Do You Believe In Ghosts?

[waterytart]

When I was a child, my mother's family still had several old family homes. One is haunted.

Growing up with ghosts makes them a given, not something you have to come to a conclusion about. It's like being asked whether you believe in stairs.

 

[tadwriter]

Maybe more religious than ghostly, but since this is Passover, here goes. A few years ago I attended the Seder (Passover dinner) at a friend's house. One of the traditions is to leave a door ajar and pour a symbolic cup of wine for Elijah. The cup was filled in front of us all and placed on a breakfront by the table, in plain view. At the end of the meal, the cup was empty. No one could have touched it without all the others seeing it happen. Also, when we prepared to leave, the door was closed and locked. Now, anyone could have closed the door since it was down the hall toward the bathroom, but the cup? No way. I gotta believe, at least on this one.

 

[93Devil]

Yes

I believe we move on someplace after death and we have the ability to look upon this world if we choose.

If that defines a ghost, then yes.

 

[HC]

I'm with Ricky Gervais who wants to know why there are no caveman ghosts. People always report ghosts in Victorian garb so does that mean ghosts only started in 1830 or so?

 

[slappy4428]

I'm guessing it's a little windy tonight in Kevin's neighborhood.

I think it's always windy in Kevin's neighborhood.

Sailed right over his head like a leaf in the wind...

 

[mustangj17]

My room used to be a mess when I was younger.

One night, I went to bed with a white shirt slung over an open closet door. To the right of the closet door there was a shelf where I had all this sports crap, like a white Detroit Lions pom pom.

I woke up at like 3 am, saw the white ghostly looking shirt, with a pom-pom for a head and nearly had a heart attack. I must have been 12. I always closed the doors after that.

 

[Armchair_QB]

We've got a four-year-old living in our TV.

 

[Ace]

The difference between being a lump of meat and bodily juices is some type of electrical force or soul running through your body.

I believe that that force can sometimes hang around sans body.

 

[beardpuller]

You'd think they'd find better **** to do than playing organs or turning on stereos and ceiling fans, though, wouldn't you?
That's not a quality afterlife.
All that time on their hands, why doesn't one of them figure out how to fix the economy? Or find a way to stem the tide of "reality" television?
That would be ghostage we could believe in.

 

[writing irish]

Nobody knows, nobody sees. Nobody knows but me.

 

[Buck]

Nor do I believe in the Great Pumpkin or faeries.

 

[beardpuller]

Nobody knows, nobody sees. Nobody knows but me.

Yo, Irish: At one point, I owned about a half-dozen versions of "The Long Black Veil." Hard to beat Lefty Frizzell, but I really liked Mick Jagger and the Chieftans. Heard Levon Helm's daughter sing it in a concert week before last. A great, haunting song.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Forgot to mention: I live next to a pauper's graveyard and have seen several things in our yard that were just unreal.

Came home one day, about 2 in the afternoon, and our dog was freaking out. There was no one around, or any other animals. Then I saw this guy sitting on our pool deck smoking a cigar that you could smell.

He just smiled, stood up, and walked away.

 

[Trey Beamon]

If there's something strange in the basement
Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

If there's something weird and it don't sound good
Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement
I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement

If you're seeing things run through your kitchen
Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

An invisible man, moving **** downstairs
Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement
I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement

Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

If you're all alone...turn on the computer...and post...SportsJournalists.com!

I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement
Oh I hear he hates the Sox fans
I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!

Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!
You have done some freaky posts Kevin...you better post SportsJournalists.com!

POSTIN MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!!!

I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement
I ain't afraid of Kevin's basement

When it comes through the kitchen door...unless you just wanna **** your drawers...I think you better post
SportsJournalists.com!!

Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!
Where you gonna post? SportsJournalists.com!

(repeat for desired effect, fade out)

Take a bow, sir.

And no, I don't.

 

[BYH]

We've got a four-year-old living in our TV.

