I believe in Ghosts. Do you?

mystery is your last name cranium? No I don't really believe in ghosts.

I have something unnatural in my basement, that or my house is settling.

I think there are lots of unexplained phenomena that could be ghosts or could be other things. The book 'The Exorcist' (as most books do, it goes into much further detail than the movie) goes into great detail offering alternate explanations for what's happening to the boy in the book (in the book, as in the real-life inspiration for the book, the possessed is male).

As for me, I've never experienced anything with the exception of one maybe. When I was in college, I studied for a semester in London. I took a weekend guided tour of Normandy. We visited the beaches towards dusk, and as we were walking past one of the leftover bunkers I thought I saw a face looking out. When I asked if anybody else had seen it, nobody had. It could've been my imagination, a hallucination (I had been up for about 36 hours at this point -- long story), and it could have been a homeless person. BUT...it could have been a ghost, and I know I was pretty freaked out at the time.

something unnatural in my basement

#4 | Posted by andyuhenet

You should wash-up your devices after each use. Even pointy metal and leather objects can accumulate a layer of organic matter and become rank after a while.

I don't believe in ghosts. I just don't understand from whence all these ghost turds are coming.

Lip, I appreciate your expertise and advice on the subject.

Shouldn't ghosts be naked?

Bodies may have souls, but their clothes?

You would think the clothes would posess the souls of the soul of the one wearing the clothes. You know on a cosmic level and all that.

Larry

Only 23%? But I thought 90% believed in a god. I am confused. This must be wrong. HINT: Father son and the holy ghost, they took the last train to the coast.

*** 23% Believe ***

....same as the Repub support level........

.....coincidence ?.......

Skizz, I believe in ghosts of Republican Majorities past...

OH GOD DENNIS HASTERT JUST BROKE A GLASS IN MY KITCHEN

*** 23% Believe ***

....same as the Repub support level........

.....coincidence ?.......

Posted by skizziks at 2009-10-31 10:11 AM | Reply

Nah Skid, ghosts are dead people and they only vote Democrat. Along with illegals and dogs.

Nah Skid, ghosts are dead people and they only vote Democrat.
.......#15 | Posted by The_Chapel

.....even dead Republicans ?.......

....so there is final enlightenment.......

OH GOD DENNIS HASTERT JUST BROKE A GLASS IN MY KITCHEN

#14 | Posted by andyuhenet

.....I thought you didn't let black people in your house unless they were delivering something ?.....

True story.

I loved my wife's grandmother. We visited her nearly every weekend for the first several years of our marriage. She was kind to me.

Frankly, during those years, times were lean and she kept me in jeans and socks and other personal items that we all wear. She loved me in ways my own parents never did.

She was a deeply religious woman and the only thing I requested to have when she died was her Bible that she read every day.

Inside of her Bible were a collection of hand written notes and other things she had saved. I sat and looked through her notes many times after she died. Some had odd things written on them. One piece of paper had a string of hundreds of numbers one after another where she was keeping track of something that I'll never know. She kept notes on dates when it snowed and just other personal events she wanted to remember. There were lots of cards, obituaries and clippings.

A few months after her passing, I had placed her Bible containing the notes, in a large plastic storage bag and put it up on the back of a bookshelf for safe keeping.

At that time I had a job where there was a large back room where I worked with an open tiled floor and work benches around the outside of the room against the walls. Just a big tiled room with nothing in the middle of the room. And I worked in that room alone. No one else worked back there.

I had been at work a couple of hours and had been in and out of the back room.

About 2 hours into the work day, I walked through the door into the back room and about 4 feet straight in front of me was a piece of paper on the floor. I picked it up and recognized it as being from Grandma's Bible.

I looked at it closely and noticed it was absolutely flat with no wrinkles. I thought how can this be?

So....either I am mistaken or I had a visit from my wife's grandmother.

I took the paper home and put it in her Bible.

btw...regardless...I do personally believe there is a world of unseen things. We do not know for sure what becomes of us when we die or what is around us that no one ever sees.

Just think how many centuries man existed with electricity all around him, before someone figured out what it was.

Should we presume that mankind in 2009 has it all figured out?

