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Started by efilnikufesin in Chit-Chat

Bit off the wall, but hey? Just been looking at pics etc of ‘ghosts’ online and thought it would be worth asking for you folks opinions on the question - Do ghosts exist?
(I am 50/50 on the possibility cause i think i may have seen one many years ago).

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 01:30

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I believe that some people have seen weird apparitions and stuff but I don’t believe they’re literally the souls/ghosts of the dead come back… I think there is a scientific explanation for the phenomenon, we just haven’t worked it out yet.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 08:02

#2

Dermot wrote:

I used to be very interested in the paranormal - but I don’t think ghosts exist anymore. Nowadays I’m more into cryptozoology - the study / hunt for animals that haven’t been proven to exist yet. They go from the famous / ridiculous (like Nessie or Bigfoot) to the more mundane and believeable - I spent hours looking it up in work the other day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cryptids

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 08:58

#3

Gav wrote:

Fuckin hell - thats an interesting question. The scientific part of me wants to say no and I definitely dont believe in the Derek Achora type shit… but there are one or two things that have happened which I cannot explain… proper freaky stuff.

Who knows?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 09:21

#4

Hanne wrote:

Dermot wrote:

I used to be very interested in the paranormal - but I don’t think ghosts exist anymore. Nowadays I’m more into cryptozoology - the study / hunt for animals that haven’t been proven to exist yet. They go from the famous / ridiculous (like Nessie or Bigfoot) to the more mundane and believeable - I spent hours looking it up in work the other day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cryptids

AHA! I have discovered the Canvey Island Monster. Is it just me or is the artistic interpretation a little bit… dirty?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 09:31

#5

Gav wrote:

Isn’t that where Oates takes his holidays?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 09:34

#6

Hanne wrote:

Well, where he did take his holidays.

Before the incident :(

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 09:43

#7

Dermot wrote:

Hanne wrote:

Is it just me or is the artistic interpretation a little bit… dirty?

Yes, ‘tis a bit lewd alright… very Lovecraftian looking (ie scary monsters that look like willys / woman’s “parts”) :o

Here’s a much nicer “artist’s” impression that was in the news recently ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5180404.stm

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 12:47

#8

mrs h wrote:

I’m with Sarah and Gav. I don’t believe dead people can wander about looking see-through and wailing and clanking chains, but I do accept that living people have seen those things.

I have had some really strange experiences that I don’t think anyone could explain scientifically, and I know other people who have - so as far as I’m concerned there’s definitely more to the world than meets the eye …

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:26

#9

mrs h wrote:

Dermot wrote:

Here’s a much nicer “artist’s” impression that was in the news recently ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5180404.stm

That is just too cute!! :D

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:28

#10

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

What’s that phrase? ‘The magic of the past is the science of today’?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:31

#11

mrs h wrote:

Well I did watch a thing recently about quantum mechanics that completely blew me away, and I guess in a few years their might be answers to all this paranormal stuff - but for now I think we have to just pass it off as ‘weird and a bit spooky’ :D

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:37

#12

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

That’s how I feel about the Internal combustion engine.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:38

#13

mrs h wrote:

:D

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:46

#14

msd wrote:

I think ghosts could exist as some kind of essence burnt into the fabric of time blah blah blah, but not as beings who have any soul or consciousness.

I would love to see a ghost though.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:48

#15

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

There’s the theory that what happens to you after you die depends on what you _believe_ will happen to you. Which would mean that ghosts are probably figments of their own imagination.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:53

#16

mrs h wrote:

mr self destruct wrote:

I think ghosts could exist as some kind of essence burnt into the fabric of time blah blah blah, but not as beings who have any soul or consciousness.

I would love to see a ghost though.

When you get back you should go to Skipton. The little street that has ‘The Woolly Sheep’ in it is supposed to be the most haunted street in Britain. And I have to say the staircase in the woolly Sheep gives me the creeps! :(

I went to Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh a couple of years back. that was quite creepy and is supposed to be haunted by loads of plague victims.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 15:59

#17

msd wrote:

@d: Why would anyone believe they’re going to spend eternity trapped in an old house, occasionally making moaning noises, after they die?

Islamic terrorists have the right idea, then :)

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:01

#18

mrs h wrote:

Force of habit?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:02

#19

msd wrote:

mrs h wrote:

When you get back you should go to Skipton. The little street that has ‘The Woolly Sheep’ in it is supposed to be the most haunted street in Britain.

Do you think Skipton Town Council would mind me camping out in one of their streets for a few months until I spot one?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:04

#20

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

mr self destruct wrote:

@d: Why would anyone believe they’re going to spend eternity trapped in an old house, occasionally making moaning noises, after they die?

They would if they spent their life doing just that. ;)
That’s what you think ghosts are/do. So if you also actually believed that people who died became ghosts, then that’s what’d happen to you after you die.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:04

#21

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

mrs h wrote:

Force of habit?

:) Pretty much.

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:05

#22

mrs h wrote:

I truly believe I’m going to be reincarnated as a millionnaire :D

and I really am going now, but not to die :)

*waves*

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:06

#23

Gav wrote:

Death? Well I ticked the opt-out clause at the bottom of the page in small print - didn’t you all not?

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 16:42

#24

msd wrote:

I was hoping for a few ghost puns at some point during this thread…

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 17:58

#25

Gav wrote:

You would probably ‘see-through’ any attempt at a joke…

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 18:26

#26

Dermot wrote:

That’s the ‘spirit’!

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 18:27

#27

Gav wrote:

‘arf arf! :D

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 18:30

#28

msd wrote:

I think mrs h has passed out - can someone please go and in-‘spectre’? (‘inspect her’)

:rolleyes:

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 18:45

#29

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

That would have been funny if you hadn’t explained it. ;)

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 20:41

#30

mrs h wrote:

No it bloody well wouldn’t! :mad:

Posted on Sun, 10 September 2006 at 20:52

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