Ghost Encounters of any kind

[PuddinHead]

Has anyone on here seen a ghost? Any theories on who or what 'ghosts' are?? Please tell all.:firedevil

[AIbandit]

:hang:

[Boatwrench]

Yes

[rocknxj]

Ghosts are categorized by their type. Some are disembodied spirits. Others are malevolent spirits of evil origin. The more common type are visible traces of history, spawned by sudden, tragic, or powerful events. Those spirits, or ghosts as you call them, are not aware of their surroundings but are like a recording, set to play over and over until the energy is somehow dissipated, releasing them from their dimentional prison.

Yes, I've seen ghosts and believe they are as much a part of our reality as our human form is. Talk to someone who has recently lost a loved one (or even a pet) and they will tell you a story that will blow your mind.

You?

[joe_peters]

You aren't going to believe this but it is true!

While in Washington, D.C. attending the Marine Security Guard school at Henderson Hall (later relocated to Quantico), I had an encounter!

Coming back from town I got off the bus at the Marine Memorial, and took a shortcut through Arlington National Cemetery.

Suddenly, I heard a low moaning! Being a fearless Marine Corporal I followed the sound to its source--an open grave!!

Yes, there it was, the source of the moaning was an open grave!

Well, to make a long story short I helped the drunken soldier out of the grave he had fallen into and then helped him over the fence into Fort Myer.

That is my one and only experience with the afterlife.

[XJEEPER]

I've not personally seen a ghost, but I've had paranormal experinces that lack logical explaination.

Years ago I worked for a painting contractor and was standing in the hallway of a partially completed custom home, giving the builder a status update, when a radio came on down the hall. It played music for about 3 seconds.

This stopped me mid-sentence, because I had personally unplugged the radio and rolled up the drop cord, leaving it sitting in the middle of the room.

The homeowner was there and when they heard us talking about what had just occurred, they shared a similar experience that had happened to them a few days prior. They were at the house at night, after all of the tradesmen had left for the day and they heard a power drill turn on in the kitchen, above them.

Surprised, they ran upstairs, thinking that one of the carpenters had returned to their home, but the door was locked and the drill was sitting on the counter, unplugged with no cord or outlet near it.

We finished the house without another incident, but I ran into the owners son a few years ago and he recalled the incident and also shared that they had a ghost in their home that continually opened and closed doors, turned on appliances and moved stuff around. It freaked them out at first, but it kind of became a "pet", they just accepted it's presence.

I know of others who have had similar experinces in their lives.....there are spirits among us, some good, some evil.

[PuddinHead]

Yes

No fair. S'plain please.

[kastein]

Seen it many times, all in my parent's house.

Something, probably another cat's spirit, follows my parent's cat around. Occasionally it causes a really bad smell, which gets blamed on the poor cat.

It hasn't happened since we stopped giving the cat bits of cheese.

[MT Mike]

I've seen a Ghost (http://www.naxja.org/forum/member.php?u=195) on Naxja almost everyday I've been here. It's even given me chills from time to time.

[GrimmJeeper]

eh. my mom is a firm believer that my sis is still hanging around. she passed away when my baby was still just barely learning to crawl, but sometimes when i hear her in the other room laughing and having a good old time i go in to see whats up and she tells me shes playing with Auntie. :dunno: i just write it off as an imaginary friend type of thing but who knows.

[srmitchell]

eh. my mom is a firm believer that my sis is still hanging around. she passed away when my baby was still just barely learning to crawl, but sometimes when i hear her in the other room laughing and having a good old time i go in to see whats up and she tells me shes playing with Auntie. :dunno: i just write it off as an imaginary friend type of thing but who knows.

That would freak me out.

I found these pics and they're pretty cool.
http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/

I've never had an experience first hand, but I do believe in ghosts. :wow:

[JrTxJ]

An old friend from home's mother swore they had the ghost of the previous owner of their house still present there years after he passed away.

