Everyone’s heard of Ghosts. Many even believe they have had a Ghostly encounter of some kind in their life. A temperature change, a sudden feeling of unease, a light touch or breathing on the back of your neck. A sense of another presence in the room, just staring at you, as if it had intentions for you, intentions you aren’t quite sure of, but something you're sure, you wouldn’t like. Shadows moving in your peripheral vision. Strange noises like foot steps or voices coming from places when you know no one is there.
In the darkness, from the shadows, they watch you, planning new ways, to hide your favorite bunny slippers. Devious and mischievous beings, their only purpose seems to be, to annoy the living crap out of you… Or scare the living crap out of you, which ever one comes first...
Bad/Failed jokes aside, the Phenomena attributed to Ghosts is a very real phenomena. Though science, and it’s predictability can’t rest until it has abolished such things from the world, it has come up with several possibilities to challenge Ghosts and the activity closely associated with them.
I personally believe in Ghosts, but I also believe that some phenomena aren’t Ghost related. I find myself at a crossroads when it comes to Ghosts. I have had things happen to me that I can’t explain, but maybe the videos listed below can. First I will share a few of my tales.
Some basics things, I stay up fairly late at night, sometimes (Most the time) I play my video game. It’s the only time of day I get a chance to. There is usually only one light on, and it’s just behind and above me. At night, I will begin to see shadows on the wall, almost always in the same spot to my right. Or things moving always to my right, and as I look over to see what it causing the shadow or movement, it stops or goes away. When this started happening, I didn’t attribute it to Ghosts, and I still don’t. To me, it is the unfocusing of my eyes, specifically my peripheral vision that turns a light shadow, into a darker one, which makes it look like weird shadows on the wall.
Doesn’t sound spooky, does it? Because it’s not. Infact I’m pretty certain it’s not a Ghost, and if it is, it’s lame, and needs a better bag of tricks. This is sort of my control of sorts. Now, back up in time a little and we come to my old home, bout 5-6 years ago. At that time, I was sleeping in the basement (I don’t want to hear any jokes) because no one else wanted to. The basement was unfinished at the time, and we had a washing machine and dryer, a hot water tank, the furnace, and an old, kind of creepy desk that the original owners left behind, and no one seemed to toss out.
To cut to the chase, things happened down there. Every person in my family, including all my friends, had experiences in that house. Most of which was localized down stairs and at night, when I was trying to sleep, hence the annoying or scaring the crap out of you comment above. The lightest of activity would just be weird or incoherent noises that I usually attributed to the furnace or hot water tank, or something else down there. The less frequent, but a little more creepy experience was when I started to hear little girls giggling down there, just on the other side of my wall. It wasn’t always distinct, and I kept wondering if it was just in my head, so I let it go.
It began to get more intense. It came to a point where it would take most of the night just to fall asleep, as this figure, which I could see in my mind very clearly, came into my room, fists clenched, breathing heavily and just staring at me from the corner of my bed. I could draw this guy perfectly the image was so clear. His presence was clearly felt, and his intentions felt far less then peaceful, like he wanted to do physical harm to me or something. He scared the crap out of me. I actually had to sleep with a nightlight for a while because of how frequently I checked to see if something was there. It was a very disturbing feeling.
Some nights (Very few) nothing would happen, and I could fall asleep with no problems, but he was most of the time there. This persisted for the better part of a year before I couldn’t take it anymore and decided to move upstairs to the couch. Eventually I managed to trick my sister into trading rooms with me, hers which was upstairs from mine which was downstairs. My conscious got the better of me and I ended up telling her its creepy down there, to which she replied, “I don’t care”. Anyways we switched rooms, and since then I didn’t have another experience. Except one time upstairs. Same guy, just for one night, sitting at the end of my bed, huffing and puffing for the little piggy with the new upstairs room.
After that though, it was over, and my sister started talking about her experiences. Besides the basic creepiness, some of my friends had some alarming experiences. One of my friends would frequently come over to play video games with me, since he didn’t own the game. One night he stayed over and up late playing. He said that when he was playing, he saw a shadow form to his left, right in front of the front door, when he looked over he could see this transparent old man, kind of tall and skinny. The reason why this story is so interesting, is because on occasion, my family and I all saw this old man (He seemed nice and didn’t cause any trouble, except for when loud music was playing, but I’ll get to that).
We began to get curious and looked into the house’s previous owners a little and found the man who first owned (Or maybe built, can’t remember) the house, fit the description of my friend. He said he only saw it for a moment before it faded away. Another experience one of friends had (Different friend) was when my bedroom was downstairs, and me and my friend where down there talking, and I had to go to the bathroom. The bathrooms upstairs, so I headed up. I went and did my duty, and as I came down, I noticed the light was off. I figured he was going to try and scare me, but as soon as I hit the bottom of the stairs, I heard him get up and quickly switch on the light. When I looked at him, he had a bewildered face, so I asked “What’s wrong?”.
He proceeded to tell me that when I was in the bathroom, the light switch flipped off. He said he thought it was me trying to play a joke on him until he saw me coming down the stairs, at which point he got up and quickly turned on the light. When I asked him about the light switch, he said he thought it was me because he distinctly heard the light switch flip off. I was actually kind of jealous, it was my room after all, why couldn’t that have happened to me!
