Oh no!... can this be deleted? I don't know what happened... I was typing in a new thread, and it got posted! I'm extremely sorry...

Okay, I can't change the title of this post, and am truly sorry for the mis-post, but here is what I was writing before this happened:

The following discussion may give some (maybe most) people the impression that I'm a nutter (I can accept that):

The other day, I just got to thinking - "Do ghosts really exist?" - and here are my collected thoughts on this matter. If you are wondering as to the reason why I was thinking about this, its because I saw a show on the Discovery Channel called "Dead Tenants", and I was intrigued...

Now, on this show, they explore and re-enact hauntings of family homes, based on the descriptions given by the family claiming that their house is haunted. (For more information on the show, see this)

After watching it, my mind was practically reeling... Could ghosts really exist? If they do, then how is it possible to be "Dead", but can still walk, talk and haunt? The assumption is that Ghosts are immaterial beings(in the sense that they do not exist as matter), but in some claimed hauntings, ghosts can interact with matter (like objects); if this is so, then how?

I looked up the web, and saw that a lot of the evidence supporting the existence of ghosts are rather circumstantial. Some believe that the presence of a ghost in a sample space, generates electro-magnetic anomalies in the sample space. But then again, EMF's (Electro-Magnetic Fields) are associated with matter(physical field), and there is no indication that ghosts exist(if they exist) as matter. This assumption that ghosts are immaterial can be circumstantially derived from various haunting claims, which indicate that ghosts can move through solid objects.

And then, if they are made up of matter, then why can't we see ghosts? A quantum physicist might say - Matter can be rendered invisible to our(human) eyes, iff that matter is a point-object, smaller than the wavelength of visible light(below 400 nm) - but then there isn't any evidence that what we claim to be ghosts are tiny specks of mass loitering about, trying to scare us...

And there's another theory - they(humans and ghosts) exist in the same space, but in two discrete universes (referred to as a parallel universe). They say that certain points on this planet are "hotspots" for ghost-related activities, and that this universe (the universe we are in) and the "universe of the dead" intermingle at these "hotspots". The theory of parallel universes is not new, and eminent scientists have debated on the viability of there being such anomalies, albeit strong mathematical proof. And then, how, possibly, can there be a land of the dead? I got to thinking about this, and came up with this: Maybe there isn't a universe for the dead, but it may be a universe whose time-space continuum relates with ours at those hotspots, i.e the parallel universe may be exactly like ours, with the same people, living the same lives, but the parallel universe may be at a different time to ours, and when they interact at these "hotspots", the actions of both us and the people in the parallel universe are felt across this non-discernible barrier between the two universes, and that this may constitute "a haunting".

And at this point, reality hit me like a hard rock to the forehead (no, really, I banged my head against the desk, I was nearly asleep ), and I thought - "Hey! this will make for an interesting discussion" - and here I am, posting this...

So, does anyone have any views on this topic?

Ghosts exist only in a person's mind. Pretty harmless thing most of the time. Odd stuff happens and one has to explain it somehow.

We have a lot of ghosts here in St Louis -- they even vote every election year

I thought that was mostly a Chicago thing.

I think the ghosts of my cats that have passed on come back to annoy the cats that are still here. Every now and then one just jumps like it's been attacked, and no one else is near.

Ghosts? I don't think so...

there's a lot of evidence supporting "near death experiences"... that sort of parallels the concept of ghosts.

i dont believe in anything supernatural, personally, but i also don't presume to have definitive answers for things that can't be demonstrated or explained. some people truly believe they have had experiences that i can't account for.

basically it comes down to this: you can talk about your personal experiences and beliefs, but people who go around making declarative statements about the existence or non-existence of things that cant be demonstrated one way or another are full of shit.

in my humble opinion.


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I wouldn't walk through a cemetery in the middle of the night!
Hollywood loves to scare people with ghost stories/movies.

ha ha !

if you live oky , doesn't harm anyone then , GHOST can't do anything .
But if you bad then GHOST can definitely make an affect to you.