Hey guys, what do you think of this theory....

Ghosts are just a photograph in your memory, its black and white image, and if you think about it ghosts dont kill people you only hurt yourself, trying to do something stupid, but what im saying is it might be a image of the imagination.. like a photo in ur head.. what yall say or think? you make it appear in ur head and make it dissapear

Proving a ghost exists is a hard thing to do.

Your theory could very well be correct.

I think that they are of the paranormal relm and they show themselves to us if we are willing to believe.

yeah but that wouldn't explain seeing things that you have no memory of. like if you were in a house you knew nothing about and you see something and it turns out that the house was haunted and the haunting was unknown to you...
i dunno, i'm really somewhere between a skeptic and a believer.

If you think about it, fearing ghosts is kinda useless. some can physically hurt a person (the Heartland Ghost), and a few throw knives, but most are incapable of interacting with us.

it'd be my luck i'd get haunted by the ghost of a untalented circus knife thrower.
ouch.

ROFL

If i lived in the Heartland Ghost house with the bad ghost attacking me constantly (i do remember Sightings saying there was a good and bad ghost), if i was renting it, i would be willigly self-evicted.

the people who live in houses like that, where the ghost does physical damage, make me skeptical becuase if things ar so bad, WHY ARE YOU STAYING THERE?!?!?!?!?!?!

That idea may be true in some cases but it does not explain when several different people all experience the same spirit at different times and they never communicated with each other. There is also a lot of evidence which wouldn't be effected by our minds. There are to many sightings that discount this as being the absolute reason for ghosts. I do think some people forget that there can be more then one reason for ghosts. a lot of people will want one simple answer to everything and sadly its not that easy.

Good idea,
Jeremy W
The United Paranormal Investigators Association

What is the Heartland ghost???? lol do i wanna no... ima look it up but someone fill me in!!

there's a topic in here called the heartland ghost and the info is there.
basically it was several ghosts in a house where the man of the house would have scratches appear on his body. the tv show sightings investigated the house and there is video footage of the scratches 'appearing'. sightings also made a dramatized movie about their research into the haunting.
you can find the movie w/a short description here: http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/prod...sp?sku=D51241++

i've been looking around to see if the video sightings took where the scratches appear is online, but i can't find it.

thanx for the link, when i get enough balls ill check it out haha... god ghosts trip me out hahaha... but yeah ill go rent it thanx again!

geez, are any of you even educated past high school. You believe in ghosts, because you want to, if ghosts existed, than why would they never appear in the day? Why are there no sufficiently documented cases. You are all here to throw in your 2 cents, but you actually know nothing. Matter constitutes all. Yes it is fun to believe in ghosts, spectres, etc. but they don't exist, i challenge anyone to give me at least any evidence to prove i am wrong.

you don't have to believe in something for it to trip you out. besides, the link was for a movie. if you bother to use your education and read you'll see that i said i was somewhere between a skeptic and a believer. i'm not a confirmed believer because i've never seen any evidence. the idea is however, entertaining to me so that's why i'm here. and btw you're the one throwing in your '2 cents'.

Okay, may i be the first to say.. YOU DONT HAVE TO E A JERK TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS.

And, ones word obviously isnt enough for you, thousands of peoples' words aren't enough for you. YOU go out and look for proof yourself.
Me myself i believe. Not that i have proof, or that i want proof. I just believe.
Just because you dont see something dosent mean that it isn't there.

AMEN sister!!!!!!!!!!

Your theory sounds too complicated but I think you're onto something.......
Or maybe I read it too fast I'll go back.......

I get it. I think your theory is right except the part about people doing stupid stuff 'cause I won't do something stupid....yet.
Anyways though you cannot prove ghosts exists or don't, you still could belive what you think is right until someone proves it.

i no but what i heard is that a ghost is just a figment of imagination you create the image.. so like how could it hurt you.. if you hink about it.. you panic by youself.. you do things to hurt ya body or try n hurt the ghost but it causes you to be in pain.. i hope yall no what im sayin

i think ghost are real cuz i belive in god and if there is good im sure her is evil 2

i get ya lucidelement. i think it's a good theory too, but i don't think it could explain everything. like if you believe in poltergeist activity then that means stuff is supposed to actually move. well, now that i think about it, since we don't really know the full powers of the mind maybe the mind is doing some sort of transference and making things move. you know, telekinesis.
i think i might be more inclined to believe in telekinesis more than poltergeists. our minds are so under used....well, my mind is anyway...lol

how would that explain things such as ghosts vanishing through walls, or other inexplicable phenomena? I think a lot of things can be attributed to the complexity of the human brain (and what little we really know about it), but there is still a percentage that still eludes us.