Mankind is still scrambling for the truth.

Sure...I believe in ghosts.

But...I'm a Christian so I don't fear them.

Btw...one of the clippings in her Bible was the words and music of a song, 'Since Jesus Came Into My Heart'.

"What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought...Since Jesus came into my heart.
I have light in my soul for which long I had sought...Since Jesus came into my heart".

#17 Hastert is white...

I believe in Ghosts. Do you?

No.

#17 Hastert is white...
........#19 | Posted by andyuhenet

.....my mistake.....I thought you were talking about Dennis Haysbert.......

#18

Thanks for sharing that story Bill.

I believe there are unexplained phenomina.

I've witnessed a couple of them.

I don't really get scared. Just makes me wonder.

I believe there are unexplained phenomina.
I've witnessed a couple of them.
..........#22 | Posted by Lisa

......were you one of the twin, twenty-year old blondes, in Hugh Hefner's threesome ?........

#23

Ha Ha Ha!

I would never degrade myself by being involved with him or what he stands for.

#11 | Posted by member2586

I just watched Major League the other day and learned that the voodoo guy was the very same Haysbert from the Allstate Commercials.

And no, I would allow blacks other than delivery guys in my home.

I think ACORN registered 3,465 ghosts in the last election.

I would never degrade myself by being involved with him or what he stands for.
......#24 | Posted by Lisa

.....I understand he lies down for what he stands for........

.....Lisa......

.....has anyone ever offered you over a hundred thousand dollars for sex ?......

voodoo guy was the very same Haysbert from the Allstate Commercials.
......#26 | Posted by andyuhene

......have you ever seen the show "The Unit".?.....Haysbert is the star....its a good show....

Oh god we are all going to be witness to solicitation here...

Yeah the Unit's tight. I like the evil terminator Col. guy who's shtooping that guy's wife.

I've actually only seen 4 episodes or so but it was good.

".has anyone ever offered you over a hundred thousand dollars for sex ?"

Some things are not worth any dollar amount, Skizz.

One of those things is integrity.

Some things are not worth any dollar amount, Skizz.
.......#33 | Posted by Lisa

......I'm not sure about that.......

....Hef gives his girfriends over a 100 g's a year spending money,live in his mansion, gives them modeling careers, and they get to sip marguaritas and sit around a pool when not shopping......

......I guess if you've never had the offer, you would never know how you would react...

Oh god we are all going to be witness to solicitation here...
......#31 | Posted by andyuhenet

.....relax.......Lisa is imperviously chaste......

Yeah the Unit's tight.
.....#32 | Posted by andyuhenet

....I thought that was the Haysbert in your kitchen.....

....I thought wtf is Haysbert doing there, but then you never know who is really who around here......

Haha the setup was supposed to be Dennis Hastert as a ghost of republican majorities past messing with me by throwing shit in the kitchen, but the joke is dead now!

.......I still have to go Halloween shopping to have candy to give out......

.....I'll see if there's a Cheney mask at WalMart.....

......kids know evil when they see it........

BILL SAYS: Sure...I believe in ghosts. But...I'm a Christian so I don't fear them

You have the Holy Ghost living in you as a believer Bill!

Nice post my man. God Bless.

".I guess if you've never had the offer, you would never know how you would react."

I know exactly how I would react, Skizz.

It wouldn't even be a consideration.

Being a "kept" woman, doesn't fit in my character. My integrity and self worth are more valuable to me than any amount of money that would be offered for the "life of luxury" for posing for Playboy.

That's not quite modeling IMHO, although I can understand why some would think it is.

I love my life, I like what I stand for....I am Blessed in more ways than just monetary or living in a big mansion.

My importance is not based on material things...it's about heart and character for me.

There is no amount of money that would get me to step into that world.

I wish you had a public email Chapel...I'm dying to ask you something! : )

What most ppl refer to as ghosts are called "familiar" spirits in the bible - an evil "spirit" who knew a loved one when they were alive - christians are warned against communicating with them.

There is no amount of money that would get me to step into that world.
.......#40 | Posted by Lisa

....how old are you.?......

