Do you believe in ghosts or spirits??? Have you ever seen one?

@SketcherD (1114)
Canada
October 18, 2008 2:11pm CST
I do happen to believe in ghosts or spirits. I have had one in my life since childhood. He has never left living with me. I have moved a few times and he has followed me to each place. I have tried to get him to move on but he won't go I have the feeling he is too scared as this seems to be an approximately 8 or 9 year old child. He hides things in the house on me and the family. He makes noises but is truly harmless. What is your experience with entities? Do you believe in them??
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19 responses
@Anchopy (1453)
• Paraguay
19 Oct 08
Hi SketcherD.. I do believe in ghosts.. I'm disturbed by a evil one, every night when I'm trying to sleep a black orb appears in front of me after I fell some kind of push in my shoulder.. I see it and suddenly disappears.. This is happening every night since I was about 19 years old and I don't do anything to make it leave.. I think that I'm getting used to that thing..
@Anchopy (1453)
• Paraguay
19 Oct 08
I would never speak to it.. I won't tell it to leave or challenge it.. I don't believe in any god..
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Then perhaps some incense that are for healing lit before you go to bed may help you?
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Well that one is a bit beyond me. What happens if you tell it to leave you alone or pray to whatever God you beleive in? Does that help at all?
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I have several that are in this house with us and, other than a time or two when they scared Shelly or out daughter, they are very harmless. I feel like they have the purpose of watching over me which is why they do not leave. I have only seen them in shadow forms except for the first time. That time I was asleep and they woke me up by talking to me, delivering a message and all I could tell was that there were a couple of men in the room with me. Once the message was delivered, they were gone and they stayed gone for months. I didn't notice them again until after Shelly and our daughter came to live here. They may have been here all along I just didn't pay any attention I guess
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Actually, it was both personal and religious The funny part is that, even though it was an important message for me at the time, I cannot for the life of me remember what the man said to me. It's like I know it's in my brain but there's like a block in there that prevents me from remembering it. It drives me nuts, thinking about it
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
OH cool. What was the message or is it too personal?
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Hmm isn't that interesting. I wonder what it was?
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@limcyjain (3516)
• India
19 Oct 08
I have never seen any spirits or ghosts but i have a feeling that they do exist. I have heard it from a good number of people that they have actually seen one. I dont actually want to encounter one as i feel it would be very scary.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Thank you. But truly believe the fright would be very short lived maybe a split second. I believe this is because it is the feeling you get from the spirit or ghost that I normally feel which is quite often indifference to my presence.
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
19 Oct 08
yeah i do believe in ghosts.. i have seen one at one moment in my life when i was in elementary..just had a glmpse of it though..but i can feel if there are ghosts around..
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Yes that is when I first started seeing the ghosts I see in elementary school. Children are more open to the idea the adults as this discussion has brought out I believe anyway.
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@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I do belive in ghosts, And I believe they can follow you from home to home. I have seen some but even tho I got scsred they were harmless.
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@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I have not seen yet anything that makes me believe it is evil, the last time I got scare because it felt as tho someone walk fast right in front of me, as in a hurry. I run to my bedroom.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
18 Oct 08
I have only ever seen one that truly disturbed me. I came to find out that there was a very bad entity in the home that I saw this spirit in. But I find most are harmless.
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@cndn420 (2062)
• Canada
18 Oct 08
hi SketcherD, i don't believe in ghosts or spirits. i do think that if you believe in them you will have them around in your life but for me i dont believe at all so ive never encountered anything
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
18 Oct 08
Hmm really. I wish you could see what I see sometimes. It is not like I go looking for them. I just see them when they want to be seen. Sometimes it is not a pleasant feeling let me assure you when there is a bad encounter as they say.
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@cndn420 (2062)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
hey, im all for people believing it ghosts and what they want so i have nothing against it, personally i dont. :)
@dodo19 (47133)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
19 Oct 08
I do somewhat believe in ghosts, though I haven't experienced any encounters. Part of me would like to think that we're not alone.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
In my opinion it is very egotistical to think we are alone. The universe is so vast how can we be the only inhabited planet and how can there only be one plane of existence? There is so much we have no comprehension out there. Look at the people who used to think the world was flat. They could not comprehend anything else but that. So do we disbelieve something just because we don't see it and others do? Quite the questions...
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• United States
19 Oct 08
I must say that I have never seen or have had things happen to me when it comes to ghosts. I do believe that they do exist I know they are around us all wether we want them to be or not. I look at it this way if I do have one that is around me I simly just say " you are more than welcome to stay as long as you don't harm me or play any funny games. " I honestly don't know what I would do if I actually saw a real one scared out of my wits yes but so far haven't seen any. I have read up on them and found the information very intresting. But yes I do believe they exist.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Good for you. Just because you haven't seen one you do not think they don't exist. Thank you. I have had a few people tell me that because they don't see them they don't believe in them. I am sure if you saw one you wouldn't be as scared as you think.
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@Jul14nch0 (1414)
• Argentina
19 Oct 08
I have seen santa
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Right on!! Was he jolly and in a red suit??
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@chiaeugene (2225)
• China
19 Oct 08
yes. i believed in them and in what you said. this is becasue i had the same encounter too. not once but several times during my life and i shall not dwell on them as i do not find it appropriate. U are right, as long as u do not disturb them, they are fine and would not disturb you. the world is not only us but there are something else also sharing the pplace with us except that most people cannot see or they chose not to let others see them. there must be a reason why u can see them so keep it that way and respect them.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Thank you. Yes I believe I am a fairly open minded person, normally anyway. That is perhaps why I can see these entities and others cannot. Regarding the 'boy' I mentioned above, later in the same day both my daughter and husband (who has never seen anything before) saw this same said 'boy'. So I definitely know they are real.
