Do you believe in the supernatural?

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I would like this to be a clean, mature discussion, with stories of past experiences of the paranormal.

I personally do not.

I'm not sure whether it's because A) I'm an extremely logical person and the prospect of the supernatural is preposterous in my opinion, or because B) the idea of something that is completely out of my control scares me.

Some stories my mum has told me.

-The usual "I went to a psychic and she told me the names of my grandparents and sons without even knowing anything about me" - this to me is balony, especially after seeing several Derren Brown feats.

-My mum used to live in a mobile home with her best friend, and during a month, a bunch of their stuff went missing. Stuff that couldn't have been lost. Things like photo frames, clocks, jewellery that didn't leave a box, etc. They hunted and hunted for it. They went out one night, shut all the doors and windows. As they went outside, all the windows were open. Despite the fact they had literally just shut them. Both my mum and her friend experienced this. They eventually donned crosses and told what they thought might be a spirit to leave. All their stuff was returned and that was the end of it.
I believe this tale has changed with time. The memory of it was heightened, exaggerated and twisted, as are all experiences of things in the past.

-When my mum was in australia recently, they were in melbourne and in this quaint part of it with lots of atmosphere and darkened alleys and independant shops. In one alley, my mum saw a girl. What she described as a pretty serious goth with piercing eyes. As the girl looked up and caught my mum's eye, my mum felt this absolutely god awful feeling. The most scared she has ever been in her life (my brother died when he was born (he's okay now though :p), and she said this experience was more scary than that). She had to get out of there.
I believe this was simply a case of someone freaking my mum out. Nothing supernatural, just a goth that my mum thought was something more.

-In our old house, during the night, when my mum went to the toilet, she saw a figure at the bottom of the stairs. Clear as day, of a man in a long cloak with a hat on. He would stand there watching. She saw this several times.
I believe this was just a coincidence. A trick of the light, and once she'd seen it once, it was instilled in her mind that it was there, and so her imagination desperately tried to see it also.
Now here's the deal breaker. When I was little, one night I came into my mum's room and said "Mummy, who is that man with the hat downstairs?"
This sent shivers up her spine yet she just told me "Don't worry sweety, it's just a dream, go back to bed."
However, I believe that I overheard my mum talking about it to my dad, causing me to see something too. Perhaps the same thing.

Now, I don't believe in ghosts, goblins, witches, vampires, anything like that.
My mum, on the other hand, does.

I would like your views. I'm very interested in this sort of thing.

I think this is a discussion that will never have a defining answer. It is just interesting to see people's views on the topic.

I don't want people coming in saying "Ghosts don't exist. End of."
Back it up with research, experiences, descriptions, explanations.
 
I believe in the supernatural. When I was a rookie police officer in South Africa I was on patrol with my partner when we passed a bloke walking down the street in the early hours of the morning. Immediately the hairs on the back of my neck stood dead straight and felt an awful feeling. A short while later he was arrested for a satanic murder...decapitated a homeless man. Maurice Smith was his name...http://www.dispatch.co.za/1998/01/28/easterncape/SATANIC.HTM

When I was at police college we used to hear footsteps and feel sudden chill in a passage where a previous recruit was shot accidently a few years earlier. We all huddled in one room, bearing in mind that most of the recruits were ex-military and had served in conflict. Same college...all our platoon's showers and toilets and handbasins all started flowing at same time. Would have taken at least 20 people to do that. No sign of anyone...just cold feeling again.

In short...yep I believe in supernatural!
 
Hi FP - i believe this falls into the same vein of 'Religion' but i will give you my perspective anyway

I believe, with all my heart that the human mind can create its own reality, the extent of that i am unsure of, and believe i will be until i die.

I believe that if a human being believes in something, events and situations will occur to 'prove' that belief. Science works in much the same way, if you think about it.

Anyway, i believe in a sort of jedi esq 'force' that surrounds us all, connects us and gives us the insight to look for connections in life.

