<![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @geekgrrl: Those "orbs" are compeltely common - it's called LIGHT REFLECTION. Just because you were standing still and taking pictures from the same spot doesnt mean the light source for your picture was.

Camera lenses are sensitive to light due to the exposure. Thats like saying a rainbow cast by a prism is a ghost, just because its only there 'sometimes'.

exo

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Jmarsh04: The man standing in your garage and over the bed wasnt a ghost - it was your creepy molesting uncle.

exo

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @geekgrrl: Uh... Where's the ghost in that picture???

L_K_M

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I love ghost tales and haunted houses, but I don't actually believe it ghosts. It's just fun to freak myself out.

Kovitlac

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Ghosts?
[www.skepdic.com]


RogueBoar

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Leon Trotsky described Germany on the eve of the Nazi takeover this way:

"Not only in peasant homes, but also in skyscrapers, there lives alongside the 20th century the 13th. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms... Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery."

I was immediately reminded of this quote when I read the "Haunted Ms. Pac-Man" article. We're here on kotaku.com, on the internet, one of the greatest technological innovations of all time, discussing games and amusements that our grandparents could have barely conceived of when they were our age, walking around with our iPhones and PSPs and Bluetooth receivers, and we're still stuck on the question of whether ghosts, demonic possession, etc., are real? It's unbelievable to me that superstition is still so prevalent, even in 2008.

texicali74

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Evil Tortie's Mom: Thats most likely where it came from more then half of Newfoundland come from either Irish or Scottish descent.

Tzero7

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Mr. Fap☆Fap!: Thanks for the link. That was fascinating reading.

evening-aura

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> so, so very glad i didn't read this last night before going to bed.

i'm a taphophile.. i greatly enjoy visiting cemeteries. they can be beautiful, peaceful places. they can also be downright creepy. certain ones i've gone to were reputed to be haunted, but when i actively looked for ghosts, i never found one. but a couple years ago..

it was the end of a day of cemetery touring. i came upon this huge gnarled tree. the light was fading, so i took a pic with flash, saw something funny on the LCD screen.. so i took a pic immediately after that, with flash again. second pic turned out normal, but the first.. well, i've seen pics like it, but i've never had the privilege of getting such a shot. i'm certain i came away with a spirit. so certain, in fact, that i was afraid it would follow me home :) i thanked it for revealing itself for me.. for what purpose, i know not. for people like tsathoggua, i wasn't looking to capture any ghosts. it just.. happened. and so far, this is the only time it's ever happened to me...

geekgrrl

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> my mom used to tell us how, back when she lived at her parents house in mexico, she'd sometimes see an old elegant man, sitting in the drawing room. people believed he was the ghost of the houses old owner who'd died in the war. he would sometimes switch off the lights in order to scare my aunts or sit in the drawing room. they were all convinced he'd hid gold somewhere in the house... the gardener found it at some point near an old well, she told me. also, when she went to university one day, she'd left the front door open while eating breakfast (dunno why, maybe to ventilate?)and it would repeatedly shut itself. my mom would open it repeatedly (again, dunno why...) nad he wouldn't let her out, always closing the door. when her taxi cab arrived , the driver spoted a man hiden in the bushes, a burglar apparently... he obviously called the police.
now I take this with a grain of salt, because its obviously hard to believe, still its nice story I think :)

laencythe

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @comedy: Ok i got one for you then......

My grandfather died about 6 years ago. At the time I was house sitting his home, as it was on the market to be sold and the family felt it best if someone stayed with it (that and it was near NCSU so.... Win win situation for me)....

1st lets do some back store about my granddad. He was a WW2 vet and enjoyed watching the history channel, often falling asleep with it on (I guess reliving the war). He didnt like to leave lights on and "waist electricity" and he frequently checked the door locks via jiggling the door handle.

Ok, let me say i sleep with a fan because i enjoy the noise it makes, kinda soothing to me. At this time I had a large fan that i put at the end of the hallway leading to the bedrooms from the den (1 story house with basement). About 1 month after my granddad died it started. I leave lights on because i dislike finding my way in the dark, so i always left a few lights on in the house to make it appear as if someone was home. AS you can guess when I would go out to the store and come back said lights would be off.

