Do you believe in ghosts?

[DamTheGreat]

One thing I find quite entertaining on Youtube is those "Top## Ghosts" list videos. They're quite fun to watch, for me at least. But as for if I ACTUALLY believe in ghosts...not so sure. I think all of these videos have some kind of rational explanation: an undocumented scientific phenomenon, CGI, dust, bugs on lenses, strings or other little mechanical devices for those poltergeist videos... There's always a logical way to explain these things with going into the paranormal. But what are your thoughts? Are ghosts real?

[spineapple tea]

Absolutely. I see those motherfuckers all around my house all the time. If I weren't on my phone right now I'd write a few of my experiences with those bastards.

[ducon]

No, I don’t.

 

[Zulk RS]

Yes and no. I don't think it's impossible for Ghosts to exist because assuming souls are a thing (because I believe in an afterlife), we don't really know what's happening after death. However I don't really think that Ghosts are that big of a deal. Like with how long the human race has existed and how many people have died in all of history, there should be ghosts in every square inch of land on Earth. So Ghosts may or may not exist but I don't think they can influence the living in any meaningful way. Djinn on the other hand though...

[MFG38]

Nope.

[gwain]

kinda I think demons are real I follow the goetia holy-bible and the greater key of solomon

 

I wish you didn't have to kill all the cool demons in doom

[Alex S.]

Yes. I grew up in a haunted house and am what you'd consider "sensitive" to the other side.

[Redneckerz]

I think there are planes of existence invisible to the human eye, but mostly in the metaphysical and philosophical senses.

[Alex S.]

Just now, Redneckerz said:

I think there are planes of existence invisible to the human eye, but mostly in the metaphysical and philosophical senses.

...and when we see paranormal activity, I believe it is a rift in the fabric that usually separates these realms. Think of a glitch in the Matrix, but more real and in the ethereal sense.

[maxmanium]

Not really, but I'm not against the possibility either. And I can be superstitious.

[Jello]

Absolutely not. Ghosts are products of overactive imaginations, and an attempt to quickly and easily understand things that people can't find an immediate explanation for.

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

While I believe in the after life and the soul, I don't believe in the ghosts that popular culture shows.

[Gez]

I don't believe in anything supernatural; but in a way I do think ghosts exist, just in people's minds rather than in the world.

 

Like, have you ever, out of the blue, for no real reason, had a dead friend or relative or pet come to your mind? Or perhaps dreamed about them? That's what I like to think of as a ghost paying a visit. It's not paranormal, it's just in your brain.

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

1 hour ago, ducon said:

No, I don’t.

 

Sheesh man you´ve got to be the most militant skeptic on this site, do you also happen to browse r/atheism in your free time?

[kwc]

I do not but I'll be the first to admit that I'd be spooked if I ever saw one.

[Paf]

Yes, obviously. Have you seen lost souls in Doom? That very obviously 100% prove un-deniably assure you that ghosts are real.

Edited March 28, 2022 by Paf

[Thelokk]

I used not to. 

[kinker31]

I don't, it'd be pretty cool if they did exist though

Edited March 28, 2022 by kinker31

[Nikku4211]

Hm... why do I recall a very similar thread made last year?

 

Well I'm not about to reply again with that ridiculous joke ghost story (sorry guys, I didn't actually meet a Lost Soul or foxxo in real life) I posted in that thread, so I'm just going to reply with an honest answer.

 

No. I do not think ghosts exist. I think that when people die, they just die. They don't respawn at all, not a ghost, not as some other living thing, they just flat out no longer exist at all. Even if they perceive something in the last seconds of their brain activity, they just won't really exist after death has been completed.

Sure, people can still remember them, but it's not like memories themselves are sentient or have minds of their own. It's still all in our heads, and all we have to pass it around is just communication.

 

And sure, energy can't be created or destroyed, but they don't always stay the same or in one piece, and literally everything uses energy, not just organisms. I'm not a scientist, though.

 

I will say, again, that a lot of people just see something they can't explain and attribute it to their pre-existing beliefs about how death works, or at the very least the pre-existing beliefs commonly spread around them in the region they live in.

 

'Something unexplainable happened? It must be connected to that other thing that hasn't been explained!'

 

People who live in different countries have or had different beliefs about how the world works, and have attributed unexplainable things to other stuff like extraterrestrials, psychic stuff, MAGIC!, astrology with a log and not a nom, and even certain canines like foxes and manguts(yes, really).

 

I feel like this is no different. Just replace foxes with the stuff that supposedly comes from dead people.

 

Honestly, this could be considered pretty disrespectful to the families of actual dead people.

Imagine if people said your dead grandmum haunted their apartment and stole all their TVs. You would probably be mad as Deimos.

[Doom_Dude]

 

3 hours ago, Jello said:

Absolutely not. Ghosts are products of overactive imaginations, and an attempt to quickly and easily understand things that people can't find an immediate explanation for.

 

Exactly. The end.

[Wavy]

I believe in these ghosts.

[AvgUser]

I dont, but i enjoy watching videos about paranormal things.