I believe that if you think you saw a ghost, and then you go back and have a look every night for a week, you are likely to see a ghost. If you are in a house with your friends and you are convinced their is a spirit in the house, you will hear things moving out, unexplainable events will occur - your thoughts will be revealed

i think its exactly the same as praying for something, asking a deck of cards to answer a question, rolling dice... Anything really

God, Allah, Buddha, etc, etc are much the same, to me god is a big ball with a million and one different directions and angles to look at him/her/it from

its is impossible to define, to deny or to prove. It Just Is, and it is because we want it to be :)

have you ever considered that you suggesting to a human that their supernatural doesnt exist, that their spirituality means nothing or their cards prove b****r all - that is the same as denouncing a god, telling a muslim that Allah doesnt exist or whatever

i say the above because people are very quick to pussyfoot around 'religion' without taking into account what that really means.


many people have their own special ways of talking to god, communicating with the dead or feeling connected to a bigger picture than the earth we live on

and why not let them dream? they are as worthy as any :)
 
my wife does, I don't
 
all our platoon's showers and toilets and handbasins all started flowing at same time. Would have taken at least 20 people to do that.
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That's a very old freak out trick! All the trickster has to do is turn off the supply, turn on all the taps and wait for a few gullible people to turn up.
 
Grayman said:
I believe in the supernatural. When I was a rookie police officer in South Africa I was on patrol with my partner when we passed a bloke walking down the street in the early hours of the morning. Immediately the hairs on the back of my neck stood dead straight and felt an awful feeling. A short while later he was arrested for a satanic murder...decapitated a homeless man. Maurice Smith was his name...http://www.dispatch.co.za/1998/01/28/easterncape/SATANIC.HTM
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You sure the awful feeling you had wasn't caused by the fact the bloke was covered in blood? :p

I don't believe in the supernatural because I've never experienced anything of the sort. If I had then maybe I'd feel different. It does tend to be however, that those that already believe are far more likely to "experience" something.
 
As a physicist, I only tend to believe in what can be proven or shown to be true when compelling evidence is put forward. For example, quantum mechanics could be a complete load of bull, but for the time being, the limited knowledge of the human race can't provide any further insight, so for now that is what I believe in. The supernatural, ghosts, spirits, and to a great extent, religion (or more to the point, the respective "God" therein) to me therefore don't hold much water. Of course there is the counter argument that I can't disprove any of it, and so whilst I do not believe it, I can't say that said items of discussion do not exist. Further, with the beauty of nature and it's seamless harmony with itself, it's hard not to consider that there may be forces greater than those within our comprehension at work. So until all this stuff presents itself for all to see clearly, I reside on the non believers side of the fence :)
 
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Woodsy said:
As a physicist, I only tend to believe in what can be proven or shown to be true when compelling evidence is put forward. For example, quantum mechanics could be a complete load of bull, but for the time being, the limited knowledge of the human race can't provide any further insight, so for now that is what I believe in. The supernatural, ghosts, spirits, and to a great extent, religion (or more to the point, the respective "God" therein) to me therefore don't hold much water. Of course there is the counter argument that I can't disprove any of it, and so whilst I do not believe it, I can't say that said items of discussion do not exist. Further, with the beauty of nature and it's seamless harmony with itself, it's hard not to consider that there may be forces greater than those within our comprehension at work. So until all this stuff presents itself for all to see clearly, I reside on the non believers side of the fence :)
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Very diplomatically put!

Me? I think it's a load of baloney. There are more often than not logical explanations for the "supernatural".
 
Nod said:
That's a very old freak out trick! All the trickster has to do is turn off the supply, turn on all the taps and wait for a few gullible people to turn up.
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hmmm...don't know so much about the gullible part, especially when the head Chaplain came to see the college and the comments he made. What about the toilets flushing at the same time as well? Our platoon's bungalow the middle one in a long corridor so anyone creating havoc would have been spotted or heard running either up or down the passage as the only entrances to the building were at the end of the passage. Believe it or not..your choice...but a platoon of mostly ex-military most certainly knew it wasn't a trick.
 
