Do you believe in Ghosts?

[Dupo]

Took this picture with my phone in Gettysburg, Pa. At the Farnsworth house .. where the side of the place is riddled with bullet holes from the Civil War. I almost deleted this until i looked closer and seen something that wasn't there when i was taking the picture......


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Let me blow that up for you.



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Pure insanity.

Looks like rope holding back a flag .................... or something? I dont know, but its awesome. Too bad i didn't get the whole thing, it would have been crystal clear.

[blaine]

That sends chills up my spine!!! O_o :2tup:

[Water Warrior 2]

Doesn't surprise me. Truth is stranger than fiction. My 1st mother in law did not show up in pictures most of the time. Should have been a tip off for me not to get too involved with their daughter.

[dentheman]

What? Where? :??:

[alantf]

Do I believe in ghosts? I've got an open mind - but the following is a true story .........

I was married in 1968, & divorced in 1988. I'd been married for twenty years, & I think I was the only person in our village who didn't know that she preferred women. We remained friends, & I eventually found my present partner, Jan, & we moved to the other side of the world. The last time I heard from my ex was in 2004, when she phoned to tell me that we were to become grandparents for the first time. She didn't live to see our grandson born. She had been a heavy smoker for many years, & in October 2005 died of lung cancer.
In 2006 I went to stop with my daughter, in England, for a few weeks holiday. My daughter said that she'd been to a medium, who told her things that no one else could have known about her mother, & that she kept finding white feathers in the house, which the medium said was her mother letting her know that she was still there. One night I was babysitting, watching a DVD of Phantom of the opera, which my ex had watched every night in the weeks leading up to her death, when a white feather suddenly floated to the ground at my feet. Keeping an open mind, I "talked to her" & said that if she gave me a sign, I'd know she was there. I was sleeping in the attic bedroom, & before going to sleep I put a carton of duty free cigarettes that I had brought for a friend, in the middle of the carpet, so that I would not forget them next day, when I went to visit him. When I woke up, next morning, on top of the carton of cigarettes (& remember, it was cigarettes that killed her) was a small,glass, heart shaped earring. When I showed it to my daughter, she had never seen it ever before...........

Fast forward to the present day ..................

We've been in this apartment now for six years, and both jan & I have "felt" a presence, & seen shadows out of the corner of our eyes, that vanish when you look at them. A few months ago, it was around eleven pm, & jan had gone to bed. I walked over to the book case to put my book away, & suddenly got a whiff of a perfume called "Chantilly". It was unmistakeable - & only one person I knew ever wore it. In fact, it was the perfume she wore when we got married.

Since then there have been other unexplainable occurrences. Just last week jan & I found that our rabbits had been chewing one of the plants in a flower pot on the patio. The flower pot was so heavy that it took both of us to lift it, & move it to a high shelf at the other end of the patio. You can imagine what we felt when we got up next morning, to find that the flower pot was back in its original position. It was too heavy for one person to lift, our patio is second storey, & just about impossible for anyone to get onto. Besides, who would come onto a patio, find a flower pot that had been moved, then move it back to its original position?

So ............ Do I believe in ghosts?.........I don't know, but it's a true story......... Can you come up with another explanation?

[dhgeyer]

My first wife hated me after the divorce with a passion and a vengeance that I have never witnessed in another human being. She died in 2007. No sign of her yet.

[Sarris]

My ex-wife hates me too. I wish she was a ghost!

:lol:

[blaine]

My ex-wife hates me too. I wish she was a ghost!

:lol:

Ditto. :2tup: :lol: :cool:

[Water Warrior 2]

Alantf, either you have extremely strong rabbits or a midnight visitor. I doubt it is the rabbits. Seems you have a visitor from another plane of existance. And yes I believe in Aliens too. We can't be the only form of life in the Universe. The Earth is the insane asylum of the Universe. :lol:

[dentheman]

I've seen a few things in my life the lead me to believe in aliens (UFO's), and even a couple things that could be described as ghostly, but I am on the fence on believing in ghosts. If I stay on this forum long enough I will eventually believe in zombies.

