If ghosts exist, where are they from and what are they?
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The concept of spirits or ghosts is an archaic, lame explanation for unexplained noises (things that go bump in the night), likely an early attempt to satisfy the need to explain/understand the frightening unknowns of the universe, dating back to a time when most believed the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us.  While plausible scientifc answers have emerged, many feable minds stubbornly cling to the ancient mythological explanations passed down from generation to generation. It's fun to toy with the idea of ghosts, but those who truly believe reveal their stubborn ignorance.
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First, we need to distinguish between ghosts and spirits. We all have spirits. Ghosts are a sort of psychic echo which haunt a place or thing. There can be ghosts at the cemetery, but they aren't a primary place for ghosts. Ghosts tend to develop in a place where there was profound emotion prior to death. People sometimes go to cemeteries to commune with spirits, and so spirits are familiar with the cemeteries.
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There is no scientifical way to capture ghosts. They aren't real.
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Ghosts are as real as we are, but they don't hang around in cemeteries. The energy felt in graveyards is only the residue of grief or fear or dread left behind by the living.
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Think about why they are ghosts in the first place?\n\nNot because they are damned by anyone but themselves and their unwillingness to let go of their own fear/anger/pain or misery. Sometimes, (rarely) there are ones that actually like the power of creating fear.\n\nTo break through an influence the physical in terms of EVP, movement, cold spots and ultimately manifestations, their emotional state must be so focused and so charged. Few spirits have the experience or anger/emotion to create such dynamics.\n\nAttention is the no 1 goal of most spirits. That is probably why you get your name.
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That's a darn good question. I'll need to remember this next time some mental burnout starts going on about ghosts. Maybe the clothes have souls?
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No, where are they from?
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I think the idea is really, really interesting.  I read a LOT about ghosts and hauntings when I was a kid.  And you can't prove that they don't exist because you can't prove a negative.\n\nHowever, as much as I would love for ghosts to exist, the more I know the more I realize that evidence for ghostly manifestations is probably explainable by non-ghostly, real, but ephemeral phenomena.\n\nFor example, I had a book on ghostly hauntings in England.  There were more scent "hauntings" than any other type, meaning that you would experience the haunting by getting a whiff of pipe smoke or bacon.   This can be explained by the fact that scents can be absorbed by porous materials such as wood and plaster.  After they are absorbed, they will disappear until meteorological conditions,  like high humidity, cause the scent to become airborne and be smellable again.  Given a very porous wall and a long-standing habit like pipe-smoking and you can get whiffs of smoke for geneartions.
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there are spirits out there doubt they are dead people
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A ghost is someone who has not passed on to the other side.\n\nA spirit (which is what mainly people see) is someone who has passed over.\n\nI have seen both.\n\nThe ghost I saw was when I lived in Mulgrave (place in Melbourne, Australia) I was sitting up in bed with my husband and our bedroom door was open.\nOut of nowhere a ghost who looked like he was anorexic walked through our bedroom door, the weird thing was that this 'thing' was carrying his head! He took no notice of my husband and I and just kept walking until he vanished into my dressing table. My husband was a non believer until that day!\n\nI have seen many spirits. One spirit I see quite frequently is the spirit of a dearly departed friend of mine. The first time I saw him was on the night he died, he just stood next to me and kept saying sorry.
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No..there are no ghosts. Its just the creation of weak minds who cant distinguish between real and unreal.
