Clancy Sullivan

That is a ghost.

Aimee finds da best shit!

Aimee Weber

SPOOOOKY!

Aimee Weber

Yeah, that had to be one SERIOUSLY slow news day.

Clancy Sullivan

Don't make fun of me, this really took place. Besides, there are no gay ghosts because they all go directly to Hell, only the straight ones roam about.

Joshua Nightshade

That video looked mostly bullshit.

I will say though. I don't believe in "ghosts," as in, a manifestation of someone who has died, from beyond the grave.

However after I first moved into my new apartment (I think I wrote about this here, but I don't remember, and it is four am) I kept waking up in the middle of the night multiple times for the first few days. I would "hear" something while I was asleep and jerk awake, feeling that the entire room was really muggy and hot and the air was very thick. About a week after I moved in I woke up and there was very clearly a woman floating right off the foot of my bed with a shopping cart in front of her. It didn't scare me so much as startle, and I flicked the light on and it went away. So I got out of bed, burned some sage and said a prayer, and haven't been bothered since.

I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe that once someone dies we really have any mechanism to get in touch with them again. I don't know this for sure, obviously, but in my personal experience I don't believe this is the case. I don't believe the dead come back to us after they're gone.

I do believe, however, that people leave imprints on matter as they interact with it. That a person who lives in a home for forty years will imprint themselves on the walls of that home and could possibly manifest in a manner that someone might consider a spirit or ghost. Or someone who dies violently. Or someone who considered a place a happy spot and cherished its location. But I don't believe these things carry any conscious thought or rationale and are basically just residual charges in an electrical appliance after the plug's already been pulled.

Clancy Sullivan

OMG, Aimee, the lights started flickering in my apartment when I watched this one.

Nice sound track, lol.

Joshua Nightshade

Edit to add, I lost someone a few years ago, and if there were any way for someone to come back from the dead, even minutely, he would have.

Aimee Weber

I should get an award for finding this one.

Clancy Sullivan

Joshua Nightshade

Ghostzilla?

Clancy Sullivan

Oh wow, I think this lady was once on the Jerry Springer Show, beating on her daughter's boy friend who was, like, 40 years older than her.

Jugs

i can't seez the vids owell and josh what you said about imprinting is basicaly the point i was tring to get at....well put.

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Aimee Weber

Well it cracks me up because it reminds me of a bad Ed Wood movie, with flying saucers that pendulate from fishing line.

I suspect somebody used the car-dump crane to play a little joke

Clancy Sullivan

Click on the hyperlink at the top of the video image window, this brings you to YouTube where you should be able to see the videos.

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Aimee Weber

God it's late. I am going to bed. But I will leave you all with this, you shouldn't believe in silly superstitions and instead should take a scientific approach to "ghosts."

In this video you will see how ghosts meet hard science.

Joshua Nightshade

WIN.

Mukatsuku

I love this series of programmes - although the Ghosts episode was my least favourite.
I liked the music episode about the mouse.

The one with "thanks ants.... thants" and "bless you ants.... blants" amused me too.

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I think this is short enough and maybe self explanatory enough to not need a translation, but I can give a short explanation if people want it.

Walker

Did any Brits in this thread watch Ghostwatch? Live. (Repeat showings don't count.)

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

I watched it live with my mother, and it REALLY scared us. We came out the other side in utter disbelief. I was young though. Not sure what her excuse was.

We missed the Screen One drama credit at the start, and because we were so accustomed to Mike Smith and Sarah Greene presenting this kind of factual documentary show, we were really taken-in. Watching it now makes me feel really silly, but I'm far more cynical and aware of television drama these days.

I remember a young lad committed suicide and mentioned the show in his note. Something to the effect of telling his mum not to worry. He'd be alright. They knew there was life after death now.

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As far as real life experiences are concerned, I've had a few .. interesting .. moments. Most notable:

1. Walking over a canal bridge on a dark winter evening, my friend and I (we were both about ten at the time) saw "a glowing green head" floating across the surface. Our imaginations were quite something, and we got a lot of mileage out of it at school, but as an adult I am 100% certain it was nothing more than a will o' the wisp.

2. An uncle to whom I was very close died three years ago, and the night before his funeral, I was thinking about him .. upset .. wishing I'd done this, that and the other before he'd died, when suddenly I became aware of my late grandparents very close-by, reaching out to him as he approached them...sort of welcoming him. It wasn't like a "dream" vision, but it wasn't like a ghostly image in front of me either. So difficult to explain. Like this was taking place in another room and a third eye was being given a sidelong glance into it. It was comforting and over in about ten seconds, and probably down to nothing more than a mental coping mechanism. Never underestimate the resourcefulness of your own brain during times of intense emotion.

Mukatsuku

I have seen Ghostwatch, not live though.
I liked it

Clancy Sullivan

Walker

It skeeeered me.

Mourna Biziou

My great-grandmother was always after my mother to quit smoking. After she died, my mother (and no one else) heard what could only be described as the rustling of cellophane coming from her coffin. This sound would plague her at various times, when she also 'felt her presence.' A few months after my great-grandmother died, my mother woke up to hear cellophane furiously rattling. She got up to investigate, and found her cigarettes in an odd state. They were where she left them on the table, uniformly wetted and stained reddish, but there was no evidence of any moisture anywhere else. She began to quit the next day, and never had another experience. =P

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