I've had a ghost touch my foot twice, sit next to me as I slept and a few other things. Also once during a vacation a ghost walked up the stairs to the room I was staying in, over the noisy wooden floor right next to my bed and moved my watch then went back the way it came. Why it did that is unknown and kind of weird but there was nothing there I could see.

I think that ghosts might be footprints of our existence and only occur on a few occasions when the conditions are just right. Sometime these footprints will be non intelligent and repetitive while others seem intelligent and unique. I am sure that someday people will figure out the mystery.

What do you mean by footprints ...are you talking about the essence of a person that lingers behind ?

how come every in ghost sighting the ghost is always wearing clothes? Never got that one.

Not making light of this post ..

But Drock ..I know some men who dont believe in anything (my hubby)that would surely believe if they were all naked lol .....

The problem with controlling the "experiment" is one would need to go to the ghost. Not the other way around. This has been done for years. I don't know if that would qualify as a controlled experiment(s). In those experiments there have been countless evp that appeared to answer the questioner, objects that moved, personal experiences (touching etc.). One could hear the evp tapes and see video and there have been cases of more then one person or group over several years at places. I've read about these experiments for years but never believed them being I wasn't there so it could be faked.

All that was until I met my wife. In the years I've known her I've seen countless times things I can in no way explain. Seen them. heard them, caught them on video and audio tape. Seems she is some kind of magnet for such activity. I've seen her answer questions she could not know the answers to. I mean things about me or my family. From people that are not with us anymore. I have not had any real contact with my family for years before I met her due to things that have nothing to do with this thread but suffice to say no one (alive) could have told her.

We don't keep these tapes being I don't invest a lot of money in it and I no longer have a video cam. It was a lot of fun some years back but it's just part of daily life now and I really don't fool with it anymore. But I know it happened then...I know it does now.

I don't believe it to be irrational to believe what I've seen and put on tape. Many people have done it. Why is none of it logical? LoL! I chalk it up to denial...A very illogical and irrational action of it's own.

i have had a number of experiences,my auntie died a few years back and just afterwards i saw her standing in my bedroom doorway while i was laying in bed.
her hair was down(loose and natural)and she was dreseed in a white robe.
a few months after that she appeared in my dream and pulled along side me at the traffic lights in another car,she gave me a phone number and drove off.
i want to believe but these experiences could be manipulated by our brain,i dont think people relise how powerfull our brain is.
how come people who have died that are close to us never appear on regular basis (why not) and especially when we need them.
another thing and it might off topic,our brain is the control centre for our body,when we die the brain dies aswell.there is evidence of that because its rots in a coffin.
how can there be anything after death when the intelligent part of our body dies or is there another body part that is more powerful.
sorry for the blabber but im knew here

I feel that with the advent of more portable electronic measurement equipment there will be the possibility of more measurable evidence of ghosts. There just isn't the financial interest backing such research.

Look at the electronic monitoring equipment used in hospitals to monitor our state of health. Once there are no longer any electrical energy or signals in which to be measured then we're officially determined to be dead.This we can prove and is a medically accepted fact.

Place a probe from an oscilloscope on your finger tip and you can measure your energy.

This energy or our soul as the bible would call it is what I feel is what we could call a ghost and being electromagnetic in nature exists in our atmosphere with all other electromagnetic energy once it has left the body.

Bear with me...

As with radio and gravity waves we can't see this energy but we know it exists but didn't understand how to prove this phenomenon until we discovered how to tune into their specific frequency and energy spectrum.

My feelings are that the energy spectrum associated with ghosts or the spiritual realm in itself are yet to be discovered.

Due to the natural minute nature of this energy it will require very sensitive instrumentation to measure and discern from the background noise and pollution created by our powered devices similar to that of RFI (Radio Frequency Interference).

Once this is achieved, similar to tuning into a radio station, will allow us to tune into this energy and better understand this phenomenon and will scientifically prove the existence of ghosts or spiritual energy for those that require such proof.

i believe the standard causes for having dead spirits haunt this world is for them to die a sudden death or an emotional death. This certainly apples to the poor souls in the twin towers and on the planes. And ghosts stay around because sometimes they do not know they are dead. If I were a ghost and saw a giant pile of rubble where my office just was, I think I would figure out my demise and wish to move on past this world.

I believe that could be why victims of giant disasters like 9/11 do not haunt this world. They can see the evidence of their deaths, and can accept it. Just my opinion.

Photos, Videos, EVPs, personal accounts.. all evidence even if you don't accept them, Dave. What you are looking for is scientific explanation, and no, we don't have that.. that's why It's still paranormal and not the simply normal. Photos, videos, audio recordings and witness testimony are all valid evidence in court, I'm not sure why they wouldn't be here. There is no proof that a photo of a cloudy figure is a dead human being's energy or whatever but it is what people would call a ghost. Anyone seriously studying the topic would observe this evidence.

This is a very controversial topic, it's been my experience that only people who have had personal ghostly encounters are the only people who take the paranormal seriously. Shoot, I might still be a skeptic had I not had a few experiences of my own.

They are real, no question.

I cant prove to you that they are real except for the countless,endless amounts of 1st hand stories out there and my family's own experiences, you cant prove to me that they are'nt real. So pointless thread really!

Oh and I do believe there is definitely a link between the paranormal and buildings made of natural stone, due to magnetic properties in this natural stone. Maybe this enables paranormal energy to form or else causing this energy to be trapped inside.

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