Has anyone ever seen a real ghost before?
819967
Yes I have...first time I was a teenager, it was a man, seemed very evil, found out later he died in the bed I slept in...second time in my 20's, I was sleeping and my blanket fell on the floor, I grabbed it and covered back up, then the blanket was ripped off the bed, I looked over and there was a small blonde haired, blue eyed boy, looked about 4 years old, standing next to my bed, I scrambled out of bed and ran out...third time, my husband and I bought this old house, over 100 years old, we lived here about 2 weeks, one day the bathroom door opened and there was a naked old man drying off like he just got done taking a shower, then he disappeared, then wierd things happened, the water kept turning on in the kitchen, doors kept opening, things moved to different places, my husband saw him walking down the steps and then disappeared, my daughter said he came in her room and sat on her bed, I have seen him three more times...then all of a sudden everything stopped, haven't seen him in almost a year.
408804
yes there is ghost in the world. cos, if someone die i believe his still exist . doyou why i said so cos when i lost a friend of mine i still see him.he appeared to me real life not joking.
990416
I believe in ghosts, but have never seen one. I think I have felt one, however - I think it was my grandma's ghost and she placed her hand on my shoulder but I looked at it and there was nothing I can see. Then, she must have left her hand because I felt something going off my shoulder.
934174
Yes, I have been haunted before.  When I was living on my own I would hear voices.  But every time I would stop to listen to see what they were saying it would stop.  Then one morning i awoke to see my chairs hanging off my kitchen table!  Explain that one.  I have also been over to my grandmas house shortly after my grandpa passed.  I swore I heard him walking through the house.  Being an Italian man, I do believe he would still be watching over my grandma especially after 54 years!!!  If you don't believe, you should do some research.  Ghosts.... what about guardian angels??
143060
Ofcourse they do. I lived in a supposedly haunted house for 4yrs. and I saw a ghost or two. I'm not being sarcastic. I too belive in the paranormal.
843871
yes, definitely.  I have had 2 that stand out in my mind.  \n\n1.  I grew up in a so called haunted house, but it was not scary.  I was about 14 years old and was lying in bed.  It was nighttime and I was lying in semi darkness.  I suddenly saw a shadow like figure float up my doorway, to the wall, and to the ceiling. I had no idea what this was and hid under the blankets.  The next day, I watched the show 20-20 when there was an episode about how ghosts show themselves as shadows..I had no idea that was true...until then..\n2.  My great grandmother had died and about 5 months after this, my infant daughter's room instantly smelled of Chanel 5 perfume.  Since I never wear perfume because my allergies cant take it, and she wore this, I suddenly thought of her.... then almost 5 seconds later, it disappeared.\n3.  The haunted house I grew up in, things regularly fell off shelves, tv and stereos came on in the middle of the night,  heard footsteps on the stairs, heard my name being called when no one was home, and other things happened quite a bit.
715991
a ghost that can interact with the living is called an intelligent haunting and yes they do exist.\n\nI've heard stories of ghosts asking the living owners to "Get Out" or say "Help me"\n\nI read one encounter where a person was knocking on the door of a house waiting on the owner when a female voice said "Just a second, I'll be right there" just as the owners of the house pulled into the driveway.  (the voice was coming from the empty house).\n\nSo yes ghosts can interact with the living, but i think its very limited.\n\nhere's a really good example thats been documented\nhttp://www.paranormalsoup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22950\n\nPlay the evp link.
352656
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.
189193
No. But I have had past experiences with ghosts and currently I have one that likes to make a noise in my ear, it almost sounds like someone is shuffling cards and it always touches my head at the same time. The strange thing is that it happened to me when I lived in Beverly, then I moved to S. Hamilton and it is happening here so whatever it is followed me.\nI would love to hear more about it though
275072
I have had a similar experience.  In the house I grew up in, we had a ghost that we called Casper.  He didn't do anything bad, just relocted items to new places temporarily.  He always put them back eventually.  I do beleive that spirits linger here with us.