The last one belongs to my sister. After I tricked her into moving downstairs, she, after her own experiences, moved back upstairs and into the living room. She would frequently listen to music far to loud (And still does, thankfully she doesn’t live with me anymore). One day she began to complain about us touching her stereo, as every time she would turn it on, the volume would be to low to hear anything. We told her it wasn’t us, (And it wasn’t), but she didn’t believe us until one day she came flying out of her room screaming and babbling about her volume.
Once we calmed her down, she proceeded to explain that while she was listening, the volume turned down all by itself. I didn’t really think much of it, I mean, if the power goes out inexplicably, I don’t chalk it up to Ghosts. I figured it was just some weird occurrence, and we reassured her it was nothing to worry about. A few more days passed and she came running back all a sudden, panicked, like she saw a spider… or a ghost, and said, she actually witnessed the dial on her stereo turn down. She said it moved all by itself. I sort of chuckled and thought it was my fault. After a while we began to tease her saying it was the Ghost in the house turning her music down because he didn’t like it.
We never could really tell if it turned down by itself or if she did, as we generally weren’t around to verify it. Except one time when I was in the kitchen, which was right next to the living room she was staying in. I started to hear the volume change so I turned around thinking “Finally, she turned it down”, (It was loud and annoying). But, she wasn’t touching it. I literally listened to the volume turn down as she just sat there looking at me. I was a little shocked at what just happened. All she said was “See!”, and I replied “Well, I guess you were right”. It wasn’t creepy or anything, it was actually more cool then scary.
Ghosts don’t generally scare me. To me their often not trying to be scary though, except that one douche-bag Ghost, if it was a Ghost. Hell, we get our family and friends together on Halloween night and sneak into graveyards just for things like that to happen. Nothing ever happens in a graveyard though, and I always think to myself, ‘Oh yeah sure! On the one night of the year when it matters, you all get tired and don’t do anything… Lazy-ass Ghosts’.
Moving along, finally. Yes folks, it’s going to be a long post. Grab your favorite bunny slippers and settle in, if Ghosts haven’t hidden them from you, we still have videos to watch!
Many of the experiences in my stories above could likely be explained scientifically. It may be true that other natural phenomena can cause many of the same experiences that occurred. But just because there are natural forces in the world that can do the same thing, doesn’t mean all the phenomena related to Ghosts are therefore not real. We as people replicate a lot of natural forces in the world, so, why couldn’t Ghosts?
Try to keep that in mind when watching these videos.
I kind of thought the story about the faces at the end was a very heartwarming.
The videos above are from a scientific viewpoint, in an attempt to explain away Ghosts. I personally believe it is important to know what other things could cause Ghostly Phenomena so I don’t misdiagnose an event. Based on some of their theories, many circumstances in my stories lost somewhere far above could be explained by one or more of their explanations. Magnetic Fields, Infrasound or Darkness and Imagination. We did have electronics in the house, often going, and all appliances give off an electromagnetic field, so maybe that’s the cause? We did have a ceiling fan in the house, maybe Infrasound? It was often dark downstairs and I was known for having a wild imagination, possibly one or more of these?
Maybe… But then again, the electromagnetic fields that come off of appliances are very small, and usually don’t have enough impact on a person to influence them one way or another. Infrasound may be coming from the fan, but we usually had it off since it wasn’t bolted well to the ceiling and would shake and wobble pretty violently, so when we had it on, it was on low. Darkness and imagination on the other hand, may explain the huffin and puffin, wanna-be, big bad wolf guy. But nevertheless, the experience did feel very real, so I guess it may never be known for sure.
But there are things that these explanations can’t explain…
Magnetic Field? Infrasound? Darkness and Imagination? These explanations don’t explain objects moving, at least to this degree.
Poltergeist means “Noisy or Restless Spirit”. Often moving things around or causing disturbances to express it’s presence. Some can get fairly violent though. Besides the common, dishes flying around, or things being knocked over, strange noises and electronic malfunctions, there are other things they can do. Scratches are one of them, or being pulled or jerked in different directions, or other bodily harm.
To me the evidence stacks in favor of Ghosts being real. When you take everything as listed here, and probably more elsewhere, you get much of these phenomena in a Ghost, whereas you need several separate explanations to explain each occurrence of the same phenomena with science, with some of the phenomena still unexplained. So when you look at places where Ghost activity seems to be high, and many different seemingly supernatural events occur in the same place, then I got to ask myself, if it’s a bunch of different scientifically explainable circumstances, which all managed to be present and in effect at a given time? Or is it a single, possibly supernatural presence which is known to produce the same phenomena, but can’t quite be explained?
Ultimately the choice is yours. This is just my opinion.
In the end, I will say I’m pretty sure, some, if not most of the phenomena attributed to Ghosts can be summed up to people scaring themselves. I even scared myself a few times while writing this post, and I felt like a complete idiot. But, there are some things that do happen in this world that I feel are no less then supernatural phenomena, and can’t be easily explained away.
I can probably list a lot more videos and add a few cases to this post, but I think this post is a bit long, and I may have repeated myself a few times where it wasn’t needed.
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Until next time, I leave you with another picture!
Wait… what’s that behind you?!
Bet you didn't see that coming...
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