Interesting theory tho.

agreed. it's just like any other phenomenon, there will always be an exception that doesn't want to fit the theory.
it's irritating, but it keeps us on our toes!

the ghosts dissapearing thru walls could just be in our imagination.. and yeah telekenis could make things move... but wouldnt you no if u had telekenisis before hand???

Hey Lucid! what you say is true, some of it could be paranoia, some of it. There are those times where your going about your business, not thinking about anything spooky, doing your thing and boom something happens that can't be explained or ignored. There are just some things that can't be reasoned out to imagination. Interesting theory though

i hear ya sofia, there is a lot of theories out there, i just had mine, i thought it was pretty good...

but not all ghosts r evil r they?

i think that if there are ghosts, they would be as varied as living ppl. some ppl (ed and lorainne warren) think that all ghosts are demons. as many comforting tales that there are about ghosts, i don't see how they all could be evil.
that's just me tho.

OK, look at it this way then. There have been accounts of sightings from all over the world regarding ghosts. In some instances they are seen to be maybe headless, legless, or to disappear through walls, or in one case, an entire column of Roman soldiers marching through someones basement....

guessed where I am coming from yet? no? well:

it was also noted that the people who witnessed above events new nothing about the history of house/basement wherever they had the sighting, until questioning other people. 2 examples being that interior changes in a house had put up or changed walls that used to have doors in them, and the 'ghost' is walking along the same route it did when alive, and that where they disapper, was actually where the door used to be back in the day. In the case of the roman soldiers, obviously they were around before the house was built, as they are walking along the road that the houses were built on, so it looked like they would appear through one wall, across the corridor, and through the wall the other side.(it should alsobe noted that they could only be seen from the knees up, suggesting the level of the original road was significantly lower than the foundations of the house). If you had no prior knowledge of the layout of the house, how would your brain make that up?

This also makes me think that is ghosts are real, they are more of a playback feature than a disembodied spirit, almost like seeing something on a movie screen, something that is natural, and explainable, just not fully understood...

...yet.

i agree hoagy.
if there are ghosts then i would think they would play like a vcr.
when a person dies their energy has to go somewhere so why not as a ghost?

I think I may have a good theory about how ghosts come about. What if the everyday things you did left a sort of electrical-magnetic-spiritual imprint. Now what if the imprint strength was directly proportional to the amount repetition. So by inference the best imprint strength would be found in the areas you most frequent ie:your work, house, car, favorite spot, etc. That could explain ghosts that are geographically specific. It would also explain why they are for the most part non-interactive, its like a record skipping, playing over and over a frequent imprint. Its like walking on a trail the more you walk on it the more path you lay down.
This theory might also explain tragic hauntings. Instances where the release of a persons soul was either violent or just plain horrific(ie fires, drowning) you might be emitting/releasing a good portion of the stuff that is your spirit at the intsance of death.
It might only take a living person in near proximity to activate it or it might need an electrical storm to charge it up I don't know, but its something to think about.

good one Stixxman, that was kinda what I was referring to at the end of my last post. It could also account for poltergeist activity too, bring along, for example, a young teenager just going through puberty, releasing large amounts of energy, could be the hypothetical 'finger' hitting the 'play' button.

The problem with the ghost in the head theory is
when someone is sitting in their home and the doors open and close and the table lifts up from the ground this isn't just and imagination this is a haunting or worse..

We find this stuff all the time..

Maybe your talking residual like being played over and over and over like a vcr/dvd tape just playing out a part.. and images present them selves like a movie playing again and again maybe?

that's called a residual haunt...


Joe

i agree with the frequent imprint theory, but then it makes you wonder, how come all ppl who died horribly don't haunt? did they go to the light thereby not creating an imprint of sorts?

Interesting, maybe the people who end up staying behind to haunt are the same kind of people that in life couldn't let go easily. Maybe you get a choiceat the point of death to use the energy of your spirit one last time and you can either expel it one last time to remain on earth, or use it to proceed to the after life and the next phase of existence.

yeah or maybe they don't realize that they are dead. i've heard of that a lot. i wouldn't want to stay around and repeat my horrific death or stay where it occured! i think i'd hit the road!

