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Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:30:40 AM   
MstrDennynSlave


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Status: offline 		Do you believe in them? I'm sure just about everyone has had something happen to them, around them, or a family or friend that they can't explain. Case in point. I was the only one at home one day. I'd taken a shower and was drying off when the lights went out in the bathroom. My first thought was at least I was done in the shower.......lol. Then I realized the tv was still on. So I thought maybe a breaker had tripped. I stepped out of the bathroom and reached for the light switch out of habit to shut it off. And the switch was in the OFF position. I flipped it back up and the lights came on. The light switch for the bathroom is on the living room wall by the bathroom door. Don't ask......lol. A small cottage on the lake that had been added on to.

If I hadn't been alone, I'd have thought that Master had turned it off on me. He will walk by and shut the light off on me. Doesn't make any difference, as there are windows in the bathroom, and I can still see when he shuts it off on me. He will turn it back on immediately though. He likes to tease me that is for sure......lol.

There is no logical answer for the lights going off in the bathroom. I even asked my cat n dog if they shut it off......lol. Just got a look like, "What are you talking about Mom?"
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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:59:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was a complete sceptic about this, until an experience I had last summer.

I was at my parents' house, and my dad had been dying for several days. It was midnight (and about 12 hours before he actually died), and I hadn't had more than a couple of hours sleep in about a week. I was physically and emotionally exhausted.

Rather than upset my mum and sister by crying in front of them, I went to sit on the step outside the back door and have a good cry. I was sobbing my heart out when someone came up behind me and put their arms around me and put their head on mine. It was lovely, and I felt so comforted. I turned round to see whether it was mum or sis, and there was no-one there.

I went into the living room and mum was sitting on the sofa. I asked if she'd been to see me and she said no. She also told me that my sis hadn't left dad's room for hours. I told her what had happened, and I also mentioned that I smelled a perfume that I used to wear - Chanel no. 19.

Mum looked really shocked, then smiled. She said that her mother, who'd passed when I was about 3 years old, used to wear that perfume. My sis later told me that my dad had been talking about seeing his mother-in-law (who he loved dearly) just before I felt the hug.

I don't know if it was exhaustion-induced hallucination and/or wishful thinking, but what I do know is that it was an experience I will never forget and which helped me through a dreadful moment.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 8:12:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I know I've often felt the prescence of spirits. My daughters youngest was a twin. We lost her twin at 5 weeks. 6 yrs later, she still often talks of her twin, that she is in Heaven now with Papa. She doesn't just talk of her, she talks to her.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 9:48:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't believe in ghosts or spirits. Anytime I've had anything strange happen to me there was a rational explanation.

It sounds to me like you have a short in the switch. I've had that happen many times, switch still in the on position, turn it off and back on and it switches back on....it's a short in the wiring. You may want to have it looked at, especially if it's an old house.


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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 10:20:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		I do believe in spooks, as I've had enough experiences with them. Some are more helpful, playful, and annoying than others.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 12:40:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do. But believing in them still sends chills up my spine and gives me goosebumps reading about them or thinking about them!

I have experienced something once at home, but mostly at work (hospital). Myself & other nurses are have seen/heard things at the exact same time or seen things identical. We also had a patient once who was gifted and she got terrible feelings about a particular room she was in (our single rooms are often used for the dying or very sick).

myotherself : that story was really lovely. I'm sure it provided your mum some great comfort knowing her mum was helping your dad.



