Strange Famous

It'd be kind of interesting to see - what percentage of people genuinely have personally experienced or seen something that they are themselves completely convinced was supernatural.

I guess we all have our stock of personal ghost stories that happened someone we know, but I am talking about personal experiences.

Ive always been really interested in this area - and have even camped out at supposedly haunted locations and so on... but Ive never seen a ghost or has an experience that Im sure was supernatural...

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dlish

i was once 'touched' on the back of the left hand by something. i know i wasnt making things up andi wasnt imagining. it freaked the bejeeeezuz out of me.

never actually 'saw' anything though

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Vigilante

I see ghosts and/or spirits almost daily. It barely even concerns me. I used to be able to hear them too, but not anymore. Also I don't see them like I used to. I used to see things very clearly. Now it's just flashes or streaks. Sometimes very plainly, sometimes only when I'm relaxed and kinda blank-minded. If I'm in work-mode etc, I get nothing. My childhood open-minded nature has yielded to adulthood, for the most part haha.

I can hear the noise like a TV being on sometimes, lots of chatter and odd sounds, but once I become aware of it it goes away immediately.

This is of course in no way scientific, but I have subjective evidence in that others have seen or heard what I experienced at the same time, and in some cases even my pets have reacted.

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inBOIL

I once very clearly heard someone whisper my name. When I turned around, there was nobody there, and no way someone could have escaped without me noticing. I consider it far more likely that this was a hallucination than any kind of paranormal occurance.

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slightlyaskew

...perhaps there should be a 4th option:
Have experienced but not seen.

??

I'd pick that one.

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noodle

I haven't seen an actual image but after four years in the dorms at Flagler College in St. Augustine, there were no other explanations for what we saw and heard.
--children running up and down the hallway laughing on an uninhabited floor above us that wasn't even renovated.
--the blinds in the room next door making some weird noises and when we opened the door, they were going up and down without assistance... no one was home.
--alarm clocks that were reset frequently... only when class was cancelled.
--roommate that got touched in the middle of the night by "something"
--woke up in the middle of the night and the side of my bed had an indent, like when my mom would sit on my bed when I was little to say goodnight... and then it lifted back up to normal. and, yes, I was fully awake, and it happened more than once.
--my cat would do the typical "figure-eight" thing like he was weaving on someone's legs and the fur would indent but not a soul was there. And he would "talk" to whatever was there like he did to me. And that happened a lot, even 4 years after moving off campus... my cat was never on campus.
--light switches would turn on in the middle of the night with no one up and about... we always had switches by the front door (locked at night) and beds away from them.

So, yes, I strongly believe I've had too many encounters to keep track of.

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Tully Mars

I vote for haven't seen one and have no idea if they exist.

Always figure it's possible, there more unknown then known in my opinion. But I've never seen or experienced anything that couldn't eventually be explained.

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Zeraph

I've experienced sound...creepy creepy sounds, but never "seen" one. I'm thinking the sounds I heard when i was a kid were imagined, but who knows...

RetroGunslinger

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Vigilante

I saw so much more stuff when I was a kid. This woman used to try to get my attention all the time. I lived with my grandparents and thought it was her. I would run in the other room at 10PM or later and ask grandmother if she called me. Her and my grandfather would look at me crazy and say no, then I would just sulk off, confused. I'd hear her again and run back in the other room, etc. Finally I learned to ignore her, whoever she was/is.

I saw two white beings looking over me and my grandmother when I was 5-ish. I asked grandmother what they were. Naturally, she saw nothing and told me nothing was there. And yet there they were, plain as day, about my height or a little more, not full in form but very opaque.

I can remember back to being in diapers, so family members get surprised when I talk about things that happened 30 years ago. I'm 33 now. I ran in a fire when I was 2. I remember the river and recalled the scene to my mother recently, who was fairly shocked.

A spirit screamed over me when I was having a chat with a friend. He was mexican normally, but that evening he was whiter than me LMAO. He heard it as loud as I did, and he seriously flipped out. It was open field, just mowed grass and a brick wall we were sitting on, nothing visible made the noise, and yet it was nearly deafening.

I saw something run through a patch of weeds right in front of me, and 2 others saw it too. It was invisible. The plants moved like it was the size of a rabbit. The ground was still clear, and yet nothing was there on the ground as the plants were plowed over.