[dannylightning]

i lived in 2 places that definately had ghost and 1 place that was suposed to but never saw any thing. the house i grew up in, you would hear some one walking up and down the hall way all night, it would start around the same time every night, if you looked out in the hall it would stop, go back in your room and 5 min later you heard it walking up and down the hall way again. when i got older my parents told me the guy who used to own the house blew his head off with a shot gun in the kitchen one night.

one place me and the ex gril friend lived, a appartment. she reported the trash can lid spinning around out of the blue a few times. my can off pepsi slid across the table one day, i put my hand out to catch it so it did not fall off the table and it stopped, i pickd it up to see if it was sliding on condensation and the bottom of the can was dry and so was the table. one night i was sleeping on the floor in the loft and the GF was in the bed room. i woke up to something whispering my name, i thought i was dreaming, about 30 seconds later she started screaming and yelling the bed is shaking all over the place. i think i told her to shut up and went back to bed lol.

she used to say that ghost would talk to her when i first met her and i thought that was strange and i almost broke up with her that night. i found this information out after something strange happed. we were at this abandon school that people claimed was haunted and it has been closed down for years, we were setting on the front steps of the school at night. i start hearing this little kid saying help me, help me. but it sounded like it was more in my head that something i was hearing with my ears , i asked her if she heard it and she said very faintly. i looked behind us at the top floor of the school and all the windows were lit up this florescent aqua color. i got up and i ran as fast as i could away from that place. later when we got home she started telling me these storys and i thought she was some kind of freak. i ran in to her a while back and asked if ghost still spoke to her and she got all upsed and told me to never bring it up again cus she did not want them to come back.

now we get to the ufo's once in flordia me and my cousin were at a drive threw getting food, this loud rumbling flew over top of us, no one saw any thign, all the power in the neighborhood went out for a few seconds and the car even turned off along with the other cars that were in the drive threw line. not sure what the hell that was but i have my suspicions.

and once i was at a bon fire way out in the sticks, this girl and i walk way out in this field. next thing we know there was this silent ball of light in the sky and it kept getting bigger and bigger. next thing we knew it stopped, we bot stopped walking and stared at this thing not speaking a word, next thing it kind of opened up, and there was red, blue and purple lights that started spinning around the white ball of light, we watched this thing for about 10 min and it turned back in to a white ball and flew off. no one else saw this thing but me and the girl. the weird part was neither of us were scared at all. it was more fascinating than any thing. and i still think it was probably the coolest thing i have ever saw what ever the heck it was.

[Water Warrior 2]

Years ago we were at the lake and star gazing around midnight. Some one mentioned the moving lights were probably satelites orbiting the planet. I was all in agreement until one satelite made a 90 degree change of course. Spooky stuff.

[dentheman]

Years ago we were at the lake and star gazing around midnight. Some one mentioned the moving lights were probably satelites orbiting the planet. I was all in agreement until one satelite made a 90 degree change of course. Spooky stuff.
I used to be an avid backyard astronomer and still go out on occassionally to gaze at the stars. I've seen that several times, always with the naked eye.

[Water Warrior 2]

So what do you think those things are ? I doubt they originate on this planet.

[dentheman]

So what do you think those things are ? I doubt they originate on this planet.
I don't know. I have watched numerous satellites through binoculars and never saw a change in direction, but I have seen the change with the naked eye, so I wonder if it could be an illusion caused by head or eye movement, or by staring too long. Also, many backyard astronomers photograph satellite and meteor trails and have never captured one changing direction to my knowledge. Or, it could be the real deal. In any case, the sudden change in direction (I won't say turn) is too abrupt to be a satelitte being repositioned.

A couple times at night I have seen a point of light appear in the sky and remain motionless then go out, all in a fraction of a second. Those were meteors headed straight toward me before burning up (thankfully).

[Easy Rider]

So what do you think those things are ? I doubt they originate on this planet.

Yes, they are............AIRPLANES. :biggrin:

What I want to see is the airplane that made that "rocket trail" out on the west coast last week.

The Government's answer is pure BS.......but everybody seems to have just dropped it.

[dentheman]

Easy; when I first saw that thing on TV I was all excited and watched the news all day waiting to see what it was. It did look like a missile launch. But when they said it was an airplane it made sense to me. I can see how a high flying airplane with a contrail coming over the horizon, headed more or less toward the observer, would look like it was something coming up out of the ocean.

[Easy Rider]

It did look like a missile launch.

It looked like a missile because it was one HUGE, single plume of smoke/condensation.
How many airplanes, of any type, do you know that has only ONE huge engine like that ??

Answer: None or classified........or it really was a rocket of some type.

[jonathan180iq]

People that believe in ghosts see things all the time. I don't believe in hocus pocus and....I never see stuff.

I can look for stuff, and some things even surprise me. But instead of stopping at "Well, that must be a spiritual manifestation of a dead person coming to make random noises in the dark and never really giving a conclusive sign of what they are..." I generally understand that buildings make noises as they settle or with temperature change and that Shadows are just shadows and cold gusts of wind are simply drafts.

But that's just me. My wife, on the other hand (my first wife, fellas) is all about the supernatural and believes in ghosts and demons and all that.

Who knows?