More over the tv was always on and i made it a point to turn it off. It would be on the history channel every time. I always left it on comedy central and USA network. I frequently would walk into the den in the mornings only to find that tv on.

You think thats good, it gets better. in said halway with the fan there are a few things worth noting. One is the door way to the basement, two the front door is off this hallway and three is the bathroom. My cousin came back from UNC Wilmington for spring break and he stayed at the house with me. He experienced one id never experienced. He was in the bathroom when he thought he heard Granddads voice coming from just out side the door. Said it was muffled and not understandable but was defiantly his voice. He then told me and i told him about numbers one and two.

Number One, happened to me one knight at about 11pm. (which coincidentally is when Granddad like to be in bed. He usally woke from his chair and checked the doors and then went to bed) At 11pm about once or twice a week, the front door knob would jiggle. The first time it happened i got my hand gun and started searching to see if someone was there. Nothing. No wind, no nothing. If that was the only door to jiggle in the house id wonder if it wasnt someone playing a joke. (though who would prank an old mans house) The other door that frequently jiggled was the basement door. Also in the hallway and similarly, no one was in the basement to jiggle it either.

Number Two and this is the fun one. At night as i lay in bed and listen to the fan... You can literally hear something move in front of it and walk down the hallway towards the bedroom. Upon checking you get nothing. No one is there. It was freaky but not freaky as it was a very familiar routine that i knew my grandfather did nightly.

As a final note. The house has been sold, no clue if the new owners have these problems. The tv moved with me to my apartment, It never turned on or switched channels by itself again. My cousin doesnt believe in ghost but still cant explain the bathroom incident. Ive done research and the form of haunting that best fits what i experienced is known as Residual. But agan my cousins experiance would be classified as intelligent and if it stopped after we moved out that would be different as well.

Believe it or dont, but i know what ive heard and experienced. I often want to drive to that house and ask the owners if they have experienced anything strange or not but you know how weird of a conversation that would be.....

ShaggyB

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> "One day a young friend of mine went into the house to explore, our babysitter, a Thai women, was beside herself with worry, telling him he would anger the spirits in the house. That night his father was killed in a car crash after veering off the road."

Oh man. Hopefully he doesn't think he somehow caused his dad's death.

As for those who have witnessed ghosts or still do, I suggest you consult a doctor. I'm not trying to be flippant or insulting. Serious mental health issues such as schizophrenia (of which more than one in a hundred people suffer) can lead to halucinations (sometimes even shared by other people, look up Shared Psychotic Disorder) like the ones some of you have described. If you think you're possessed, or that a friend of yours is possessed, or that the house you live in is haunted, get help. And I don't mean a priest.

L_K_M

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Byakko: This kinda shit fascinates me. Nice read.

DeLoRtEd1

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Byakko: At least its still on topic though!

Yeah I do agree with the whole thing about "Asian ghosts are alternatively more benign than Western ghosts, but have a greater capacity for viciousness if that's their nature."

My friends mother kinda told me more about the western side of things which seems a lot less scary than the shit that goes on with the eastern part of things.

Also with Hawaii Polynesian spirits / ghost and such seem to be on the ball with the eastern types in terms of how incidents and such go down.

If theres one thing Ive learned from the 2 different cultures is to basically really respect the dead. Since there can be asskickings from beyond the grave as far as Im concerned. :x

While granted ghosts may not be what most people make of it or the movies and such, there is totally something that exists beyond our normal knowledge and personally it shouldnt be screwed with.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Witzbold:

That was me going on a tangent =/

...prooolly not exactly the kind of stories I should share on the internet XDD

Byakko

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Heh, on the night my grandfather died, he was heard talking and wandering about the house. My mother said she could hear his footsteps and his voice and smell him as well.

I saw one of my uncle's employees possessed while at the job site canteen about 10 years ago. He started talking in accentless Mandarin (he was a Malay) and in a woman's voice.

The spirit or whatever it was demanded an offering at one of the small shrines up a hill a little past the job site because she claimed that they had disturbed it. Then she stabbed an orange and ate it without peeling it.

Then my mother pushed me behind the canteen counter presumably so that I wouldn't be traumatised or something. Yup, that totally worked.

