Do you believe in ghosts?

[Exogenous]

I believe in ghosts, or maybe it's the energy of folks still hanging around.

I have had a few experiences with ghosts, since I was a child. Some have been playful and some have been oddly sad.

My housemate supposedly attracts them because he is open to them...sort of like lost souls who don't want to leave this earthly reality and need to continue some kind of contact. I told him of one visitor to my bedroom in the middle of the night, who visited me twice. I wasn't scared, but more curious as to why this visitor was there, in my room, watching me while I slept until I woke up and acknowledged him. I just told my roommate to keep his "friends" downstairs, in his own room, from now on.

LOL, anytime my housemate is out I make sure his bedroom door is closed. I don't mind the energies in my house, just as long as they don't "approach" me.

 

[littleone77]

My room last year had one. We found his story, poor kid died his senior year from a car crash, and that was his room we were in. "Peter" loved to play with my tv, turn on the heater, play with out computers...Snow quite a bit and he was known for moving things.

I was kinda hoping he would follow me this year.

 

[graceanne]

Yes, I believe in ghosts/spirits/whatever you want to call them. I also believ

I've been sensitive to psychic energy since I was a child but I've mostly tried to close that part off because its not something that I like to delve in. I don't want to open myself up to things that I don't have control over.

Yeah, same here. I spent most of my teenage years terrified. I couldn't sleep without a nightlight, I couldn't be in a room by myself, etc. I was relieved when I stopped sensing whatever you want to call them. They always felt evil to me, even before I became a Christian. I have a friend, though, who's like Exogenous and says she sees dead people all the time, but it doesn't scare her. *shrugs*

I thought Christians believed that when people died they were in a "sleep state" of sorts and that people didn't go to heaven until judgement day. I haven't read the bible in ages so I could be way off base. I always thought people wanted to believe in an instant ticket to heaven because it was more comforting to them and made them fear death less.

Ok, what I was actually told is their is no 'in between' state that would cause ghosts. I don't know - the bible does say that you either go to heaven or hell, but it does not say that their is NOT any ghosts. And the night that Jesus was killed people reported Moses and, I think, Zachariah walking around talking to people. I'm sorry, they're both dead. It sounds like ghosts to me. Christians will also tell you their's no reincarnation, but both Jesus and John the baptist were asked if they were the reincarnation of . . . Isaiah? I can't recall the name of who they were thought to be reincarnations of. Neither of them stated, at that point, that that was impossible cause people aren't reincarnated, they just said they weren't.

I think that Christians believe that their's no such thing as ghosts or reincarnation because that's comforting to them.

I also knwo that the 'presences' I felt were NEVER good, they were always evil. My mother believes I was struggling with demonic persecution, that Satan didn't want to lose his hold on me. I just know I'm glad I don't feel 'them' anymore. I'm open to the possibility of good 'ghosts', but I've never run into one.

 

[im_a_voyeur]

My mother believes I was struggling with demonic persecution, that Satan didn't want to lose his hold on me.

That's probably what that was all about. I have a girlfriend who struggled with demonic forces for several years as a teenager. I don't believe that she's been attacked recently but we haven't really talked about that in a long while.