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Are ghosts real?

CLAX1911

CLAX1911

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I have been working at a cemetery at night alone and where I don't see ghosts myself I don't necessarily believe that they are entirely made up.

The place where I stay on the cemetery is a shed that houses digging equipment landscaping and earth movement equipment. Inside there is an office, and a break room/lounge. There are also stacks of head since plaques in this room. I was the only person who would work there because everybody else reported strange noises and odd occurrences.

One night I was ****ting in the break room and I heard a loud thump. I got a little nervous and went to investigate. Just outside the break room there is a back hoe. I used to work on these machines years ago and I was familiar with them. I heard the thump again and realized it was the boom in the back hoe settling. Panic relieved I returned to the lounge. And I heard what sounded like a creaking door. Still reeling from the thumping noise I leapt up and looked at the door. It hadn't moved. Sitting five feet away from me was this old refrigerator, really old refrigerator. And I heard the creaking start again and it turned out to be the refrigerator.

Now I wonder did people see ghosts because they heard these sounds and couldn't explain them? Or where they just genuinely creeped out by being in a cemetery alone at night?

What do you think? Share your paranormal experience or even your skepticism.
 
CLAX1911 said:
I have been working at a cemetery at night alone and where I don't see ghosts myself I don't necessarily believe that they are entirely made up.

The place where I stay on the cemetery is a shed that houses digging equipment landscaping and earth movement equipment. Inside there is an office, and a break room/lounge. There are also stacks of head since plaques in this room. I was the only person who would work there because everybody else reported strange noises and odd occurrences.

One night I was ****ting in the break room and I heard a loud thump. I got a little nervous and went to investigate. Just outside the break room there is a back hoe. I used to work on these machines years ago and I was familiar with them. I heard the thump again and realized it was the boom in the back hoe settling. Panic relieved I returned to the lounge. And I heard what sounded like a creaking door. Still reeling from the thumping noise I leapt up and looked at the door. It hadn't moved. Sitting five feet away from me was this old refrigerator, really old refrigerator. And I heard the creaking start again and it turned out to be the refrigerator.

Now I wonder did people see ghosts because they heard these sounds and couldn't explain them? Or where they just genuinely creeped out by being in a cemetery alone at night?

What do you think? Share your paranormal experience or even your skepticism.
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I think, a thump in the dark is probably more dangerous, if it is human.
 
Ghosts being real or not is not a philosophical discussion. Perhaps 'the lighter side' would have been more appropriate.
 
If there is life after death, if people really have souls, then it follows that ghosts could be real. They might be souls that hang around after their bodies died. Why they'd hang around a cemetery is a mystery.

But, why be afraid of them? Live people are a lot more dangerous.
 
CLAX1911 said:
I have been working at a cemetery at night alone and where I don't see ghosts myself I don't necessarily believe that they are entirely made up.

The place where I stay on the cemetery is a shed that houses digging equipment landscaping and earth movement equipment. Inside there is an office, and a break room/lounge. There are also stacks of head since plaques in this room. I was the only person who would work there because everybody else reported strange noises and odd occurrences.

One night I was ****ting in the break room and I heard a loud thump. I got a little nervous and went to investigate. Just outside the break room there is a back hoe. I used to work on these machines years ago and I was familiar with them. I heard the thump again and realized it was the boom in the back hoe settling. Panic relieved I returned to the lounge. And I heard what sounded like a creaking door. Still reeling from the thumping noise I leapt up and looked at the door. It hadn't moved. Sitting five feet away from me was this old refrigerator, really old refrigerator. And I heard the creaking start again and it turned out to be the refrigerator.

Now I wonder did people see ghosts because they heard these sounds and couldn't explain them? Or where they just genuinely creeped out by being in a cemetery alone at night?

What do you think? Share your paranormal experience or even your skepticism.
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I saw a hoe in a cemetery once. I don't know how much she got paid but it looked like some kinky **** to me!
 
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Dittohead not! said:
If there is life after death, if people really have souls, then it follows that ghosts could be real. They might be souls that hang around after their bodies died. Why they'd hang around a cemetery is a mystery.

But, why be afraid of them? Live people are a lot more dangerous.
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I actually thought about this. Itwasn't really fear of ghosts that I was feeling when the back hoe thumped, it was simply an unexplained noise. I wonder how often hauntings are due to unexplained noises.

True ghosts if they exist could be simply spirits of the dead, but they could be something else, they could be beings they could be malevolent, they could be anything possibly even demons. The bible says they are unclean spirits. It's anybody's guess.

I am the type of person that investigates such noises and things and I look for mundane explanations, and I almost always find one sometimes more than one. Is out because of this that I don't see them? Are they just not real and only figments of imagination? It's quite an interesting topic.
 
Lutherf said:
I say a hoe in a cemetery once. I don't know how much she got paid but it looked like some kinky **** to me!
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Well this one weighs about seven tonnes yellow skin*incredibly dirty and some guy named Rodriguez rides her all day long.
 