Being a "kept" woman, doesn't fit in my character.
.....#40 | Posted by Lisa

.....I think it could fit into anyone's character.....

....if the conditions are right......

"I think it could fit into anyone's character.....

....if the conditions are right"

That may be your opinion but I know myself a little bit better than you do.

but I know myself a little bit better than you do.
....#45 | Posted by Lisa

....have you ever been married ?......

".have you ever been married ?"

Yep

How did it work out ?

LOL

Well, so far so good!!

Why?

Do you have any kids ?

I have 4...why???

LOL

Just curious.

How old are they ?

LOL

What is this?? 52 questions??

Don't forget..my turn is next!!

They are 28, 25, 23 and 9

And I raised my step son who is now 20.

mine are 27, 26, 23 and 20.....

time to go.....I have to get candies for the trick n treaters.......

.....later....

".has anyone ever offered you over a hundred thousand dollars for sex ?"

Some things are not worth any dollar amount, Skizz.

One of those things is integrity.

#33 | Posted by Lisa

For the next 72 hours I'm willing to sell my integrity for $605 cash to any genetically verifiable female of legal age including ghosts

"For the next 72 hours I'm willing to sell my integrity for $605 cash to any genetically verifiable female of legal age including ghosts"

Your itegrity is not worth 1/100th of that!!

legal age including ghosts

Succubi wouldn't need to pay $605...

Your itegrity is not worth 1/100th of that!!

#57 | Posted by Lisa

I'll give you a $5 discount I actually like you for some absurd reason Miss Cheesehead

"I'll give you a $5 discount I actually like you for some absurd reason Miss Cheesehead"

I have better ways to spend 600 dollars.

Lisa -- How often do you get asked if that 9 year old was an oops? There's a substantial age difference between my wife and her nearest sibling (8 years if I'm getting it right), and she gets that a lot. Her dad had some great euphemism for it, something along the lines of, when you take the car out uncovered, don't be surprised if it rains. His was much more clever, of course. He had 24 years to perfect it before we met. :-)

"Lisa -- How often do you get asked if that 9 year old was an oops? "

Dylan:

I get asked that a lot, and the look on their faces when I tell them he was planned, is priceless!!!

All 4 of my children were planned.

#44---"if the conditions are right"-- Skizz, I know it sounds weird to a number of posters on this site, but there are still individuals in this country that have such a strong value system that they would not compromise their beliefs for anything that is temporal. They don't buy into the American marketting scheme that you need to keep up with the Joneses or that things are important-- a lot of Americans that bought into that garbage are now struggling and will continue to.

Matsop:

Thank you for post #63. That is part of what my husband and I believe.

We have a home, we have a vehicle, we have food on our table. We have everything we actually need.

We are dedicating our lives to serve others, not to gain a bunch of material things that don't last anyway or that make life harder in the long run.

#64---good to hear-- I've been really blessed financially but have lived simply my whole life and now am able to and have helped members of my family and others close to me that are struggling.

That's awesome Mat!!!

For the next 72 hours I'm willing to sell my integrity for $605 cash to any genetically verifiable female of legal age including ghosts

#56 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch at 2009-10-31 02:10 PM

Did you say "including ghosts"?

#66---hope the future will treat you and your family well--it will be difficult

Thanks Mat...we are definately headed for a new adventure. But..when you're called you don't argue!!

LOL

"Poll: 23% Believe In Ghosts"

I think ACORN registered 3,465 ghosts in the last election.
#27 | Posted by mysterytoy at 2009-10-31 11:57 AM

That's a good partisan - ignore the 2000 ,2004 and attempted 2008 election thefts.

yes ghost and vampires, we caught a vampire today (Halloween) and as we pounded a stake through his heart he insisted he was not a vampire, but you know how vampires lie. and don't forget witches!

Ghosts are real. I've had several experiences. So there.

I've seen several full bodied apparitions. None of them seemed aware of me . . . they were doing their own thing, so to speak.

#74 | Posted by Twinpac

Far out man I did some acid one time and I went to an late night hotdog joint and all the Puerto Ricans were purple

Gimme Chong

I've seen several full bodied apparitions. None of them seemed aware of me . . . they were doing their own thing, so to speak.