Edited March 28, 2022 by AvrgUser
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[Murdoch]

Belief is irrelevant. To me it's what you can prove with verifiable, objective evidence. Ghosts, by their very nature, are likely to prove forever immune to any kind of objective verification. People are going to follow their own biases to determine if they personally believe in them or not, and dissuading someone of their personal beliefs is not easy to do. And that's cool. People are entitled to believe as they wish.

 

So what are the actual facts? For millennia, people have reported what appears to be appearances by individuals believed deceased. So I guess you could say that yes, I do believe that some people see what is typically referred to as a ghost. The behaviour of these appearances is often very consistent between reports.  Obviously witness testimony in isolation has little weight. Human senses and memories are extraordinarily fallible. But when one views the totality of the reports, their consistency is often striking. Especially hard to excuse is the apparent examples of where what is apparently the same figure is seen in the same location by apparently unconnected witnesses for years, decades, if not centuries. Sometimes these witnesses are very grounded people including police and military personnel, people you would think are not given to flights of fancy in moments of stress given unfamiliar stimuli.

 

So do I necessarily believe what people are seeing is the soul of a dead person? No, and no one can ever prove that. It may be some kind of a "recording" that is playing back through as yet undetermined means not dissimilar to a timeslip. I have a hard wired love of mysteries, regardless of the precise nature. To me it's not right to just dismiss the reports completely out of hand as overactive imagination. That's an oversimplification. I want to know why people think they see these things.

 

6 hours ago, Jello said:

Absolutely not. Ghosts are products of overactive imaginations, and an attempt to quickly and easily understand things that people can't find an immediate explanation for.

 

True... to a point. My father once went to a deserted air strip in broad daylight miles from any form of dwelling to sight in his rifle. He saw a male figure that seemed to dissappear into the bush beside the strip when chased by his dogs. The dogs emerged from the bush looking rather confused. Dad has good control over dogs. They were not the type to chase people. There were no footprints on the ground, and no vehicles around that he could see that would suggest someone drove their for similar reasons to himself. He proceeded to sight in his rifle and did not see the figure again. Had it been a real person, they would have been familiar with the area. It's not the place you just stumble upon, and they would know to expect to bump into people with rifles and/or dogs. So there would be no logical reason to run. You will just have to take my word that my Dad is extraordinarily down to earth with absolutely zero interest in the paranormal. He just told it as a strange story he couldn't explain, and has never mentioned anything like it before or since.

 

I do not expect to change your mind on this, nor do I have any desire to do so. Just wanted to point out that not everyone who thinks they have possibly seen a ghost is guilty of an overactive imagination :)

Edited March 29, 2022 by Murdoch

[Egg Boy]

I'm a skeptic to all paranormal subjects, I find them really interesting and watch videos about famous ghost sightings, cryptids, aliens, etc. But I never do it under the pretense that any of these stories are true or even credible. I do find them really relaxing when going to bed tho.

[7Mahonin]

I’ve seen and heard some weird things that make me want to say yes, but proving it I cannot, so I am leaning more towards no. I’ve experienced things that seemed paranormal at a young, pre-teen age that I cannot explain, but as I got older the graphic dreams of WW2, hearing voices calling my name when nobody was around, and seeing black shadows peeking around things disappeared. 

 

As an adult, I have used magic mushrooms a few times (it’s legal where I’m living), and there was one time when I was tripping on psychedelic mushroom that I felt could’ve been paranormal. I saw an entire sea of people staring back at me one time, obviously it is more like in your head than physically them being there, but they were definitely not of this realm whoever they were. It was like for a single moment, I was able to feel all the pain and suffering of anyone who had died a wrongful death, and I could see them all staring back at me. Sure, could’ve just been the trip, but I have never had anything like that happen before or after that.

 

So I guess the best answer is that I don’t really know what to believe lol. 

[deleted-account]

Can't 100% speak for ghosts, but I'll admit I've interacted with spirits before.

[Pseudonaut]

Hell Revealed map26 made me believe in ghosts.

[Azuris]

9 hours ago, Jello said:

Absolutely not. Ghosts are products of overactive imaginations, and an attempt to quickly and easily understand things that people can't find an immediate explanation for.

 

Yep, sadly the World is boring in that Aspect.

When i was younger i was afraid about such Things, but by learning more about the World (Physics), it took the Scare.

 

Interestingly, especially ancient Gods are recurring physical Happenings in Nature, given a Personification.

So dark Clouds on a Mountain causing Thunders, Jupiter ony Olympus has a bad Mood.

This also could not be, because People had absoluty no understanding what is happening, but to make it more reliable to the Human Thinking.

(And later on it evolved independend from it).

 

Same with the black Death and using the Grim Reaper as a Personification, to make it more reliable for People.

 

Seing with Covid that many People do not understand how a Virus works and Evolution works,

i was thinking, that Humanity really needs such Personifications to make such abstract Stuff more reliable to many.

 

In that Way, it seems that our past Civilization had a better Understanding on how Human Thinking works and how to use Imaginatry.

 

[out_of_service]

No. But I'll enjoy a good ghost story by the fire!

[gwain]

6 hours ago, Wavy said:

I believe in these ghosts.

I belive in these ghosts

because if you have them you have everything