On this one the jury is out for me. I have never seen a ghost though I have visited places purported to be haunted and was open to the experience. And I view the ghost hunting shows with a healthy skepticism because there is no way to know whether what they are reporting is real or contrived.

But I have up close and personally talked with people I know to be intelligent, well educated, sensible people not given to making up stores or spoofing people who have related encounters with phenomena that for all practical purposes fit the definition of paranormal or ghosts. And I just can't believe all these people were hallucinating or imagining things or misinterpreting what they saw. So I keep an open mind about it.
 
AlbqOwl said:
On this one the jury is out for me. I have never seen a ghost though I have visited places purported to be haunted and was open to the experience. And I view the ghost hunting shows with a healthy skepticism because there is no way to know whether what they are reporting is real or contrived.

But I have up close and personally talked with people I know to be intelligent, well educated, sensible people not given to making up stores or spoofing people who have related encounters with phenomena that for all practical purposes fit the definition of paranormal or ghosts. And I just can't believe all these people were hallucinating or imagining things or misinterpreting what they saw. So I keep an open mind about it.
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That's about how I feel about it. I don't see them, I haven't experienced anything, frankly I never wish to. So I will remain an outsider.
 
CLAX1911 said:
That's about how I feel about it. I don't see them, I haven't experienced anything, frankly I never wish to. So I will remain an outsider.
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Well I can't say I'm not curious. So if such things exist I want to see one. Just hasn't been in the cards so far though.
 
AlbqOwl said:
Well I can't say I'm not curious. So if such things exist I want to see one. Just hasn't been in the cards so far though.
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Meh, I don't know what they are, so I don't feel the interest in seeing them. But to each their own. I am often Curtis about other people's experience and enjoy talking to them, but having my own, no not interested.
 
AlbqOwl said:
Well I can't say I'm not curious. So if such things exist I want to see one. Just hasn't been in the cards so far though.
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Do you think ghosts can harm and kill people?
 
ecofarm said:
Do you think ghosts can harm and kill people?
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Since I don't know whether they exist or not, its pretty difficult to have an opinion about them one way or another.
 
CLAX1911 said:
That's about how I feel about it. I don't see them, I haven't experienced anything, frankly I never wish to. So I will remain an outsider.
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I've had a number of "experiences" that lead me to believe that something (we can call them ghosts or spirits or anything else) exists and that they are among us all the time.

I have no idea how to explain it. I don't know if they are the energy from our bodies after we die (our souls or some form of pure energy) but I've seen them and results of their presence. Never happened in a cemetery though. Mostly in a battlefield (a few times in an active battle and once at a national battlefield park). I've also seen it in a hospital setting. Once with my father-in-law when he died, and a few times at field hospitals.

My oldest son, when he was three, said that an old man visited him in his bedroom at night right before he would go to sleep and he said the man told him he was his grandpa. None of our parents were called grandpa (Granddaddy and Paw Paw). We thought he was dreaming and told him that was all it was,although it continued for over a year. Two years later when my son was five, my wife inherited a trunk full of old stuff and in there were a number of old glass plate type and metal type pictures. One of them was of my wife's great-great grandfather standing with a number of other family members. She put that picture in our china cabinet and our son saw it and said "That's grandpa!" while putting his finger right on the guy in the picture. We had not told him about the picture before that. Gave me chills.

I don't know. But there's something that I've seen and experienced, and my son has as well. Again. I don't know.

I wouldn't worry about it though. All my experiences and that of my son were harmless... unnerving at times, but harmless.
 
Ghosts are about as real as Jesus Christ.

Have you ever seen and talked with either one?

Fill us in.
 
Beaudreaux said:
I've had a number of "experiences" that lead me to believe that something (we can call them ghosts or spirits or anything else) exists and that they are among us all the time.

I have no idea how to explain it. I don't know if they are the energy from our bodies after we die (our souls or some form of pure energy) but I've seen them and results of their presence. Never happened in a cemetery though. Mostly in a battlefield (a few times in an active battle and once at a national battlefield park). I've also seen it in a hospital setting. Once with my father-in-law when he died, and a few times at field hospitals.

My oldest son, when he was three, said that an old man visited him in his bedroom at night right before he would go to sleep and he said the man told him he was his grandpa. None of our parents were called grandpa (Granddaddy and Paw Paw). We thought he was dreaming and told him that was all it was,although it continued for over a year. Two years later when my son was five, my wife inherited a trunk full of old stuff and in there were a number of old glass plate type and metal type pictures. One of them was of my wife's great-great grandfather standing with a number of other family members. She put that picture in our china cabinet and our son saw it and said "That's grandpa!" while putting his finger right on the guy in the picture. We had not told him about the picture before that. Gave me chills.

I don't know. But there's something that I've seen and experienced, and my son has as well. Again. I don't know.

I wouldn't worry about it though. All my experiences and that of my son were harmless... unnerving at times, but harmless.
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That is pretty cool. Occasionally I would dream of my grandmother after she passed away but never more than a dream.
Thanks for sharing.
 
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