880670
Yes!  There are spirits in the world. \n\nI for one would love to hear your story. \nI have had a few myself from places i have stayed over the years.\nI have only seen one ghost in a whitish shade.. \nAll the others were noises like running down the hallway when no one was there.. or having both my dogs start backing in the corner of the room.. then sitting down politely waiting for something..  \nMy dogs never sit and face a corner.. \nMade me move real fast.. found out i was sleeping in the same room the old man before me died in ..  \nIf i knew that i wouldn't have rented that house. \nthere has been so many to mention. \n\nSome good some not so good. \n\nALD
946890
I had the one similar "sighting" but it was a shadow, a shadow of a man that disappeared right before my eyes.  I was not asleep nor dreaming .  I have all my senses intact.  I was 9 years old then.  And i can never forget that incident.  Up to now I too can't explain what happened.  Perhaps children have more 6th sense than adults.  As the boy in one of a blockbuster movie said: "  I can see ghosts."
789584
Yes, people believe in ghosts.  However, what many people think of as proof that ghosts exists is merely something they've experienced but can't explain in any other way than saying that it was a ghost.\n\nPeople who are unable to sleep for several days because of an illness, for example, might hallucinate and "see" dead relatives while he is still awake. A person who didn't know it was the brain taking time out to "dream" while awake might believe that his dead relatives came back to comfort him in his illness.\n\nPhotographs of ghosts (orbs, etc.) are little more than way-out-of-focus specks of dust or other airborne particles too close to the flash and lens of the camera.\n\nStill other photographs are merely misuse of the camera. A shaky hand can cause blurs. A person who doesn't know how to properly use the "night portait" setting on a camera might see "energy" from distant lights.\n\nWhen people visit a "haunted house" they've usually been told what "ghost" is there and where. That biases the visitor--even subconciously--and the visitor will then "feel" something.\n\nJohn Edward and other "psychics" who claim to talk to the dead are only skilled in an art called "Cold Reading". A major factor in a successful "Cold Reading" is the psychic tossing out very vague references ("I'm seeing water.") and the person being "read" only remembering the "hits"--the vague references the psychic got right--and forgetting the "misses".\n\nThere is always an explaination to a "ghostly experience". It's just that the person who experienced it may not know what it is other than to believe it was a ghost.
453932
I have seen Shadow People.  That is not all that I have come into contact with, but yes, I have seen them.  They can range from simply inquisitive (watching you), to mischevious, to truly malicious.  Shadow People, from my experience, are much different from ghosts, in that a ghost is a dead individual that has left some form of imprint in our world.  Shadow People come from somewhere else, call it a different dimension, a different world, or a different realm.  They are not from here, and they are never 100% here.  It is similar to standing in a door way, with one foot in one room, and the other foot in another room.  That is how Shadow People are with our world, or reality.  I hope that helps some.
207548
The one ghost I have seen looked just the way she did in life... but rather vauge, somehow. Like an optical illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye, and I was afraid that if i turned to look right at her, she would disapate.\n\nThe common held opinion is they typically manifest as meandering orbs of faint light.
287932
yes once I stayed in a house that had a strange tale that a child ghost appeared and enticed a member of the family to a deep pit and hence drowned...this had happened once only in the late 1800s. The inquest into the death was inclonclusive as to whether it was suicide or accidental death - due to sleepwalking. The story gained added credence because another member of the family 20 years later was nearly enticed by the same apparition but came to his senses before walking into the pit. The pit is actually an open well at the end of the estate.\n\nI was alone in this house one weekend, because I was planning to stay a week studying in the house by myself. I need solitude to study. Well the first night I heard a noise in the corridor and whilst trying to investigate it I managed to lock myself out in the dark corridor\n\nit was quite spooky but I kept telling myself that this is so funny and tried to see the humour in this, and tried to find the proverbial black cat in the dark corridor. \n\nThe light switches are on the other side of the corridor...so in the darkness I finally broke a side door and got out of the corridor and by doing that I bruised my shoulder quite badly. \n\nI guess the noise and locking myself out separately can be excluded as mundane events, but in that corridor I just felt so confined and at the same time it was quite chilly despite it being such a warm evening.\n\nThree years later, a priest visiting this house announced that there was a spirit and said he would exorcise it. He moved about the house and starting digging at a place in the garden. The strangest thing is this was the first time he had come to the house, well he found deep (about a feet deep) a doll with steel pins in it and also a small vial of what looked like ash and blood.\n\nIt was quite old - so maybe the voodoo doll was buried by an enemy against someone living in the house decades ago. Anyway, the place they found it was near the corridor...so it was quite freaky...\n\nand I was completely lucid the whole time, that is I hadn't taken any substance...\n\nLast year I visited another house, and felt a lot of disquiet or evil whenever I passed one particular room in the house. Apparently this was the room where the gentleman of the house kept his videos and entertained his friends. Who knows what else he did in that room...\n\nNow, I never disregard these feelings and act on it.\n\nI even feel it sometimes from people...