A couple of years ago I stayed in a haunted motel in Death Valley USA. It's the seventh most haunted place in the US. I knew all this before booking. I arrived late, and my room key was stuck to the reception door in an envelope to let myself in via an external door to my room. I had the whole place to myself. Nobody else there, not even any staff. Nobody else around for miles. No phone reception, no tvs. Solitary confinement. Total silence and an amazing night sky.

After settling in and eating the food I'd brought with me, I ventured in to the internal corridors and rooms to have a look around and take some pictures. You know the sort of thing - faces and bodies on the picture that weren't there in real life. Walking down a long corridor I heard the loud clang of a metal gate being slammed closed. A minute later, walking past a toilet I heard a whoosh of water as if from a tap being turned on for a couple of seconds then off again. When I got to the end of the corridor and reached the reception area for the first time, I saw a big metal gate separating the office area from the entrance foyer.

It was an uneventful night and I wasn't scared in any way. The next morning I met the motel staff and they told me of the hauntings. Mostly a young girl who drowned there at an early age - 7 or 8-ish many decades ago. They say she likes to touch people from behind, and of course there's nobody to be seen when you turn round. It was an unusual place, and I'd stay there again.
 
I don't believe until it gets dark and something weird happens then I believe for a while then it gets light and logic comes back.

Sometimes I'd like to believe ya know

bit of an odd contradiction background in engineering v dyspraxic - if it aint logical I can't cope (once caused a family argument about someone loading the knives and forks in the dishwasher in the wrong order) but I can read tarrot and runes and know loads of people that think that way. The thing that gets me is they say the 'energy' is flowing and I think ya know energy as in proportional to mass Einstein type energy
 
I refer to myself as a sceptical believer.

Yes I believe in the supernatural however, I am not one of these people that believes everything that comes along. I look at it all in a scientific way and try to come up with more possible alternatives.

I have had several weird experiences through my life starting from an early age.

More recently, well, over the last 15 years, my nans house is haunted. We've had several things happen such as the kettle turning itself on and off, as well as the VCR. Odd smells of flowers that appear and disappear without any known cause. Being able to hear someone walking around upstairs despite there being no one else in the house. Lying in bed there and knowing someone was sitting on the end of the bed. My wife had someone grab her hand. My brother from a very early age refused to go upstairs by himself because it felt like someone was watching him and more recently he saw someone in the door.

We can't prove one way or another that it is supernatural and I am more than happy to it to be proved one way or the other.

The one thing I say to all those that do not believe is that just because we currently lack the scientific methods to prove something, it does not mean that that something does no exist.

At one time, the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us :)
 
feeb said:
Anyway, i believe in a sort of jedi esq 'force' that surrounds us all, connects us and gives us the insight to look for connections in life.
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I'm with you on this one Feeb :thumbs:
 
your opening two resons A is correct and B is confusing you Logic over rules everything stop being confused
 
At one time, the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us

Never has been flat that was just rumour and gossip and like wise ghosts etc.. are rumour and gossip
 
This is turning out to be an interesting discussion.



Nod said:
That's a very old freak out trick! All the trickster has to do is turn off the supply, turn on all the taps and wait for a few gullible people to turn up.
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See, that's exactly my point. The sceptics out there try to find alternate reasons for things happening. As do I.

MisterE said:
A couple of years ago I stayed in a haunted motel in Death Valley USA. It's the seventh most haunted place in the US. I knew all this before booking. I arrived late, and my room key was stuck to the reception door in an envelope to let myself in via an external door to my room. I had the whole place to myself. Nobody else there, not even any staff. Nobody else around for miles. No phone reception, no tvs. Solitary confinement. Total silence and an amazing night sky.