Their bathroom cabinets which were extremely difficult to open would all pop open in the middle of the night...and she saw him a few times standing by the back window with a scally cap & smoking a pipe. Their neighbor is the son of the man that died in the house and he said his father use to watch out the back window smoking his pipe...

Who knows...but all our energy must go somewhere.

[YELLAHEEP]

I've never been much of a believer in ghosts, but there's been several jail employees where I work that swear to have seen a female ghost in the female housing area on several occasions.

Just 2 months ago, when doing my supervisory rounds in the jail, I was chatting with a Deputy in the female housing area and I definitely saw it. Freaked me the fawk out but there was no question in my mind. Most believe it's the spirit of a woman that committed suicide in one of the cells in that housing area the first year this facility opened up......

Freaky.

[spikeypuck]

I am a believer. My mom has a strangeness about her that tends to draw things in. I had way to many unexplainable things happen while growing up.

A guy at work gave me a supposed "Haunted backpack" He and his wife said that from the time it got to their house till they gave it to me there were always knocking noises coming from the garage. Its an old army pack from some war. I use it to hold ammo now. But it either doesn't like me, or likes having ammo in it because i have had nothing happen from it.. :mad:

[tbburg]

Never really believed in ghosts, but I saw something on in Germany back in the '80s I've never been able to explain. 'Had an apparition/light/something walk/move up to the gate bar at OP-India on the east German border late one night. Then it disappeared. I'd just rack it up to a lack of sleep, except the other gate guard saw it too. Shared hallucination?

[4WDlifeform]

I have picked up photography as a hobby, and I have figured out, and seen really good ghostly photos made. A lot of the older pictures (film style cameras) were easy to make a double exposure. Often, the ones that look ghostly, are those of faces (maybe flash used) with a dark background. then, exposing that same frame to a landscape. Not completely bashing ALL pics... just sayin...

I think the only genuine way to whitness a ghost, is to BE THE ONE THERE when it happens. The photos/videos, dont quite do the justice, as technology makes it too easy to lie. I have no personal experiance though... And I have lived in a house for the last 18 years with large cemitary as basically, my back yard. Even played games there as a kid at night, never saw/heard a thing.

I do have a story to share that is probably the closest I ever really got: A friend of mine did his high school senior project on paranormal activity. He was really into this stuff... had all kinds of equip. Anyhow, went to a haunted railraod museam in town (supposedly hounted) and actually got an audio recording, shared it with the class. You could clearly hear a horse drawn buggy under some static going past. He claims, at the time of recording, he heard nothing, saw nothing. Then again... authentic?? he was a good friend, so, I feel to believe him. Creepy.

[rocknxj]

We were visited by our dog a few days after we had her put down due to a sudden liver disease. There she was, right on the back porch scratching to get in like she always did. My wife and I sat on the couch and just looked at each other. Freaked us out, but I sort of expected it since I'm into the paranormal and unexplained crap.

[Ghost]

I have not meet any of you yet! But hopefully someday I will get to some events outside the SE chapter and you can all say you have seen "Ghost!" :roflmao: :wave1: :moon:

[bigalpha]

Sometimes you see and/or hear things that you are unable to explain. It becomes much harder to dismiss those things you see/hear when others around you see/hear them too. When you tell other people who were not involved in that particular event, they'll tell you that it was 'power of suggestion' or some such BS.

Back in college, my g/f and I were studying with some friends (they are older, non-traditional students) when we decided to go on a night hike behind the riding stables at Ft. Campbell.

Needless to say, I saw and heard things that I'm quite sure are unexplainable. Some things can be faked or misheard/seen; the one thing you cannot fake is the way you feel. When you feel something down to your very core, you know something is going on.

[AIbandit]

You aren't going to believe this but it is true!

While in Washington, D.C. attending the Marine Security Guard school at Henderson Hall (later relocated to Quantico), I had an encounter!

