As this board typically is the most sane...

Do you believe in ghosts or any supernatural things? If so, have you encountered anything?

What was in the kitchen??

I'm on the no bandwagon, for both religious and practical reasons but the topic and stories have always interested me

Earlier this month I hunted pronghorn and they disappeared like ghosts.

In the stereotypical sense that most people think of when talking about ghosts- no, I do not believe the exist like that.

But I chased a 380" bull with my Dad in the Gila, and I'm telling you ghosts do exist. He gave is the slip 4 days in a row. The second time, we had a spotter up high watching him for hours, while we made a LONG stalk. We knew exactly what tree he was standing by, and what young bull he was with. We were 50 yards away, and could clearly see the tree and young bull. Never saw the old man. Our spotter later said he couldn't figure out why we didn't shoot, as the big bull was standing right next to the young one, 10 yards from the tree.

The final time, he ran 6 cows into a small but VERY thick stand of jumper and oak brush. We have 4 people watching from different spots, and it was barren ground 360 degrees around it. We waited for 4 hours, and spotted every other elk in that time frame. Finally, with time ticking down, I decided to try and push the elk out hoping my Dad would get a shot. I walked every square inch of that stand, and bumped every other elk (which he could have shot any one of). The old bull must have dug a hole to China. He was freaking gone.

Our season ended, and another stated a few days later. Within 100 yards of where we last saw the bull, and elderly gentleman pulled up in a Polaris. The old bull came out 50 yards from them and stood in the 2 track road, just looking at the old man while he got out of the Polaris, loaded his blackpowder (he had forgotten to load it), and settled in for a shot. We just said that God most have predestined that bull for him.

No.

I've never seen a ghost. I like to think that if they were real, some of my friends and family would've made an appearance. I can say as someone who has an iffy faith, seeing a ghost would go a really long way to shoring up my faith. I'd like to see that just to know the possibility is there.

But not that poltergeist ****…

BrazosDog02 said:

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I've never seen a ghost. I like to think that if they were real, some of my friends and family would've made an appearance. I can say as someone who has an iffy faith on the existence of God, seeing a ghost would go a really long way to shoring up my faith. I'd like to see that just to know the possibility is there.

But not that poltergeist ****…

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I'm with you. I was raised in a heavily scientific environment; grew up very much atheistic. Then it was science that actually led me to begin exploring the existence of God. I've never seen a ghost, but I have personally seen and experienced several different things (with other witnesses each time) that have absolutely no worldly explanation. For me personally- there is not a shred of doubt left about His existence or activity.

It's hard to say this and have people believe you but I've absolutely seen a ghost or apparition or whatever you want to call it.
I wasn't alone. I had another witness and many others around us that could only see the two of us and our reaction at the moment. Even had a dog with us that "saw" it at the same time as me and my brother in law and reacted to it.

I'm a church-going individual without a drinking problem (or drugs as I've never touched them in my life).
I'm 48 now, but was about 43 at the time.

Honest to goodness there was no other way around what we saw. And both me and my brother in law described it almost simultaneously to the group.

Didn't believe before and now I most certainly believe now

I've never personally witnessed a ghost, but my Dad swears
that his Dad visited him in his home after he passed away and that he was clearly visible. Dad may have been painting the hallway with oil-based paint at the time though.

I have personally seen things I can't explain.

But the wildest story was my friend's parents rented his grandparents house out to a totally stranger after they passed. After a few weeks, the renter asked my friend's parents who had lived their before. He started describing a man he sees all the time smoking a pipe in living room. It was the grandfather. Personally I would move out, but the guy asked if grandpa was a nice person in life and he was. He said it was fine to share the house with the old guy. Interesting stuff.

I am always iffy as I generally think there is a logical explaation for most things.

But then there are those few things here and there that logic doesnt explain.

I spent 10 minutes looking through the ditches on Bird Pond road one night for what I thought was a lady walking alone in a very rural part of the road by herself. I am 100% sure i saw her, but when i pulled over..nothing. Eerily quiet, to the point i started getting spooked. No wind, no crickets, no other noises of the night. I cannot explain any of it, and apparently others have seen her also. I have no idea what the story is on her either.

Who knows? Sometimes i convince myself its all hokey, other times i wonder if a soul can get lost between this world and the next.

What did the apparition look like?

My great Aunt Cele died and my wife and I went to the funeral. She had somewhat shared raising me for a period of time and loved me like a parent would. Great lady, and my wife loved her too. As with most German families we had nick names for each other and mine was "Bubba".

My wife and I drove back to College Station after the funeral in SA. I was still in school so we lived in a crappy duplex off of Choctaw in Bryan.

We slept with the sliding glass door open when it was cool outside. We were sound asleep on the night of her funeral and I was woken up by someone saying "Bubba, Bubba, Bubba," right outside the open sliding glass door. I was startled and grabbed my pistol and pointed it at the door. My wife woke up and said who is outside calling your name? That's when it freaked me out and we both heard, "Bubba, Bubba" again.

