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Oherian Noble Donor
Location: West Virginia Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | My outlook < on 12/14/2005 1:59 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Although I started this forum, you might be surprised to find that I am somewhat skeptical about the existance of ghosts. How do I explain that "somewhat"? Basically... I believe that humans have a soul, and that it survives after death. Therefore I believe that the presence of ghosts is possible, even probable. But I'd like to have some proof. It doesn't have to be proof that others accept, just something I'm unable to explain away personally. An example of a personal experience: I was dropping off something at the apartment of a former friend. At the time, we weren't on the best of terms, so I had made arrangements to drop it off while he was at work. When I got to his apartment, the place felt wrong. No better way to put it. Just heavy and nasty. I placed the item I was leaving on the floor of the living room (I didn't feel like dancing through the mess to reach anything else), when I heard a door slam from back in the bedroom. My first thought was that he was in the room and mad that I was there, so I called his name. In response the door began slamming repeatedly. I was rather bothered by that, so I turned to leave. As I reached for the front door, it slammed shut ... and was locked. Lest this sound too much like a horror film, I was the one who had locked it when I went in. I was still pretty bothered by the whole experience. After that type of experience, you might think I'd believe wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, I can't. It was an extremely windy night. So the door slamming might have been caught in the wind. And the feeling could easily be attributed to the way I was feeling about this person due to our disagreement. So I'm looking for proof in a desultory fashion. It will have to be something I experience personally. An image on a picture when I know nothing was there or an EVP when I know the conditions under which it was recorded. I'm not convinced by TEH ORBZ!!!11!!1! Spots in a picture just don't convince me, as there are too many ways they could have occurred. Nor does random fog convince me. If I'm going to take a picture I believe shows a ghost, it'll be a true figure. And one I can see without having to circle it and strain my brain to find it. That said, I'm not overly critical of other's experiences. I wasn't there, and as long as I think you're trustworthy I'll believe you did experience it. I may look for alternate explanations, but that's just my nature. And I do love ghost stories. Truth doesn't matter to me there -- just the chance to deliver a good scare.
| "If the door's open, you might as well stick your head in." -- Lil-trouble |
| seicer
Location: New York Gender: Male Total Likes: 87 likes
| | | | Re: My outlook < Reply # 10 on 12/23/2005 12:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've always believed in the supernatural, whether it is from cold spots to tree branches falling on me, I have this gut instinct that some actions cannot be explained. At Lakin State, for example, there are some instances that cannot be explained. From the bone chilling rooms with howling wind, restricted to one room that would follow you literally, from room to room, to tree branches falling on me, or the sounds of footsteps, it's enough to give me a chill down to my spine. Other people (see the Lakin post for more) have experienced other 'ghostly' hauntings as well. But this belief in this does not hold true for all. I have seen many people take photographs, especially at dusty locations, and say that every orb must have been a deceased person (at a hospital) or a spirit or whatever. Or rain drops. They are not spirits for the last time! I have a photograph from the Kaut House, that, when it was up, generated a lot of e-mails with people saying it was a ghost because there was the Kaut family cemetery next door.
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| Mutt12
Location: Dallas, TX Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
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| | | | Re: My outlook < Reply # 13 on 1/4/2006 6:04 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Oherian Care to elaborate more? I do subscribe to the "recording" theory to an extent, but it couldn't explain ghosts that actually do interact with their surroundings. I think it does explain some hauntings, however. But what do you mean about "the electromagnetic remnant of a once living intelligence still hanging around a place"?
| Well, in a lot of haunting instances, it's mostly the "recording" phenomenon. But there are cases, while not as common, where "ghosts" have interacted with it's surroundings, rather doing things over and over. In most investigations, where phenomena like this is encountered, a roving electromagnetic field is usually detected, accompanied by a "cold spot" where the field is, as if depleting the space it takes of it's heat. Also, some people manage to communicate with these things through electronic voice phenomena.
| -Mutt Creator of Perki Goth/Candi Raver And My Private Little Hell |
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