[chessplayer]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

[discostu]

Because we’re afraid to die and we want to be special. Encounters with things that “survived” death in some way feeds both, it makes us special today and gives us hope that death is not the end tomorrow.

[GreyFriar]

Do I believe in Jesus? Yes, He is my Saviour. Do I believe in ghosts? I do not believe in them in a religious or worshiping sense, but I do think that they exist.

Here is an experience I had 20 years ago. I also discussed it with a former professor and priest at St. Joe sometime afterward. He said that he could not doubt the validity of my experience.

http://bswett.com/1995-11GoodCatholicGhosts.html

[Ditter]

I believe in ghosts. We were at The Tower of London, in London England. In the central courtyard there was a small patch of grass fenced off and a sign said it was where 2 little boy princes had been murdered.

I snapped a picture of the small grassy place and the photo showed two smoky looking shapes, one about a head taller than the other standing side by side. No one was near by and no one was smoking in the whole area.

Was it the little princes standing for my photo? I’ll never know.

We were on our ranch about 2 years ago, driving around. Out of my side vision I saw Eugene, a black man who had worked on that property his whole life. Only Eugene had died a few years before. He was only there from the waist up and he was smiling at me and looked like a young Eugene.

I told my husband about it and he said “yeah SURE you did!” .

It was only later that I told him Eugene was wearing a green cotton work shirt that He said “my mother gave both of us those shirt”. He became a believer. . These shirts happened before we were married, no way I could have known about them.

[Toespi]

Ghost? Not sure, but I do believe God allows the easing of pain because of loss by allowing beautiful and extraordinary experiences between those in heaven and those on earth. I know this beyond doubt. My experiences with a beautiful soul after her death, are remarkable, true and wonderful.

[fidelis]

I've never seen a ghost, but I've felt them. Lots of them at the Gettysburg battlefield. Lots of people have reported the same thing. If you stand out there near where Pickett's charge was made their presence is unmistakable, like standing in a crowd of people but not being able to see them, if that makes sense. The thing I sensed was strong emotion: an overwhelming sense of feelings of sadness and resentment.

I'm not someone that claims to be a psychic or goes around looking for or sensing these things. I was just there out of historical curiosity. This was 15 years ago, and it never happened to me before anyplace else, nor has anything like it happened to me since.