895742
GHOSTS? Yes. In the summer of 1977 a ghost took up residency in my electric fan. It was very entertaining. Had a penchant for ABBA tunes and sang to me in a weird electric voice. It lasted for just a few months then disappeared. I still miss the ghost.  \nWITCHES? Yes. I went to elementary school with a girl whose father was a Warlock. Nice guy but those big bushy eyebrows made him look scary.  \nKELPIE? Yes. When I was very young I saw a "pony" swimming in a bayou in Baywood, Louisiana. I ran home and told my Grandad about the swimming pony. Grandad asked me what color it' eyes were. Red I told him. Grandad became excited and told me it wasn't a pony at all. He called it a Kelpie. He said a Kelpie was a water "imp" that took the guise of a horse to entice innocent folk into the water with it. Once the victim entered the water the Kelpie would return to it's true demonic form and drown the happless swimmer.  Grandad forbade me to return to the bayou ever again and I never did.\nBLOODY MARY? Yes. I remember some years back I was dining at a truck-stop. A drunken trucker was dared into saying "Bloody Mary's" name three times. He did. After the 3rd time he excused himself to use the bathroom. He never returned. The cook went into the bathroom to see if he was ok. The bathroom was empty and quiet except for a broken mirror over the sink. No trace of the trucker at all. I heard his Semi stayed parked at the truck stop for 4 days before it was towed.\nVAMPIRES? Yes. I saw one years ago as a spectator at a carnival. He was a pale, bald, bony man dressed in black & gray. He was wiping his mouth of what looked like ketchup. He caught me watching him. I felt uncomfortable and turned to walk away. As I did I faced a Fun-House mirror. There was no reflection of the strange man. He was right behind me! Surely there would be a reflection! There wasn't. That's when I realized he was a vampire. I ran through the mid-way until I caught up with my friends. I never told them about the vampire because I knew they would never believe me. \nJACK the RIPPER? Yes. There is documented proof Jack the Ripper existed. The question is who do you believe he was? Some Historians say he was a respected Surgeon others believe he was a prominent member of High Society while others claim he was a member of Brittain's Royal Family. Me? I'd have to go with the Surgeon theory because of the proffessionalism of the knife wounds. Experts claim the wounds were very precise and were administered with expertise. \nCANDYMAN? Yes. The legend of the Candyman is just a variation of the "Bloody Mary" legend. They are one and the same theory but the Bloody Mary legend is much older than the Candyman .  \nBLACK CAT THAT CROSSES YOUR PATH? Absolutely. A black cat has no supernatural powers ......unless it is a "Familiar" sent by a witch to cast a spell. A familiar is an animal (cat, owl, rodent, wolf, etc.) charmed by a witch or other sorcerror to cut-off or "cross" an intended victims path. By doing so the essence of the spell or curse will possess the victim. Folk-lore has it....since the animals were small or at least not very large they were only capable of containing mild spells like clumsiness or "bad luck". Fortunately A cursed black cat is the only supernatural element I have not encountered in my strange and very eventful life (aside from Jack the Ripper that is!)...So far!