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Topic started on 30-10-2009 @ 12:51 PM by xEphon

23% Believe in Ghosts, Do You?


news.yahoo.com
BOOOOO! If things that go bump in the night scare you, chances are you're among the 23% of American adults who believe in ghosts.

Sixty-five percent (65%) don't believe in scary spirits, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. But 12% aren't sure if ghost stories are true or not.

Ghosts aren't the only as-yet unprovable thing some Americans suspect is true. In May, 53% said it was likely that life exists on other planets.


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reply posted on 30-10-2009 @ 02:01 PM by Nematode
When I was younger I believed in a lot of different things, mostly because of what people told me, not because I've actually witnessed something. I was told about Santa by my parents, on TV, from my friends, even my teachers. So many credible sources tell me he is real... he had to be with that many people also believing in him.

As soon as you get a little older, lots of fairy tales and holiday mascots turn out to be untrue, told directly from a source you trust, or many different trustworthy sources. I'm a very logical person, and as I was growing up and becoming who I am today, faster and faster all these 'Truths' are turning out to be stories passed down from generation to generation, either because they either really believe in Santa, or because they want you to believe... at least until you are older.

I think believing in Santa and things of the sort at a young age is really helpful to children, allowing them to develop a wonderful sense of creativity. I will probably tell my kids about Santa, take them to church, and let them believe anything, until their world comes crashing down because someone decided to not keep the lie going and made my kids ask questions.

I don't know if that's the right thing to do, I am just offering them what I was offered as a child. I don't want to deprive them of any of the fun I had, but I certainly don't want them to start believing in things that don't have proof of existence. I believe in life existing outside of our planet (bacteria at the least), but I don't think the movie E.T. was based on true events. I have never seen a ghost, I can't say I'd be scared to stay in a haunted house, and most of the videos to see online or on TV about ghosts just make me laugh.


reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 11:53 PM by ziggy1706
I belive in them yup..when iw as 13, i played with an ouija board with a freind, and had things happening around my home soon after..scratching noises behind my bed on and off through the night, sounds in my clsoet, and in our garage attic, of a pebble being skipped off the floor...a rose in a vase on our mantle exploded, a doorknob late one night was completely broken off the door from INSIDE the house, and it was only me and my older siter in another room..i saw a trasnparent ornage cat with green eyes and saber toothcat like teeth playing with an american flag i had o ym desk, and later, in basement, i felt a prsence enter the room i was in, a year later, after ed and lorraine warren were here, cleaning our home..i trie to get up and run, as i saw a black disembodied figure standing in the doorway.i was frozen and coudnt move, and felt it pas through me, secodns later a small galss cotnainer next to me, opped and broke, never saw it again. My mtoher talked about a small black transparaent cat lurking in the house, witha buzzsaw shaped head during the day. Our cats would stare at the ceiling in our living room, and meow at it. one time i took a picture of jesus into anotther room next to mine, and my fathers dresser made a thump noise and mvoed back a few mm. The board would tell us it was jesus christ, it was god, it was the virgin mary, then said it was a 9 year old boy who died in the area, I had told my mom what i learned, and she asked me how did i know hat..turns out back in 1964 i think iwas, a 9 year old boy was hit by a car on our street, riding his bike, and died on the way to hospitol.
SO!! yes as yuo can see, i do belive.


reply posted on 1-11-2009 @ 12:53 AM by xEphon
reply to post by ziggy1706



Yeah the Ouija board is no joke as you can tell by this realistic possession!

No, but seriously. They're no joke.

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