Do You Believe in Ghosts?

I'm the sort of person who tends to lean towards there being a scientific explanation for phenomena we, as humans, don't understand. However, I've had a lot of experiences which make me believe that there is something that goes on after we die. Ghosts, spirits, energy... the name doesn't matter.

The first experience happened when I was very little, about the age of four. I was very sick and my parents needed to take me to the doctor. For months and months prior to that, I had been missing my favorite toy, a little pink dog. (In fact, that was his name- "Little Pink Dog"! Lol!) Anyway, when we got back from the doctor's office. Little Pink Dog was sitting at the top of the stairs, right in the middle of the top step. Nobody in the house had put it there.
Strange things happened all the time. Lights would go on and off, the toilet would flush by itself. One time, the curtains flew all the way across the room. The curtain rod just lifted itself off the hooks and zipped across! Once, we kids were out in the backyard inflating an inflatable canoe. All of the sudden there was a huge splash in the pool, as if someone had jumped in or tossed a huge rock into it. When we looked in, there was nothing to be seen. My sisters and I had to go in to eat supper, so our next door neighbor stayed to work on the canoe. Halfway through dinner she came to the door, pale as a sheet. She said while she was working, she heard a "ka' chink". She looked up and saw that one of the chains on the swing on the swing set was on the ground. While she was watching, the other chain lifted up and dropped. We went out and sure enough, the swing was on the ground. We didn't think she could have climbed up there to create a hoax.

I actually saw a shadow person twice. It was completely black, like a silhouette, yet it looked three dimensional, like you could reach into it. It moved very fluidly, like a person but not as heavy. The first time, it walked across the upstairs hallway and into the bathroom. The second time was in the basement. I was coming out of the laundry room when I saw it standing behind the bar. It had it's hands on the bar, and it's head was looking down. It stayed like that for a moment, then it looked up, saw me, and then it quickly ducked down behind the bar as if it didn't want me to see it! I ran up the stairs so fast I think I probably only touched two steps on the way up! As I grew older, I always wondered about what I saw, and whether it had all been in my imagination. One day our family was talking about all the stuff that occurred, when my aunt said she saw the same thing. She stayed with us for awhile, atfer she had an operation, and lived in the basement. (It was a finished, walk out basement.) She described the same entity only she saw it as brown rather than black. The thing is, even though all of these things were startling, we never felt threatened. We actually felt whatever it was, was protective somehow.

Then there was the time after my Great Aunt died. She had been a dancer when she was young. On the night she died, my niece, who was about three, said she had a dream about a beautiful red-haired ballerina. My Aunt had red hair when she was young.

There have been a few other small instances as well, but I think this is enough for now!
 
There are a couple of stories of when my grandfather died (set in the the same grandmas house in the old woods,lol).
The day after he died, my grandma and uncle were sitting at the kitchen table talking when footsteps started from the living room, came through the dining room, into the kitchen and out the door.(the screen door opened!!)
Also, about a week after he died (I was four but it stuck in my head). I went into the living room and there he was, sitting on the couch. I was his "best buddy" so of course I was happy he wasnt "dead" and told him so. It was so REAL. I ran into the kitchen to tell my grandma and mom that they were mistaken, he was alive. They came in to the living room, I am sure wondering what the heck I had seen. Nothing. Just his boots sitting by the couch.
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I was thinking about peoples stories about their basements....
My daughter has experienced this several times and I have experienced it once.
Her cats are downstairs and she would go down to spend time with them. The knocking on the door (which leads out to old cement stairs and the dog pen) would start softly and get louder until the door was shaking. She said the cats would freak out.
The last time it happened it was so loud, I heard it up in the kitchen, just before my daughter came up the basement stairs.
I ran out to look down the outside stairway but nothing. All was quiet.
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Well, I do not believe, but I have seen one!
My cousin's 13 yo son died accidentally, and I went to the funeral. I was going to go home that night, but my cousin, (his mom), was so distraught, and alone (she was divorced), that I decided to stay the night. Her son had usually lived with her ex-husband, so I did not think about where he usually slept when I stayed in her spare room that night - but of course, I learned later that this was the room he stayed in on weekends. Also, it is important to note that I was very upset over his death, young myself (19), and very angry that this sweet young person was gone.
Just before dawn, I awoke very suddenly, to find my young cousin standing by my bed. He just stood there for a minute, not speaking. Then, I felt, rather than heard him say "it's OK". At that point, I felt him leave - like he had gone from the earth, not just the room.

