OT: Talking Unsolved Legends / Events Wednesday - Ghosts

Logically I don't have a reason to believe but when you're in a place with history it's hard not to feel the electricity in the air and feel those chills run down your spine.

The only experience that comes to mind is when I was a teenager and visited an old mental hospital in my hometown on a dark wintry night (Eloise in Westland, MI for locals). I was with another group of kids. On our way to the hospital, we passed a man hole cover that was pried open in a field. Another kid made a wise crack about trapping someone down there and closed the cover. 

This was during the mid 2000s so we were using a digital camera in lieu of Snapchat to document our visit. When we came up to the side of the building and attempted to take a video, the fully charged camera strained to record, flashed, made a mechanical whirring noise and powered down. Upon rebooting the camera, a blurry collection of orbs appeared on the latest image it captured along with a cloud of mist that I thought resembled a face. That was enough for us.

On our way back to our card, the man hole cover was open again. 

I only hit save one time so why did this double post??

OP, do you think the ghost was in the room when you were watching porn?

In one sense, there's no logical reason to believe in ghosts. But in another sense I think there's enough personal experience that is hard to explain that could mean there is some kind of spiritual dimension. And of course as a person of faith I will always believe there is a spiritual realm, but whether it manifests in our dimension in any capacity is up for debate.

Slightly a different subject, but I've always had a hard time accepting the paranormal. But a few years ago I was walking up my driveway at night and I saw a light floating overhead. I stared at it thinking it might have been the ISS or another satellite, and then in a flash it changed direction 90 degrees and zoomed away at a speed I couldn't fathom, like it was flying into outer space. I still question if I hallucinated or something. I was perfectly sober and wasn't tired or anything. I can't explain what it was but it certainly made me wonder if anything we believe from an intellectual perspective is real.

I did an overnight visit at the Ohio State Reformatory (insert OSU criminal joke here), the retired prison where Shawshank was filmed. I had a digital recorder with me and captured a lot of unexplained voices, including responses to questions I asked and on one occasion, someone whistling, almost like a guard walking down the cell block. It was a pretty cool experience.

No. (A good way to avoid unexplained events like this is to not hang around people who believe in ghosts. Remarkably, nothing inexplicable ever happens if you just do that.)

The house I grew up in had many, many unexplained and weird occurrences. Footsteps (not pipes), loud bangs, voices (a man and a woman), children laughing, objects that would go completely lost when you needed them only to wind up on the kitchen table weeks later.

We would hire dog sitters and every one would report terrifying stuff. One of them simply took the dog out of the house to their own house, allowing all the house plants to die, because of how scared they were of the place. None of them ever came back for round two.

It was a creepy place. Eventually we all just started addressing the presence, because we all had so many personal experiences with it. I miss the house for a variety of reasons but also am glad I don't ever have to be alone in it again.

I went to church, and parochial schools, growing up.  But the more I learn about science, and see the actual physical evidence and the math behind it all, the less I believe.  Throughout history, not one shred of physical or scientific evidence has ever been produced to document the existence of ghosts, or God.  Not one.  Yet we continue to learn more about the entire universe surrounding us.  We have the math that proves it all, and are still refining and adding to that proof, while also discovering new facts about the world around us.

Throughout Earth's ~4.5 Billion years, we - humankind - have only been around for, what, ~10,000 years.  Somewhere in the universe, beyond our ability to find them (so far), is another planet harboring life.  That life may have visited us and decided against it.  We don't know...

Aliens seem far more plausible to me than a ghost does...

Like some posters I can't believe in a logical reason for ghosts.  I think it's possible unexplained activity attributed to ghosts/paranormal could be attributed to our senses.  We usually assume input from our senses as fact, but whether it's blips in the brain processing inputs, senses not working as they should, emotional input from the brain overriding data from our senses, etc I don't think they are anywhere as reliable as we generally think.

https://www.theonion.com/demonic-spirit-claws-way-out-of-hell-to-flicker-lights-1833096666

The night after my Mothers funeral back in 2014, I went to sleep on the couch while listening to music on my earbuds. Shortly thereafter, I was jarred awake by my mother pulling my arm and saying, "come with me."  

I did not see her, but the tug on my arm felt all to real as was here voice so clear. Was it in my head? Was it a dream? Why did she want me to go along? I did not want to go too.

Song playing at the time: Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

I don't believe in ghosts. I also do not want an experience that could potentially change my mind! I am good with dying never believing in them!