how did the stories abt ghosts start, r they real???
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nI rarely ever actually see ghosts, but one time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a Pagan festival, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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"Believe in" leaves wiggle room for doubt. I have no doubt: ghosts exist. Ghosts are simply discarnate beings whose energies have shifted to another dimension that overlaps and connects with our own.
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I don't think most people "see" ghosts per se; they experience them. When most people tell you about their encounter with a ghost or the supernatural, the things you will hear most often are tales of cabinets falling over, doors and windows opening themselves, toilets flushing, floating cats, ect.
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People who say there are no ghosts generally are not Christians or they haven't paid real close to the teachings of the bible. there is a spiritual warfare going on at all times on this earth. \nThere are no ghosts per say but instead demons who take on the image of people in order to confuse and lead away people. when we die we sleep and wait for the end times for when Christ comes back. we do not float around and haunt things. \nwhat you need to do is walk around the house and say "In the name of Christ I command you to leave".  also do alot of praying. if this does not work then contact a parapsychologist who studies and investigates the paranormal. usually these people will not charge nothing and be happy to investigate!
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Do Ghosts really exist??\n\n\n\nNo one actually knows if ghosts really exist. The only evidence we have are photos and claimed sightings. Most of the photos are of poor quality or are not convincing enough. The sightings may be true but there is no evidence to say so. People have there own ideas of what ghosts look like, from human shaped figures to small objects. Even though there is so much material to say ghosts exist there is still no actual evidence. Until there is some scientific evidence to prove that ghosts actually exist, the legend about ghosts will stay a mystery.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n@ w w w . c a s t l e o f s p i r i t s . c o m\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTHE GHOST OF HAMPTON COURT?\n\n\n\n\n\nArticle from DAILY MAIL - UK\n\nBy David Harding, Metro\n19 December 2003\n\nTo the sceptic it may simply look like a fuzzy CCTV image of someone in a long coat walking through a doorway.\nExperts say the long-coated figure could be the best proof yet found that things really do go bump in the night... and the day too.\nThe mystery surfaced two months ago at the 16th-century palace, once home to King Henry VIII.\nSecurity staff heard alarms ringing near an exhibition hall, indicating fire doors had been opened. But on investigation they found the doors closed.\nPerplexed, they examined CCTV footage, and that is when it got spooky.\nThe cameras showed the heavy doors popping open but no one there. Then, suddenly, the long- coated figure appeared and slammed the doors shut.\nThe guards were told the same thing happened at the same time - about 1pm - the day before.\nTo add to the mystery, the doors also flew open at the same time the very next day. But the ghostly figure has been spotted only once.\nThe suspected spook has not just been sighted by CCTV. Australian tourists also claim to have seen a ghost near the exhibition area. The palace, in West London, has ruled out its guides as suspects because they do not enter that part of the building.\nPsychologist Dr Richard Wiseman said the spectre, nicknamed Skeletor, might prove to be a significant discovery.\n'It could be the best ghost sighting ever,' he said. 'I haven't seen anything that would match that at all.'\n\nHENRY AND A HISTORY OF HAUNTING\n\nThis is London\n\n19 December 2003\n\n• CATHERINE HOWARD\n\nThe best known haunting at Hampton Court is by Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife.\n\nCharged with adultery in 1541 and placed under house arrest, she broke free from her guards and ran to her husband to plead for her life. The guards dragged her back and she was executed. To this day, it is claimed, a woman in white can be seen floating down the Haunted Gallery.\n\n• JANE SEYMOUR\n\nHenry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth in 1537, is said to walk through the cobbled courtyard carrying a lighted taper.\n\n• LADY IN GREY\n\nSibell Penn was nurse to Prince Edward, Henry's only son. She died in 1562 and was buried in Hampton Church. When the church was pulled down in 1829 her remains were disturbed and it is said she returned to the rooms she once lived in.\n\n• THE WOLSEY CLOSET\n\nThe room has a 'strange atmosphere'. A phantom dog has been seen and heard here on more than one occasion. \n\nCNN NEWS REPORT\n\nPalace 'ghost' caught on camera Friday, December 19, 2003 Posted: 1:54 PM EST (1854 GMT)\n\nLONDON, England (AP) -- Are there ghostly goings-on at Henry VIII's palace, or is that hazy image of a fellow in fancy robes just a bit of Christmas cheer?\n\nClosed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?\n\n"We're baffled too -- it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it," said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. "We genuinely don'
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Well, I don't think they are ghosts. I suppose demons might be a probable answer, though some part of me doubts that as well. From what I understand, shadow people are things you see out of the corner of your eye but disappear once you turn to look at them. If that is true, I don't think it is some sort of being from another dimension or some other fluke of that nature. The reason being, it wouldn't disappear from your view when you looked at it. The fact that shadow people do leads me to believe that they are spirits or forces of some kind that watch us. Everything I've heard about them makes it seem like they are in some regard "spying"; hiding in the shadows watching us but making sure we don't watch them back. For what reason I don't know, and I'm not sure I want to. I get the impression that they are not benevolent forces. Anything that acts in that manner probably isn't. This is all theory but I hope it helps you in your search to understand them.
