Have you ever seen a ghost?

[mvd]

I saw the UFO poll in GD and thought this was more of a lounge topic. I believe they exist but personally have not seen one and as far as I know not even experienced one.

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	Yes
	8 (22%)
	No
	18 (50%)
	Not seen, but experienced in other ways
	7 (19%)
	Not sure/maybe
	2 (6%)
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	1 (3%)
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[Pharlo]

1. There are no such things as ghosts.

I know this for a fact - a leprechaun told me.

[mvd]

2. Lol

The most paranormal experience I have had was what seemed like a message dream from my late grandfather.

[samnsara]

3. i went on a ghost hunt in tenneesee.. I BEGGED for a ghost to appear....crickets

..I wish the ghosts of all my dogs would appear

[OriginalGeek]

13. There's some good walking ghost tours in Savannah, GA

The best ones stop at every bar along the way and Savannah has no open container policy so you do end up seeing _something_ but I dunno if it was ghosts...it was damn sure fun though!

[mvd]

16. I know what you mean

I miss my dad a lot also. No messages or signs from him unless you count the word “dad” appearing a couple times in the Ghost Radar Classic app - could very well be random.

I think I would be freaked out if my dad or dogs just appeared as a ghost in front of me, though.

[NJCher]

23. I had something like that

on the first Father's Day after my dad died, I had arrived home from my classes. My neighbors had a cool dog that was sometimes outside, so when I got home I would always walk over to say hi to her and give her a biscuit, a box of which I kept in my car for that purpose.

Came back from giving the dog her biscuit and passed my car when I heard the radio. Impossible, because I had the keys and I knew I'd turned the car off.

I opened the door to be sure it was my radio and a speaker on the radio said, "It's Dad!" This was a line from a commercial that was running for Father's Day, but it sure was timely.

I never did figure out how the radio ran at that particular time. It never did it again.

[Backseat Driver]

4. Nope, but I believe they do manifest themselves - restless spirits

for reasons we don't yet comprehend.

[Texaswitchy]

5. I think I did.

When I was little.

I kept seeing a man in overalls walking in the house.

The original owner killed himself in the house.

I didn't know this back then.

Who knows.

[Texaswitchy]

6. He built the house.

He was a carpenter.

[Trueblue1968]

7. but my hubby does..... hE CAN "feel" paranomal beings

[LakeArenal]

8. Not me. Mr Lake had one named Frances.

She was 19 years old and died in his apartment. He never saw her but others did. She would run the water, turn on lights, move stuff around. Other residents thought she liked Mr L cuz she was not nice to them. She’d wreck stuff and break things.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. No, but I had a scary hallucination a few months ago.

It's called a hypnopompic hallucination because it happened immediately after I awoke. If I was a more superstitious person, I might've thought they were ghosts.

I awoke from my couch's recliner after hearing a loud thud from a neighbor, and I saw what appeared to be a family of Native Americans whose skin was all albino-white. I only saw them for a couple seconds, all of them quietly staring at me from a feet away, until they faded away. My heart was instantly racing when I first saw them.

Very odd, because I wasn't dreaming about Native Americans as far as I remembered.

That was back when I had an underground pipe that was badly leaking and a plumber was soon scheduled to drill through the concrete floor slab to fix it. So I'll admit that I was awaiting news of the plumber finding old bones in the ground under the slab, to make the hallucination more meaningful, but that never happened.

[davsand]

10. Saw a man walk through a wall in a locked screen porch.

I was in a vacation rental on the Mississippi with my family. I was standing in the kitchen in a sleep tshirt and a pair of panties making buckwheat pancakes and sausage. He walked out of a wall, looked at me standing in the kitchen, then walked out through the opposite wall. He was wearing a red and black plaid shirt and a hat with earflaps. Hubby heard me let out a half scream and came running.

It was only later that I found out that house had been the scene of a suicide and later a natural death outside in the yard. The guy I saw died out in the yard according to a couple I met a few years later--when I was working my usual job here across the state. They completely volunteered the info that the neighbors all believed the house was haunted without knowing about my experiences there.

I've seen some weird shit, but that definitely maxed out my weird-o-meter.



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[Vogon_Glory]

11. I've sensed a couple

but I’ve never actually seen one.

[Ocelot II]

12. I think I have cat ghosts.

[Hekate]

14. I believe it can happen to some people who are sensitive, as I've heard convincing accounts...

...from people who are not inclined to boast about being psychic.

[IcyPeas]

15. Maybe half dozen times I've had the "feeling" that someone or some thing

has sat at the end of my bed (when I'm sleeping).

It scares the sh*t out of me and wakes me up frightened.