Coming back from town I got off the bus at the Marine Memorial, and took a shortcut through Arlington National Cemetery.

Suddenly, I heard a low moaning! Being a fearless Marine Corporal I followed the sound to its source--an open grave!!

Yes, there it was, the source of the moaning was an open grave!

Well, to make a long story short I helped the drunken soldier out of the grave he had fallen into and then helped him over the fence into Fort Myer.

That is my one and only experience with the afterlife.

:thumbup:

[XJEEPER]

My friends lost their 13 yr old son about 18mo ago, his mom has had multiple experiences since his passing where she has felt his presence, an arm around her shoulder, his smell, his image.

They are a very close family and these experiences are very spiritual to them and have brought them comfort.

[Ghost]

My friends lost their 13 yr old son about 18mo ago, his mom has had multiple experiences since his passing where she has felt his presence, an arm around her shoulder, his smell, his image.

They are a very close family and these experiences are very spiritual to them and have brought them comfort.
My wife and I lost her daughter a few years ago to Leukemia and she and her sister swear they see her.

[Carol.92124]

I saw the ghost of a friend's cat (which I didn't ever see while alive) when I was 10 or 11.

And we either have a mischievous poltergeist in our current house, or one of my teenage daughters is sleepwalking (and there's too much random stuff on the bedroom floors to navigate safely while sleeping). Stuff vanishes then reappears in the same, or a different, spot. Doesn't seem to mean us any harm, at least!

My mom passed away shortly after I turned 11, and as much as I'd welcome the sense that she's gotten to see her grandkids, I've never felt her presence.

[kastein]

I'd bet on your daughters sleepwalking.

I have literally woken up standing in the hallway outside my room... after walking across my bedroom floor littered with disassembled electronics, cars, and Jeeps without stepping on anything. I had to turn the light on to get back across the room without hurting my feet. Still don't know how I pulled that off.

[Boatwrench]

Three weird instances:

When I was younger, thinking of being a plumber instead of a mechanic I was working on an old house helping the owner replace galvanized pipe with copper. I was in the basement pushing pipe upthrough a wall and he was on the second floor. Called me to bring a tool upto him. As I passed through the 1st floor I looked down the hall and saw an old woman standing at the sink as if doing dishes. Yeah, when I got to the 2nd floor and told Bob the owner he explained it was the ghost of the former owner and the whole family had seen her.

Same family, the baby sitter had the two oldest children who were probably 5 &3 years old several streets away at the neighborhood playground. An old woman walked up to her and said Danny (the 3month old still at home) was in danger, she would watch the two kids and the sitter needed to get back to the house and assist the mother. The sitter was definitely unnerved but gathered the kids and rushed home to find the mother having a seizure.


My former house in San Francisco. Lot's of unexplained occurances with the lights, newspapers rattling and doors shutting. It was a set of flats, my in-laws lived int he downstairs flat and we lived upstairs. My FIL was wheel chair bound, couldn't stand or walk. Every Friday night my wife and her mother would run off to Bingo, her Uncle Richie would come over and sit with my FIL. Uncle Richie passed away before my FIL did, my two teenage daughters volunteered to sit with Grandpa so Mom & Grandma could maintain their Bingo ritual. They "saw" Uncle Richie several times in the 1st few months after he passed away and sporatically right up until my FIL passed away a year later.

Yeah I believe. I am thinking it is left over "life" energy that hasn't disapated yet.

[PuddinHead]

My 2 cts worth. I don't know what 'ghosts' are. Personally never had any experiences. Here are some theories I've either heard on TV or read somewhere.

1. Ghosts are just a form of historical playback that repeats in the same place the events happened originally. The physical location acts as a kind of recording media.

2. We see ghosts when one part of the brain is generating an image and another part 'sees' these images and we think: 'I saw a ghost'. This happened more so in the past when people had poor diets and suffered from more diseases etc. Extreme stress could also trigger the sight of a 'ghost'.

