And that is also covered on what I said, BTW that google vomit on ghosts on the highways shows easy to explain images, as silly as most UFO sightings.
The point stands, we should have gotten several highways already with common and repeated sightings as in haunted houses (that have also common explanations) there are next to none, or to say it better, with the increase of vehicular deaths in the last century many examples of haunted freeways turned useless because of paranormal fears would had appeared and continue if there was any objective truth to this.
Once people have indoctrinated into believing in the supernatural (like believing in religion) then damn near anything can be attributed to a supernatural cause.
For example, there’s a story in my family that when a great-uncle was shot and killed in WW2, the family heard the bang in their home stateside.
Of course, it is VASTLY more probably that the bang was caused by some perfectly natural source, but I could not even get my Mom to admit it was even possible that is wasn’t a supernatural event. Apparently, in their old neighborhood, no other source of banging noises existed. When a car backfired, I guess it made whooshing noise or something. And hey, even though it was a heavily mafiosa Italian neighborhood, the wise guys must have settled their difference with “yo momma” battles instead of guns.
Pharaphrasing Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from the paranormal.
About three thousand years ago, people believed that the sun was pulled across the sky in a chariot. Perhaps in another three thousand years, there will be a scientific explanation for what people now consider “ghosts”.
I realize there is no way to convince those who haven’t experienced them. But why I believe is because I have experienced them. There is a difference between ghosts and other spirits. Inhabitants of the White House have saw Lincoln.
This is what I don’t want here. If you want to make claims about evidence, that makes sense because it’s a topic about why people believe in ghosts. If you want to offer platitudes and condescend to people about their inferior understanding, you’re in the wrong place.
Again, if there was any consistency we should see the same in the highways of America, **continuous **apparitions of the same people who died young, it does stretches reason assume that the same kind of noble people are **not **dying in many highways as the inhabitants of the White House (Not all good people are elected president you know), it is that basic inconsistency that points to more mundane explanations to famous sightings in specific locations.
I can see no reason to make an attachment to a highway. Ghosts are usually seen in houses where they lived or places of great importance to them. They often hang around a loved one not yet deceased also. Attachments can be formed with people they hated also in a manner of haunting them. Most every major city has ghost tours that visit places where ghosts maybe attached too. I remember visiting the fort on Dry Tortugus. When I entered a prison cell which once held a famous pirate I felt a drop in temperature of over 30 degrees. Cold inside and very hot outside, everyone with the group also felt it. There is a lot to it.
Nonsense. Again, a prison cell is also a place that would not make anyone fell attached to, you try to flee from them. So once again, you are ignoring that indeed more people die on the roads, and so more should be seen out there, but there are not.
How can you quote that like it was a fact? Even if true, there’s no way to know, and there are plenty of people that believe everyone turns into a ghost (or angel, or spirit, or whatever).
I do believe that people think they’ve experienced ghosts. Nobody has pictures of one.
I dreamed about the Loch Ness Monster once – which is just as much an “experience” as yours – but that doesn’t mean I believe in her.
The point I posted earlier applies especially to lekatt.
People want explanations for things. That’s human nature. Some people just are not happy without coming up with some explanation for what they experienced.
The voice I heard from my Dad that night laying in bed was so incredibly real. If I weren’t a skeptical person who believed in waking hallucinations, I’d have every reason to believe he was calling out to me through some supernatural way.
If you locked me in an old abandoned house on a windy night, I would freak the fuck out, even if you told me that I was safe and guaranteed no one or nothing could hurt me. It’s human nature to see, hear, feel, and experience scary things when it is dark and windy and cold and whatever.
So, some people tour a prison, they hear a story about a pirate, they feel a breeze. What caused the breeze? Doesn’t seem like there is any way the temperature could have dropped here, and it sure feels like it dropped a lot! Must a be a ghost. It’s the simplest explanation for some people. A more skeptical person like myself might just say, “hmm, I’m not sure why it felt colder all of a sudden. Maybe I’m coming down with an illness? Maybe I just got piss shivers? Maybe there’s some sort of ventilation and it caused a draft and that’s what I felt.” Once you’ve given up your rational skepticism, ghosts explain all sorts of things perfectly well (until you think too hard about the scientific ramifications of them, then it all really falls apart).
So, I reiterate. I think believing in ghosts and all sorts of supernatural stuff is positively silly, and it is a result of closing off your mind and looking for a “simple” solution to a question when perhaps you’re just never going to figure out what that flash of light was, what that sound was, why that chill happened when it did, etc.
Sounds like you are just ignoring the evidence, anything in this world can be explained in a hundred different ways. In order to accept a simple solution you might just believe what happened instead of ignoring it.
It is not good to discount what millions of other people have experienced just because you haven’t experienced it. I have never seen an alien but I know people who have and now scientists are saying it would be possible that there is life on other planets.
You only know what you read in a book not what you experienced.
