Thespeckledkiwi
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I mean has anyone actually be killed by one? Put in a hospital? Other than making a few bumps and racket in the night, why are people terrified of them?
Why are people afraid of ghosts?
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Aye, if there's one thing I've learnt from horror movies, it's to never ever fuck with Japanese people. Those people always bear fricking grudges beyond the grave. Come to that, sometimes just even being in Japan is enough to be attacked by Japanese ghosts. Fuck going to a place like, no amount of Asian cleavage is going to get me to risk being attacked by a dead person who sounds like a creaky floorboard
Because apparently ghosts can effect things in our world, but we can't effect things in their world. Makes it hard to kick a ghost's ass.
Are you kidding? Ghosts are terrifying! They make creepy noises in the night. And sometimes they move your stuff around.
Oddly enough, a friend of mine is convinced that he had a ghost in his basement, at one point. Apparently, a number of strange haunting-type events happened for a while, including stuff being disturbed when nobody was around, and pets behaving very oddly. Then, one day, it just stopped.
I don't believe in ghosts, but I trust my friend's word. Something strange was happening in his house, at one point. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for it--I just don't know what that is.
I don't believe in ghosts, but I trust my friend's word. Something strange was happening in his house, at one point. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for it--I just don't know what that is.
According to this poll by CBS (which may or may not be accurate/reputably carried out) almost half of Americans believe in ghosts, whilst one in 5 claims to have seen or felt one.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/29/opinion/polls/main994766.shtml
Funny really that every time some doofus falls off a ladder or treads on a broom there's seemingly a multitude of people with cameras or camcorders ready to capture the moment, yet almost a fifth of people claim to have personally encountered a ghost, but not a single one of them can produce a morsel of evidence that will stand up to scientific testing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/29/opinion/polls/main994766.shtml
Funny really that every time some doofus falls off a ladder or treads on a broom there's seemingly a multitude of people with cameras or camcorders ready to capture the moment, yet almost a fifth of people claim to have personally encountered a ghost, but not a single one of them can produce a morsel of evidence that will stand up to scientific testing.
It's emotionally disturbing. All my close family (parents and brothers) have experienced something like that.
My Mum spoke with her dead grand-mother, my Dad has seen something strange moving under a blanket, my 3 brothers pretend to have seen ghosts. Especially my 2nd brother who is really into esoterism.
I have to say that he experienced really creepy things
He is the kind of person who will walk in a cemetary, catch a name on a tomb and find this name on a book he opened randomly in a bookstore a few hours later.
He even heard someone walking and speaking in my ex bedroom at my parents'home. I've never seen or heard something like that when I was living there.
I'm a very rationnal person and I don't believe in ghosts...of course, a family like that had to be mine
Thespeckledkiwi
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Poor Carrie...you are the normal one in the family...Hmmm, interesting theories.
That wasn't the funny bit, I don't find it all that surprising so many people believe in ghosts. I find it unbelieveable that one in 5 people claims to have seen one, yet nobody can provide any sort of corroborative evidence that wouldn't be laughed out of a court.
Probably only one in 5 americans has ever seen an elephant, yet we don't seem to be having too much trouble proving they exist
I don't think you are understanding me, I am fully aware of the gullibility of people, i'm just questioning the statistical likelihood of the existence of ghosts when weighing the number of people who claim to have seen one against the evidence produced as a result of this vast number of so called encounters.
If 1 in 5 people had really seen a ghost, we'd have some sort of quantifiable evidence for it, but aside from a few grainy photos of shadows we have zip.
That people are ready to believe whatever Yvette Fielding tells them is no surprise at all to me
Thespeckledkiwi
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I don't want to get into this debate at this time but there are some interesting theories revolving around ghosts that in fact some aren't ghosts but just imprints.
Yeah Ghosts and God....same thing.
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