Do ghosts exist?Has anyone really encountered a ghost?

Question

Do ghosts exist?Has anyone really encountered a ghost?

Answer 1

I have encountered many, so yes to me they exist, and i believe that there are far too many people who have encountered them that they must exist..

Answer 2

Encountered a shadow ghost, in the daytime - was very faint. Encountered one fully formed in my livingroom of a particularly creepy house we lived in, lasted about two seconds.

Answer 3

i think they are

Answer 4

I am with Kel333.  Ghosts do exist.  I saw my first one at age 5.  I even at that age knew really from Imagination.  I am in a Paranormal Group and trust me we have run into some nasty ones over the years.  I have plenty of pictures and Evps to prove encounters with a ghost.  I have seen plenty of Shadow People with our group as well.  Just because one does not see one does not mean they don't exist.  Take a camera some day or night and start taking pictures.  I take pictures and most of the time, they don't show up for me to see until I have downloaded my camera into my computer.  I have had plenty of encounters with them and have gotten slammed really hard and found myself coming back to reality and finding myself laying backwards over a smaller grave marked Mother and my glasses were found 31/2 rows away from me.  I never saw that coming at all and don't remember at all feeling myself being slammed either.  I can not explain why it was done to me or why I could not even feel it. Yet, it truthfully happened.

    Yet, I am not giving up being in the Group as not all are bad.

Answer 5

Yes and I have encountered them on many occasions.

Answer 6

My sister and I, I think, have this connection with ghosts and spirits somehow. Stacy, my sister, sees them more frequently than I do but I feel them more than she does. For instance, she has seen various people walking the streets, oblivious to the cars and traffic that seem to just miss hitting them by inches but still do not notice that the people are there. She has seen ghosts watching her from the edge of the woods by our house al the time, just watching her and then disappearing in to the trees. She has seen dark hooded figures, if from shadow or actual shroud I do not know, standing in her house in front of her daughters room. She can hear voices, footsteps, and odd sounds through the baby monitor yet she lives in a neigborhood where mostly older folks live. She has the spirit of a little girl living in her house now who flickers the lights constantly until you tell her to stop.

I, on the other hand, can see them sometimes but I can mostly feel them around me or see the outline or fuzzy image of them. I mostly feel younger people, sometimes as old as fifteen or sixteen but usually quite young children around the age of five to eleven or twelve. They never say anything and they hardly move when I notice them around. The simply stand there and stare, silent but not unnoticed. Sometimes they can be quite creepy. The ones that I do see freak me out the most. It seems that they are never happy and quite often they have a frown or sad expression on their face.

Both my sister and I hear things quite often as well. Usually, Stacy will hear the sound of shuffling feet, harsh footsteps, or breathing. I mostly hear talking in the form of someone saying my name, sighing, breathing, and whispering.

I know that this is pretty hard to understand or even believe for that matter. Although I do not epect people to believe everything that I say, I know that in their own time they might come to believe me and I am alrigt with that. I would not force someone to believe everything I say for the simple fact that I am also hard to convince of some things in life. Believe what you want and take the rest as bologna. At least I know I will have done the simple task of letting someone know that these kinds of things exist....

Answer 7

Many people ( with fantasy-prone personalities) think they have.  Many others believe in them for no reason at all.  I have no doubt that many people who think they have seen something paranormal really haven't.  I have no doubt many of the pictures and videos purporting to show ghosts (and are reason many people do believe in ghosts) aren't real.

I have reason to believe the only evidence for ghosts is in the form of personal anecdote.  I have reason to believe many people misremember, misinterpret and misunderstand what they see.  I also have reason to believe many people who believe in ghosts *a priori* will be much more likely to attribute an unusual event to a ghostly source.

Answer 8

I have encountered ghosts before. I later discovered that I was dying from Carbon Monoxide poisoning, but that doesn't make the experience any less real.

I do not believe in ghosts on account of the lack of credible evidence.

Answer 9

This will be a question highly debated by skeptics until either some scientist corners one in a lab or the skeptic has a personal experience with one .to use examples of hoaxes and pranks are kind of contradictory as there are hoaxes and pranks in all areas that we encounter in life including the scientific community.shall we say science does not exist because someone has created a hoax in a certain area of science? No of course not !  we all just need to open ourselves to the possibility of the existence in the paranormal I have encountered so many ghosts in my investigations with hundreds of pictures and video as well as evp the Internet is full of websites of credible investigative groups with documented evidence what more do people want ??? some guy in a lab coat behind a glass scratching his head with a ghost trapped in a beaker saying I guess we were wrong ghosts really do exist ! Any way someday when a experience befalls the skeptics then they will believe but until then the debate goes on.