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@adihindu (1922)
• India
19 Oct 08
I don't believe in existance of ghosts or spirits. I tried to get them for many times, but I was failed. I love reading ghost stories and experiences of ghosts. So this is a good topic to me. Thanks for a good post.
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@adihindu (1922)
• India
19 Oct 08
I have tried Ouija boards, spirit games and all. But I haven't find any. Even when I cross the burrial ground in midnoght, I wasn't scared off and none is there. So I believe there is so such thing.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
When my cousins and I used the Ouija board we had many answers given to us for the questions we asked. Too many sometimes. Yet when I did not have my hands on the pointer it did not move. Now you may think it was me pushing the pointer around but I did not. So I definitely believe in spirits because I have felt them and seen them. Some people do not have that affinity.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Your welcome. I am not sure what you mean when you say; I tried to get them for many times, but I was failed. I used to use Ouija boards but had too many bad feelings while doing it so I stopped using them. Is this what you meant?
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@Crocket (315)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
I do believe in spirits as I have the Holy Spirit living with me all the time. Once I became a "born again" Christian the Holy Spirit came into my life and is my Guardian Angel. The spirit can change from being male or female and helps me to live my life as a Christian although I am not telling anyone to do this on their own initiative as this is something you must consider as a life change for yourselves. The spirit knows things which I cannot comprehend and let's me know if things I am doing are correct or if I should stay away. The Holy Spirit is as real as any living form that is on this planet and I am truly grateful to have this spirit in my life. Crocket.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Bless you. I am glad you have found your way in that manner.
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• United States
19 Oct 08
I def. believe in the unknown... I've seen something once - I was on my drive way with a friend of mine in the middle of the night, we were talking on my car and smoking a cigrette. We BOTH saw a black shadow on the corner of my eye. My motion light did not come on ... be both turned and looked at each other and asked "you saw that right?!" We tried to see if it was an animal - a deer or something ... there was nothing there. Years later... my great grandma had passed away - I loved her dearly. My parents were still in the city sorting thru the her belongings - I was at home by myself. I went to school and when I got home there was all the cards she ever gave me on my bed. I can't remember if I had looked at them and put them somewhere to fall on my bed -- I just know I didn't put them there. It's creepy to think about it ... but I really think that there are spirits all around us. and you all now think i'm insane.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Absolutely not. I do not think you are insane. I was a friends house one day having a bar-be-que and when I needed to go in the house to go to the washroom. My teenage son came with me to use the bathroom as well. While we were waiting for my friend to move her dogs out of the way both my son and I saw a figure of a small boy run past us in the room we were waiting in. I said to my son "Did you just see what I saw?" he said "Ya creepy" when we told the owner she said that she has seen that 'boy' several times in that room herself. So yes I believe you!!!!
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@calyxus (825)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
Well, yes I believe in spirits. Even bad spirits if that is what you mean. For one thing, it will make them glad if people say that they do not believe in such things as entities. For that "child" you mentioned, I think you are bonded to him, there is a link between the two of you because as you said, he always follows you. maybe he wants something from you. but I tell you friend, do not be deceived with such entities. and do not be scared. They get stronger with your fear. Just keep your faith in God stronger and the evil one won't be able to harm you.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Thank you. I have faith and I know this one will not harm me. I have tried to get him to go to the place he should be but he is unwilling so far. I have tried numerous times over the decades but he seems to be afraid. I will keep trying however and with the help of a higher power he will go over to where he should be someday.
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@nickventere (1420)
• Zambia
19 Oct 08
That sounds more of a family/children's movie on Disney. I don't think that is true. However, I personally don't believe in ghosts. I know spirits exist but not in the form that they are popularly made to appear.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Hmm funny how some people do not believe something because they themselves have not seen it. I have seen many ghosts or spirits therefore my belief is very strong. I do know the difference between what I have seen and Disney's portrayal of a ghost. I can't describe it fully to you as you don't really believe me anyway. LOL Each to his/her own.
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• India
19 Oct 08
I personally do no t believe in Ghosts and have neve seen one either.I think ghosts come only near tse peopelwho are believers. If yudo not believe, ghosts stay away from you and also do not trouble you. Are ghosts soem form of hallucination?
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
I am always wide awake and definitely sober when I see them. I have never seen them unless I am completely lucid.
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• China
19 Oct 08
I dont believe in them,because I have never see them yet! They are just the things that beyong human's imagination. that is ususlly used to control the ones who had done something wrong for a punishment.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
I and my family have not 'done something wrong' we see these spirits/ghosts because they want us to see them at least that is what I believe. You can choose to believe or not. Just asking people what they think.
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@maroseqf (3657)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
i do believe in ghosts/spirits. i never had an experience with one but i've heard alot. some stories that i've heard are really scary that's why i am really scared of it. i just hope that if i get to experience encountering one, it will not do any harm and appear in a discreet way. well, they say that there are different types of spirits/ghosts. they are generally categorized as good and bad. some spirits bring goodluck, as others say. and for some, they believe that it is badluck.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
The one that has followed me around for about 35 years is of a young boy who is neither good or bad. He is mischievous though. He hides things and will run through the house in the evenings.
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• Malaysia
19 Oct 08
I've never really seen one but I felt their presence before. On one occasion, I felt as if someone touched my neck but when I turned around, there was nobody. It was a very cold and smooth touch, and very real. It's not like I was imagining things. During a camping trip, I could sense something was watching me and my friends. But I could not see it. The only thing I've seen was a photograph taken by my dad. Digital cameras and video cameras are known to be quite a useful tool if you want to see them. But well, sometimes, we should just leave them be. We're living in different world.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Oh yes I agree one should leave them alone. I have seen and felt presences many times and I know I was not imagining things either. Weird sensation isn't it??
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