Awesome.  I've been playing 360 and PS3.  Left4Dead, MW2, Army of Two mostly.  You were talking about the Wii, right?  I don't care; almost all games are fun.  I'll IM you.

How do they work?

I used my Ouija and partied with these guys (no homo).

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I've had plenty of experiences.  Most recently heard someone ask "Who are you?"  While sound asleep.  Used to be shaken awake almost nightly between the ages of 8 and 12.  Sister tuned all of her alarms off, lights, and TV seeing as how she didn't work the next morning.  She woke up to her stereo blaring, TV on but with snow, and her lights on.  At the foot of her bed, there was an impression as if someone sat down and was watching TV(she said it's possible she woke up and did it but that doesn't make much sense.  Why turn on your lights, crank your radio and watch snow on the TV?).  I woke up at 6am every Saturday when I was younger to watch Saturday morning hunting shows, I looked over, saw my mom standing in the living room, i said hi, she didn't, I look back over and no one was there.

I guess it's gonna take a ghost bitch slapping for me to believe.  I'd really like to believe, but without proof...I just can't.

And I don't see that happening.

That seems to work for most.

I don't blame you.  I wouldn't believe if I had not had those experiences....    



 

Doesn't quite work for me...

Again, whats proof?

If you can explain the odd voices from my Gettysburg trip be my guest. Thats why i do it to see what that stuff is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n71ffdPf7BE

Or the Ghostly figures walking down the road in Gettysburg in front of our hotel a short distance from the high Water mark portion of the field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKex58Ao2Q

I'd love to have awnsers, but i wont dismiss the stuff either..

So you consider that evidence of ghosts.  I'm curious...what do you do for a living?

One night I was getting ready to lay down and I heard 3 bangs on the screen of the window and so I went to look and when I opened the curtains there was a transparent cat suspended in air staring me in the face from the other side of the window.





After I banged on the window I yelled at it and told it to leave. It scrunched down,walked to the right,turned it's back on me and jumped out into nothing.





This took about 60 seconds and while it was doing whatever it was doing..I examined every inch of what I was looking at.





This creature was transparent and it was floating in air right out side my window. It looked like a cat but it was not a cat and it wasn't standing on anything..It WAS suspended in air and it banged on the screen of the window to get my attention.





this was about 13 years ago and it frightens me still..





Other people have experienced the same thing in the same room at the same window.A black transparent being that portrayed itself as a cat.





My daughter once came out of the room at night,MAD, and said cats were jumping onto the bed from out of


thin air.She was 7.





She had never been told of what had been seen by many others..This wasn't the first time someone had experienced "cats" jumping on the bed.






 

I'm all ears. Be my guest to give your thoughts on what it is...

You must mean translucent...I don't think you'd see a transparent cat.

The video is not enough to make a determination.  There are so many local lighting effects that could cause that.  Refraction within the lens of the device collecting the imagery.  Why would you jump to assuming it's the life force of a formerly living thing?  What could possibly guide such a leap other than a compelling desire to believe such a thing (which, interestingly enough, is also what might compel someone to be a "ghost hunter")?

ETA: I'm not going to dignify the audio with a comment...I'm strictly referring to the video of the shimmering reflection.

2nd edit:  Ok, I am going to comment on the audio....BITCH!!!  LMFAO!!!!!!

I'd take a shotgun. You know, one with ghost ring sights.



 

For one one because we was in one of the most traumatic spots in American history with a ton of death and carnage. The place has a off the charts energy, and is one of the most haunted places in this country.  I was standing over his shoulder as he was recording, and I saw nothing. For some unknown reason our human senses cant fully pick up their energy, but our technology can. Thats why the digital recorder picks up such low frequencies that the human ear cant hear at the time for EVP's.  I dont have answers to why they exist, or how they work, but you dont have answers for why they dont exist or work.

I used to do custom orthophotogrammetry.  Cameras and sensors pick up all kinds of shit that might not be visible to the eye, seem weird to some people, but are well understood and are unremarkable to scientists and technical experts who work with sophisticated equipment professionally.  Some weird flicker of light might not be evidence of a weird life force from beyond the grave.  It just might be a weird lighting effect the people there weren't aware of at the time.  But nothing will convince you...you're a True Believer.  This is like religion for you.  I understand.