After settling in and eating the food I'd brought with me, I ventured in to the internal corridors and rooms to have a look around and take some pictures. You know the sort of thing - faces and bodies on the picture that weren't there in real life. Walking down a long corridor I heard the loud clang of a metal gate being slammed closed. A minute later, walking past a toilet I heard a whoosh of water as if from a tap being turned on for a couple of seconds then off again. When I got to the end of the corridor and reached the reception area for the first time, I saw a big metal gate separating the office area from the entrance foyer.

It was an uneventful night and I wasn't scared in any way. The next morning I met the motel staff and they told me of the hauntings. Mostly a young girl who drowned there at an early age - 7 or 8-ish many decades ago. They say she likes to touch people from behind, and of course there's nobody to be seen when you turn round. It was an unusual place, and I'd stay there again.
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Rather you than me! I feel like I don't believe but in a place like that my imagination would get the better of me :p

david1701 said:
I don't believe until it gets dark and something weird happens then I believe for a while then it gets light and logic comes back.
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Same as me. In the daytime you're all like "Haha, yeah, ghosts, psh."

In the night time, and figures can be made out of shadows, and you hear creaking when you know everyone has gone to bed, etc etc.

Harvey_nikon said:
I refer to myself as a sceptical believer.

Yes I believe in the supernatural however, I am not one of these people that believes everything that comes along. I look at it all in a scientific way and try to come up with more possible alternatives.

I have had several weird experiences through my life starting from an early age.

More recently, well, over the last 15 years, my nans house is haunted. We've had several things happen such as the kettle turning itself on and off, as well as the VCR. Odd smells of flowers that appear and disappear without any known cause. Being able to hear someone walking around upstairs despite there being no one else in the house. Lying in bed there and knowing someone was sitting on the end of the bed. My wife had someone grab her hand. My brother from a very early age refused to go upstairs by himself because it felt like someone was watching him and more recently he saw someone in the door.

We can't prove one way or another that it is supernatural and I am more than happy to it to be proved one way or the other.

The one thing I say to all those that do not believe is that just because we currently lack the scientific methods to prove something, it does not mean that that something does no exist.

At one time, the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us :)
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See, perhaps it's because you started 'seeing things' and 'smelling things' that you came to an unjustified conclusion that the house is haunted. Then your mind subconsciously seeks out things that go bump in the night.

Seen someone sat on the end of your bed?
If I close my cupboards in a certain way, the way my clothing hands of the door and the way my computer monitors sit, it makes a figure of a person wearing a 'death' style hood/cape/gown thing. But only when everything is aligned.

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One time, my friend and his girlfriend were having sex, and he had his tracksuit bottoms around his thighs. One of the tassles had fallen inside and was rubbing his leg. He immediately thought the worst as it felt like he had a liquid dripping down his leg. He accused his girlfriend of pooing herself before realising it was simply a cotton tassle. [/disclaimer]
My point?

Your mind gets the better of you.

Countless times have I felt a scragged bit of something in my jeans, carped myself thinking it was a spider, to find it was a piece of paper.

I'm not saying that stuff doesn't exist, I'm saying it's possibly a combined figment of all your imaginations.
You say you saw a man in the door way? Subconsciously, all your family members seek to find that figure.

As said, I'm not poo-pooing your stories. You have to understand I've never experienced anything 'supernatural' (if it exists) and so I'm left to scepticism.

jakedog uk said:
At one time, the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us

Never has been flat that was just rumour and gossip and like wise ghosts etc.. are rumour and gossip
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Potentially I agree, but as has been said.

While as Atheists we ask Christians to prove God exists, Christians ask Atheists to prove he doesn't.
 
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foodpoison said:
See, perhaps it's because you started 'seeing things' and 'smelling things' that you came to an unjustified conclusion that the house is haunted. Then your mind subconsciously seeks out things that go bump in the night.