I have no doubt that was my Aunt telling me goodbye. My brother also had the same experience with his nickname the same night. I have thought of her ever since as my guardian angel.

No ghosts, but plenty of things I can't explain.

My wife and I had a prophetic dream that was clear as day that came true exactly as the dream stated. What was weird is that we had the dream on the same night, but in two different parts. Hers was the prophetic dream. My dream was that an angel was the one talking to my wife.

When I was in 8th grade, I caught my Dad's kitchen on fire. I had the hardest time getting it out, because I couldn't find the fire extinguisher, which had been moved. When I finally did get it out, my father called from work immediately on the house land line. He asked if everything was OK. I asked him why he asked. He said he just felt like something terrible had just happened. I then admitted to the fire.

My Mom told me my Dad called the hospital in the middle of the night where my grandfather was within minutes of him passing.

Me, my Dad, and my Grandad just have some kind of psychic connection when it comes to strongly negative emotions.

A few other spiritual things, but I will leave those out.

I grew up desperately poor and we moved a lot. I attended 10 different elementaries in 6 years. Some of those places were crazy to live in. If yall have seen the first Paranormal activity movie, I have experienced pretty much everything in there at some point. Aside from being drug off the bed. That one has not happened yet. Though I have been tapped and tugged on. Enough to move my body and clothes a little.

It is to the point It simply doesn't bother me aside from two places I have lived in. And the time I think a shadow person followed me around for a couple of years...

I don't "believe" in what society thinks of ghosts exactly though. I chalk it up to stuff that we simply do not understand and cannot comprehend as we do not have the instrumentation or senses to do so. There are vast periods of human history where this has been true. It is a fallacy to think we know and understand everything as we sit here now. So no, I am not the crazed one trying to convince everyone of the "other side" or anything and have zero dog in this fight. But I am very firm in the belief that things sometimes happen that cannot be explained as of yet. I have very strong reasons for that assertion.

Honestly, what kills me and is the only thing that will ever make me speak out about this, are those who KNOW anything of this nature does not exist. The violently oppose the very idea as if even thinking about it will disrupt their fundamental state of being type of people. It is so weird to me. So I of course have to poke at them for that. Like, "Shut up Jimmy. You don't even know your wife is cheating on you so how can you possibly know everything about the metaverse?."

Halloween is near

SoTx Ag said:

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It's hard to say this and have people believe you but I've absolutely seen a ghost or apparition or whatever you want to call it.
I wasn't alone. I had another witness and many others around us that could only see the two of us and our reaction at the moment. Even had a dog with us that "saw" it at the same time as me and my brother in law and reacted to it.

I'm a church-going individual without a drinking problem (or drugs as I've never touched them in my life).
I'm 48 now, but was about 43 at the time.

Honest to goodness there was no other way around what we saw. And both me and my brother in law described it almost simultaneously to the group.

Didn't believe before and now I most certainly believe now

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There were two distinct points in my life where I went from "oh this is weird" while shrugging it off to "this is not entirely normal and I am not crazy". When people around me started to be affected by it was my first clue. Knowing that someone next to you just went through an event with you and neither can explain it or even come close does put a different perspective on things when you had previously normalized it.

aggiedata said:

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I have personally seen things I can't explain.

But the wildest story was my friend's parents rented his grandparents house out to a totally stranger after they passed. After a few weeks, the renter asked my friend's parents who had lived their before. He started describing a man he sees all the time smoking a pipe in living room. It was the grandfather. Personally I would move out, but the guy asked if grandpa was a nice person in life and he was. He said it was fine to share the house with the old guy. Interesting stuff.

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They do mushrooms.

Check football board. There's a huge group of people who are seeing things they can't explain.

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Wearer of the Ring said:

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Check football board. There's a huge group of people who are seeing things they can't explain.

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I have no doubt what so ever that ghost/spirits exist and will manifest. I've personally witnessed it on three separate occasions and two of those there were witnesses that saw and heard what I did.

Religion plays no part, IMO, as to whether these things exist or not, but the Bible does make reference to this in many places.

As a devout Christian I have always found Mr. Shakespeare's line from Hamlet to be so very true

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'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'

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too much we have no idea of to believe we know everything.

I love these stories, very interesting. But Luke 16:26 always keeps me in check.

They are definitely out there.

My oldest son, when he was 1 to 2 ish could speak really well early on. On a few different occasions had seen grandparents that have died. Most notably, he was in his crib one night, and a picture above his bed fell off the wall and some glass shattered in his crib. He said that a nice cowboy told him not to touch the glass so he didn't. My dad always wore a cowboy hat. Also another time we were pulling up to my wife's parents house, and he asked who that was over by some bushes. He described the man to look a lot like his great grandfather. Lots of weird things like that.

Also my grandmother as LOTS of ghost stories when she was a kid. And it wasn't just her, it was a lot of her brothers and sisters with her when these things happened. Most of the time it involved cold air around the ghost/apparition.