Now, after this, why do I not believe? I have since learned that this experience of seeing a close relative just after death is quite common, especially if you are very upset or the loss was sudden. I mostly believe that my own mind created this, for comfort. Of course, I admit there are other explanations, but really, does it matter? Spirtual or from the mind, the reason is the same.
 
I believe in ghosts, yeah. Idk why, but they have always interested me, and scared the bajeebus outta me as well
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I haven't had any experiences i know of, but my mom says she has before.
 
Ok since we're all crazy here I will give my best explanation of what I believe these experiences are.

For years people have seen things, felt things, smelled things even. If you are familiar with Einstein's Theory of Relativity and the spactime continuum then maybe you can grasp what I am talking about. Here's an example to get your mind prepped. Electricity is energy that we have learned to harness to cause a light bulb to burn, but it doesn't end there. Light bulbs produce heat, think of your brooder. When the bulb produces heat in the brooder application the energy is then turned to making something grow. When that thing dies, then it is either eaten to produce more energy for a predator OR it is put back into the soil to become energy in the form of plant life. Thus the cycle of us turning on one single light bulb can continue forever through multiple generations of animals for thousands of years. Big impact. Every life has a massive impact on the future whether it is physically alive for a short length of time or a long length of time.

Now, that's physical matter and energy covered.

What about time? Do you remember when you were a little kid and your mom told you that you could go outside and play for an hour and an hour seemed like 4 or 5 because you got so wrapped up in it? Now, if you have an hour to play with your kids...it passes in the blink of an eye. If you get into a car wreck, time seems to slow down dramatically to the point you could read the bumper sticker of the car you just hit that seemed to "come out of nowhere."

Ok here's where it gets a bit fuzzy though...Time is said to be like a fabric. Eternity would be that fabric, and just like energy, time has a serious physical implication on the future. Example: Lose an hour of sleep. Your less productive, slower, and with enough sleep loss, you have the equivalent impact on your body as having had 2 alcoholic beverages. Awareness has changed due to time that has affected the physical body. You're back to an hour feeling like 4 or 5. But why?

I think time and energy coexist as the same fabric but our minds aren't equipped to pick up on it. I also believe that all energy that ever existed exists today through the cycle explained by the brooder bulb. That would mean that all time exists as well. Recycled or whatever you want to call it. I learned in Science class in the 5th grade the cycle of the Earth's water. The water we drink today could have been a caveman's spit thousands of years ago. The cycle of other natural things are the same. SOOOOO what I am saying is, I believe we are just looking at what IS and WAS at the same time without a deeper awareness of what we are seeing because it's all on the same fabric. That's also why I believe in God. He WAS and IS and WILL BE, and I believe in eternity and that it affects today as much as it affects tomorrow. Every second is the same as the next. The Bible even says He will come in the "blink of an eye" and "all will see"...at the same time...but how? Well, if we are all on the same time schedule it shouldn't be an issue if God just pulls back the curtain of time we WILL all see at the same instant, because all time is the same it IS WAS and WILL BE. Stranger things have happened...like splitting an atom to make it go BOOM, space flight, etc. The fact of the matter is there are many things we still don't know and the possibilities are endless. Keep an open mind
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OR maybe I'm nuts and Einstein was a blubbering moron....but I know he figured out how to blow some crap to smitherines...so I aint telling him or his recycled energy!
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Anyway, feel free to tear apart my theory
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Hmm, Cindiloo, I like your explaination. Time is like a fabric....does this mean there ARE other dimensions on the other side of that fabric? That possibly, along with seeing what is and what was, we are seeing what leaks through from other dimensions?
Oh and for the record, I dont think you are crazy.
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Cindiloohoo, I have heard your explanation used as a hypothesis for why shadow men happen, and I like it. I think it's very plausible.
Perhaps the shadow men are not quite here, or not even here deliberately, or some byproduct of an overlap.

I've also read some freaky instances of people experiencing something like a vision of a dead relative, but shortly *before* the person has actually died. Strange stuff.

ETA: I wasn't going to use the term "interdimensional beings", but I've heard that applied to this before, and I hope you won't laugh me out of town.
 
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