Fishballs

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Byakko: Interesting story, thanks for sharing it with us.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I don't fear ghosts.

I know who I'm gonna call.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Everyone finds God in the foxhole. I don't believe in vampires, ghosts, or most the supernatural... most of the time.

Chewbenator

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Asian ghosts are alternatively more benign than Western ghosts, but have a greater capacity for viciousness if that's their nature.

My closest ghost experience was through my mother's tale of my grandma returning in the last week of her funeral rites. This is actually natural as the final farewell, and she left her mark (a depressed footprint) in her favourite cake which they had baked for her and left in the oven overnight.

However, it should be noted that it was unfortunately my mother who may have caused my grandma's death. It was an accident, because my grandma was epileptic, and my mom was quite young and didn't know what to do. She tried to give her water and she choked to death.

Left in her coffin, my mom tried to put the coin into grandma's mouth that would have paid for her passage through the underworld. Her mouth wouldn't open, no matter how she pleaded. Her jaw just wouldn't open.

Eventually, another sister took over, and her jaw slipped open easily.

My house is 'clean', and so's the area around it, so I don't have much supernatural encounters. My father's a devout Tibetan Buddhist, and the sheer presence of his prayer room and annual blessings and visits by various Tibetan monks from afar (my dad is a liason between Singapore and Tibet in this way. You can prolly Google for him), keeps the house and area 'clean'.

However, animals tend to arrive at our house to die. Which isn't pretty.

Another link to the supernatural is me. I'm not making this point up that since I was very young, I had this 'game' where I climbed up on the marble table in our garden and yell into the wind. Every time I did this, even on a very still day, I would get a response with a strong gust of wind blowing back at me. At that point, and some years after that, I didn't think much of it, and I stopped doing it when I was 12.

When I was 16, I went to China on an exchange trip. Between two buildings on a flat plain, there was a very powerful and constant breeze, which me and my classmates were enjoying.

For no real reason, I started playing with the wind, so to speak. I gave it simple directions. 'Higher' and 'lower', referring to how much force it should blow at me. I did this for five minutes straight and the wind did everything I told it to. At one point, I told it to go almost down to zero level of breeze, which my friend noticed, and commented that the wind was really following my commands.

If you're going to ask me whether I can do it still. I'm honestly not sure. I'm still figuring all this time it was a coincidence, and I don't have any 'power'. Maybe an empathy and a knack for judging the direction of wind, but not really a commanding power.

For one, the wind doesn't always follow my commands anymore, at least not in Singapore. I can think of it personified, Chinese culture DOES have a Guardian of the Wind which is the White Tiger. The White Tiger itself is my own patron saint, so maybe that's the reason, but not likely. Personally, I think it's pissed off with me for abandoning it when I was small, and calling it up for no real reason, heh.

Byakko

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> He responded to my ... rather late ... E-mail, asking if the box was still available.

He told me I was like the 10,000th person to e-mail him and that he was never using that site again.

brent_w

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Goodthymes, that was awesome....I'm gettin ready for bed, a little freaked out over here reading some of these posts, but that awesome..."blessed firmware" ROFL!

richie579

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> You lived in Thailand before?

Where? I live right on the edge of Bangkok. Would love to see that haunted house.

cqdemal

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> It's psychological. If you believe that you'll see a ghost, you will. If you believe you can get possessed, you can. There's no need to be scared of ghosts or voodoo, but there are plenty of reasons to be scared of the full potential of your mind.

tsathoggua

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Well, i've seen a ghost, and let me tell you - for something that isn't real - it's a pretty terrifying experience. I appreciate, it's a hard thing to believe until you've seen one, but geez. Make sure you have a spare pair of pants if you do!

Nocturne

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> one time during a supernatural/religion debate my aunt told me she knew ghosts had to exist because one time a ghost came and touched her face and spoke to her while she was in bed.

she's never said anything batshit crazy like that prior to, so it truly did creep me out a little.

Nihon no Purin

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Every fourth 360 is possessed by the devil, hence the red lights...but don't worry, Microsoft is coming up with blessed firmware to fix the problem...