Also, also not sure why some above are saying they are religious so don't believe in ghosts... actually feel the opposite.

Hungry Ojos said:

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I love these stories, very interesting. But Luke 16:26 always keeps me in check.

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Huh? That is talking about the separation between heaven and hell.

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jpb1999 said:

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They are definitely out there.

My oldest son, when he was 1 to 2 ish could speak really well early on. On a few different occasions had seen grandparents that have died. Most notably, he was in his crib one night, and a picture above his bed fell off the wall and some glass shattered in his crib. He said that a nice cowboy told him not to touch the glass so he didn't. My dad always wore a cowboy hat. Also another time we were pulling up to my wife's parents house, and he asked who that was over by some bushes. He described the man to look a lot like his great grandfather. Lots of weird things like that.

Also my grandmother as LOTS of ghost stories when she was a kid. And it wasn't just her, it was a lot of her brothers and sisters with her when these things happened. Most of the time it involved cold air around the ghost/apparition.

Also, also not sure why some above are saying they are religious so don't believe in ghosts... actually feel the opposite.

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This. To me, it proves that we're not just a clump of cells running around that just ceases to be when we die. Intelligent hauntings (as opposed to residual) prove to me that we possess and energy ("spirit") that continues on after our mortal bodies have stopped working.

And I've posted about it numerous times in the past, but my wife out of an old Victorian house that had tons of activity from at least 4-5 different entities. Lots of doors opening and closing on their own, footsteps when no one else was there, etc. She eventually told her boss to move or or she was quitting after something tried to get in the bathroom while she was in it - footsteps from the entrance door, the door handle turned and shook while she was washing her hands, so she opened the door immediately after and no one was there. Word got out and multiple groups came through to investigate. I chaperoned two of them thinking it was going to be dumb, but my experiences opened my eyes to the fact that there are absolutely without a doubt things that we can't explain.

I swear there's a ghost ay my house.....always leaving the toilet seat up and I catch hell for it!

SoTx Ag said:

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It's hard to say this and have people believe you but I've absolutely seen a ghost or apparition or whatever you want to call it.
I wasn't alone. I had another witness and many others around us that could only see the two of us and our reaction at the moment. Even had a dog with us that "saw" it at the same time as me and my brother in law and reacted to it.

I'm a church-going individual without a drinking problem (or drugs as I've never touched them in my life).
I'm 48 now, but was about 43 at the time.

Honest to goodness there was no other way around what we saw. And both me and my brother in law described it almost simultaneously to the group.

Didn't believe before and now I most certainly believe now

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I do believe you. This kind of stuff happens more than I think we realize. You can see accounts of it in the Bible as well. There is so much more to this universe than we see or understand, but we occasionally have encounters with things that are beyond our normal realm of perception/understanding. Our imaginations have left us with the Halloween, horror, Casper, and haunting sort of stereotypical stuff- which is what I don't believe in.

When my grandfather was dying at the hospital, we took a break and went home for lunch. My mom and I both heard the doorbell while eating. I went to the door. Nothing. Sat back down. It rang again. Only my mom and I heard it. No one at door. There were about 6 of us eating. 4 didn't hear a thing. You guessed it…my grandfather passed shortly after.

I'm a logic first guy. I can't explain that one.

Hungry Ojos said:

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I love these stories, very interesting. But Luke 16:26 always keeps me in check.

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This is just my opinion: but I believe that is a bit of proof-texting to try to apply Luke 16:26 to this discussion as proof that ghosts don't exist. The context of that verse makes it clear that it is talking about eternity, and the unbridgeable gap that exists there. The whole point is that the man could have reached out to help on this side of eternity, but now it is too late. It has nothing to do with the existence of ghosts or not here on earth.

You also can't say that all things we would describe as ghosts are locked in hell behind an unbridgeable gap. You wouldn't be able to explain the Nephelim in Genesis 6, Satan's presence in Job, or the activity of the demons in this world throughout the New Testament, just to name a few.

If you believe that Luke 26 presents a clear defense that ghosts cannot exist- then how do you explain 1 Samuel 28:8-22, where Saul goes to see a "fortune teller" in Endor? I believe the fortune teller was a charlatan and scam artist (just like they are today), because Saul asked her to summon the ghost of Samuel from the afterlife, and she obliges- but then she is FLOORED and scared when it actually works (clearly surprised). Samuel (who had died previously) appears and converses with Saul. This story is not allegorical, it is in the same historical narrative as the rest of the book. You can't say that wasn't a ghost in the way we would describe one.

Not trying to derail the thread here. Just some food for thought from Scripture.

When my mom passed from cancer, she was in a hospice bed in my parent's room. The hospice bed was on the opposite side of the room as my parent's bed. She had a touch lamp that was "on" on the bedside table next to their bed. At pretty much the same time that she officially passed, the touch lamp turned off. No one was standing next to the lamp when it happened. I'm certain, that was her telling us goodbye.