How banal.
Shows how wrong assumptions can be. I was in the Navy when my ship visited the old fort. The military draft was in place. What we felt was real.
Thanks for posting here, I believe you. Millions of people have seen ghosts and other paranormal phenomenon. Hardly a day passes that I don’t experience spiritual events.
It is easy when you understand spirits can create any image they wish. Usually they create an image of themselves as they looked in their latest physical life.
It’s even easier when you just make stuff up and don’t reply in any meaningful manner to the counter arguments made against your illogical, unsupported, and internally inconsistent nonsense.
Are you talking about Dr Samuel Mudd? Because his ghost presumably commutes from Maryland.
I tell you what I have experienced. I know you don’t believe, it is OK.
There are hundreds of books on the subject you could read.
I was told the famous Pirate Jean Lafitte was held in that jail, and he was the one who haunted it. I can’t verify this, but the experience was very real. I am not frightened by ghosts and other paranormal events. I have experience hundreds of them and know what to do. Spirits and/or ghosts have only the power over you that you allow them through your fear.
… how does your bring drafted into the Navy have anything whatsoever with what I just said?
Am I being trolled?
It shows I was not on a tour nor could I recommend this false tour to others. Very plain to me.
Because… people in the Navy are physically barred from taking or recommending tours? Strange, I’ve known people in the Navy and none of them mentioned that.
You know what? Nevermind. I have no idea how your brain works, or what “obvious” point you think I’m missing. I’ll just bow out.
Well, your last statement is true. Lafitte had been dead for 23 years before the U.S. began building the fort and had been dead for over forty years when it was first used as a prison.
Poor guy had to haunt a place he had never been when alive. THAT must have been disconcerting.
All right. The topic is “Why do people believe in ghosts?” Posting your own belief(s) over and over is not addressing the actual question.
You have made your point: you have had experiences that you believe were ghostly. Fine. Unless you have something specific to address the actual question, quit simply repeating your anecdotes. You have now posted enough information about your beliefs to provide other posters with enough information to make up their own minds about your beliefs. You have no need to keep flooding the thread with more such anecdotes.
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See post #51. Another theory: If a ghost is the memory of a person who won’t let go (its own memory, I mean, not that of the loved one who sees it), it would manifest in accordance with its most accustomed self-image, which in most cases includes clothes. That nightmare everybody has of going to work or school and suddenly noticing they’re naked? That doesn’t change when you die.
Been expecting you Tom, and you never disappoint me. Love
On the other hand, you always disappoint me.
There are all sorts of fancy explanations that can be given but it will all boil down to the fact that most people fear death. When I die what will happen to my thoughts and memories? Do they just vanish like a program that has been deleted? Admittedly not a pleasant thought so people create the “ghost” as a way to gain a small amount of comfort and solace.
Me, I don’t fear death, one day I’ll have the answer. dam I hope the Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t right!
Hope that helps just a bit.
Hah! Figures. There’s not a ‘historical’ ghost ‘haunting’ that doesn’t have at least one huge error like that.
Why? What do they think happens to dead souls?
Once, at a friend’s house, I was staying in a bedroom.
The closet doors were the kind that fold open, and are on a track. The light was a bulb embedded in a recess in the ceiling.
One night, as I lay in bed reading, the closet doors spontaneously closed, and a few seconds later, the light in the ceiling shut itself off.
I’m a rational atheist who believes in absolutely nothing supernatural, but I was still spooked by the experience. Mostly because it happened so suddenly and I wasn’t expecting it, not because I believed my sheets were about to strangle me.
On further examination: The closet door was experiencing stress while it was folded open. It was sort of like a spring, but if it is folded all the way open, there’s too much friction for it to pop closed. However, given enough time, or a slight breeze, it will get past the point of most resistance, and the “spring” of the tension on the door will release, closing the closet door.
The bulb in the ceiling overheats, because it is in a small recess. It is a poor place to put a light bulb. When the bulb overheats, it shuts off.
These two easily explained events happened within seconds of each other.
Both events were repeatable, and could be duplicated intentionally.
My mind doesn’t accept that a ghost was playing with me, so I determined to find an explanation, and there was one. Easily found, if a rational way of thinking is applied.
If my mind accepted the idea that there were mischievous spirits afoot, then that would be my story. I totally got haunted by a ghost. I saw it with my own eyes, AND YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN IT!!!
Of course not, because I wasn’t there. You might have been able to explain it within the realm of the natural world if you accepted that sometimes unexplained things happen within the realm of the natural world and looked for a natural world explanation for such an occurrence instead of being impressed by the obvious and resounding evidence of the “supernatural”.
**Friction **and heat. Two very common things. Oh my, how scary.