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Of course they do exist. This is one of the biggest mystery on earth and they do form part of the paranormal phenomena. At 14 years old, my parents and I moved in a new house. We were not aware of course that this house was haunted by some spirits. At night i was not able to sleep properly, i was able to hear strange noises and even someone uttering words in my ears. I was even unable to concentrate at school and was sleepy in class. Four days later, when we were having dinner i decided to tell my parents about those strange noises and the feeling that we were not alone in this house. I was much surprised when they told me they didn't hear anything suspect and it can be my imagination.\nHowever i had persisted and wanted to sleep in their room for the night. I had slept in their room for two days and there was no strange noises or voices. The next day i have took the courage to sleep again in my rooms in the hope that i was just an illusion i had felt. But each time i came into my room i was able to feel like a presence there. It was like someone consistently observing me. And at night at about 0.45 am ,this time i felt like someone pulling my bed sheet and was even able to hear someone walking and uttering strange words. This was driving me crazy and i had kept my eyes close and had been praying aloud till 4 am.\nI had woke up at about 7 am when it was bright outside and ran into my parents room. I had told them that i would never slept in this room and wanted to leave this house. My dad was shocked and decided that it would be better to call a medium. So he did it, the medium ( a woman) came later this very same day, and the moment she stepped in my room i had had goosebumps when she told us that there is a spirit there. She had tried to communicate with the spirits, she had lighted candles mostly everywhere and sitting on a sofa in my room, she had closed her eyes. She was in communication with the spirit and had asked it many questions. At last i had learned that it was a child ( a girl), around 11 years old who died in the year 1955 in my room. It might be that she had died of a disease. She was jealous of me and hated me because i was occupying her room. This story had drived me and my parents crazy. The medium did something to make the spirit left this house and found its way. The same night my mum came to sleep with me in my room and i was able to sleep properly. Then after i was able to sleep properly alone in my room till today. \nPeople who have never witnessed paranormal phenomena can confirmed that ghosts or spirits do not exist. But I am more than 100% confident that It does exist and it is mostly everywhere not only in cemetry. I have read books and see many articles and even watch discovery channel. Spirits are there, one cannot see it with naked eyes but can feel it. I am sure of a thing that those who dies in other conditions than a natural death do haunt this world.
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Ghosts are everywhere, they are the spirits of those who have gone on before us. Some believe they are demons but then again isn't there something about a ghost in the Bible. Father son and holy ghost correct... I have a ghost in my rug ( Native American made) who visits me when I am stressed out to the max, and he sits with me and comforts me. I have had a ghost in one house where we lived of the woman who had lived there and her cat who used to just sit on the top of my bookcase... The building I live in now, use to be a ballroom and hotel rooms and Capone use to hang out around here, the ghosts in this place are not happy ones, but they don't bother me as long as I don't bother them..
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I believe in ghosts, except I haven't seen one.  I really want to though.
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no \nEcclesiastes, chapter 9\n5: For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost. \nas you read there the dead knows nothing so there is no such thing as a ghost, but there are demons. and they can take on many forms
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Good question! I think that ghosts can be around because i always thought that they were not finished with something  here on earth and they want to finish it. Poltergeist are evil and i am hoping they don't exist but if they did i guess they are just angry souls that need to express themselves.
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Ghosts are more likely demons appearing as ghosts than actual ghosts.  Maybe this will help.\n                                                       Sorcery    \n(Includes any and all of the following:) Divination/Magicians/Witchcraft/Wizards/Soothsayers/Necromancers/Fortunetellers/Astrologers/Familiar Spirits/Charmers/Black Magic/Ouija boards/ Dungeons and Dragons/Harry Potter, wicca, psychics, tarot cards, spells, voodoo, ghosts, horoscopes, astral projection, incantations, spells, seeing'talking to spirits, spriit guides, signs of the Zodiac, reincarnation, ETC.\nAny and all of the above are Satanic or demonic or both.  We humans are to have nothing to do with them.  They cannot help us. They will only bring harm to us, now, in the future or in eternity.\n“31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”  Leviticus 19:31.\n“6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”  Leviticus 20:6.“11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”  Deuteronomy 18:11-14.\n“19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?”  Isaiah 8:19.  (We are to seek God, not the dead.)\n“2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.”  Daniel 2:2. (Chaldeans were known for their magic.)\n“10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”  Daniel2:10.“6And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: 7Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. 8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. 9Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him. 10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”  Acts 16:6-10.\n“8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”  Revelation 21:8.  (Sorcerers are headed for the Lake of Fire, the second death.)“14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”  Revelation22:15.  (The "...tree of life..." is eternal life, "...the city..." here is Paradise or heaven.)\nNote: The Chaldeans were famous for their sorcery.\nGod does not approve of anyone attempting to learn of the future except what He has revealed in The Holy Bible.  He does not approve of anyone attempting to contact the dead for any reason.  He does not approve of playing games or telling stories about sorcery. God does not approve anyone seeking power from any of these sources.  They are all Satanic/Demonic. Anyone who does these th