#75 | Posted by Twinpac

Far out man I did some acid one time and I went to a late night hotdog joint and all the Puerto Ricans were purple

Gimme Chong

I've seen several full bodied apparitions. None of them seemed aware of me . . . they were doing their own thing, so to speak.

I wasn't afraid . . . just curious.

These weren't those quick, out of the corner of my eye, experiences like most people have. I watched one walk down a hallway and into his son's bedroom. The other one was sitting out on the patio looking at a newspaper. Both happened on a Sunday morning.

A third time was an apparition I saw in a mirror standing behind me. He was wearing a military uniform. I like to think it was an uncle who died in the military when I was about two.

A forth was a man I didn't know but I watched him walk through the breezway of a barn where I was helping a friend take care of her horses. The former owner of the house and barn committed suicide during the Ohio Savings & Loan scandal so I assumed it was him.

There have been a couple others but they were all real enough to make a believer out of me.

So yeah, since I've actually seen them, I'd have to say I believe they exist.

How many believe in Obama?

How many believe in the Holy Spirit

How many believe in the Holy Spirit

#78 | Posted by bruceaz at 2009-11-01 01:16 AM

I do.

How many believe in Obama?

#75 | Posted by Diablo

I strongly suspect that very few really believe in 0bama anymore except himself and I'm starting to doubt he even believes in himself. Keep your chin up there Diablo there's growing hope everyday for us libertarians, traditional conservatives and old-fashioned Democrats like yourself that this BS will be stopped in it's tracks.

How many believe in the Holy Spirit

That's the 1st time I've ever heard of Scotch referred to as holy but it fits

So GAS, whatever happened to your list of all the imperfect things that happened during the watch of the Party of Responsibility that they actually took responsibility for???

Couldn't think of a single one?

You were all over me earlier because I deigned to question someone who took the current administration to task for not accepting responsibility. Where is the list of mistakes for which the previous administration has taken responsibility?

I've now asked several times. If you can't come up with a list, you're obviously an addled fool, or a partisan hack. Or -- most probably -- both.

they were doing their own thing, so to speak.

There's the rub.

Many people have reported seeing ghosts.

No one has ever been harmed by one.

Personally, I have pursued a few but never seen one. The creaky attic or slamming door has always proved to have a natural cause.

I still have hope to someday come face to face with a real ghost.

You see, I have a few questions.

And people like this are allowed to vote??????

You can't believe in or understand the scientific process, and at the same time say that there are ghosts.
At best, there is unexplained phenomenon.
Since Harry Houdini's famous attempts to contact "the other side" there has not been one credible case of a real "ghost"
A smudged photograph (imulsion smear) does not constitute evidence for anything. (Anymore than an unexplained light in the sky proves extraterrestrial travel). I do have some nifty bigfoot plaster cast footprints I'll sell you though.

"My brain is the key that sets my mind free."
-----Harry Houdini-----

SILVER

Buy yourself a very sensitive digital recorder, go to a quiet place that doesn't have any background noise and ask all the questions you want. If you'e lucky someone from the spirit world (perhaps someone you knew in real life) will be most anxious to bridge the gap between this and their parallel universe . . . if such a place actually exists. Nobody really knows.

I wouldn't mention this experiment to too many people though. Just keep it between yourself and whatever/whoever EVP (electronic voice phenomena) happens to be in the vicinity.

It's a shame that people can't talk about this subject openly without being insulted by "And these people are allowed to vote???" i.e. GLUON's #84.

It's actually a fascinating subject for inquisitive minds.

Not so much for the incurious types, though.

I have a few friends who are deeply into the ghost hunting nonsense. They run around with divining rods and electronic meters without a clue as to how they work or what they're actually sensing.
It's like a religion to them. They get really upset when their beliefs are questioned or challenged, several of them got into it after some tragedy in their life and it's pretty clear that the basis of their beliefs is a deep fear of the unknown.
Religion.

RASTACYBORG

That is indeed usually the case.

But no harm, no foul as long as your friends are only entertaining themselves. I have no idea what a "diving rod" has to do with the paranormal but if it floats their boat, it's harmless.