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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 2:51:31 PM   
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I don't believe in anything. Ghosts can take a number and join the same queue as everything else no bugger can find any evidence for.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 4:34:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		i do, and since i've left home so do my family. we've all had far too much experiance to question it.

one of my ladies had been a very troubled person the whole time i'd worked with her. however, she would sit and tell me about her life and the things she had done. towards the end she called me to her and introduced me to her aunty who had come to see her that day. my lady couldn't understand why her aunty was there because she hadn't seen her for years. my lady then called me to her later that day and said that her aunty wanted to take her on a trip, and was it ok if she went. i told her that of course it was ok if she went. that night she passed away and the aunty that had come to see her had been dead for years. my lady was 98.

my lady used to complain about a man that used to go into a room she used to be in. staff knew for a fact that no-one but staff would go into her room at night, but she still insisted that he did. we now have someone who moved in since my lady past away, and she says that exact same thing. there is something very specific about this man too and both have said the same thing.

i've been on shift with several different members of staff and we've had odd things happen that's can't be explained away with things like faulty wiring. or like our stair lift that one night moved up the stairs on its own, stopped part way up, then moved off again as a member of staff got near it. we had our supplier come out and examine it and he said there was nothing wrong with it at all and couldn't understand why it had done what it did.

that's nothing though compared to the things that have happened with me in various houses i've lived in.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:02:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		What an interesting story needles! I think there is something to be said for people who work in 'caring' professions being much more intuitive than the rest of the population.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:14:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Littlewonder, the light switch was in the OFF position when I checked it. If it was a short, it would still be in the ON position. It was not, so something or someone turned it off.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:27:31 PM   
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Do you believe in them?


No.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 5:53:26 PM   
littlewonder


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Status: offline 		it could still be a short in the wire. Personally if it was me I'd have it checked by an electrician so I'm not worrying if I'm going to blow the circuit breakers or cause a fire. <shrug>


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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 6:23:05 PM   
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I do. But believing in them still sends chills up my spine and gives me goosebumps reading about them or thinking about them!


The house I just moved out of was filled with spirits. They never moved things in the house but I could always sense that the house was "crowded." One day an associate of mine came by the house and said, "How can you live here?!? It' so loud! Can't you hear it? They (the ghosts) talk non-stop." Where I live now is in a newer house and I can feel settled when I come home at night.



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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/13/2012 6:26:52 PM   
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Holy crap do I have stories! The first one I saw, where someone else could witness it, was when I was before I was a teen. We were walking to school near a cemetary (why are Jr. High's always near them?), and all the palm tree shadows were going in one direction. And as I was walking a large shadow crossed my path in the other direction. I looked up, nothing. I looked down, the shadow kept up with me. The girl next to me noticed the shadow and started to walk faster. That scared me a bit so I started a quicker pace and the shadow kept up with me. It dropped off as we neared the gate and was gone.

Another time me and some friends were clearing out my bf's grandpa's house since he was in hospice and would not be returning. The guys left to get snacks and did not return. Hours passed as we cleaned this pack rats home. There were piles of newspapers and magazines around the place in a maze that made us have to walk here and there to get from room to room. So, there I was in the living room going through a stack of papers and tossing stuff in a bag. And the rocking chair which was in the corner of the room started a slow rocking movement. By this time in my life I was used to strange stuff more or less happening so I wasn't overly concerned. The rocker started a more deliberate pace and my friend who was in the other corner of the room noticed that I had gone still. She watched me. She looked over to where I kept a transfixed gaze and saw the rocker moving. And my niece,... who was in the kitchen are at the back of the room stopped washing dishes when she heard us go silent. Evie was 5'9" and a good 300 lbs and I swear.. I NEVER in my life saw someone that size jump over a maze like jungle which was this house. LEAP LEAP LEAP. She was out the living room door in seconds. And we took off after her because it scared the shit out of us both.
Once outside, my buddy and I discussed what we had witnessed. My niece, who only saw our faces when she ran, refused to go back into that house again. And of course we wouldnt go either. lol so we stayed outside in the car and waited. The guys didnt come back, having found it was nicer to hit the bars while the women worked. After about 4 hrs we gathered our courage to go back in to lock up the house.
It was funny as heck.
Oh, and has it turns out my bf's grandpa died around the same time we booked out of that place.