I wouldn't go that far. It's a hobby in something that I would like to know more about. Dont we all? It's like anything else you gotta go in with a open mind, and not dismiss it off the bat. Grab a digital recorder, go to a cemetery or something and try it for yourself, then try to explain it. If you dont want to, and that kinda thing is not your cup of tea, then dont knock it and dismiss it.

Cocaines a he'll of a drug?

Anyways I work at a company that deals with donors & we have walk in freezers with thousands of deceased donors.... I've never seen or heard anything crazy although some people out here have said things.  All I know is the mind can/will play horrible tricks on you when you r the only one in a huge quiet freezer with the dead at god awful times of the night.

I've had some weird shit happen at my house.





ETA: The place where I work is also haunted by a nurse who used to work here.

I lived in a haunted house when I was born. I was too young to remember anything but my entire family including family friends have related several incidents to me over the years. My mom moved me out of my nursery for good after she heard me crying one night and opened my door to see a glowing fog hovering over my crib. It slowly dissapated as my mother entered the room.

I used to work at a restaurant that was haunted when I was in high school. I wore a blue apron that tied in the back. One day I was washing dishes when I felt someone behind me shove me and pull my apron string loose. I turned around annoyed to cuss out whoever did it. When I did there was nobody there. That happened a few times. Other times I would be walking through the hot kitchen and enter an ice cold spot and the hair on the back of my neck would stand up. Im a true believer.

I firmly believe that if such things existed that we would have solid evidence by now, whether it be video, or whatever. There are too many people looking and trying to find such things for them to exist and no one to have any solid proof.

No ghosts,only parallel universes.

Ghosts are BS

The products of an overactive imagination... either that or pleas for attention (by the living, not the dead).

Just those nasty Christians out to destroy the purity and beauty of logical thought.

Live long and prosper.

You sure are one cool mother fucker u know that? Awesome post homie lol!!!

Ah, the mercurial, unquantifiable, unrepeatable,  mysterious "energy".  Sigh.

This pretty much sums up my 3 strange encounters.

People need a way to describe what they've seen or think they've seen.   If It falls outside the normal, it gets abnormal explanations.    I've had a couple of people tell me my house has ghosts.   A few times over the years I've seen things where I've thought 'you know, there's a quantum mechanical explanation for this'.   Or just 'WTF?'.    Alcohol?   Head rush?   Overactive imagination?   Visual neural effects?   Modern physics?   Supernatural effects?  

I'll go with Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation consistent with the available data is the most likely to be correct.   Just keep in mind you don't always have all the data.  And 'most likely' doesn't mean 'certainty'.

That is pretty much how everyone thinks...... Until something happens to you and then you will never forget the blood dump you have from your head to your feet. Nothing like it.

They don't have to be lying to be mistaken.

Exactly what type of "energy"? How was it measured? What "charts" was it "off of"?

My most intense experience happened about 10 years ago. My then employer purchased a long narrow building roughly 40 x 300 ft long.
It had 5 bay doors that opened directly to a set of train tracks right outside the doors.

This building was made specifically as hub to store soldiers bodies coming back from WW2 . I never gave it a whole lot of thought until to many little strange things
strung together kept happening .

We had a paint booth at one end of the shop and I stayed late one night to get some of my own car parts painted. While in the paint booth the boom box on the outside of the booth went from low to
cranked full blast. I mean pegged distorted as loud as it could possibly go.
Soooo that kinda freaked me out a bit. I did a complete check of the building from one end to the other. All locked up just as I had left it. I decided to go finish the parts because I really wanted them all dry for the next day so I could put them back on the car.

