Tell me a ghost story
May. 15th, 2003 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyringleOn that survey I filled out two days ago, there was a question about whether I believe in ghosts. My answer basically is that I haven't ever seen one, but some part of my mind thinks they're possible. Or, rather, hopes they're possible, because it would suggest life after death and all kinds of interesting physics-related things.
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ten_fifteen filled out the survey, she alluded to a few experiences she couldn't quite explain away. She and her husband (alltimeqb) are rational, reliable people, as far as I know, so I prodded her into relating some of these experiences, and they are genuinely creepy and pretty difficult to account for.
So, the rest of you: do you have any such encounters? Let's do a forum on this. I want only first-hand ghost stories, stuff you personally experienced, not a tale handed down from your grandfather or your mother-in-law (even though those may be cool). Also, feel free to do your best at explaining it - e.g., "But then, I was looking through a pane of glass, so I suppose it could have been a reflection..." - just to make this as scientific as possible.
Banshees, poltergeist, telekinesis, and other strange earthly phenomena are fair game, too; it doesn't have to be an actual visible "ghost." But let's leave Bigfoot and UFO's out of it. We'll do that another time.
P.S. Kev or Kim, say the word and I'll remove that link (and/or your names). You needn't be an exhibit if you don't want to be. :)
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ten_fifteen filled out the survey, she alluded to a few experiences she couldn't quite explain away. She and her husband (alltimeqb) are rational, reliable people, as far as I know, so I prodded her into relating some of these experiences, and they are genuinely creepy and pretty difficult to account for.So, the rest of you: do you have any such encounters? Let's do a forum on this. I want only first-hand ghost stories, stuff you personally experienced, not a tale handed down from your grandfather or your mother-in-law (even though those may be cool). Also, feel free to do your best at explaining it - e.g., "But then, I was looking through a pane of glass, so I suppose it could have been a reflection..." - just to make this as scientific as possible.
Banshees, poltergeist, telekinesis, and other strange earthly phenomena are fair game, too; it doesn't have to be an actual visible "ghost." But let's leave Bigfoot and UFO's out of it. We'll do that another time.
P.S. Kev or Kim, say the word and I'll remove that link (and/or your names). You needn't be an exhibit if you don't want to be. :)
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Re: He asked....
Date: 2003-05-15 06:24 pm (UTC)The only instance I can really offer is this one:
Myself and two of my friends were up in Fall Creek (a high-spirit-concentration-type forest near our school) and, after some instances of feeling like we were being tugged around, we settled onto some logs that stretch over a small creek-type-thing. It's hard to explain if you've never been there. Anyways, Dan asks me to recite some Shakespeare -- so I start on the Ghost's monologue (from Hamlet), which I had recently memorized. And then he, and he's very intellectual, atheist, and agnostic, suddenly started spouting out "Jesus is the lord" and "Women are the original sin" ideas in a southern accent, and wanting to know where "Main Street" is (there IS no Main St. in this area) and yeaaah. Then I slipped on a log and almost fell into the creek -- and he was normal again, and didn't remember a thing. His memory goes from me reciting Shakespeare to me falling from the log.
...and that's the only one I can offer because I was directly involved in it -- I wasn't just shielding or emotionally supporting someone else.
I say I strongly believe in ghosts/spirits/etc. because I can feel them. But... that's not very scientific. XD
Re: He asked....
Date: 2003-05-15 10:06 pm (UTC)Always hard to evaluate when it's a case of "possession," of course, because it could be the brain pulling some sort of strange self-hypnosis on its owner. The brain seems capable of just about anything. Similarly, if people are actually out looking for ghosts or spirits, then maybe they've subconsciously tricked themselves into seeing or experiencing something. Always the trouble...you have to be there to have any idea what happened, and I've never been there. :)
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Date: 2003-05-15 10:26 pm (UTC)