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I think Loren Coleman is great. I've read his books and I've seen and heard numerous interviews. He has some very neat stories to tell :0) Check out his interview on www.ghostlytalk.com!
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ghosts & monsters are not real.its all in our minds.we fear them because right from childhood people tell us stories about them.but spirits are real.i have not seen them.but many people have.
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I do and I have come across MANY haunted place in my life. There was my grandma's house, my moms house, the local hospital, an old house I used to work at and a community building, 2 of my uncles houses, my aunts house and every house one of my aunts ever lived in lol, I think they just followed her around. \nBut I just posted on another question that asked about ghost the place I spent most of my childhood and probably has the most ghost stories in one place that I know of so I will just repost it here. \n\nI didn't actually LIVE in the house but I spent most of my time there. It was the whole location actually. See my great grandparents had this piece of land that they put a house on and later other family put houses up there to so at one point there were 4 houses with people living in them.\nAnd the whole area is spooky between there and over on the other side of the hill where another family had the same kind of set up. \nJust a few of the stories....\nMy great grandparents had 10 kids, one was killed when she was 17 by her younger brother who was playing with a gun he didn't know was loaded and shot her. 1 year to the day after she died the new rocking chair that was put in the place she had died in started to rock on its own, and the piano that she used to play started to play her fav song by itself, you could even see the keys moving. \nI also had an uncle that died when he was 17, he died in a house fire and he had a car that some of the boys from town used to try and steal so my grandma brought it up there so that her dad could keep on eye on it. When my cousin and aunty were walking from the main house to the house they lived in they passed that car, and inside they saw my uncle and he waved at them. \nMy aunt used to watch the neighbors little boy, he was 4 yrs old and would walk over by himself through, and one time he said that a group of braves followed him and another time he got to my aunts crying and said this little old lady followed him and said he was going to be a chief, he said she was still there and tried to point her out to my aunt. My aunt even got down on her hands and knees to look down his arm and didn't see anything.\nShortly after that the boy was killed when he was riding on the hood of his moms car and fell off. \nShortly after that my cousin was sitting at her moms, the one that used to babysit him, and she heard his little cowboy boots walking up the stairs and heard him knocking on the door crying for my aunt. \nThere are a lot of other things that go on there, noises, shadows going from room to room, my brother thinks he saw my great grandpa once because he looked out and could see the outline of a tall man with a crew cut but him and one of my other aunts were the only ones in the house. There are also pounding on walls and doors and my mom heard someone walking around the kitchen while she knew everyone was sleeping.
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I saw the ghost of a little boy. I was staying in my friend's house in France (the house was four hundred years old), and one night after my friend was asleep, I saw a white face suspended over me. It was a little boy, probably about eight years old and he looked mischievous.\n\nThe next night my friend was asleep and snoring. There was a very long and solid bureau between us that was at least six feet long and very solid. We had a couple of books on it, and she had a few knick knacks on it in the middle. None of these items could have fallen off by themselves. I suddenly heard this sound almost like wind but there was no wind outside. Suddenly everything on the bureau was on the ground as if an arm had gone along the bureau and knocked everything off. I can tell you that my friend was asleep and I had not been moving, and none of those things were touching each other or on the edge of the bureau. It was very creepy!
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I like www.ghosts.org/stories/n.html for ghost stories, it is a ohio page, but its got some good ones on it, and for crime stories(serial killers) try crimelibrary.com, for true ones that is, its very interesting atcually, they got all sorts of weird crime stories. including the amityville horror story, with orignal pictures of the house.
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I’m an amateur ghost hunter myself. It helps that I grew up around ghosts in my childhood home and in my Grandmother’s house. So, even though stuff would happen all the time, I was kind of used to it. Until my brother took it upon himself to explain to me what a ghost really was and I spent several months when I was 8 years old hiding under the blankets. Thanks for that, Bro. Now, I chase spirits and accidentally let a woman ghost into the house. Which my mother just loves me for...
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I've always been obsessed with the paranormal, reading about ghosts and watching scary movies.  Lately I've been watching a lot of Most Haunted and I'm reading a book called Ghost Hunters, about William James's (one of the first psychologists) quest to find out whether the afterlife exists.  Despite my preoccupation, though, I still have to see it for myself to believe it exists, kind of like God.
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I believe in ghosts, but I'm not convinced that they are the souls of deceased people.  There are way too many other possibilities out there.\n\nJaime
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No. There are no ghosts. It is the creation human mind. The fears that exist in our mind take the imaginary shape of ghost.
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That's a good question...I watched a National Geographic documentary on ghosts, it had some decent evidence...but if you ever watched a National Geographic documentary on anything out of the ordinary, they are going to dissect it into the skeptics point of view.  The other shows's are pretty stupid...no real proof other than believing the clairvoyant's accounts.  The Science / Discovery Channel has some pretty good stuff on supernatural that would make an attempt to believe otherwise.
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I have never actually SEEN a ghost, but when I worked as a security guard at an "abandoned" hospital, there was sure some funky stuff going on. Like cold spots, odd noises, funny feelings, and that thing where the hair on the back of your neck stands up for NO REASON. And YA, it was a little scary sometimes. Of course this was just about the COOLEST job I've ever had! Prowling around all night in an old hospital that was built in the late 1800's. Kinda fun!!