I have a dog named rex. He is not the first. I had another dog named rex when I was around 4. He died of heartworms that year. I saw him for months and maybe years after he died. In fact I would run through the back hall at night instead of walking just to avoid running into him, because he scared me. He just came towards me like normal, but the fact that he had already died scared me bad.

Ah the good ol days...

Things are less obvious now, but more meaningful.

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SaltPork

when i was four i had a very scary experience. we lived in a very old house, i think it was about 100 yrs old at the time, or close to it, and I woke up in the middle of the night (2 AM ish) because I heard something downstairs. The silverware was rattling in the drawers in the kitchen and it went on for a very long time. I just figured it was my parents, but i was terrified. I looked up and saw a head poke in my room so I screamed and my parents came in and there was nothing. They calmed me down, shut the lights out, and told me to go back to sleep....right. I layed there wide awake and then heard someone calling my name in a low whisper. Now totally terrified, i screamed like a crazy person. My parents were pissed because there was nothing there. I slept in their room that night.

All the rest of the time after that night, after the lights went out, there was a dark shadow (a black mass more like) that sat on my toybox in the corner. It wasn't a shadow, it was someone. I always had the feeling of being watched over from that night on in the house by the dark mass. I called it Blackie, of all the ridiculous things. I used to have conversations with it. Thinking back, it was freaky as hell, but i felt safe with Blackie there. When i finally said good night to him (I assume it was a him) i slept totally under my covers.

I often heard the silverware rattling late at night, but felt safer knowing that whatever was in my room was keeping me safe. It just had that feeling.

Even after we moved, I slept with my head under the covers for years, pretty much until i got married and moved out.

While a terrifying experience, it did make me believe in ghosts, and guardian angels. I still wonder if I was crazy and it was all in my head, but what I experienced was very real.

great, now i'm all freaked out and it's 12:30 AM...super.

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raeanna74

The last house I lived in was built around 1901. When we were upstairs, in the office or in bed we would occasionally hear cupboard doors being shut in our kitchen. Even found one open now and then. The big key to this is that the doors had turn latches on all of them and would not/could not come open on their own. Probably not even in an earthquake. No idea why or how but definately not human.

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Lasereth

Wow I am baffled at how many people believe in ghosts considering they aren't real. Yes I'm being a bastard but seriously, ghosts aren't real. No I've never had a supernatural experience and I would actually cherish it if it ever happened to me.

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little_tippler

I wish I had but I'm scared of spirits. I have a friend who has been studying spiritism for her anthropology PhD and I've typed out her fieldnotes. If any of those things are true, I think it's better to stay away from spirits.

I don't know if they exist but I don't see why not. There is so much we don't know. I am open to new information. Same thing with God. I don't believe in one entity that controls everything, but I'd be fine if there was.

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Vigilante

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

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SaltPork

I hear that, and I still wonder if maybe I was just dreaming it, but it was very real. If you ever experience anything it will change you, in many ways.

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Vigilante

Exactly. I've already wrestled with the possibility of it not being real, but considering others experienced things with me ...well....it's real.

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Zeraph

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Aphrodisios

I have had a couple experiences with ghost. I think sometimes ghost a really just energy left behind and not always a spirit. For example, if an old lady did the same thing every night for a long time before her death then perhaps it could leave a imprint of energy so to speak. Kind of like a video or picture in constant replay at that time. That would explain why a number of "ghost" or strange things are reported to happen at the same time every day or night.

On the other I do think some may really be spirits but those are all around different. There usually wouldn't be the same repetition. It would seem to have a sort of consciousness about it.

I've only personally experienced the one I think is spirits but I'm not sure. One of my sightings was at a friends house in a room they never use. So for all I know that one could have been a energy imprint.

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Vigilante

Bwahaha, nice find

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SSJTWIZTA

i dont really believe in ghost.

however, my mother sometimes tells me a story of when i was 6 or so. i vaguely remember it happening.

she says i was looking out of the window when she came in the living room, middle of the day mind you, and i looked freaked out. she asked what was wrong on her way by me to the kitchen and i told her there was a scary old lady and man knocking on the door.

as she walked to the door i pulled away from the window to walk with her.

door opened...no one there.

doubt they we're ding dong ditchers, they were way old.

/end story.