And, there was another time when I was depressed and planning no good things when my tire (on a brand new rental), blew while I zoomed down the 5 Fwy. I spun a bit and stopped. There didn't seem to be any traffic around except one guy who stopped to see if I was ok. If you have ever been in so cal on a friday at 8 PM is virtually impossible not to have other people on the road, but that did not register with me at the time. Anyway I was dazed, kinda shocked that I was alive given the speed I was traveling and not too happy my plans had been delayed. But the man who approached me was so calm, it made me calm. He offered to change my tire and I was grateful because I really wanted to get on my way. But as he changed my tire he was talking to me. He told me stuff about me that no one knew. He told me I should go back because what I planned was not the right thing and that there were changing happening quickly and I needed to be home. All this was said in a very calm soothing way so that none of it seemed off to me. As he was talking I felt a weight lift from my shoulders and the heaviness in my heart becoming less painful. He finished changing my tire and shook my hand, taking my hand in both of his he said things would be alright very soon. And while I did not believe him I took his words to heart. I got in my car, my head lowered to the steering wheel and when I lifted it he was gone. Traffic was all around me as it should have been. I went home. The next week my children, who had been taken 3 yrs earlier by my ex-husband, arrived with their step-mother. She was leaving him and decided that they might be better off with me. And since I had custody they stayed with me.

I have stories. People may believe or not. I don't care. I believe.


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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 5:09:26 PM   
MstrDennynSlave


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Status: offline 		Littlewonder, can you explain how the light switch was in the OFF position instead of in the ON position then?

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 9:15:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Like I said you can still have a short in the wire whether the switch is in the on or off position. And like I also said, if it was me, I'd get it checked. It doesn't matter to me what you do. I just have lived in enough old houses to know that old wiring is dangerous.


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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 9:39:19 PM   
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Like I said you can still have a short in the wire whether the switch is in the on or off position. And like I also said, if it was me, I'd get it checked. It doesn't matter to me what you do. I just have lived in enough old houses to know that old wiring is dangerous.




This. Never automatically assign to the supernatural, and do nothing about, that which is probably a glitch in a half-assed room addition. Or if the OP must believe is was a ghost, then leap first to the assumption that a benevolent spirit has warned you to get the damn wiring checked.

To the bigger question, I believe traces of living energies can sometimes linger.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 9:51:38 PM   
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Do you believe in them?


I've had numerous encounters with the supernatural.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 11:09:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes I do...I have had enough experiences in my life that I believe. I had a co-worker whose sister was sick and was dying. I had taken vacation and one night she came by. I didn't know she had died at that point and she gave me a song to sing to her sister. When she returned to work I asked her if I could share something with her as I didn't know her sister. I said would this be your sister and she said YEP and it gave her comfort in her time of sorrow to know her sister was ok.

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RE: Ghosts, spirits....whatever you want to call them - 2/14/2012 11:42:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		They are indeed real. People in my family have experienced. Millions have and they are not nuts. But here is the truth. ...Ghosts, spirits etc are really demons impersonating those that are dead. They have the ability to create illusion and mimic but they cannot recreate or bring back life. There are cases of people seeing the spirits of loved ones they thought were dead and those people were not really dead at all. Satan uses this trickery to create fear, torment, confusion in order to trick us about the true nature of death and to buy into spiritualism and the occult and most importantly so we will not accept the truths of God.

And even if you think this is far fetched and do not believe me think about this....Why has it been taught and preached almost universally for centuries that the soul is immortal and when a person dies that they go to heaven. As far as Christianity ,there is no such statement in the bible at all!!!! The bible says when a person dies the go into the grown never to return unless they are resurrected at the end of time by God. That is verbatim in layman's terms. But millions will tell you their dead relative is in heaven with God. Only paganism and other religions teach the immortality of the soul and I believe they are incorrect. There are former pagans and satan worshipers that even profess that once they got so high up in their religion they came into contact with demonic spirits and discovered the truth.

It's certainly not anything to play with or explore. Prayer and calling upon Jesus tends to remove the spirits, especially if there is a strong firm belief in God.

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