I have seen Ghosts myself and I don't think it was just a vision. I believe that it was really a ghost. Not necessarily to haunt me but to tell me "hey I am here" I think that some Ghosts like coldethyl said don't believe they are dead. Creepy. 101

if a ghost is a former person who doesn't realize that he/she is dead then will a haunting stop when the ghost is told that he/she is dead? i've heard in some cases that the hauntings stop, but in other cases they do not. i guess it could be attributed to a person's stubborness.

scary thought ethyl!!!!! grrr... ghosts make me shiver.. yet i luv the metal ... hehe dosent add up!

I think you are right, ghosts are probably all in the mind, but why? If that is so, it proves they exsist - in the mind! That will get you all thinking.....

You might be correct but your theory does not explain much. So, here's a questions from another thread that no body can answer yet. How can you prove that ghost don't exist? What solid evidence do we have that they do not exist. That's a hard one.

hehe...good one!

I WILL CHALLENGE YOU. Sounds like you're the one that isn't very educated. I bet I could back you into a corner and you'll have no where to go.

Do you really think most of us are in this forum because we think ghost are real because that's what the rumor is. We never said that! I bet most people in this forum did not plan in believing in ghosts but have questions to what can not be explain. We are simply trying to prove that something is going on. We are trying to prove that our experiences are not paranormal, but we can't, and that's why we are here. I bet you we have more proof of things going on than your proof that things don't exist. You retard.

"The great thinkers are those who resign from the herd and thinks for himself"

I guess stupid people had stupid ideas like building big metal flying birds to transport people and sending information through the air using infared like remote controls. I'm pretty sure those things were sounded stupid too at one time. I bet many things were thought to be a little crazy when it is not known.

I don't think it's quite that simple, it just dosn't explain the plethora of interactions they have with us, e.g. 1/ why are they animated if they are just photograths?. 2/ how can they physically touch you?. 3/ how can they cause a drop in temperature?. 4/ how can they move objects. 5/ how are they able to sometimes point you towards finding something,.. or give you information you knew nothing about?. 6/ why can they look like someone you have never seen or recognised before?.it wouldn't make sense, So for 'now' i don't think it's likely to be that theory



Oh dear,.Im just wondering,...how many stories(personal accounts) have you actually read or found out about ,.And what has given you the impression that ghost's are never reported in daytime and as for "no sufficiently documented cases" where the hell have you been? I can only surmise that you are either, 1) very young? 2) a newcomer to this topic? 3) very slow at taking in information, or 4) an out and out debunker(most sinister of all) As for us all being here to "throw in our 2 cents"......Have you any idea what the point of a "FORUM" is?..And "YOU" say "WE" know nothing

have a question? can a ghost haunt parts of the internet?

Our old house was haunted. Things flew off the shelf, the timer on the oven went off by itself, you would hear someone walking around when no one was there, and one night we flat-out saw it standing in the lot next to our house, my mom and I. I actually don't post in the ghost forums as much because I already know they exist. Things like Bigfoot and aliens, I don't actually have any personal proof of, so they interest me a little more. I plan on going to take some pictures of the house sometime this summer. Who knows? Maybe something will show up...

Truth is..no one knows the answer to that question..or at least 'not in a provable way' so all you can do is decide for yourself whether 'you believe' that it 'could' be a possibility.. and personally speaking, i've never come across any articles in the paranormal field that have stated that it 'could'nt' be a possibility, and i doubt they would be able to 'prove' it anyway
So the question is, what do "YOU" believe

Hey L.E. you might have something here i am not sure ghost are real but than again i am not sure aliens are real all i know is they both could be real and untill we get better pics (of ghost) or a body (alien) we can only guess, ps- do not worry we know you are real!!

You sound like the most uneducated person in here. If you think you are more educated then us than why do you have such a NARROW MIND. Why is it that you go through such trouble to tell us how stupid we are when I guarantee you are probably not on the same level of thinking as we are. I seriously don't anyone said they were straight full believers in ghost. I bet most of us are skeptics. Please leave this forum if you have anything bad to say. I BET YOU CAN'T PROVE ME WRONG.

cmay68, if you dont believe, you dont have to come to these forums, and try to act like your better (or even equal) than its members, i can tell that you are the kind of stuck up, know-it-all, who isnt willing to even consider someone elses opinion. the reason we have this site is to get away from pompus jerks like you who think they have all the answers. well guess what, you don't, dust in the wind my friend.