Nobody's pointed out yet how ****ing funny this was?

Reminds me of when I saw Poltergeist at the drive-in at like seven or eight. (I've probably mentioned this, so forgive me) I'd seen the commercials all summer and wanted to see the movie. My Mom was all "no, it's too scary for him" while Dad was like "C'mon, it'll be fun." Finally, Dad and I won out and we went to the drive-in on a Sunday night.

When the family is moving out, I was telling my Mom "See? Everything is OK. This wasn't that scary." Then, of course, the **** hits the fan, the family realizes on its last night in the hizzie that it's situated on an Indian burial ground and all sorts of horrible **** goes on. I was ****ting my drawers.

So we're driving out after the movie finally, mercifully ends. I'm silent. My Dad says "So...when we get home, you want to watch TV?"

Me: "No."

Dad: "C'mon. We'll see if there's a channel showing nothing but snow."

Me: "NO!!!"

Dad: "We'll put that channel on, put you right in front of the TV. Maybe you'll get sucked into it..."

Me: "STOP IT DAD!!!!" *commence crying*

Mom: "I TOLD YOU HE WASN'T OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS MOVIE!! I TOLD YOU!"

And that was the highlight of the summer of 2007!!! :D

 

[writing irish]

Nobody knows, nobody sees. Nobody knows but me.

Yo, Irish: At one point, I owned about a half-dozen versions of "The Long Black Veil." Hard to beat Lefty Frizzell, but I really liked Mick Jagger and the Chieftans. Heard Levon Helm's daughter sing it in a concert week before last. A great, haunting song.

Dang, I need to hear that Jagger/Chieftans version.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

We've got a four-year-old living in our TV.

Nobody's pointed out yet how ****ing funny this was?

Reminds me of when I saw Poltergeist at the drive-in at like seven or eight. (I've probably mentioned this, so forgive me) I'd seen the commercials all summer and wanted to see the movie. My Mom was all "no, it's too scary for him" while Dad was like "C'mon, it'll be fun." Finally, Dad and I won out and we went to the drive-in on a Sunday night.

When the family is moving out, I was telling my Mom "See? Everything is OK. This wasn't that scary." Then, of course, the **** hits the fan, the family realizes on its last night in the hizzie that it's situated on an Indian burial ground and all sorts of horrible **** goes on. I was ****ting my drawers.

So we're driving out after the movie finally, mercifully ends. I'm silent. My Dad says "So...when we get home, you want to watch TV?"

Me: "No."

Dad: "C'mon. We'll see if there's a channel showing nothing but snow."

Me: "NO!!!"

Dad: "We'll put that channel on, put you right in front of the TV. Maybe you'll get sucked into it..."

Me: "STOP IT DAD!!!!" *commence crying*

Mom: "I TOLD YOU HE WASN'T OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS MOVIE!! I TOLD YOU!"

And that was the highlight of the summer of 2007!!! :D

Now THAT is funny.

 

[JayFarrar]

yep. I used to live in a haunted house.
I've told that story on here before.
In short, dude killed his wife in what would later become my then spare bedroom.
Super freaky **** happened on a regular basis. For example, when a light bulb would burn out in my house, that meant I was either going to get or had already received a letter for the murdered woman that same day.

 

[Armchair_QB]

yep. I used to live in a haunted house.
I've told that story on here before.
In short, dude killed his wife in what would later become my then spare bedroom.
Super freaky **** happened on a regular basis. For example, when a light bulb would burn out in my house, that meant I was either going to get or had already received a letter for the murdered woman that same day.

Uh, what?

 

[KYSportsWriter]

yep. I used to live in a haunted house.
I've told that story on here before.
In short, dude killed his wife in what would later become my then spare bedroom.
Super freaky **** happened on a regular basis. For example, when a light bulb would burn out in my house, that meant I was either going to get or had already received a letter for the murdered woman that same day.

Uh, what?

That's what I'm wondering...