Thread: Do you believe in Ghosts?

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I hear all the time about ghosts.

I hear my employees tell me that they see them, I hear that they see them, but I personally have never seen a ghost or even heard one.

Maybe I am not open to the idea, but I really do not understand the idea of a real ghost.

They may be out there, and please don't let me lead you to believe that I don't believe in them, but I have personally never seen nor heard a ghost.

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Actually yes don't laugh but I have seen a ghost, it was a few years ago in November I was out on a night walk and saw this strange looking figure, I can't tell you what he looked like he begain to come chraging at me and I moved to the side to let him pass and he actually went right through me. Pretty frighting. If you go Islands in the UK folk there tell good ghost stories. A couple I know used to live in this house and the woman said she saw a little girl who would turn her head round the door and if the woman looked she would hide, she would rattle the blinds too. Her kids were too frightened every morning to go down on their own incase they saw this girl ghost.

Oh absolutely, there are many unsettled souls amongst us. My user name is paintedlady-meaning old victorian painted home. I grew up with a mom who delighted in restoring old victorians. Now if you want to stir up some ghosts, start renovating an old home believe me they get real active. As we started renovating many things would start happening, sounds-smells-never frightening or menacing just hey I'm here what are you doing to this home type of thing. My mom would always talk to them, one time we had just come back from a hardware store getting some supplies and we set the bag down on the floor. Suddenly the bag just starting to make a noise like someone was trying to get in it, my mom said," It's just more paint brushes," then the noise stopped. Anyway I'm always very aware when entering old homes, I think if you are open to it things present themselves.

Nope. No such things as ghosts.

Nope, don't believe in ghosts. Now if I were presented with substantial evidence then I would of course believe, but based on the fact that I haven't seen any and that the evidence for them is less than convincing (at least to me), then I would have to say no.

I believe that it is possible, but I've never seen any evidence myself. I've lived in pretty old houses (one from Victorian - 1880s) and visited supposedly haunted sites, but nothing ever happened.

I kind of think they are like spirit recordings - something that was emotionally strong (pain/death/happiness) can cause a time imprint that can be triggered to run by someone in the area - much like pressing "play" to activate the dvd player to see a movie.

Time of year for my one and only ghost story.
For the record, I'm still a skeptic, and have not seen any solid evidence to prove to me the existence of ghosts.

Having said that, I still don't have an explanation for what happened:

To set the stage - while in college, I worked at Disneyland in AdventureLand...worked a number of the rides (Big Thunder, Riverboat, Jungle Cruise, Tiki Room, Treehouse, and was being trained for the Pirate Ship on the river before I quit). Of course, summers were always crazy, and there were always plenty of hours to work, many of them nights.

One night, early summer, I was working a late shift (Jungle Cruise) - had been on for a few hours, and went on break, to the break room above the stores right across from the Jungle Cruise. When I went up, there were already 2 people in the break room...one on the payphone (arguing with his girlfriend), another reading the paper at one of the picnic benches up there.

Having nothing to do, I plopped down at the other picnic table, facing the guy with the paper, so I could try to read what I could (yes, was that bored). As I sat there, eyes wandering around, I noticed something on the floor behind the guy with the paper that should not have been there - a "bullet" from the Jungle Cruise.

A quick bit of info regarding the Jungle Cruise guns and ammo - the guns are real .38 Specials (at least, they were in the late 80's), and the ammunition was/is a quarter charge round in a plastic casing...made to be loud, and let off some sparks, but nothing to actually be projected (the plastic casing is round on the end that the explosion comes out, and is cross-cut to weaken the plastic, making it very unlikely that any plastic would rip off)...the charge is set off by an actual balistic firing cap, set into the flat end of the plastic round.

Anyway - since the guns are real, and the rounds can actually cause harm (they are explosives), every bit of equipment is checked in out for each time the Jungle Cruise boat goes around, and whenever there's a shift change. Everything's signed for.

Which should mean there would not be a Jungle Cruise round in the break-room.
Even more so, unattended.
And even more than that, it would NOT be standing on it's rounded end, in the middle of floor, like this one appeared to be doing.

So, knowing all this, I stared at the round for a bit, wondering why it was there, and how it was standing on it's rounded end (all the weight is on the flat end, where the charge and firing cap are).
I looked above the thing, to the ceiling, wondering if it was hanging from a thread or something, and laughed to myself that anyone would be so bored that they'd hang a plastic bullet from a thread in the breakroom.
Suddenly, it began to wobble, and that's when I noticed it had been spinning like a top - so fast that from a distance, it looked like it was standing still.

It spun out, and came to a stop - I didn't think more than the guy with the paper had somehow leaned down, spun the thing with his fingers, and went back to reading his paper, all without me noticing...I said to him, "Cool trick! How'd you do that?"...he had no idea what I was going on about - I pointed out the bullet to him, he turned around to look, and it was at that point that I realized he would have to fall over to lean out to spin that bullet. He just looked at me and said he didn't do anything.

So, I turned to the guy on the phone, and asked, "Did you see that thing spinning? How did it do that?"...to which he replied, "Shut up! I'm on the phone!"...no help there.

I went over and gathered up the round, examining it for string or...well...anything that would explain how it had been spinning like that, for as long as it had. I took it back to where I was sitting, and spent the next 10 minutes trying to spin the thing on the table-top myself, to see if I could make it spin like that.

I couldn't make it spin more than 3 revolutions total. One a smooth table-top. With both hands (and yes, I am pretty good at making things spin with one hand, between two fingers). It was simply too top heavy, and the rounded bottom was uneven (the round had been expended, and the end was split).

I've kept the round with me to this day - have it put away.
It's my one and only ghost story, as I have no explanation for how it did what it did.
This is all absolutely true, to the best of my recollection.

Do I believe in ghosts? Hard to say. My only ghost story is neither frightening, nor reproducible.
I am always amused that it happened at Disneyland - what a place for a ghost story, eh?

I pretty much believe in them, but I've never seen or encountered one that I can tell. I believe in a lot of strange phenomenon but don't really have any spooky stories to tell. Maybe it's because all the paranormal things out there know I'd probably just have a heart attack if they made themselves known to me. I would kind of like to see a ghost, though... a friendly one, anyway.

Interesting stories in this thread, always happy to hear more.

I'v never experinced anything that would make believe in them. However I do have a friend that swares her house is haunted with children. Apperently they open doors and flicker lights. I told her there's a man that hides in the shower, so ever time she goes in the bathroom she looks in there first.

Kinda shaky about the whole soul walking the earth kinda thing. So no. I don't think there real. I mean if I could see one or encouter something that would change my mind thad be cool.