What are your reasons to believe in the paranormal?

Question

i still dont know if i do. but heres my story:

i was at my friends house and we were on the computer. well recently her older brother had died from an illness. we were also really good friends. so were on the computer and i feel this hand on my shoulder. i thought it was her other younger brother trying to get me to pick him up, but when i turned around there was no one. but it was in no doubt a hand. so later that night, i told my friend cuz i felt like i was burnt there on my shoulder. and she said let me look at it. so i took off my shirt and she examined my shoulder and she kind of shuddered. so i run to the mirror and see this big RED hand print on my shoulder. like a really bad sunburn in the shape of a hand. it was so creepy.

i still dont know if i believe in the paranormal but then again i dont really know how to explain that.

what about you?

Answer 1

I simply prefer to belive there is more to this world than meets the eye for peace of minds sake & I mean its not like we could have made it all up.

Answer 2

I've had some strange things happen to myself..

everytime I move into a new house

the very first night of being at every new house I've moved into ,

the loungroom lightglobe would flicker like a red/yellow/orange colour it would only happen when I was standing underneath the light at some point

it would then shatter into a thousand pieces and land around me in a complete circle, what's with that?

It's a wonder I've never been physically hurt by it landing on my head or something,,

I feel as though someone is following me to every house and leaving their trademark  

I mean how could this happen in every single house and always in the loungroom

something I'll always question thats for sure.

Answer 3

I have personally never seen a ghost..that is not to say I don't believe in them. The way I figure it just because you have never seen something does not mean it is not there. I have never seen God but that does not mean he doesn't exist. If I have give that view point on god why not ghosts as well..



The closest I have come to any type of experience involving ghosts is sitting in an old mansion on property where I work..I was the only one in the building everyone else at the front of the park getting ready..I felt so strongly that I was no longer alone that I started to talk to an empty room.

Don't let people choose what you believe for you just because it is something they don't believe.

Answer 4

I live in an evidence-based world.  Unless I have reason to believe in something (i.e. evidence) then I am probably not going to believe in it.  Because no one wants to die everyone would like there to be an afterlife, however simply wanting something isn't the same as it being so.  Also, it's not fair to say "anything is possible" or "we just don't know" because this is reaching a conclusion based on a lack of information.  When you start saying something *can* be true simply because you think anything is possible then you'll never find anything that *isn't* true.

P.S. How did you know the burn wasn't there before you went to your friend's house and you only just noticed it once you got there?  Assuming the burn was paranormal, what makes you think it was her recently-deceased brother?  It could have been any dead person couldn't it?

Answer 5

My experiences have run the gamut from seeing to hearing, taking pictures of spirits, having my hair pulled, having my car pushed out of the way of an impending accident that there is no way I should have avoided ... hearing my name called, being shaken awake (and being able to ask for 10 more minutes... and getting shaken again in 9 ... lol)

I have even had Happy Birthday Becky written in the sky for me ...

The brother wanted to make absolutely sure you knew it was him ....  it is called ADC, and you can read more personal experiences here:

http://www.after-death.com

click on message boards

Answer 6

I've had several experiences, one morning I woke up and a young girl was standing by my bed, I closed my eyes and opened them again and she was gone, I hear people calling out my name so loudly it will wake me out of a dead sleep and I have also heard people calling my name while I am awake and turned to answer and no one will be there. One night I was home alone and heard footsteps upstairs, I crept up the stairs and began hearing voices as I neared the top. I stopped to listen and they became louder, when all of a sudden it sounded like numerous people were running towards me, I ran down those stairs as fast as I could. I've heard knocking on my walls and continually get flashes of something out of the corner of my eye. I hear people talking, but can never make out what they are saying, and have actually felt the pressure of a cat jumping on my bed and walking across my legs, one time I even saw the cat in the mirror on my headboard, but when I turned nothing was there. These are just some things, either I have ghosts or I am going crazy. ;-)