to realte EVERYTHING to the paranormal. i bascily found some threads yesterday that were like "i have a stomache, i think i upset some spirits." and ppl were like...buying this!!! (p.s. that was an example of a thread close to that)
all i'm asking is please don't freak yourself out thinking every sound your house makes is a ghost, or every noise you hear is. And if you see something or hear something, try to go through all logic, honestly. try to see if it was a light, a reflection and so on. or if it was pipes, the air coming on and sometimes it's just your brain. it's is rare that YOUR house of all the homes in the world is haunted. it is extremly rare for a house to be haunted, and that doesn't mean that you are lucky it means that your house is probaly not haunted.
all i'm asking is to go through some logic before freaking yourself out, and this goes to aliens and stuff like that too. Just don't wanna see you losing your minds over every sound and anything that moves

love ya tators!!!

It takes a lot to get me concerned and get weirded out....but today I was listening to music while reading UM and surfing on other sites. I heard something really weird in the music and I thought oh, great a corrupted file. So, I paused the music, and this really bizarre sound was coming out of my speakers. It sounded like someone was breathing, just breathing coming out of the bloody speakers. So, I flipped to my other window and saw it was the other site and a little animation, I laughed so hard. It was pretty cool how it sounded like breathing and was nothing like it. Shows how the imagination can take hold of something and run with it. So, yes, sunburst, I agree, once you cannot find a rational explanation, and only then do you look for the irrational options.

I agree... sometimes your imagination can run away with you.... We have spirits which both my husband and I have seen with the naked eye, but we don't have any other activity which you can put down to ghosts/spirits for certain.

well, there is activity around me quite often, but I can differentiate it. Mostly my guardian spirit is visiting, and that is all it is.

That was very confusing to read...

Yeah , most of the time people see things is usually the house or something caused from outside . I agree check out the possibilities b4 you give yourself a heart attack !

At last...a voice of reason on this forum!!

Nice one Sunburst!

You should keep an open mind. You shouldn't believe that anything is normal or paranormal until you can investigate it properly and make a final decision. Some people dismiss everything paranormal and will come up with all sorts of crazy explanations because their minds cannot or will not believe. Other people are the opposite. They will think any strange things that happen are paranormal even if they aren't. The hardcore skeptics are just as bad as the hardcore believers. Either of these 2 extremes are bad. A closed mind is a terrible thing and can cause you to explain away things without knowing their true origins.

As an example I had what was clearly a real paranormal experience when I was younger. At the time I dismissed it as something normal because my mind was stuck in a rut as a close minded skeptic. As a skeptic my brain wouldn't allow me to consider the paranormal therefore the idea of it didn't enter my mind. I was one of those people who would say "I don't believe in ghosts because I never saw one". It wasn't until much later that I realized that I in fact did have paranormal experiences. It took years for me to become a open minded critical thinker and to realize the truth. A closed mind can cause you to not see things that are right in front of you because you dismiss those things away before you have a chance to consider them.

lmao thanks



exactly, keep an open mind to every normal and paranormal. all i'm asking is for you not to freak out at everything you see, it's not healthy.

and i would quote all of you, you are all explaining how i feel. thanks

Exactly , " always keep and open mind " but dont jump the gun on either possibility

Well, my DVD/VCR turns itself on from time to time. Later I figured out that the remote was under the couch cushion so every time my wife sat down, she was turning it off/on. All that time I had been blaming it on her and I WAS RIGHT!

Dito

LOL, that is funny.

I wouldn't say it's a "terrible" thing personally, perhaps to die-hard believers it would be (aka those that suburst mentioned; every noise, every bodily function = paranormal) however I think most disbelievers (to be skeptical means to be doubtful, so I think disbeliever is a better term) wouldn't find it a terrible thing because they've lived their entire lives comfortably without believing or worrying, and would die without caring. I'm a skeptic, but really, I could die tomorrow without knowing whether ghosts exist and it wouldn't bother me one bit. I have an interest in it and would like to experience something (for me personally, nothing less than a full-body apparition right in front of my eyes while I'm wide awake) but it's not such a terrible thing for me personally to explain little things away. I mean, I explain away my local hotdogs as pork but I certainly don't know their true origins I'm content with my explanations.

HAHAH that made me chuckle .