Goodthymes

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> That Pac Man story was freaky, but I still don't think there's any story as creepy as that Haunted Dibbik Box that was sold on eBay.
[www.dibbukbox.com]

Mr. Fap☆Fap!

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I want to believe!

topaz420

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Hey Crecente, have you heard of the show Supernatural? If not, I think you'd love it. It has to do with all of these myths and ghost stories and it's not one of those looking for real ghosts and stuff type of thing but a show with an overall plot that's fake and everything. Either way, it's really cool and from what you said, it sounds like you'd love it. Check it out sometime if you have the time.

Samos42

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Watch "Paranormal State" on the A&E Channel. They have captured some crazy sounds and footage.

CalcioFool

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> while most people won't say they believe in a spiritual aspect of reality, i think most people do

...the main reason people refuse to believe in anything other than what they can see and touch and read in their high school textbooks is simply because it's uncomfortable...

if human beings truly DO have a spiritual aspect to their being, surely it could not be something we simply evolved...does that mean a God must exist?
regardless of what you do with the concept of the soul, it still implies that we're NOT in control and that doesn't sit well with most people

why do people enjoy the idea of "God is dead"? because that means our self-important arrogance can go uncontested.

mAaron

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: Guess there is no God then. No scientific proof.

y2julio

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> As an aside, for people interested in the paranormal and unexplained phenomenon I would recommend "Travels" by Michael Crichton...yes, "Jurassic Park" guy.

He wrote a pretty honest book about his life. The stories are about his experiences traveling the world, but the second half begins delving into the spiritual side of things. It's interesting to read about his cynical side trying to relate to unexplainable phenomena.

Islandkiwi

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I believe and am terrified of ghosts. I would never go "ghost hunting," don't even play survival-horror games. I guess I'm just a total bitch with relation to anything remotely frightening, real of not.

PurpleMonkey

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I wouldn't believe in ghosts even if I saw one... But still when I'm home alone, at night and in that killing silence, I start believing in them right away! XD Let's say I go "the Crecente Way" about ghosts...

goliathvv

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Well i can´t blame ppl for not believing, it is something that you can´t really explain to someone else, you need to experience it.
Believe me i am very down to earth kind of person, i always look for a logical explanation for everything and most "ghost" stuff you hear is absolute bs too.

Sometimes in life you witness things that make you doubt, you try to resist and deny everything with a supposed logical explanation, but its just not possible.

I have witnessed too much to remain in complete denial, i do believe there is something more, i just can´t really give a form, shape or a logical explanation.

Its not about ghosts and haunted houses, its something else, its the kind of feeling you get when you start thinking about how the universe was formed. How did the first atom appear, how did the first particle of matter appear, is it just a fact that it exists, period? weird :p

Oh, i hate all religions btw, i think they are the root of all evil and they can bring out the worst in all mankind, blindly following a book (they all have a book) that some dude wrote years ago is idiotic at best.
Imagine that the Lord of the Rings was writen 3000 years ago, we wold probably have some kind of religion believing we fought orcs and dragons, that elves lived in the forests and could do magic...

Krumm

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @yashichi8bit: You can't just tease something like that without sharing your ghost story. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to hear more.

Ghosts, regardless of if you believe in them, are a pretty fascinating topic. I've been really into them since I was a little kid, though I haven't personally ever seen one. I worked as a DJ at a radio station during the weekend night shift throughout high school and I swear the station must have been haunted in some way. Things would go missing all of the time and there were always really strong scents in the air (like perfume, etc.) when nobody else was in the station with me. Creepy, yes.

I did a feature for my newspaper this past Halloween about ghosts and various haunted areas in the Cincinnati region, as well. I was all set to go on a ghost hunt with a group of supposed "hunters," when the person asking for the investigation pulled out at the last minute. My girlfriend was of course delighted that I was not going to be bringing any sort of energies home with me, but I'm still kind of sad I missed out on that opportunity. Maybe next year!

Goataroo

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @comedy:
I might agree that it was a trick of the mind, but for the sense of emotion that followed it. It was like a mist, but completely made up of a very strong emotion.

It's okay not to believe, it doesn't offend me if others are cynical about the whole ghost thing, but this was a very real experience for me.

