Just wondering what your thoughts were on ghosts/ ghouls, things that go bump in the night and even aliens. Anyone experienced any of these strange encounters???
Me, I don’t know if I believe in ghosts but one day my mum was driving my granda to the shop. He pointed at a man walking down the road a bit confussed looking and said his name (I’ll call him Joe). My mum also saw him. When they went into the shop, the owner asked if they had heard that Joe had died early that morning. This was only 2mins later….weird
As for aliens. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intelligent life forms in the universe but I don’t believe in these aliens (like in Dr. Who?) but rather maybe other humans elsewhere but that they are not aware of us.
I don’t know, I thought this would a good idea for a thread as I’m pretty board and wanted to get other peoples opinions.
I believe there’s a lot of stuff out there we still don’t understand. I also believe in intelligent life elsewhere. However I don’t believe we have more than a tiny bit of actual evidence of either. But some people will believe anything.
[rant]Every TV show I’ve ever seen on the subject of ghosts/supernatural occurrences or UFOs is a load of crap. No science, or the appearance of science that isn’t really science, to fool some of the people. The UFO shows are the worst. All conspiracy and no fact. Like the 9/11 “Truth” movement.[/rant]
BTW, I also beleive there is stuff we don’t know about the 9/11 attacks, and stuff that was avoided, ignored or whitewashed in the 9/11 Commission reports, but that is not proof of stuff that’s alleged without evidence. Some people will believe anything.
I DO believe in the Amityville Horror. Something horrible really, actually happened in that house, and the guy who did it is still in prison. He killed his entire family with a shotgun, while they were sleeping (at least the first one), in 1968 or so. Then he went to the bar at the end of the street and waited for the cops to come get him. I forget his name. He’s real. But then, the new owners of this house found out–after they’d bought it–that it was the site of a multiple murder. I don’t think they were happy about that. But it gave them the idea for a story. They wrote a book, the book became a movie, the movie became several more movies, and all the while they continued to try to convince people that all the nonsense in their book was true. They made it up. They cleaned up (financially). Then they moved away. The house is still there, but subsequent owners have done some remodeling to discourage tourism. I’ve been there. It’s the least-scary looking house you could imagine. It’s at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY. Would you have an indian burial ground right next to a creek? It’s now a boat canal, but obviously it was not entirely manmade.
I get the magazine each month. It is a fine blend of light hearted and serious, generally sceptical in tone, but for people interested in everything from bigfoot/yeti/sasquatch to ghosts, poltergeists, UFOs, conspiracy theories, Loch Ness monster…
I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe there is a phenomenon we call “ghosts”.
I’m fairly sure that there is intelligent life Out There, but I’m not so hopeful about the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence.
With the immense size of the universe, it’d be pretty egotistical of us to think that we are the only sentient beings in the cosmos. I think the existence of aliens is for sure.
As far as ghosts and stuff (this includes the idea of a god or gods), I believe in the possibility of beings like that, but not in the ability to determine whether they exist or not.
Lets say, that I would be very suprised if there wouldnt be any.
There is just one thing what I dont understand: Why aliens are supernatural?
If there is an alien it is just as normal than us or other animals down here.
Five or four years ago we were in our gottage in Pohjanmaa.
It was midnight when my grandmother awaked me and sayd frightenedly that there were something on the sky. We went to peach (it was on peach of a lake) and my mother pointed to the sky and said that there were strange lights. I never really saw anything unusual, but anyway we were all REALLY frightened. We backed very fast and rushed to our car. We drowe about 100km to our friends and stayed there over night.
If I think it know, it feels extremely silly, but at that day it felt really scary.
i’m unsure of the whole alien life thing. but one theory i find really cool is that there may be life anywhere, even here on earth, that exists in another dimension to us, thus mking us unaware of each other.
It’d be pretty egotistical to think we’re the only sentient beings on this planet. Sentient means capable of sensory perception, but even in the widely misunderstood sense of “intelligent” dolphins, some breeds of dogs, some of the great apes and some members of the crow family (jays) have been observed to have quite high levels of intelligence, including reasoning powers.
On the other hand, I think we can all think of humans who appear to lack any form of intelligence or reasoning.
I kinda agree with catinabag, there most likely is some other life out there, but it might also depend on your definition of life. It could well be so different from anything we’ve seen that we wouldn’t recognize it. Or in other dimensions.
As for ghosts, I hadn’t made up my mind until now, luckily, after a quick youtube search for “ghost”, I found some proof.
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People have seen Jesus in a grilled cheese sammich, and the Virgin Mary in a patch of mold.
These “sightings” are nothing more than Rorschach responses. Everyone’s going to see something different, and there is no “right answer”. It’s the natural response of the human brain to make sense of even the most random stimuli, and the content of that response tells you more about the person than the stimuli.
The things that go bump in the night are my cats. That one’s easy. As is the ghoul phenomenon: there is no such thing as a ghost.
As for aliens, there are many many variables that lead to a damn-near-zero probability of us making any contact with them: time, space, biology, technology, etc. I wouldn’t bet on there ever being contact.
I’m sorry to say this Maestro, but I disagree with you. I’m the kind of person who likes to find logical reasons for things, which is partly why I do not belive in a god, but I do believe there are ghosts, as a definite.
I know for certain that both my houses I have lived in are haunted. In my old house there was an eight foot drop out of my dining room window to the ground where there were tractors parked. On numerous occasions a man was seen from that window, but up to his shoulders! The ground used to be higher there, and is it was a real person they would have had to walk through several tons of metal. This was seen several times when we were all sat still, eating dinner, and even before I was born. And there is a whole host of people that have seen it. Men have been reduced to hiding from that house, there was Mrs Hatches rocking chair in the corner of the room, that was seen many times rocking away… despite the face there was nothing in the corner when it was seen. I actually miss that house for all of that.
And call me weird if you will but I have spoken to ghosts, all my family have said about how when i was really young I’d have random conversations with no one, but I knew her as Mrs hatch when I spoke to her. It wasn’t for years until I found she was the first owner of the house and long dead. I can remember loads of weird stuff from that house.
My new house too, If I go into my shed my dad, brother, friends all insist on making some kind of noise constantly. It creeps me out in there and I know that half of that shed was built for the previous owners son, who died when i was young. He spent ages in there. He was a good friend of my dads, as was his father. I knew the man and have home videos of him. Inface I am now sat in his old bed room, where I have been scared shitless before in here. The story is long and strange any will undoubtably think I’m an idiot if I was to tell you thst lot too. I know he is still here… for definite.
I am sure there are ghosts, from my own experiences I just know they’re there. I have seen them and communicated with them and thats proof for me. I think thats what happens after death, and I will be waiting for it. I’m not religious in any way but I believe in ghosts completely.
As for Ailiens there must be something, but I cannot be as sure. This universe has so many solar systems, withso many possibilities of holding life, we just cannot see them or are yet to discover them. I’m sure one day there will be proof.
I believe in intelligent human life on earth before our race. Also in our local “myth”
I did a presentation on that last year and it looks like theres a family thats survived for a while with over 200 sightings in less than 100 years. and one attack on a human.