Answer 10

I've encounterd a few of them, yea, I'm a big believer. :)

Answer 11

Yes, I believe ghosts exist.  I've seen quite a few; the most memorable was of a young woman who was brutally murdered in a small town nearby.  Her spirit wanders the grounds where she was murdered.  The first ghost I saw was my grandfather, who died in the bedroom I had as a child. Since then, I've seen many.

Answer 12

The reason I know ghosts are real is in 1972 I had one appear to me and try to get me out of the house that once was his.

BB

Answer 13

Yes I believe they do! I think I have encountered my grandfather's ghost. But not completely sure. I do believe in it though.

Answer 14

yes they do exist and yes ive encountered quite a few....

i speak from experience and not from imagination......

Answer 15

My view is that it's not likely, although I'm always open to evidence on the matter. So far though, the evidence doesn't seem to support the existence of such entities. Reports of ghosts taken at face value can almost always be explained in terms of tricks of light or vision, power of suggestion, being in a semi-waking state, or pranks.

Answer 16

while I have never actually seen one, I believe there is the possibility they really do exist. Through personal experiences and investigating, I have see, heard, and felt things that simply cannot be explained away by a math equation or scientific testing by the standards we use today. The idea that life lives on after physical death really scares those who believe when you die, your dead. It would mean everything they believe would be wrong, if it were proven somehow that our spirit goes on after physical death.

Answer 17

Yes. Seeing a ghost is a real human experience. I suspect that ghosts associated with hauntings, crisis apparitions and seeing your deceased relatives may all have different explanations. The term apparition used to mean the visual image of person that you know to not be physically present at your location was used as far back as 1882 in order to attempt to be more precise than the word ghost.

If a ghost is the surviving spirit of a person, a recorded memory impressed in the atmosphere, or access to a collective consciousness (all ideas to explain ghosts) is something that science has not yet determined.

Dreams and emotions are real and do not posses a physical structure so are ghosts material objects? most experiences suggest they are not. However, not being material does not equal not being real.

For further information I suggest the following:

Night Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe

Census of Hallucinations (Society for Psychical Research)

Phantasms of the Living (Society for Psychical Research)

Human Personality and It's Survival of Bodily Death by

FWH Myers.

Yes, thousands of people have reported seeing (really encountering) ghosts throughout all of mankinds recorded history.

Answer 18

I don't know. I don't even know what they look like if they do exist. As for the images of ghosts popularized by media, I've encountered none.

Answer 19

I believe their are spirits, I have encountered  some incidents. Some not knowing what was going on, but over the years I have learned more and now when some unexplained or something strange happens I have more knowledge and understanding  and know what is happening.  I have been visited in my dreams, one of which helped my mother get the diagnoses of her aneurysm.  

So I believe!!!!!!

Answer 20

If you want to see a Ghost check out the index page of Haunted Weekend.

www.hauntedweekend.com

Answer 21

Supernatural/paranormal energy exists.  Is it "ghosts" that I don't know for sure.  But, there is "something" out there beyond our explaination.  I have had unexplained encounters of my own as a child.  I have just recently joined with the Ohio Paranormal Researchers, which is a paranormal investigation group in central Ohio.  We went on our first investigation on Friday, November 23rd, at the Haydenville Tunnel in Haydenville, Ohio, which is a small town near Athens/Nelsonville.  During our investigation I began have unexplained "feelings", one of the other memebers at the same time began getting a terrible headache.  We did not see anything with our eyes, but after getting home and going over our evidence, some strange things came about.  In a couple of our pictures, there was an unexplained mist in them.  One of the pics, I used Adobe Photoshop to enchance the color, contrast, etc.  I then discovered the apparation of a girl within the mist.  Really creepy.  You can check out our website at: www.freewebs.com/theohioparanormalresear...  I don't know if the pics are up yet. They are in our yahoo group, you could request to be a memeber, or if you have a myspace, my address is www.myspace.com/danelle_coolgirl.  My profile is private, but if you send a friend request I would be more than happy to accept it.  Hopefully this brings some resolution to your questions.

Answer 22

Yes they are real. I've seen 4 this year,  but I go looking for them.