Islandkiwi

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I love ghost stories, but that's all they are... stories. Ghosts, like faith healing and such are only in the head.

mariospants

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Also, my aunts did a séance-type thing. The medium asked if my grandfather was involved in sports, and my aunts were confused and said no. The medium was also confused, because she said she saw him making a time-out gesture. One of my aunts made a T shape with just her index fingers and asked if that might have been it. When my grandfather was outside doing yard work, he'd knock on the window to get my grandmother's attention, then make a T shape with his index fingers to tell her to make him a cup of tea.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Islandkiwi: just wondering, what do you think is the most likely explanation:
1) your father's ghost came down once, ever, and chose to stand behind you as you pee.
2) it was a trick of your mind.

when i say trick of the mind i do not mean the imagination. the imagination is active, you initiate it, to me it appears ghosts are more like dreams.

and the 'man standing over the bed' one is very common... and it's due to the brain having not (layman speak) switched off the 'dream' quite.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> My only experience is a very personal one. My father passed away when I was very young...around four years old. Several years later (fourth, maybe fifth grade) I woke up and needed to use the bathroom. I didn't bother turning on any lights, but I glanced up as I passed the bathroom sink and there, clear as day, was my father standing behind me.

Scared the crap out of me, so I screamed. The image in the mirror immediately vanished and the room was filled with what I can best describe as an emotional vapor...it wasn't visible either but it was clearly palpable, an almost physical message of sorrow that he had frightened me. I immediately started crying and wishing that he would come back, that it was okay, but it never happened again.

Islandkiwi

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @NINJADEATH: believe... in evolution? ok, now i know it's rather a pedantic standpoint but i'm a little worried about the american education system. (i apologise if you're not american, but you've somehow managed to pick up on one of their major issues). effectively there is some sort of problem with teaching evolution as fact, instead it's referred to as theory... the question is, if something is quite clearly there, do you really need to question it's truth?
if i stand in front of a tree and it's obviously there i don't need to 'theorise' that there's a tree... there IS a tree.
basically evolution is as true as the sky is blue, as water is wet, or as the sun shines... it's truth.
maybe you just chose those words because they were convenient, but i have to say this kind of stuff when i think there might be some doubt.

i used to shy away from theological debate, but frankly i'm getting sick and tired of people blindly dismissing the truth just because they want to.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> im not into ghosts really, Ive never bumped in to one, I guess you could say. Though I wish to make a point. Why is it that when everyone talks of a ghost, its always about someone old and evil dying. Why can't it be a "hot looking" dirty,evil ghost.

solidsquirrel

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I do believe there are some things that happen that can't easily be explain. So I won't go off and say if science can't prove it, it isn't real. Really does science know everything now whose to say that years from now science doesnt develop technologies that can sense things we interpret as ghost be them that or not. Whose to say there are not places that certain energies that are visible even if to a few people under ideal circumstances or even if it is a product of imagination stimulated by outside elements(more than just being spooky).

Not to say I will blindly believe every story but I will not just write off the unexplained as not real. Im sure there are millions of false cases that are imaginations running wild due to one too many ghost story etc.

Konchu

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Hmm, I wont go into details here but I used to not believe.

I do now. With absolute certainty.

yashichi8bit

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @B-Minus: but what makes me wonder about this is that people almost always see something 'spooky'... ie writing on the mirror, a hand on the window, the guy standing over you in bed, etc. there are far fewer 'hauntings' where the person actually witnesses a benign spirit who they knew while they were alive. why is it that unsettling, creepy things, things which show you clearly that even in your own home you're not safe, and that when you're truly vulnerable (in the shower / in bed) these things can happen...
why must it be so common to get haunting in deserted buildings? why in the dark? what does geography have to do with it?
it's scary that the human mind can invent such things... it's paranoia and refusal to accept reality.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I'd seriously hope I'd have something better to do with my time once I've "passed on" than hang around you guys. No offense ;)

Gileadxv

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

But do you believe in evolution? You sound like the factual type.

NINJADEATH

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> It's quite impossible to find anything haunted in my area.
Seems like the ghosts are too scared to get here.

I can't think of a good name...

