Can we give the pseudo scientific debate a rest and just have some good old fashioned ghost stories please? That's what I paid for when I came in.
I realise you've probably given yourself an erection quoting all those from memory.
Worse than that, I have them saved in a favorite quotes document. The erection just come form sitting here stroking myself.
The science dudes aren't the one claiming to be able to explain it 🙂
Tucker quoting like that just makes you look like a slave to other people's ideas
Damn good job I don't care how others perceive me then isn't it?
Explain that, Science Dudes !
Nothing to do with science, it's a law issue.
What I don't get, is despite the exponential rise in high quality audio and video recording devices to the point practically everyone on the planet carries one all the time, there is no corresponding rise in evidence of ghosts, ufo's, bigfoot, santa etc etc.
Could someone just telepathically transfer their reading of all these posts to me as I cannae be arsed.
As Stephen Fry once asked; if there are Ghosts why only humans? Many more animals have died on the planet than humans so by law of averages there ought to be loads of them too...
Buildings can creep you out because of minor temperature changes which your body picks up on and your most basic feral instinct reacts to. Buildings also emit a great deal of noise/vibration that ordinarily you may not notice or dismiss when they are full of people. Rocks, stones and mansonry have massively different chemical compostions even if they look the same to the naked eye so they expand contract and have diferent heat retention properties.
@Organic it was good but it's not right!
Both her mum and dad claim that after removing the shelves the next day, they had no more incidents in the house.
Now, this is the dodgiest part of this story. Why on earth, when faced with a genuine reproducable example of paranormal activity, wouldn't you get on the blower to the nearest university/crackpot instutution and get some experts round to set up monitoring and figure out what the hell was going on?
I know I would!
if there are Ghosts why only humans? Many more animals have died on the planet than humans so by law of averages there ought to be loads of them too
Animals don't have enough psychic energy to maintain a spectral form, obviously! Duh, some people 🙄
I think you are wrong molly I heard you can only see ghosts that are the same species as you as that is your "astral " plane
Dogs see dogs cats see cats humans see humans
Its obvious when you think about it
there is no corresponding rise in evidence of ghosts, ufo's, bigfoot, santa etc etc.
wow wow wow, back up there - no evidence of santa??? what are trying to tell me? what about the glass of sherry, carrot and mince pie we leave out? he ALWAYS eats them.... ALWAYS..
Well kids Xmas is cancelled. 🙁
wow wow wow, back up there - no evidence of santa???
Relax - we've already agreed that nobody can categorically prove that Santa doesn't exist. So all the evidence in folklore, presents mysteriously arriving on Dec 25th, mince pies and glasses of sherry must prove (to the open minded 😉 ) that he's real.
ETA - carrots??? Forget that! Leave him another mince pie and you might get the XBox.
carrots???
for the magic flying raindeer of course.
what he's going to do now the woodburners in, I'm not sure...
GHOSTS EXIST - FACT
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Its obvious when you think about it
Oh yeah of course, silly me.
So what are those headless horsemen ghosts riding then?
Organic,
what are we looking at in that picture?
EDIT 😀
Dogs see dogs cats see cats humans see humans
I think ghost humans can see ghost horses though.
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damn you scientists
You'll be telling me next that aliens dont exist!
Ah right. So science eventually catches up with the 'lore then 8)
It's almost certain that aliens (other lifeforms) exist out there somewhere. However, they might just be single celled. Or a fluid. Or maybe a gas.
Worth reading the fictional book The Sphere for some great thoughts on this.
So science eventually catches up with the 'lore then
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 😉
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miketually - Member
ok,, I would have to say something inside me believes there is something that carries on after we die, some form of energy
Lots of things carry on after we die. The orbit of the Earth around the sun, that'll keep going. Other people will keep living their lives.In much the same way, things happened before you were born.
You are a brief ordering of atoms and energy. After you die, that energy and matter will go on to do something else. It won't go on to be a ghost though.