[PETRUS]

17. What counts as a ghost?

When I was around 11 or 12, I awakened in the middle of the night and was convinced I saw my older brother in the room (he was several states away at the time). The next day, we got a call and learned he was in the hospital (he pulled through and was fine, eventually). A weird coincidence, at the very least.

[mvd]

18. While not a conventional ghost, I have heard of things like this happening

Very interesting and glad he was ok!

[highplainsdem]

24. I think that's what is sometimes called a crisis apparition.

[wnylib]

29. My sister reported something similar to that

when my nephew died.

She was 15 at the time and, since it was summer and school was out, she was staying with my brother, his wife, and their two boys, ages 2 and 3. The 2 year old had terminal cancer, but the doctors expected him to live at least until October. He needed to go into the hospital occasionally for a day ot two for treatments. My sister was there to look after the 3 year old while my brother and SIL were busy with the 2 year old. She slept on a cot in the kids' room.

One night when the 2 year old, Jimmy, was in the hospital, my sister woke up and saw the 3 year old sitting up in bed talking. She asked who he was talking to and he said, "Jimmy." She thought he was dreaming and "sleep talking." Or, that he had just awakened and was confused by a dream. She told him Jimmy was in the hospital like before, but he would come home again in the morning.

He insisted that Jimmy had come to see him and was sitting on his bed. He said that Jimmy came to say good bye because he couldn't come home any more.

About 10 minutes later, the hospital called to say that Jimmy had passed away.

So, did my nephew see and hear his brother's ghost? My sister didn't see or hear anything except the 3 year old.

[mopinko]

19. not me, but my family has a banshee.

she told my dad when his brother died.

[TxGuitar]

20. Twice

But first I want to say I absolutely don't believe in ghosts or anything paranormal at all.

The first time I was about 5 years old at my grandmother's funeral. Afterward, we went back to some aunt's house for a get together. It was in the basement but I got bored and wandered upstairs, and was about to go up to the second floor and there was my grandmother at the top of the stairs. Kind of all ghosty looking--all white with at tinge of blue and gauzy. I hoofed it back to the basement where the grownups were. Of course, it could have been some other old aunt or whatever who just went to bed...

The second was just a couple of years ago. We were on a cruise, inside cabin, and the only light was the bit of light from the hall coming in the door. It was the middle of the night and I woke up and I swear there were two dark shapes standing at the edge of our bed. I looked for a second and then they went away because I guess I woke up and was maybe dreaming it. The next night my wife had a nightmare (which she never has) that there was a ghost in our room and it was chasing us. I didn't tell her about my dream the night before until we got home so she wouldn't have another nightmare, but we decided our cabin must have been haunted. So if you're on the Carnival Vista in cabin 9324 be on the lookout!

I will say that I love to be scared and I love waking up at night thinking I'm seeing shadow people. I heard about them as a youngster on the old Art Bell show or something back in like the late 70s or early 80s and they scared me then and now I see them all the time!

[mvd]

21. Yeah, Coast to Coast is a guilty pleasure of mine

But I like the other hosts more than Noory, who lets his right wing views in too much.

[NJCher]

26. Yeah, as they say

He jumped the shark a long time ago. Needs to go.

[wnylib]

28. Noory is a right wing extremist,

has had Roger Stone on the show a few times. I tune in occasionally to see what conspiracies and BS the right wing nuts are promoting. I think the show exists now solely so he has a forum for promoting RW issues and talking points.

[mvd]

30. I look at the schedule all the time

And sometimes I still can’t listen until 2 AM due to first hour nonsense.

[wnylib]

33. Depending on the topic, the later hours can

be very nonsensical, too. And even on the rare times when the topic and guest are genuinely scientific or historical, Noory manages to turn them to nonsense with idiotic, agenda-driven questions.

[mvd]

34. Yes, the show has clearly gotten worse and more political

The guilty pleasure paranormal talk is rarer. I listen less than before. I can’t stand when I hear Noory doing that Newsmax commercial! That kind of thing is boycott worthy.

[mysteryowl]

22. It requires a subtle eye to see and experience other dimensions.

[NJCher]

27. I like the

Way you described this. It’s probably why seers are in the minority in the poll.

[mysteryowl]

31. Yes.

Mediums have that subtle vision and sensibilities. There are full and partial mediums. Most mediums are not aware they have this, but their personal experiences are the clue. Some mediums can be really messed up by it and others handle it okay. Mediums are born that way, it is the evolution of the human species.

[YoshidaYui]

25. I have seen THE GHOST...

That's Hera's ship in the Star Wars Universe!

[Elessar Zappa]

32. Yes, I firmly believe I did.

One day, in my living room a woman suddenly appeared in my kitchen and made eye contact with me. She disappeared in an instant. I was alone in the apartment and went to a motel that night. I had been hearing footsteps and other noises but dismissed it as house noises. After that, I was a believer and moved out of my apartment shortly after.