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Ghosts are probably fun to believe in because to believe in ghosts is to believe in the afterlife. I guess for many people the desire to believe they'll survive death and reunite with family is so great that they're willing to cast off critical thought and reasoning.

B-Minus

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> We have a local ghost, actually we have a lot of local weird stuff. Crop circles and the likes too.

This is probably the main legend of the area where I live.

[www.roadghosts.com]

Gambia

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Tzero7: That's imported Scottish and Irish folklore; you know, the Europeans who settled there and became Newfies?

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I'd like to throw my two cents in, if I may:

I never believed in ghosts either, until about ten years ago. I dated a girl who had graduated from Syracuse and moved back home with her family (Williams Twp, PA--look it up, it's known for it's creepyness) and she and her family swore up and down they had a ghost in the house. Over the next two years, I saw a man standing in the garage late at night, another night I woke up at 4am to find the man standing beside the bed looking at me, and one night after dinner while I was washing some dishes, I saw an arm reach around me and turn the faucet off. When I spun around, there was no one there. My favorite story, however, happened one Saturday morning. My GF was taking a shower upstairs and I was downstairs reading the paper when I heard her scream for me. I ran upstairs and opened the door and written on the fog in the mirror was the alphabet from A to Z, perfectly spaced so it fit from one end to the other. She said she saw a hand ruffling the shower curtain and thought it was me so she peeked her head out and saw the letters. Shortly after that we did some research on their property and discovered there was a schoolhouse there in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

True story.

Jmarsh04

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Please stop posting ghost stories. It's having detrimental consequences- in particular, to me.

For example, I came very close to an emergency forced underwear change after my own Wellington boot was knocked over by my bedroom door as I opened it to walk in.

Now that my heart rate has paced itself once again, I can't stop asking myself this one question: Why is there a Wellington boot anywhere near my door anyway?

Draig

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> All I can say is "respect the dead". Seriously.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @jaeohen: Lol the abandoned hospital in SF, popular place apparently. Couple blood stains, some cans rolling around, nothing much tho. Try going to that lake in Golden Gate Park, with the statue of the woman with teh kids... spooky stuff at night O_O

thisbeatisbadass

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> My mother-in-law claims she can see ghosts. I think she's full of shit.

Eltigro

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I personally don't belive in ghosts for pretty much the same reason as Kirby. I'd like to belive but I'd have to see it to belive it. Another hard to belive but intriguing thing we have here in Newfoundland is fairies but these aren't you're average Tinkerbell pansy ass fairies these fairies are manly bearded fairies badass gnomes more or less, apparently they steal children and turn them into fairies if you travel into the forest alone and break a bunch of rules: like dont wear green and dont join the fairy circle and other things like that and if you are captured but escape when you return you will still be the same age but years could have passed and other messed up things like that. Like I said hard to belive but intresting nonetheless.

Tzero7

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> me and some friends did some ghost hunting at an abandoned hospital in san francisco...the sounds we thought were ghosts ended up being the police creeping up on us to arrest us for trespassing. o_o

jaeohen

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @EnragedTemplar: That was funny as hell!

Goatfish

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB:

Appeal to Ignorance
Alias:

* Argument from Ignorance
* Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

Type: Informal Fallacy

There is no evidence for p.
Therefore, not p.

DeLoRtEd1

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> There's a great (ok, an OK) book by Mary Roach titled "Spook" that delves into ghosts and spirits and such. It was a follow-up on the much better (ok, slightly better) "Stiff" which tackled death, dying and the after-life. Pretty interesting reading if you're keen on such subjects.

bkN00b

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @EnragedTemplar: A blowgun with curare poison and you dont have anything to worry, or even better a shotgun and bye bye gnome...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> You wrote for the Star Telegram Brian? I live in Dallas myself and have visited all the supposed haunts. I've also made roadtrips to several nationally noted places such as the Bartonsville Asylum near Peoria. I've never seen anything either, although that never took the fun out of it.

Like most of the rest of the guys on here I'm a very skeptical person who needs to see it to believe it. But I also figure that if I'm not looking, I'll never get the chance to see anything.

exo

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> There's no such thing as ghost.

Now demons, on the other hand ....

DARTH_TIGRIS

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> My aunt is convinced my (deceased) grandfather attends family events in the form of a cardinal.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> think that is kreepy?

