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My mother's aunt saw a ghost and the way the story is told tend to make me believe in the truth of what she said. I haven't (and don't wanna!)
shareAlthough I don't question the existence of the supernatural at all, I tend to be very skeptical of most claimed manifestations.
But I've had two or three glowing orb experiences over the last 8 years -- something I never believed in before, or even thought about. And you can't imagine how bizarre it is until it happens.
It completely changes your perspective forever on... y'know... stuff.
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Non-sequiturs are delicious.
The answer is no, no one has ever seen any real ghosts.
OH SPOILER ALERT!
Why are you so confident?
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LBJ's mistress on JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXeutDmuRA
I believe I have. It's not much of a story. It was Saturday night, I had just gotten home from work and was watching tv. I was laying down on the living room floor and fell asleep. It was a very brightly lit room, too. My brother was in the next room doing homework. The tv seemed to get very loud and woke me up so I reached up to turn it down. There was a woman dressed in very old clothing sitting next to me. She was rocking back and forth though the chair could not do that. I can see her to this day. Wearing a bonnet, with dishwasher blonde hair and very bright blue eyes and grinning right at me. She was not scary in the least. She was right next to me. I looked back to the tv to turn the volume all the way down and when I looked back she was gone. I have never had a similar experience. It was not a dream or part of one. I have had nightmares. I have had night terrors. This was nothing like any of those.
Not a scary tale but it is true. I think she was a ghost.
No, of course not.
shareIf you look hard enough, and for long enough, you will likely find what you're looking for. Or at least you will, if what you're looking for is also interested in being found by you.
Here is the analogy to consider. Diamonds are said to exist. However, if the vast majority of us were to rummage around in our back gardens, looking for diamonds the results would be similar if the majority of us were to take a ouija board into a graveyard in the wee hours: Nothing's going to happen.
Very few of us, even personally know of anyone who's seen a diamond in its natural state!
So we *could* easily conclude that both diamonds and hauntings must be fictional: we've tried, our friends have tried hard to find either, and the results of years of looking prove that they don't exist!? Well... diamonds do exist, it's just that they're extremely rare, and won't be found by just anyone. Nonetheless the only reason we are happy to believe they exist is firstly, because others have very, very rarely chanced or deliberately found them; they don't de-materialise into thin air, and thanks to DeBeers monopoly, might even be purchased at times, by certain 'deep pocketed' folk... There is one other property of diamonds which makes their existence incontrovertible: unlike ball lightning (which most have never seen) diamonds just happen to be the hardest, rarest substances known to man. So once they're eventually found, they remain perfectly visible for all to see. Hauntings are probably as rare as diamonds, but not quite as rare as ball lightning - which is so rare it's not even been properly photographed, in nature, to date!!! Yet, most scientists are prepared to accept the word of others that it probably exists. There are still occasional people who dispute the existence of ball lightening, but that's another discussion altogether. Note, though, that ball lightening has been said to have moved through solid mass - walls and doors, which is extremely interesting from the perspective of certain haunting reports.
Having said that, I believe that they, supernatural phenomena, will (rare as they are) be more likely to appear to people who are particularly interesting, or at least different to most other people, in some way. Hence their reported appearances are very rare. Unusually interesting people are, after all, and by definition, rare.
As child I lived in a remote house which was well known by local folk to be haunted. My parents, being sceptics, and completely uninterested in anything supernatural, gave not even a single spare thought to the idea. Or at least they didn't until they, one day, knew better. By now, my scepticism's been tested sufficient times, that I can no longer comfortably hold same, when it comes to this subject matter.
Meanwhile, as Dr. Mawkray puts it, in this movie, the realm of the supernatural is arguably and properly classed as preternatural (just as formerly suggested by Huxley in his seminal 'Doors of Perception') - that is to say, just as the earth was once believed to be flat, yet now we know otherwise, many mistakenly are led to believe that certain supernatural phenomena is, or are, fictional; nonetheless, the day will surely, and eventually come when science will reclassify such within its remits. That is additionally to say - we simply don't have the capability today, of proving any paranormal claims within double blind, peer reviewed, i.e., conventionally accepted methods. Hence the word preternatural perfectly describes how all agnostic minded folk should currently class same: outside the realms of the known, yet not, by definition, fictional.
PS - as for this movie, it was more about a woman's degenerating mental condition, a descent into hysteria &/or histrionic personality disorder, than it was about any haunting. Hence, I found it to be very overrated. But there you go.
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Sandwiched between The Principle of Mediocrity & Rare Earth Theory, you should see The Fermi Paradox