Seen someone sat on the end of your bed?
If I close my cupboards in a certain way, the way my clothing hands of the door and the way my computer monitors sit, it makes a figure of a person wearing a 'death' style hood/cape/gown thing. But only when everything is aligned.
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Well, as I said, I am quite sceptical over such things. We had the electrics tested to see why they should be turning on and off. I hunted around for drafts and reasons for the smells. I try and disprove something and if I can't find something, I don't go, "oh it must be a ghost" but I am aware that even though it can't be proved, its still a viable option.

A lad I work with refuses to even acknowledge that there is a possibility ghosts exist and that we currently do not have the technological reseources to prove it either way. When I point out he is as bad as someone who believes everything is supernatural despite the evidence he gets rather ratty and sulks.

I am happy to be proven right or wrong either way :)
 
It's impossible to prove that something doesn't exist but relatively easy to prove it does. All too easy to fake that proof as well!
 
I believe in the supernatural...if someone like George Bush can run the most powerful country in the world for 8 years then it must be proof of something super natural:lol:
 
I'm not sure about it, I like to think it would exist and sometime things happen that I think could be supernatural and sometimes im not sure.

one thing that made me believe is when we were at my friends house, it's a very old house and it is known that someone has passed away there before. we were sat in the bedroom with the windows all closed, curtains drawn, lights off and tv on. the only light which was on in the whole house was the one in the hallway outside his room.

we were the only people home, and all the doors were locked. anyway.. we're watching a film, and the light outside his room turned off, when we went to investigate, the light switch simply turned back using the switch, we also noticed there was a light on downstairs, we went downstairs and it was the downstairs toilet light, locked from the inside and light on. we then went back upstairs, feeling a little bit confused, and the tv switch had been turned off, the curtain was undone and the window was half open.
 
I certainly believe there is something to it all. An experience as such I had happened when I was about 27. My wife worked in the evenings in a resteraunt which was situated in an underground building In Bath, I was driving Taxis at the time and when I finished my shift around 3 in the morning I would go and pick her up. One evening whilst I was waiting for her to finish Ipopped into the kitchen to see the chef. Bill was an old friend of my parents so he has known me since day one. The kitchen was a long but narrow room, one way in and one way out. I was stood with my back about 3ft from the wall at one end of the room and was chatting to Bill whilst he was clearing down, as he looked to say something to me I suddenly just lept up in the air. Bill said what the hells the matter with you, my reply was that somebody had just rested a hand on my shoulder and squeezed my shoulder in a gentle manner :shrug: nobebody else in the room but the two of us.
 
A few weeks after my husband died I bought my 13 year old son a radio controlled car kit which he constructed ( he has grown up to be an engineer).

One night I was woken up by a loud noise coming from my sons room. I went in and the car was driving itself aound his bedroom. My son was asleep in his bed. The controller was on the shelf and it had no batteries in it. I woke my son and showed him what was happening. He was really happy as he was convinced his Dad was trying out his car.

As a psychologist I am aware of the fact that bereaved people may wish so hard for a sight of their loved one that they could imagine it. However there have been other events, similar to the car one which have convinced me that my husband was still around for quite a while after he died.I never found that scary.
 
ladysue said:
A few weeks after my husband died I bought my 13 year old son a radio controlled car kit which he constructed ( he has grown up to be an engineer).

One night I was woken up by a loud noise coming from my sons room. I went in and the car was driving itself aound his bedroom. My son was asleep in his bed. The controller was on the shelf and it had no batteries in it. I woke my son and showed him what was happening. He was really happy as he was convinced his Dad was trying out his car.

As a psychologist I am aware of the fact that bereaved people may wish so hard for a sight of their loved one that they could imagine it. However there have been other events, similar to the car one which have convinced me that my husband was still around for quite a while after he died.I never found that scary.
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Fantastic.

These are the sorts of stories I like to hear.

It shows he's looking out for you guys, if that's the case.

One my mum told me.

