ghosts

OK, to begin with, I am an extremely skeptical person. I do not believe in ghosts, EVPs, or any of that nonsense. Nevertheless, I had an experience not to long ago, that I am struggling to come up with a rational explanation for. I am a consultant by trade, I specialize in building...

There are bigfoot enthusiasts, alien enthusiasts, and ghost enthusiasts, so how are god enthusiasts any different? If you can be a bigfoot skeptic, alien skeptic, and ghost skeptic then why not god skeptic? These all seem to be beliefs or lack of belief in imaginary things. Why do people...

I have an online friend who claims to have been an atheist/skeptic, but 'saw the light' and now is born again after having moved into a house he claims was haunted by spirits/ghosts. His story is pretty lengthy and i don't have permission (yet) to post it verbatim, but most of it is your...

Do you think WS believed in Ghosts as in Macbeth etc; or was it a dramatic vehicle?

I'm going to start back from the latest experiences that happened and work back to childhood. This is really minor, it was 6 + months ago. I was coming out of my house and my neighbor was getting gravel bags out of her trunk for her landscaping. She drives a Toyota Corolla and left the trunk...

Hi. I saw this thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=176126 where it was being discussed that a big problem with regards to any questions about "ghosts" is the lack of a good definition as to what that even means. So this is where I'm having a little trouble...

There is a reputed haunted house in Conyers where I live. On halloween tours people are taken on tours through the turn of the century building. I know a woman who used ot moonlight there when the house was used as a restaurant had a panic attac when she saw the "ghost". She is not alone as...

I don't for one minute believe this is paranormal, but I've studied this frame by frame from a download and I have so far, tentatively, come up with the vibrations caused by a passing truck moving the glass top which seems to be precariously perched in the first place. The video is quality is...

I was rudely awakened early this morning by being poked in the ribs -- two hard jabs in quick succession. I rolled over and looked up to see why my girlfriend was waking me up in such a hostile manner. She wasn't there. Neither was anyone else. My first thought was that she had poked me and...

I recently saw a NTLIVE production of Hamlet performed at the National Theatre while sitting myself in a movie theater. Wow, what a brilliant play. Hamlet could be a poster here -- he thinks too much and a little slow on the decisive action. No matter what bulloney they taught you in school the...

So I was on holiday up in Scotland recently and tried to cram as much stuff in as possible. Being a sceptic does NOT stop me loving a great ghost story and some spooky chills so I did not one, but two different tours of haunted locations, (not including other attractions like Mary Kings Close...

Edison quoted that he didn't know if our personalities passed into another existence. He quoted "No one knows" However Edison claimed that it was possible to construct a device, so delicate that if there were personalities who wish to get in touch with us in this existence, it would give them a...

Has anyone heard about the Ghosts of Flight 401? I need some help debunking this one. I'm struggling to come up with a good explanation for this. I am thinking that maybe there was some exaggeration or sentimentalization involved. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance :)

My girlfriend is a real estate agent - in Kingston, Ontario - she once related a story to me she came across in a training course early in her career. The story involves the sale of an alleged hunted house and the buyers subsequent legal action against the seller for non-disclosure of this...

So years ago my ex s/o were spending the night at his mother's house. The next morning HE asked me , "did you smell that last night?" and I said, "no; what?" and he goes, "wow; it was a really strong smell of old lady's bath powder or flowers. Do you want me to wake you up tonight if I smell it...

Just in time for Hallowe'en, from http://uncertaintist.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/a-real-life-new-england-ghost-story-for-halloween/ What follows is a link to about 7 minutes of current video from a regional cable news service, professionally produced and reported by a locally respected...

Here is an interesting thread I found about a poltergeist case, involving items flying around and an apparition. Interestingly enough, it was written by a skeptic, who wanted to disavow his experiences, rather than reinforce them. Of course, the whole thing could have been a lie, with the...

I have an old high school friend on Facebook, he is posting about how his house is haunted, I posted that there is no evidence of ghosts, and that he had described a classic case of sleep paralysis. It was to no avail, and he brought in a paranormal research and they found that his house was...

While watching programs like Ghost Hunters you often hear them say batteries go dead because ghosts like the type of energy that they store. I often thought that if they liked this type of energy why not just plug in an electric train transformer and then the spookies would have all the energy...

My wife and I are about to embark on a little driving getaway that will include a night spent at the famed (for hauntings) Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. We've done things like this before on other vacations, including spending a night at the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, and...

It seems most logical to state that I will believe it when I see it, but one of my friends cannot believe I follow that line of reasoning. Now to be fair he is from the South Asian countryside and isn't particularly bright, but he can still think, I have faith in that. :o So far, I have tried...

(Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find this case mentioned anywhere on JREF by searching...) I opened this Reddit thread recently about mysteries, and got quite a lot replies that were about mysteries I didn't know about before. One of them was "the best damn EVP ever"...

Terry Foster, a sportswriter for the Detroit News, blogs about a hotel which people claim is haunted, claims he believes in ghosts. It kind of reads like an ad for the place. http://terryfostersblog.com/?p=825 Do you think he should stick to sportswriting?

(Translated from a norwegian newspaper) Sorry if the translation isn't perfect, but you get the picture.:) I don't know all the english legal language. Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen Won't pay for the ghost house With the purchase of the house came the stories about the ghosts there. Now the sale...

A good read - but warning: DO NOT READ if you believe in ghosts.. or fish :D Why ghost hunting is like fishing ..as i posted at another critical thinking forum.. If a believer reads it, do you think they will "get it" ?

Let's say I have ghosts in my flat. What would be the most I could prove, and how would it be done? Could I ever prove they were dead people who had returned from the grave?

I have loved ghosts and ghost stories my whole life, but I'm finding this love increasingly hard to maintain as my new atheist and evidence-bound training takes over. I used to watch 9-hour marathons of "Unsolved Mysteries" ghost stories, and "Ghost Hunters" (yes, go ahead and shoot me now). But...

Does anyone here believe that apps like ghost seance for iphone work in conjuring spirits? I haven't heard much yet about this topic. Please share stories :o

Even you nasty sceptics can't deny this compelling evidence: http://tiny.cc/dz8vm I can hear your lame excuses already - "The chair had a piece of string attached to it". Keep telling yourselves that, closed-minded sheep. Slow news day locally, BTW.

For some reason when I hear of ghosts I wonder if the ghost in question has mass and if it doesn't how gravity applies to a massless object and how an object without mass can move. I know gravity can bend light but can gravity hold a ghost in place. I know there are posters here who understand...