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ronnietx59

Yep. I was sitting on my bed with the door closed. Saw a shadow walk down the hall under the door.
I was home ALONE!
Opened the door and it was gone.

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MSD

I used to think so, but looking back I realize it was all wishful thinking and an overactive imagination. It's amazing how much paranormal stuff (more so psychic phenomena than ghosts) doesn't hold up to conservation of matter and energy.

My answer is the same as it is for questions of religion: I'm open minded, but I have consistently found that it is worth neither the time nor the effort to believe in things without evidence.
I know I have somewhat of a reputation for being a dick, but I am saying this seriously out of genuine concern. I understand that some people see things they can't explain and consider it ghosts, I chalk it up to overactive imagination and confirmation bias, and it's part of human nature. If you are seeing ghosts and spirits almost daily and hearing phantom noises, which can very easily be visual and auditory hallucinations, you really should see a psychiatrist and be evaluated for schizophrenia.

Martian

That is the best Sam Jackson cameo/Pulp Fiction reference ever.

I love the Boondocks.

Ghosts? Nah. I'm too much of a diehard skeptic to believe in such a thing without much better proof. If I ever see documented evidence, I'll believe. Until then, I'm siding with the negatory.

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lagoonguy

i'd love to believe in ghosts but i think a lot of it is actually coming from the brain itself. not imagination, but brain-triggered. Such as 'sleep paralysis' or 'old hag' night terrors, which i experienced for a few years, and i swear i was awake and seeing things in the room - a man in dark coat, 2 small humanoid 'things' that had smooth oval faces with no eyes, ears, etc.... at first i thought i was seeing some other dimension or something, and a part of me still believes that could be true. But other than these specific scenerios, i myself have not seen a ghost, per say.

MSD

Good old sleep paralysis. I found out a few months ago that the worst possible thing to do if you get sleep paralysis is to fall asleep watching UFO Files doing an episode on abductions. Woke up to greys running around in my room, realized what was happening and managed to wake up fully. Every time I'd start drift back off to sleep, the windows would light up and the greys would crawl out of wherever they were hiding until I woke myself up again.

Teufel Hunden

I haven't really experienced a ghost per se, but I have had odd experiences that can't simply be explained away. I've been experimenting with EVP recently, and while i haven't caught anything yet, i find the whole subject fascinating.

ash_1050

I had something ticking my feet one night and thought that it was just the doona cover but when it persisted I started to get a little freaked out but fell asleep alright. I then woke up screaming as something grabbed me by the ankle. Our dog came racing in and sat on my chest growling at the end of the bed where I had been grabbed. It turns out my nan used to do sayonces in that room when she was younger and had several experiences in the same room, not that I knew beforehand.

MSD

I've had things like that happen with night terrors and sleep paralysis, including my cat freaking the fuck out because I panicked. Night terrors and sleep paralysis have explained all but a few of what I used to think were ghost encounters or other paranormal experiences.

Not Right Now

I've seen things, and I've shared encounters with people.

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Sue

Have never actually seen anything, but I did have an unexplainable experience. Driving in a car shortly after my dad passed away. Had a cd in the changer in the trunk. Ave Maria was sung at my father's funeral mass. Out of the blue, the cd changer switched cds on me, to Charlotte Church. Skipped to a random number track, which ended up being Ave Maria. The entire song played, and when it ended, the cd changer switched back to my cd, and right back to the middle of the song it stopped at.

I officially freaked out and called Sam, also freaking out to him over the phone. It still gives me chills thinking about that.

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Tiny Dancer

There are to many experiences to choose from. Guess I'm the lucky one that keeps spooked out.

ametc

I see ghosts all the time. I used to work at a convalescent home and once a month there'd be a sighting. I also used to hang out in the graveyard with my best friend and we saw a couple ghosts over there.

I was sitting alone in my car one night after work and I felt something playing with my hair and pulling on my ponytail holder. I've never met an evil ghost, but I believe they're out there. I think most ghosts are as friendly as the average person, though. From my experience, they are actually either curious about us (because we're not familiar to them) or they're unaware of us (or they just don't give a fuck about whether we're near them or not).


The weirdest experience for me was when I was at one of my old friend's grave and I was just asking thin air, "Where are you now?" and I heard his voice say, "Right here!". That was just whoa for me.