She was in Malta with her boyfriend-of-the-time several decades ago, and it was right in the middle of a huge heatwave.
Absolutely boiling hot, the kind where people die.

During the night, she woke up, absolutely freezing cold.
She fumbled around trying to get warm, as she saw a ball of light float up and through her bed, and then disappear through the ceiling. As soon as it had gone, she stopped being cold and the heat returned. She nudged her boyfriend and asked him what the time was, and bewildered he glanced at the alarm clock and muttered, "About 3".

She went back to sleep.

In the morning she received a phone call. Her granny had died, one she was very close to. It's thought she passed away at around about 3 o'clock in the morning.



Now I'm sceptical about this one. A fever can make you feel like you're very cold, and also induce hallucinations. Memories can change.

"3 am is when she died? I think I was awake at 3 am... Yeah, that's right, Martin told me the time and it was 3!" sort of thing, which perhaps may just be a coincidence or the altering of memory.
 
I don't know. I suppose I'm neither a believer or a sceptic. I do know people, whom I consider pretty grounded, who claim to have had supernatural/paranormal experiences, but it's never happened to me.

I did do some consultancy work at a high school in South Africa a few years ago, and the security staff started showing nervousness on night shift, and said strange things were happening. The school was built on "Wargrave Road", which was interesting, and we found that it was common knowledge that the site had been an Anglo-Boer war graveyard. Some people claimed that graves were disturbed when the foundations were dug. I've no idea if this is true, but it could create an association of ideas, and many African people have a completely different sense of the spirit (ancestor) world than our own.

I do tend to look for pragmatic explanations for supposedly paranormal events, but I don't have any difficulty with the idea that there are a lot of things which are perfectly natural (normal) and that we just don't understand at all, at the moment. After all, anyone using a mobile in the Middle Ages would probably have been burned at the stake for witchcraft.
 
Food Poison is there something wrong with my point of view you seem to have answered everyone but me :(
 
Sorry feeb, it wasn't intentional!

feeb said:
Hi FP - i believe this falls into the same vein of 'Religion' but i will give you my perspective anyway

I believe, with all my heart that the human mind can create its own reality, the extent of that i am unsure of, and believe i will be until i die.

I believe that if a human being believes in something, events and situations will occur to 'prove' that belief. Science works in much the same way, if you think about it.

Anyway, i believe in a sort of jedi esq 'force' that surrounds us all, connects us and gives us the insight to look for connections in life.

I believe that if you think you saw a ghost, and then you go back and have a look every night for a week, you are likely to see a ghost. If you are in a house with your friends and you are convinced their is a spirit in the house, you will hear things moving out, unexplainable events will occur - your thoughts will be revealed

i think its exactly the same as praying for something, asking a deck of cards to answer a question, rolling dice... Anything really

God, Allah, Buddha, etc, etc are much the same, to me god is a big ball with a million and one different directions and angles to look at him/her/it from

its is impossible to define, to deny or to prove. It Just Is, and it is because we want it to be :)

have you ever considered that you suggesting to a human that their supernatural doesnt exist, that their spirituality means nothing or their cards prove b****r all - that is the same as denouncing a god, telling a muslim that Allah doesnt exist or whatever

i say the above because people are very quick to pussyfoot around 'religion' without taking into account what that really means.


many people have their own special ways of talking to god, communicating with the dead or feeling connected to a bigger picture than the earth we live on

and why not let them dream? they are as worthy as any :)
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I'm all for accepting the fact that people have different beliefs.

What I don't like is the pressure they put on you to believe, too.

My mum is adamant that all things supernatural exist, and says I'm stupid for not believing them even though I've heard all the stories she's told me.

I had an american friend from texas and her family deemed me ignorant for not believing in God.

Some Muslim extremists believe that anyone who doesn't believe in Allah is not worthy of a life.

I can understand the anger caused by telling someone what they believe is wrong, also.
How condescending is that?!
 