3. Scientists say we live in a multidimensional world. a) Ghosts are simply bleed over from another dimension. For some reason the barrier between dimensions is weaker in some places. And we people from another dimension. b) In one dimension someone dies, but in another he/she is still alive and their image can be seen/heard in our dimension.

4. Ghosts are dead people who are still hanging around us for various reasons.

Any more theories out there?

[kastein]

3 is a load of hooey. It uses the scientific meaning of "dimension" as well as the mystical pseudoscience meaning, which would be more closely related to the usage of the term "brane" in string theory.

Saying ghosts are from another dimension may be true (technically, just at some distance from our 3D world along said dimension), I dunno* but saying "for some reason the barrier between dimensions is weaker in some places" is like saying "for some reason the barrier between my left and right hands is weaker in some places" - a dimension is just an axis things can move along, up/down, right/left, forward/back in the scientific meaning and there is no mystical "barrier" "between" the dimensions.

For instance, if a 4 dimensional sphere were to move past our 3D world on the fourth dimension, we would see it as a 3D sphere that suddenly pops into existence, grows to be the same radius as the 4D sphere, then shrinks back to nothing and disappears again.

* I don't believe in ghosts, mostly as I have never seen one or evidence I consider credible for their existence. If I ever do, this will change.

[rocknxj]

...if a 4 dimensional sphere were to move past our 3D world on the fourth dimension, we would see it as a 3D sphere that suddenly pops into existence, grows to be the same radius as the 4D sphere, then shrinks back to nothing and disappears again.

That blew my mind a bit.

When I was a two-dimensional being, I viewed everything in the three-dimensional world as a dot. Now that I have managed to migrate into the third dimension, I see dead people. I prefer the dots.

[kastein]

What blows my mind is attempting to visualize a fourth dimension which lies at 90 degree angles to all three of the ones I'm used to. I think it might require various recreational drugs I stay away from...

Anyways, ghosts. I'll stop hijacking this thread for multidimensional math/physics now :anon:

[Darky]

What blows my mind is attempting to visualize a fourth dimension which lies at 90 degree angles to all three of the ones I'm used to. I think it might require various recreational drugs I stay away from...

Anyways, ghosts. I'll stop hijacking this thread for multidimensional math/physics now :anon:
Based on my extremely limited grasp of quantum physics/mechanics, some scientists believe in the possibility/likelihood of alternate dimensions/universes.

[PuddinHead]

3 is a load of hooey. It uses the scientific meaning of "dimension" as well as the mystical pseudoscience meaning, which would be more closely related to the usage of the term "brane" in string theory.

Saying ghosts are from another dimension may be true (technically, just at some distance from our 3D world along said dimension), I dunno* but saying "for some reason the barrier between dimensions is weaker in some places" is like saying "for some reason the barrier between my left and right hands is weaker in some places" - a dimension is just an axis things can move along, up/down, right/left, forward/back in the scientific meaning and there is no mystical "barrier" "between" the dimensions.

For instance, if a 4 dimensional sphere were to move past our 3D world on the fourth dimension, we would see it as a 3D sphere that suddenly pops into existence, grows to be the same radius as the 4D sphere, then shrinks back to nothing and disappears again.

* I don't believe in ghosts, mostly as I have never seen one or evidence I consider credible for their existence. If I ever do, this will change.

It is difficult to explain multiple and theoretically infinite realities, easily. I suppose I used the word dimension incorrectly. If these many-layered three-dimensional realities (ok?) exist then whatever separates said realities could break down allowing for some 'ghostly' visions. A sort of audio/visual cross-talk.

This is based on scientific observation of a physical phenomenum. Said phenomenum behaving as if something unseen and unknown were acting upon it. Imagine playing pool and the white ball is rolling across the table and suddenly for no reason makes a 90 degree turn. The table is smooth and level and the players aren't drunk. Something made the ball abruptly and dramatically change direction. That something is another ball in play on another table in another reality.