[www.thesun.co.uk]

watch the video, it looks like a grunt

EnragedTemplar

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I'm with you Kirbytheslayer. I don't need scientific proof though, just a real life experience, which I personally got, over two weeks, at home with my sister. It would take me one hour to tell you everything I experienced, and saw. And at the end of it, if you said, I still don't believe in ghosts, I wouldn't even disagree with you, because I'm the same way. As a matter of fact, I'm still skeptical about other ghost stories I hear, even more so now, because they don't have the detail I do.

At the end of the day, if you don't experience it, it's just too damn hard to believe. Just a funny factoid, the Whaley House in our hometown is the first house in the US to be deemed "haunted" and #1 haunted house according to Travel Channel. Funny stuff.

dangj307

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Revenge_of_Nekojin:
remember, DO NOT CROSS THE STREAMS


meltyman

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> @Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB: true, but there's some psychological basis to 'belief' in ghosts, and the experiences people have when they think they're seeing/hearing/feeling ghosts.
i think that the sheer amount of charlatans out there who are quite happy to claim some supernatural power/connection and profit from that causes confusion - giving people something to latch onto.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I dont belive in ghosts, and any ghost story i hear has a racional explanation, why i dont belive any ghost story?, the area where i live was the battlefield of one of the most blodiest battles in mexican independence war, more than 7500 people died in one day, and ive been living here 23 years and i havent here any extrange sound or any other stuff...

TOCATL

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I've always been open to the thought of ghosts, but I never have seen anything firsthand. And thus, I just say meh.

I'd have no problem staying in a "haunted house" (and actually, I'd hope I would see something irrefutable)

thegreatseal

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I hope there's such a thing as ghosts. They would be the only conclusive evidence I can think of that an afterlife or something of the sort exists. / Agnosticism

FadedEchos

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> My wife believes in ghosts; I don't. I do enjoy a good ghost story, though, especially since I can then use them to scare the poopies out of her. Thanks, I now have a few good ones from here!

Sphinx

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I don't believe in ghosts.
Simply put, there's no scientific proof of it. It's all hear-say and the rumor mill.

If I ever hear a story of somebody actually accurately, and consistently being able to detect spirits, and in a way that is quantifiable measurable, then I'll believe it.

Part of my problem is that all ghosts also fall into stereotypes of ghosts. If you hear a ghost story, ten bucks says it'll be a woman. Another ten says it'll be either a very young or very young woman. I'll lose a couple of those bets, but I'll still come out ahead at least 4:1.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> the one thing i find wierd and spooky about ghosts is that so many people are convinced they exist... they're like the embodiment of our insecurity - when all is quiet and there's very little going on to notice, why is it our minds trick us into thinking there's some malevolent force taunting us, cursing us and causing general mischief...
that's what is creepy about ghosts, so few people can be really at peace given the chance.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I don't expect anyone to believe my story, but apparently my sister was possessed for a short while. It's a long long story but I witnessed dozens of weird occurrences with her. 10 times out of 10 when someone tells me a ghost story even I don't believe it, and I don't expect people to believe me. I tell the story, but don't try to convince anyone of it's veracity. The only saving "grace" is the fact that most of my friends also witnessed a couple of episodes themselves (she was dating one of my buddies) therefore they end up vouching for the story.

This was like 15 years ago. We don't even talk about it anymore.

dangj307

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I've heard too many stories, and experienced too much weirdness on my own to not believe in ghosts.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> ...get out of the army and back to the states*.

GHOST STOLE MY WORDS.

Revenge_of_Nekojin

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I hate being home alone at night, it's creepy. :-(

Dopeski

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> Such nonsense. In fact I just got back from picking up the ms. pacman cabinet and it's totally normal. OMG! NO!!! Help!!!!........

Goatfish

]]> <![CDATA[On Ghosts, And How they Creep Me Out]]> I love ghost stories. I plan on ghost hunting with a friend of mine after I get out of the states, there's a few good places in Ohio and even if you never see anything, there's something awesome about purposefully going to a place that's haunted and looking for this stuff.

I'd love to get that cabinet.

Revenge_of_Nekojin

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