason for them to kill people and move furniture and shit like that.

 

[Kortney]

*edit* most of them cant exactly reveal themselves to the world on account that theyre dead and not famous celebrities. can you imagine the public relations necessary for a ghost to reveal itself like that? theyre like invisible.

A ghost revealing itself would be the arguably the biggest news story in human history. If they are invisible how come so many people have "seen" them? And even if they aren't invisible, how come none of them have ever got a piece of chalk and written on a board in front of a group of people saying "Hi Guys. I died a few years ago....."

The point he was making is that ghosts seem to do whatever the hell they want. Some can throw chairs around, some can speak, some are able to be seen. Why hasn't any of them come forward and revealed themselves in some way (which wouldn't even be that hard to do). After all, if I died and all of a sudden I was a ghost - I'd try and contact humans and tell them what the fuck just happened and I think all of us would. We wouldn't just walk around opening and closing doors and groaning.

Anyway, on topic no I don't believe in ghosts. Science has only come up with evidence against their existence, not for it. If ghosts existed we would see them every day, and there would be huge amounts of proof for them. Do people forget at the sheer amount of human beings who have died in our existence? How come we don't feel their presence constantly? How come ghosts only really tend to appear in scary old houses? Shouldn't they be literally everywhere? Why aren't areas such as The Somme in France absolutely filled with ghosts? How come most ghosts come from the Victorian Era? How come he hardly ever hear about cavemen ghosts? Was becoming a ghost more fashionable in the 1800s? How can ghosts walk through walls, but don't fall through the floor?

Not one bit of hard evidence can vouch for ghosts. It's all unverifiable rubbish.

They are still excellent subjects for scary movies though. I don't believe in ghosts, but they still scare me.

 

[Cimerax]

The third one.
I was alone indoors and I saw a cup get pushed towards me, but it could have been the wi-
Oh, indoors... Shit...
Also, an aunt of mine had this dream where she was told to go to this hill on her property, she woke up and went, and she found her husband pinned under a tractor. That could have been a coincidence though.