You would think ghost would have better things to do than scare people half to death. I really get a kick out of that ghosthunters thing, they make it up and they act like they are getting attacked by ghost ROFL!!:toothy12:
I think we had a thread abou this before... I got a story though.
My dad grew up in a haunted house. The windows and doors used to open and shut on their own. One time, his brother heard a scratching at the basement door that persisted for over a week. They kept opening the door to see what it was but there was nothing there. Sometimes they would hear footsteps upstairs when no one else was in the house and their dog would sporadically bark at the ceiling. Sometimes when they woke up in the morning all of the pictures in the house would be upside down.
I never really believed it until a few years ago when I found a book about haunted buildings in upstate New York and found his old house. Turns out two guys robbed Saratoga National Bank and hid out in the house over 80 years ago. They were killed there during a shootout with the police but no one ever found the stolen money.
One other story:
Our family friends moved into a new house a couple of years back. This is a very nice family, but they're by no means normal. The daughter is autistic. The oldest son is really, unnaturally shy.
Anyways, right after they moved into the house, the youngest son started having some OCD problems. He was tearing the hair out of his head, going crazy whenever there was a loose thread on his clothes. Then one day, while my mom and I were visiting, he came in the kitchen and asked his mom if he could go play with the kid down the street. When she said no, he replied that it was alright and he was just going to play with Billy.
"Who's Billy?" his mother asked.
"You don't know Billy?" he asked in return. "Billy lives here."
"What do you mean, he's staying over and you didn't ask me?"
"No, he lives here. All the time. We built forts yesterday and last week we played GI Joes."
My mom and I weren't aware that they were a little freaked out by the house, so we assumed he had an imaginary friend. After he left the room, the mother flipped.
"My one son never talks, my daughter's autistic, now my youngest son sees dead people!" she screamed.
She then explained to us that there was more to the house than just strange noises. The appliances turned themselves on, the furniture moved on its own, and the hand-crank windows shut themselves. It was all very bizarre and her son still kinda freaks me out to this day.
It's quite possible, but then how would of they written down in a way for someone to understand it. I don't think you can write too well when you are stoned/drunk.
Or maybe some of the more orthodox religions are correct, and you, me, and everyone here at BA are going to burn in hell. Who knows for sure? I don't. Either way, I wouldn't call the Bible a book of fairytales.
Yes I belive in ghosts. A while back, my fiance, two friends, and I went into a haunted house, where a man's head was chopped off. We went in there and the smell of decaying blood was in the house. The incident happened about 20 years back and the smell was still there. We ran out of there and when we looked back, a man with a scythe was standing on the side of the road....very disturbing.