I was surprised to learn a few years ago that Cambridge University in the UK have courses and funded resesrch on this subject.

I'm all for anybody who wants to open the portals of their mind to the unknown as long as they don't get all paranoid about demons, etc.

I have a very clear pictue of an angelic looking aparition which showed up on my 36mm camera a few years ago. The problem was, I didn't take the picture. The camera was sitting on a table while I waited for a take-out order. It was the last shot on the film.

I can't say I'm mystified because I'm fairly certain how the picture got there. I just accept it as one of those unexplained phenomena that occasionally happens and I was the lucky recipient of some ghostly attention.

I've never gone ghost hunting though. The ghosts I've seen are aparently doing some people hunting.

LOL

I just read an article (don't have the link, sorry) that said that life after death has been proven by scientific methods. Using mathematical equations to come up with their theory through physics. Controlled work was also done with mediums and such. Anyway, I had a hard time understanding the math behind it. I've always sucked at math. But it was very interesting to say the least.

I'll try to find the article again and link it here.

Jesus was a ghost.

He was also a cookie and some wine.

only 23% believe in ghosts? Are they not just souls that are stuck in between "worlds"?

yet 68% believe in Angels and souls that can exist beyond death.

Grendel rightly points out that all Ghosts should be naked!

I think some folks just don't know how to make a good myth anymore. They can't seem to logically think a good fairy tale thru to it's logical conclusion(s)!

Anyway...Ghosts don't exist.

The Blue Unicorn told me so.

I have something unnatural in my basement...

#4 | Posted by andyuhenet

Mebbe you should kick 101Chairborne out and find a new tenant then.

Grendel rightly points out that all Ghosts should be naked!

#91 | Posted by donnerboy

Why would a soul even have a defined shape?

When y'a die, are you permanently stuck with the body shape you had when Mr. Reaper paid His visit?

If the soul takes on the shape of the body, I think I'll kill myself now instead of waiting until I'm an old and decrepit 98 year old. I don't want to go through eternity looking like I just rose up out of of a sarcophagus.

I've have a six acre cemetery in my front yard. Best neighbors you could ever have. There quiet and their dogs don't crap in the yard. Keeps the Mexicans from coming on the property too. They do believe in ghost.

So ghosts draw 23%. Republicans 21%, virgins without Lisa 19%, WITH Lisa 18%, Jesus 17%, Jesus being alive now, 12%, The Great Pumpkin 11%, The Holy Ghost 10%, Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin, Coulter and Fox 9%, Obama as a commie mooselim born in Kenya or Saudi Arabia and leading his nation into total destruction, 55.. herm

#95

I'm hoping the "Lisa" you are refering to in your posts is not me.

I don't know on this one. It does not make any logical sense to me, but I have seen things I cannot explain. When presented with something, and all logical explanations have been exhausted, then one must begin looking at the illogical. Isn't that a Sherlock Holmes quote?

...but I have seen things I cannot explain...

Yea i have watched Fox Snooze too.

Anyone figured out this Glenn Beck creature yet?

"I don't believe in Donnerboy."

- Glenn Beck, lighting a cigar with a $100 bill

Why MrFair!

You did figure him out!

He is another rethug dickhead.

nicely done.

#100 Or maybe he's just another rich dickhead celebrity like, Sean Penn or the gross fat pig on The View. Bipartisan thing, see?

BTW Donny - Sean Penn probably doesn't believe in you either. The only difference is he's so crazy he's probably lighting a huge blunt, using a $3000 bill or something.

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, A Haunting is a cool show. It's very creepy.

HINT: Father son and the holy ghost, they took the last train to the coast.

#11 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-31 09:41 AM | Reply

FLAG:Lacks understanding of what he claims. Qualifies as complete idiot.

HINT: Father son and the holy ghost, they took the last train to the coast.

#11 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-31 09:41 AM | Reply

FLAG:Lacks understanding of what he claims. Qualifies as complete idiot.

#95 | Posted by herm at 2009-11-02 01:49 PM | Reply

100% Herm is asshole. And a stupid sob.

JeffJ: That is one of the finest things on TV right now.