Would someone kindly explain this to me.
Care to name any?
In a word, no.
It’s kinda sad, really. Wish there were. But science. It explains everything.
I don’t believe in them but I am still terrified of the possibility that I may be wrong. It doesn’t help that I am prone to sleep paralysis combined with semi-conscious hallucinations when I first come out of deep sleep. One of the scariest feelings in the world is to ‘wake up’, realize that you can’t move and ‘see’ someone standing at the foot of your bed.
I have gotten much better at thinking my way through it until I can move again but I still jump out of bed as soon as I can and turn all the lights on while panting for breath every single time. It was a lot worse when I was a child because I didn’t know why it was happening. I just figured my room was haunted by a ghost that wasn’t especially aggressive.
Trump?
That whooshing sound you hear is no ghost.
The weirdest thing that’s happened to me recently is a glass of water exploded while sitting on my nightstand 15 feet away from where I was sitting. I have no clue what caused it. I heard the glass break but couldn’t figure out what happened until I passed by that table, and I saw it sitting there on the nightstand with the top half blown off.
I guess if I believed in ghosts that would stress me out a lot more. Mostly I’m just curious about the physics involved.
I can tell you when I was a kid I used to watch those shows about aliens and scare the shit out of myself when I was home alone at night. I’m already prone to anxiety and sleep disturbances of all types, it’s not hard to get me riled up in the wee hours.
I remember reading once about a lab in a university that no one wanted to work in, because people kept seeing dark “beings” in their peripheral vision. Someone finally figured out that a giant centrifuge in the next room actually caused people’s eyeballs to oscillate, and produced the illusion.
Things like that make me think there’s probably an explanation for everything, we just haven’t found them all.
Another thing is that all the stuff ghosthunters on TV do is ridiculous. They use all these instruments to look legitimate, but not one of those instruments was designed to detect ghosts, tested for its ghost-detecting abilities, and none advertises itself as a ghost-detector.
I once experienced something not supernatural, but nonetheless creepy. I was looking at old cemeteries with a friend-- Indiana has a lot of family cemeteries. There was one that appeared to have a fresh burial, but the stone had a date of death 10 years earlier. we gave ourselves some good shivers about it, with the “dead rise,” and all, then we remembered that the area of Indiana we were in was actually exhuming a lot of graves approximately 17-4 years old, because a nurse named Orville Lynn Majors was being prosecuted for causing the deaths of something like 20-30 patients. That was way creepier that a ghost or even a zombie.
Anyway, on the balance, no ghosts. Except on TVs with antennas.
MEBuckner is very old.
i had a paranormal experiencelong ago. I don’t think anyone believes me though. I have no idea why.
Do tell
Ghost exists, though no one knows their real names.
“No, I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them.”–Author Edith Wharton
Nope.
I ain’t afraid of no ghost!
I think I get it know… the narrator is so old, the only explanation is that he himself is a ghost.
I’d been at the spirits myself, which might explain my obtuseness.
**Ghosts aren’t real, are they?
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No, but I once thought I saw the ghost of Bigfoot. I admit that was a pretty silly notion.
…turns out it was simply the *real *Bigfoot who had gotten his fur covered in white flour.
BOO!
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