I have to agree... theres a fine line between paranormal and paranoid, make sure you're on the right side of that line. However, haunted houses are not that uncommon-- often it's not the house itself that is haunted but the land around it as I have discovered. Particularly in areas like I live in where there was in the past a lot of Native American or Civil War activity. Some of the things in your house might actually be because you built it on haunted land, I had a brand new never lived in Double Wide mobile home that was terribly haunted. But it was sitting on an Indian Burial/ceremonial site. The house was moved and nothing else weird has happened in it. The past 3 homes I have lived (Which is pretty much ALL I ever lived in) were haunted-- because the land around them was on an Indian Burial ground, the second on a tract of land belonging to a Civil War era plantation, and the third-- well, I don't know what the hell's with this place. The house itself is not haunted per se, but the woods behind it are -- well-- I'm not sure how to explain it, not normal?

On the other side, just because you don't believe it, haven't seen Proof, or understand it is no reason to act like a complete jerk about it. No one ask you to read it, and no one will die without your rude immature comments. Get a freaking grip... sorry. I've been on a rant about that all day.

I didn't say that. i do like hearing stuff about ghost and such. but i am finding that people are coming up with ludrious reasons with why they think their house is haunted. they lost an objet, they hear noises and such. And it seems they jump straight to it's a ghost then go through all the other stuff it might of been. i don't mind listening to their problems as long as they are sure it is nothing else. i am just worried about them. i just don't want them to be so freaked out. my concern is for them. it seems you have misread what i put.

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all i'm asking is to go through some logic before freaking yourself out, and this goes to aliens and stuff like that too. Just don't wanna see you losing your minds over every sound and anything that moves

love ya tators!!!

and therefore, you misunderstand where i am coming from.

Guess it was the part where you called everyone "tators" what a jerk thing to do

I'd have to agree too, even though I had the post: Ghost picture or camera effect? I didn't come in here horrified or anything such, and It clearly isn't determined what it was. What struck me was the streak only appeared on the wall, and not the curtains. My house has in the past been a hotbed for paranormal activity too. That was the main reason I joined these forums a while back to share my story. Some believed, some obviously are skeptical.

Here is my original little ghost link from these forums My Little Ghost

No no no I wasn't referring to someone else entirely... sorry about that...

lol my bad happens. i just didn't see you address it to anyone so i thought "omg he means me" well at least ppl know where i stand for sure lol!!!!

Sorry *hugs8 Im having a bad day too

(hugs back) we all have them. i'm sorry too.

Well, if you were referring to me then I don't understand where I was being rude at all (if anything your post was quite rude and immature). I was simply stating that there's nothing "terrible" about being close-minded to some individuals (disbelievers as I said, and I'm certainly not a disbeliever). Disbelievers and skeptics are distinguishable. If a skeptic experiences it, then they have a change of view, if they don't, then they die not knowing, but it's really not that big a deal unless it's your life's goal to know whether or not ghosts exist, for a disbeliever there is absolutely no such thing as ghosts and every unexplainable thing must have a logical explanation whether or not they know what that is. For me, as a skeptic, it's not my life's goal to know the "truth"... but an experience would be nice. I wasn't being a "complete jerk" about anything because I certainly didn't attack believers in any way, shape or form. I agreed that not every noise or bodily function, as stated by the OP, is paranormal but that was about it.

At my work,several people have seen a shadow pass near them when no one else was around,including the sister of the owner.She and her brother were asking me how the place could be haunted...since they knew that I delve into the realms of the unknown/unexplained.I had fun explaining to them how it is possible that a spirit could be a "transient spirit" that is connected with the land that the building sits upon,instead of it being connected to the building itself (which is what most people think of when ghosts are mentioned).It took a little while for what I told them to sink in,but they finally got it.

Of course,they still figured that I would be able to tell them more about the spirit.I just pointed out that until someone got a good direct look at the shadow,there would be no way to tell anything about it.Who knows...if it really is a spirit,it could be one of a Native American,a fur trapper (we're in Michigan,just outside of Detroit...which is one of many areas of the state where trappers/traders spent time in the early days),or some other type of person who happened to come through the area.Even with a good direct look though,it might still be hard to tell.

Nope not you.. Sorry wow I should have named names..

you made me defensive. I don't like being defensive. It's not good for my health.

I assumed by your "no one will die.." comment that you meant me. All good

lol sorry *huggles* OKAY I wasn't talking about anyone thats posted here yet *nods