Spirits

[KillYouSD]

Do you believe in spirits? Like ghosts and stuff. I sorta do but sorta don't at the same time and the reason is bcause of my pets. I have read that animals can actually sense spirits and that really freaks me out because sometimes when I'm on my pc and my dog is laying down on my bed to the left of me and I pat her head she will do either 2 things, 1. Lay her head back down or 2. Look at me then behind me out into the hallway like she sees someting. Her ears even go up like she's alert. My cat and my other dog do the same thing. Just stare at empty spaces around the house like there's something there. I know it can't possibly be rats because pest control comes every other week. I thought I would post this because its october and I want to know what you guys think or if you are wondering the same thing. Also I'm posting this because its my first thread on gtp.

 

[Grayfox]

No.

 

[ScouserInExile]

Like vodka and stuff? Yeah, I believe in it when the beer has run out...

 

[Grayfox]

Like vodka and stuff? Yeah, I believe in it when the beer has run out...

He means ghosts & specters.

 

[W3H5]

I would say that a 'spirit' (not booze) is very different from the ghostly things that people claim to see.

Having believed that I've seen apparitions I do feel that they are tricks of the mind or light caught in a quantum time mistakes.

I'm really just saying that to get a conversation going, I haven't even had a beer yet. I don't even know if it makes sense to me.

 

[TheCracker]

Both cats and dogs have much better hearing than humans and it covers a much wider frequency than ours does. It's more probable that they're just reacting to something that you can't hear.

With dogs you also have their tendency to try to double guess your actions (Pavlovian Conditioning) it might be that when you pat your dog's head when she's sitting on your bed, it usually precedes you getting up and going down the corridor or someone else about to come down it, or something more subtle that you don't realize you do.

 

[Lain]

Yeah... no. Not at all.

The only phenomenon close to ghosts/spirits would be the memories of the individual that remain in the minds of others, which I suppose in certain instances when combined with certain coincidences, could result in tricking paranoid people into thinking that they're somehow still around as a ghost or spirit.

 

[dhandeh]

A stunning first post on a car game website.

On topic, no, can't say that I do.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Yes I do believe. Why? Because we believe what politicians say too, don't we?

 

[dhandeh]

Yes I do believe. Why? Because we believe what politicians say too, don't we?

Do we!

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

We do elect them over and over again, so..

 

[Carbonox]

For me it's hard to believe in 'em, because I have never had paranormal experiences, and most ghost stories that I've heard do seem to be explainable in natural means. They're still an interesting subject...

 

[Dotini]

Among the most common paranormal experiences is the poltergeist, a.k.a. "noisy ghost". The typical experience is had by a young person, often a teenager, and consists of hearing a loud rapping or pounding on one's door or wall which, upon investigation, reveals no one around who could have made the noise. There are other, more extreme examples, but this is the basic poltergeist experience.

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

 

[KillYouSD]

Among the most common paranormal experiences is the poltergeist, a.k.a. "noisy ghost". The typical experience is had by a young person, often a teenager, and consists of hearing a loud rapping or pounding on one's door or wall which, upon investigation, reveals no one around who could have made the noise. There are other, more extreme examples, but this is the basic poltergeist experience.

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

I'm pretty sure its not a poltergeist as there are no sounds that I can hear over the sound of me playing gt5...

 

[Tired Tyres]

Among the most common paranormal experiences is the poltergeist, a.k.a. "noisy ghost". The typical experience is had by a young person, often a teenager, and consists of hearing a loud rapping or pounding on one's door or wall which, upon investigation, reveals no one around who could have made the noise. There are other, more extreme examples, but this is the basic poltergeist experience.

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

I think that banging may be accompanied by the words "turn that bloody music down".

 

[ScouserInExile]

He means ghosts & specters.

I did not realise that. Boy, is my face red.

 

[TankAss95]

I fart ghosts.

 

[Dennisch]

I fart ghosts.

I seem to have the same ghosts in my house. Are the invisible, silent, moist, hot and very smelly?

 

[Sam48]

Some of the most outlandish claims/questions are the ones we will never know for certain until we are deceased.

 

[Omnis]

I believe.

 

[Keef]

Some of those spirits really pack some heat! If you don't believe in them 100%, don't mess with them. They'll mess you up.

 

[axletramp]

Some people believe they're the spirits of the dead somehow trapped in the physical world - I don't. Some people believe they are glimpses of parallel or multi-dimensional worlds - I don't. Some people believe in akashic records where emotions or trauma have somehow imprinted or recorded themselves on physical objects and places - I don't.

I think that all the ghosts, spirits and ghouls are in our heads. If somewhere 'feels' spooky it's because your senses have made it spooky for you. It's simply a 'fight or flight' survival response.

Don't you think that with all the modern tech and recording equipment around that something incontrovertible would be caught on camera? If anything less has been filmed. Surely that says something? Same for aliens and UFOs... but that's another thread.

 

[Dennisch]

Some people believe they're the spirits of the dead somehow trapped in the physical world - I don't. Some people believe they are glimpses of parallel or multi-dimensional worlds - I don't. Some people believe in akashic records where emotions or trauma have somehow imprinted or recorded themselves on physical objects and places - I don't.

This.

I think that all the ghosts, spirits and ghouls are in our heads. If somewhere 'feels' spooky it's because your senses have made it spooky for you. It's simply a 'fight or flight' survival response.

This.

Don't you think that with all the modern tech and recording equipment around that something incontrovertible would be caught on camera? If anything less has been filmed. Surely that says something? Same for aliens and UFOs... but that's another thread.

I've said that on so many occasions! It's like we are one!

 

[Touring Mars]

It's like we are one!

*checks IP addresses*

I've been quite surprised in recent years by some people I know who have claimed to have had (albeit minor) brushes with such things... one guy in particular, who is also a research scientist by trade, had a particularly strange story to tell about several incidents reported by various family members - glasses spontaneously breaking, objects appearing where they shouldn't be etc. While he concedes that there is probably a rational explanation, he doesn't dismiss out of hand the possibility that there really is something paranormal going on.

As for me, my only brush with the spirit world involved a man in a white hat who died in 1911...

 

[Dennisch]

Touring, the research scientist must have seen the same spirit as you.

 

[KillYouSD]

At my grandmothers wake, there were a lot of flowers near her coffin and my uncle wanted to take pictures of them. After reviewing the photos he came up to my dad and showed them then showed us. It was an orangeish blueish colored orb between the coffin and the flowers. He didn't even have the flash on and the only metal in that area was covered by the flowers. So idk maybe it was my grandmother or just a piece of dust that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[axletramp]

It's like we are one!

And I thought I just had voices in my head!

Dutch accent?

 

[Dennisch]

Massive Dutch accent!

That's my entire dead family on the picture.

 

[axletramp]

Wow, there's loads of them!

And if you look really closely...

 

[KillYouSD]

Massive Dutch accent!

That's my entire dead family on the picture.

Nice touch on the 2nd pic lol but like I said, maybe it was just a piece of dust