You knew what I meant, too many wanna be scientists on here 🙄
Talking of Alice
[i]When he got home his wife, who is some kind of spiritualist detected his unease. She "examined" him and said he'd been visited by the spirit of a caretaker who had died in the factory's boiler room.[/i]
So did a caretaker die in the boiler room? Or have I missed someone already asking?
I've had an 'experience' and I'm a non believer. It made me feel warm and safe.
Tell us more
Davidtaylforth in Elland by any chance?
If so I've been in there. Nothing sinister but Im amazed with counsellors/planning all round it over the years that it still stands
Not my pic but apparently its haunted
http://www.panoramio.com/m/photo/37010903
There were two recentish deaths in my house. Both with the same bloke a St Retford copper.
Nothing sinister- just a sad coincidence but one of them used to pop up for two years in a row in the kitchen where she passed away. Always at a similar time.
Im neither way tbh. If there was money to be made, boy there'd be billions spent investigating it but as it is its always a semi-focused/funded search.
I love ghost stories.
I will tell myself and anyone else they don't exist.
When I get called to work in dark switch rooms in empty buildings, I get the heebie jeebies, big time.
I could read a book that categorically proved ghosts did not exist, I'd still be very nervous in your typical haunted building situation, you could say it's the thought of a burglar or something but its definitely the fear of the supernatural.
It most probably is something to do with the brain and the films and programmes I watch are ingrained in my mind but I must admit if im being honest, I am so adamant they don't exist to overcome they fear that they might!
You knew what I meant
I know what you meant, but there's no evidence for it so it's not any more valid a belief than believing that God is a 6'2" man living on a distant planet called Koleb.
too many wanna be scientists on here
There are lots of [i]actual[/i] scientists on here.
too many wanna be scientists on here
hat is up there with being told you are logical and rational - I cannot imagine why anyone would try and use this as an insult.
Lots of folk who have no idea of the tone of their posts when dismissing others too.
Science can't teach manners it seems.
nor apparently can not "believing"in science but hey lets gloss over that to make a polite dig instead of an impolite one
Impolite people in not liking being told about it SHOKKA! 😀
Science can't teach manners it seems
Science doesn't pretend that it does.
What made you think I objected? i simple pointed out, as is the STW way, that both sides were on occasions rude.
It's extremely difficult (actually, nigh on impossible for me), to not be patronising (bordering on downright rude and dismissive) to adults that should know better spouting absolute nonsense. It's 2013, and it's not like the truth isn't out there for everyone to discover.
We live in a bizarre society/world, if someone tells me the Queen is a shape-shifting lizard I can mock them openly, indeed, they could even be Sectioned under the Metal Health Act. However they talk about ghosts or gods or spirits, and apparently I should respect their views. Well I absolutely don't. They are ignorant (meaning they don't have knowledge).
It's extremely difficult (actually, nigh on impossible for me), to not be patronising (bordering on downright rude and dismissive) to adults that should know better spouting absolute nonsense.
I think this is a bit sad. I hear people spouting rubbish and nonsense quite a lot of the time. I was on a building site most of last week and heard lots of folk spouting some right ol' shite - to be fair they would mostly have been guys who probably left school at 16 and never spent a day in education for the remainder of their lives to date. I could be rude and dismissive of them and insist on educating them but why bother really?
Of course, for some, it's easier to be rude and dismissive when they're banging angrily on a keyboard.
Good to see TUK is having a nice relaxing Sunday.
If you'd have written that post, the nib would've snapped clean off
Cool your boots.
Are you being rude and dismissive calling someone a keyboard warrior ?
Is derek?
Still at least you can turn the other cheek in the real world 😛
Are you being rude and dismissive calling someone a keyboard warrior ?
No.
So its a respectful term that conveys respect
Who knew [ certainly not the dictionary anyway]
So its a respectful term that conveys respect
Well, if I'd used the term in the first place...
