Do you believe in ghosts?

[Alias]

I have no choice.
A little figure I love was suddely hurled though the air by a person who is dead. Its ear was broken off. I saw it happening and my husband too. I´ll have to deal with that!

[lookout]

Not really,but not sure.
Some years ago after the death of my sister-in-law,we were told by her neighbours that there had been a few " callers " at her house,which was empty of occupants. Knowing what was contained within,husband and myself decided to stay one night as a precaution against a break-in. Because her bedroom was the only room which was aired,we slept there,my husband in her bed and me on a camp bed which I'd made up with freshly laundered sheets,etc.
However,during the night,I woke up with " things " sticking in me and cutting enough to draw blood to my back and one arm as I'd turned over. I got up and was shocked to see the remnants/pieces of a Meissen china figurine. They were definitely not there when I made the camp-bed up as the bed had been stored and I'd hoovered it in case it was dusty. It did unnerve me slightly in the way that I felt that I wasn't wanted there.
I still have the two Meissen/Dresden figurines ( cherubs ) but without their musical instruments ?? Which had been nowhere near the bedroom,but in the lounge in a display cabinet.
I wouldn't know what to make of that. Husband couldn't understand what it was all about either We just put the incident to the backs of our minds.
Maybe it was the German in their family and the Jew in mine.

[Alias]

Spooky, Lookout!
I guess I was over interpreting the incidence, but it was quite shocking! The glass figure suddenly flew trough the room a couple of meters, landed on the floor and broke. For no reason. It was standing on a shelf, not close to the edge - and nothing had fallen to perhaps hit it and make it fall. Everything was in it´s place.
I had a visit from a family member a couple of weeks ago, and he said he could feel the dead family member in my apartment - so I assumed it was her! 

[Jane]

Spooky, Lookout!
I guess I was over interpreting the incidence, but it was quite shocking! The glass figure suddenly flew trough the room a couple of meters, landed on the floor and broke. For no reason. It was standing on a shelf, not close to the edge - and nothing had fallen to perhaps hit it and make it fall. Everything was in it´s place.
I had a visit from a family member a couple of weeks ago, and he said he could feel the dead family member in my apartment - so I assumed it was her! 

I'm sure we all know about -have even seen- a film call "The Exorcist." I was hugely surprised when I was told by a friend, whose husband was a parish priest, that there is an exorcist in every diocese. Naturally, it isn't a position which is undertaken lightly and the exorcist never works alone. When a situation arises where his services are required he has a team who meet, usually in a church, NEVER in a private home, to pray for the safe keeping of the exorcising priest and the successful removal of the troubled and troublesome spirit. The bishop's wife had told my friend, whose husband was a member of the back up prayer team, of the time when her husband had been called to do a particularly challenging and potentially dangerous job. Around the time when he would have been performing the service of exorcism, the doors of their book case opened and a book was ejected across the room. It was a Bible.

The position isn't one which can be held for any length of time and it requires the exorcising priest to have regular support and debriefing sessions. The church provides its own retreats and psychologists to deal with the after effects of these missions.

[Alias]

I'm sure we all know about -have even seen- a film call "The Exorcist." I was hugely surprised when I was told by a friend, whose husband was a parish priest, that there is an exorcist in every diocese. Naturally, it isn't a position which is undertaken lightly and the exorcist never works alone. When a situation arises where his services are required he has a team who meet, usually in a church, NEVER in a private home, to pray for the safe keeping of the exorcising priest and the successful removal of the troubled and troublesome spirit. The bishop's wife had told my friend, whose husband was a member of the back up prayer team, of the time when her husband had been called to do a particularly challenging and potentially dangerous job. Around the time when he would have been performing the service of exorcism, the doors of their book case opened and a book was ejected across the room. It was a Bible.

The position isn't one which can be held for any length of time and it requires the exorcising priest to have regular support and debriefing sessions. The church provides its own retreats and psychologists to deal with the after effects of these missions.

Weird! In this day and age!
I have had strange things happen to me, but I am not sure there isn´t a rational explanation. What happened yesterday is hard to explain, I can´t, but there must be something I don´t know!

[Jane]

Weird! In this day and age!
I have had strange things happen to me, but I am not sure there isn´t a rational explanation. What happened yesterday is hard to explain, I can´t, but there must be something I don´t know!

Alias, the premise is simple. Everything has its opposite so if it's believed that there is a God who is a force for good it must be recognized that there is also the Devil who is a force for evil.

[Alias]

My husband describes it as if a lightning moved the figure - just, there was no lightning.

[scipio_usmc]

I have no choice.
A little figure I love was suddely hurled though the air by a person who is dead. Its ear was broken off. I saw it happening and my husband too. I´ll have to deal with that!

How do you know it wasn't the wind or vibrations from shaking the floor?

I have gone to numerous places supposedly haunted and but for drafts and creaks and the like I have not encountering anything not caused by living people also around. Ok one was not caused by people because I was the only one stupid enough to go inside. It was in the woods and looked as old as dirt, a wall collapsed and almost hit me.  I was told it it was a witch's house and she haunted it.  The place was condemned though because it was unsafe and no one was supposed to be in there. So that I see as explainable as well. My own movements caused it. 

Needless to say I don't believe in ghosts, or demons or witches (at least in any sense other than Wiccans or wicked mortal women). 


 

[Alias]

How do you know it wasn't the wind or vibrations from shaking the floor?

I have gone to numerous places supposedly haunted and but for drafts and creaks and the like I have not encountering anything not caused by living people also around. Ok one was not caused by people because I was the only one stupid enough to go inside. It was in the woods and looked as old as dirt, a wall collapsed and almost hit me.  I was told it it was a witch's house and she haunted it.  The place was condemned though because it was unsafe and no one was supposed to be in there. So that I see as explainable as well. My own movements caused it. 

Needless to say I don't believe in ghosts, or demons or witches (at least in any sense other than Wiccans or wicked mortal women). 


 

Because there is no wind in that part of the living room - it is far away from the windows and not in the line where draft can occur.
We didn´t feel any shaking or vibration (that can happen here though, this is an old house). Nothing else on the shelf moved. The figurine is not large, but it is kind of flat, not protruding into the air. It is placed beside a slim, high, cylindric candlestick with a high "tipping point" - that would be more likely to fall than that figureine, but that didn´t move - nothing else moved.
There was also the FORCE with which it was hurled a couple of meters through the room - it was uncanny! It was fast and forceful.
I have been thinking that the explanation could be some electrical charge, but I can´t say from where!Miniature ball lightnng? 

[mertol22]

They exist  im sure of that available on youtube  something to watch on a stormy night the first story od the b/w film dead of night .