Anyway back into the paint booth (radio unfuckingplugged at this point) In there not 5 minutes and the banks of lights outside the paint room started alternatly shutting off and on. ( I could see it through the glass in the door of the booth)
At this point I had seen enough so I gathered up all my shit and headed towards the other end of the building where my truck was parked. As you walked from one end of the building there were light  switches at every bay door ,that you would either turn on as you went through or turn off as you were leaving. So I got to the far end of the building where the offices and my truck were. Left the last light swtch on by the door that I was going to go out of. Walked into the office  to shake the main door again (make sure it was locked)  I turned around to go out of the office look down to my right and EVERY bank of lights was turned on from one end of the building to the other. WTF

So there I stood thinking to myself ." Aint no way I am going to shut down the lights again tonight.
If that shit was not enough I turned my attention to the man door that we leave from the shop area to the parking lot. There in front of the door was a huge roller rack of doors that I had painted earlier that day. That rack was not there when I had turned to go into the office. I know that for a fact. The racks of painted parts never even went up to that end of the building. They were processed all at the other end. And shipped out through big doors opposite of the ones that faced the tracks..
Anyway this was the most freakish thing I have encountered. There have been others but this was just the most interesting one. Also,after that night I never stayed after work doing my own shit in that building. I had seen enough.

100 years ago people would have told us we were crazy about germs or things on the cellular level.   They would have said, I can't see it therefore it doesn't exist.  I've had a couple of experiences that cannot be explained with conventional science.

I saw one when I was a kid in our house, plain as day, walked by my bedroom, turned the bathroom light on, I screamed bloody murder, thought someone broke in, my parents came running, I made them search the whole upstairs to prove to me there was no one there. I was really young, 5 or 6, it was a while before I came to the realization that it was a ghost. There were many other very strange occurrences in that house, but that was the most obvious, and undeniable.

Prove us wrong...like I said, I'd like to believe.  I'm just gonna need some proof.

I'm a very sceptical atheist and don't believe in the supernatural.  Although I'd love to see something crazy if it exists.

I agree with this. Any other phenomena probably have scientific explanations.





 

Me too, except I'm not an atheist.

I'd say people that readily see 'ghosts' only see or hear them because they want to.

I've let my mind trick me more than once into thinking that a deer was circling my stand during deer season. Especiallly in low light. Qual rooting around in the brush sounds exactly like somthing walking around.  Trees swaying with the breeze can make it look like something pacing.

Your mind can deceive you into not taking the logical conclusion and believe whatever you want. Even to the extent of ignoring the obvious cause or indicaters of something.

I want to see ghosts...I've gone to supposedly haunted locations (there are a ton in CO).  Which leads me to believe, there are no ghosts...

I've seen or heard things, that had I not been such a skeptical person, I could have attributed to the supernatural.  being half asleep and 'seeing' a figure in the room, etc.  so in that sense, I do think the people who want to see something see it.

But I want to see them...

same here, I just don't think it's going to happen.  although I admit, if I saw a ghost, it would shake my entire belief system.

Because they are real.

In the years I worked as a cop and a paramedic, I've seen some weird shit I can't explain, can't discount, and have no other way of dealing with, other than to say "Okay..."

Don't know what the hell happened, but it did.  I'm not ruling ANYTHING out any more...  

Worked one code, guy's eyes were closed.  While getting a drug out of the kit, I dropped one of the boxes.  I was between him and the box, and his eyes were closed.  We got him back.

At the hospital, he told ME what color the box was.  My partner hadn't seen it.  You tell me...

FTA:  (Okay, before anyone asks.)  "Code" means the guy is DEAD.  No heartbeat, no nothing.  Just dropped, so he might be salvageable.  The drug boxes were maybe 6" long, 2" wide, 1" thick.  Small.  If you weren't watching, you'd have never seen it, and certainly most people don't pay attention.  This guy was down, but being worked on for something like 45 minutes.  CPR was done, and he got spanked with the AED about 15 times.  EACH time, it was a shockable rhythm.  He obviously wasn't ready to go.  After all the paperwork was done, about 30 minutes after we got to the ER, I told his wife he'd probably be unconscious for a while.  She told he he was awake already.  He WAVED to me.  "You dropped that Blue box..."  I think I touched the ground three times getting out of there.  Yep.  HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT.  

GREAT show!  Loved it...