The real observation was subatomic particles, names of which I don't recall but you get the idea. This is speculation anyway, we are after all talking about the possiblity of ghosts on a Jeep forum. :doh:

There is much more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of by man...
Will was so rightous.

Come on People more thoughts on who our ghostly neighbors really are?

[AJTorris]

my wifes grandparents watch over our children. (the house we live in my wifes grandfather passed away in and her grandmother was living in when she passed too). We have had lights flash, a strobe light get plugged in and start, one of my daughter shoes thrown at me because i was telling my wife i didnt want to get a check up, our oldest daughter is 3 and every now and then she will be in her room at night supposed to be going to bed and she will sit there talking to someone about her stuffed animals and toys for about 30 mins and her light will get clicked on and then click off when she falls asleep.

[GSequoia]

Based on my extremely limited grasp of quantum physics/mechanics, some scientists believe in the possibility/likelihood of alternate dimensions/universes.

And some scientists invented acid.

Coincidence? I think not.

[BigSky89XJ]

I have no doubt "ghosts" are real. I experienced it on board the ship I was on in the Navy. A sailor died in a fire in the boiler room (back in the 60's). My watch team would see him on night watches. I saw him myself. I believe it would be classified as a residual haunting. It was always repeatitive, not interactive. We just went with it.:us:

[BigSky89XJ]

and I cannot spell

[tbburg]

...,I experienced it on board the ship I was on in the Navy,... ..., We just went with it.That would suck from a security standpoint:

Intruder? Nope! It technically doesn't have clearance to be here, but A) it doesn't hurt anything, and B) we can't do anything about it anyway.

[OverlandXJ]

I hope theres a chance that Ghosts are real, otherwise i got no chance.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d24/ExpeditionXJ/GhostWhispererS03HDTV.jpg

[PuddinHead]

I hope theres a chance that Ghosts are real, otherwise i got no chance.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d24/ExpeditionXJ/GhostWhispererS03HDTV.jpg

:thumbup:

[Starboard M]

I have not meet any of you yet! But hopefully someday I will get to some events outside the SE chapter and you can all say you have seen "Ghost!" :roflmao: :wave1: :moon:
Sweet baby Jesus! We have one on NAXJA!

Although, he seems to have appeared more than once. :scared:






Ive never seen/ felt/ heard a ghost of any supernatural state. Sounds like I need to start doing some drugs for them to come see me.

[GSequoia]

Ive never seen/ felt/ heard a ghost of any supernatural state. Sounds like I need to start doing some drugs for them to come see me.

I'm sure Ghost will let you feel him for a dollar.

[tbburg]

...,Sounds like I need to start doing some drugs for them to come see me.If you're averse to the drugs, you could try sleep deprivation. :spin1:

[thechief86]

I'm sure Ghost will let you feel him for a dollar.
:puke::eek::roflmao::cheers:
that was classic....

[Ghost]

I'm sure Ghost will let you feel him for a dollar.

:puke::eek::roflmao::cheers:
that was classic....

I'm not that cheap! But you are correct chief!

[rocknxj]

Ive never seen/ felt/ heard a ghost of any supernatural state. Sounds like I need to start doing some drugs for them to come see me.

Why the propensity to blame ghostly experiences on a drug-induced mind? You cannot explain gravity, yet it certainly exists.

[GSequoia]

I'm not that cheap!

I call :bs:


I've seen what you wheel!

[Mudderoy]

I'm no expert, but I recently stayed in a Holiday Inn... The theory is there is an infinite number of universes just slightly different that this one. I'm not to clear on this but as I understand it all matter jumps around, and since we're made of matter, well we may be feeling, hearing, seeing things from the other universes as parts of us move from universe to universe.

To put it simply, it's a glitch in the matrix.

I've never seen a ghost but there is too much going on for this not to be real. I just think we haven't figured out the why yet.