MartynK said:
I don't know. I suppose I'm neither a believer or a sceptic. I do know people, whom I consider pretty grounded, who claim to have had supernatural/paranormal experiences, but it's never happened to me.

I did do some consultancy work at a high school in South Africa a few years ago, and the security staff started showing nervousness on night shift, and said strange things were happening. The school was built on "Wargrave Road", which was interesting, and we found that it was common knowledge that the site had been an Anglo-Boer war graveyard. Some people claimed that graves were disturbed when the foundations were dug. I've no idea if this is true, but it could create an association of ideas, and many African people have a completely different sense of the spirit (ancestor) world than our own.

I do tend to look for pragmatic explanations for supposedly paranormal events, but I don't have any difficulty with the idea that there are a lot of things which are perfectly natural (normal) and that we just don't understand at all, at the moment. After all, anyone using a mobile in the Middle Ages would probably have been burned at the stake for witchcraft.
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Ah, the basis of all good horror films:

An ancient indian/african/war burial ground :D

Seriously though, how spooky.

What is this 'completely different sense of the spirit world' that the African's hold? Mind sharing?
 
I had a "spooky" situation years ago. I have to drive past a cemetery on my way too work on two consecutive days the car engine cut out as I passed the cemetery gates. First day I thought nothing of it, second day I was a little spooked. Turns out I had a bad earth connection on the coil. Driving over the same bump/pot hole in the road had broke the connection. Don't know why the car had never stalled anywhere else though.

Another situation that I never found an explanation for was travelling up the M11 towards Harlow, overtaking a car on seperate occasions (different car each time) the motorway somewhat deserted and straight with no turn offs and the car no longer behind me after about 10-15 secs and I was only driving well within the speed limit. This not only happened whilst I was driving with my, then, girlfriend in the car but also with her driving with me as passenger.

Last situation I can think of I was sitting in the living room of my inlaws house with my arm on the arm of the settee. I felt a slight drop in temperature but not a draft on my arm and then something brush against my arm. I looked down expecting to see their dog but nothing was there.


I also seem to have this uncanny knack of thinking something whilst not saying it, several people have asked me what I had said as if they had heard me speak.
 
nilagin said:
I had a "spooky" situation years ago. I have to drive past a cemetery on my way too work on two consecutive days the car engine cut out as I passed the cemetery gates. First day I thought nothing of it, second day I was a little spooked. Turns out I had a bad earth connection on the coil. Driving over the same bump/pot hole in the road had broke the connection. Don't know why the car had never stalled anywhere else though.

Another situation that I never found an explanation for was travelling up the M11 towards Harlow, overtaking a car on seperate occasions (different car each time) the motorway somewhat deserted and straight with no turn offs and the car no longer behind me after about 10-15 secs and I was only driving well within the speed limit. This not only happened whilst I was driving with my, then, girlfriend in the car but also with her driving with me as passenger.

Last situation I can think of I was sitting in the living room of my inlaws house with my arm on the arm of the settee. I felt a slight drop in temperature but not a draft on my arm and then something brush against my arm. I looked down expecting to see their dog but nothing was there.


I also seem to have this uncanny knack of thinking something whilst not saying it, several people have asked me what I had said as if they had heard me speak.
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Spooky!

As for the motorway thing, happens all the time when I'm driving at night.
My Dad says it's called the slinky effect, which happens during the day time (hence the strange build up of traffic for no real reason - one person brakes and that's multiplied by 1000) just a lot more spread out as there are fewer cars at night.

I have the ability to know if something is on standby, even if it isn't making a noise and even if I can't see the light to show it's on.

Not sure if it's because they emit a frequency that I can hear, or something else.
 
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foodpoison said:
I have the ability to know if something is on standby, even if it isn't making a noise and even if I can't see the light to show it's on.

Not sure if it's because they emit a frequency that I can hear, or something else.
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So are you saying I'm emitting a frequency?:lol:
 
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