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How do we explain ghosts?

AmyW said:
Thank you. In all of your experience have you found any evidence that ghosts exists and or has a scientist come up with any concrete proof that they exist? I hope not!
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Of course not. The notion of ghosts is grounded in the unevidenced premise that life does not end at death. But there is no good reason to think that - other than an escapist fear of death. All living things die.
 
There's also:
Lord John Angerstein’s coach pulled by four headless horses in the vicinity of Trafalgar Road, travelling onwards to Vanbrugh Hill in southeast London.

The ghost of Alice Grant that walks the Bromley Road and Southend Lane area.

Another phantom coach (this time the phantom horses have heads) that moves silently on the Bayswater Road near Hyde Park.

The "murderous screams" heard occasionally on Kidbroke Lane in southeast London.

The truly bizarre story of the phantom of Lincoln's Inn Fields:
On 13FEB1913 a group of 'legal gentlemen' men were standing and talking near the lodge in Lincoln's Inn Fields when they were alarmed by a terrifying scream from above. They looked up and saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a man fighting off an unseen assailant in an upstairs office
They rushed to his aid and were met by the bloody body of the victim, one Charles Appleby, a young barrister.
The story goes that another barrister (John Radlett) was also found murdered in the room, locked on the inside and with "strange scratch marks" on the door.

Earlier, back in 1901 two men (one a Mail journalist, one an author/historian) spent the night in an allegedly haunted room in Lincoln's Inn. The saw nothing except the door opening and closing itself but in the morning the powdered chalk they'd laid on the floor showed the prints of a "giant bird".
 
Gilbert Syndrome said:
Humans have been intentionally looking at things that freak them out since day one, tbh.

It's the reason we have a genre known as Horror within film and literature.

It's the reason people who don't like gore will turn their heads back a couple of times to try and get a glimpse of a car wreck.

Perfectly natural.
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But we're not discussing this in a general sense: we're talking specifically about AmyW.
AmyW claims her belief in ghosts and spirits causes/caused 'high anxiety', 'confusion' and made her 'freak out'.
This is not the reaction of someone enjoying a spinechiller, so I think the point still stands: if you really feel this way, you wouldn't deliberately seek out more of the same. Over and over again.
 
Things you should be afraid of right now:

Getting sick.
Not being able to pay your bills.
Someone you love getting sick.

*spiders are optional.

It's like going swimming in Loch Ness. You should be afraid of:

Hypothermia
Drowning

*eels are optional

Hiking in the Pacific North West one should be afraid of:

Ticks.
Getting lost.
Dehydration.
Blisters on your feet.

*bears are optional.
 
Axxman300 said:
Things you should be afraid of right now:

Getting sick.
Not being able to pay your bills.
Someone you love getting sick.

*spiders are optional.

It's like going swimming in Loch Ness. You should be afraid of:

Hypothermia
Drowning

*eels are optional

Hiking in the Pacific North West one should be afraid of:

Ticks.
Getting lost.
Dehydration.
Blisters on your feet.
BIGFOOT!!!

*bears are optional.
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You missed the scariest thing of all!
 
Axxman300 said:
Things you should be afraid of right now:

Getting sick.
Not being able to pay your bills.
Someone you love getting sick.

*spiders are optional.

It's like going swimming in Loch Ness. You should be afraid of:

Hypothermia
Drowning

*eels are optional

Hiking in the Pacific North West one should be afraid of:

Ticks.
Getting lost.
Dehydration.
Blisters on your feet.
BIGFOOT
GHOST OF BIGFOOT
*bears are optional.
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Steve said:
You missed the scariest thing of all!
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Respectfully, possibly not.
 
Axxman300 said:
Things you should be afraid of right now:

Getting sick.
Not being able to pay your bills.
Someone you love getting sick.

*spiders are optional.

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You are so wrong!!! Spiders are NEVER optional!!!
 
I've read the replies and feel somewhat hurt. How would you conclude that I am not sincere? What would be my agenda exactly?
As previously stated, I used to be a believer, it screwed with my head and had a negative impact on my life. I have OCD, which means that when my anxiety is high, I have unwanted thought 'see ghosts are real, look at this article' and when I don't have an answer I then ask on this forum, I'm sorry to repeat but believe me I am listening. Once I have an answer my anxiety decreases and I feel reassured. I don't purposely seek bloody ghost stories out, I was looking for a documentary to watch and found this. Why the second guessing and assumptions? Why would I purposely try and upset myself by googling that **** and cause upset to myself?
 
Please don't make judgements when you don't know me from Adam. I am not seeking out videos on purpose, I was actually trying to find a good BBC documentary and that came up, I was searching BBC documentaries, I like history and was searching out Victorian age!
 
Tassman said:
Of course not. The notion of ghosts is grounded in the unevidenced premise that life does not end at death. But there is no good reason to think that - other than an escapist fear of death. All living things die.
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Thank you for this reply, instead of making unsound judgements against my character.
 
Why do ghost stories exist and why do idiots like myself believe them?
 
AmyW said:
Please don't make judgements when you don't know me from Adam. I am not seeking out videos on purpose, I was actually trying to find a good BBC documentary and that came up, I was searching BBC documentaries, I like history and was searching out Victorian age!
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I think some posters are disappointed that you don't even try to use the information and advice they've repeatedly given you before posting whatever new example you've stumbled across and asking them to explain that too.

For example: how do you think the guy in your latest Instagram video did it? If you made at least some attempt to apply the critical thinking skills you should have acquired by now, instead of just posting it and asking for explanations, posters who've helped you in the past might be a little less frustrated by your latest posts.
 
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