Ghosts Spirits Whatever You Call Them......Real???

[Bob Wright]

To quote Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis: "Once you were not. But now that you are, there never will be a time when you will not be."

You're going to live forever. Where is up to you, in Heaven, or a Lake of Fire. At death body and soul are separated. They are reunited again in one of the Resurrections.

Bob Wright

 

[Brant]

My father joined Uncle Sam’s Navy in 1965. He air crew during Vietnam. Every year on Memorial Day he and my mother go to a local cemetery and leaves a coin and small flag on a local mans grave. The young man was a few years younger than Pop but he new him. He had been killed while serving as An Army Ranger.

This year mother was ill and it was an honor for my wife and I to join him. After she and I paid our respects we gave him some room to himself and walked the old cemetery reading the dates and names of the older markers. There was one other couple there but they stayed on the far side away from us the whole time. Far enough away if I new them I would not be able to recognize their faces.

An hour later after arriving home my wife said. “ I wasn’t going to tell you this but, while we were walking the cemetery I kept feeling as if someone was walking next to me. I assumed it was the other couple getting close but when I would turn there would be no one there. Once I thought I was about to be bumped into! “

This woman is not capable of B.S. She is also fearless. She was a bit shook that afternoon.

 

[Mobuck]

I had an 'encounter' a few days back. Driving on a highway that I'd driven countless times, I saw a 'ghost car'(for lack of better description) cross the centerline, run off the road, and crash. When I told Grouch Attack, she gave me a wild look and told me that was the spot where 2 teenaged boys had crashed a week before and one was killed. I'd heard about a crash but had no idea of the exact location.
If that's not a 'para-normal' encounter, I'm confused. This isn't the first time something like this has happened but I certainly don't/won't go looking for such things--some people are just more 'tuned in' to this sort of contact.

 

[Actnbill]

My brother had passed away from cancer at 56...... On Christmas morning a few months later my family of 5 were opening presents and from the front door around the corner we heard "HELLO" is a loud happy voice that was my brothers voice.... We all heard as if he was walking in the door.....All 3 of our dog's ears perked up and they reacted to the 'hello' as well..... I went to the door and no one was there... ( no footprints in the snow or any neighbors near us )

I WANT TO BELIEVE.....

 

[Johnnu2]

This is an OLD post that I've been trying not to respond too... but it keeps popping up so I'm going to relate a couple of ghost incidents (not ALL of them) that occurred in a house that I bought "for a very good price". It was a gorgeous, very long, ranch house with a Vermont Slate roof. What I didn't know was that the owner's wife intentionally drowned herself in the private lake of this gated community. She was an older lady, but managed to get into a rowboat that were kept for residents, paddle out, and tie a rope around her neck and a cinder block.
Fast forward about years 3 and 4; three (of several) distinct incidents (two involving water).
1) Smoke alarms in house go off in the middle of the night... Was able to see vast amounts of smoke at the far end of the house towards the garage. Go to investigate before calling fire brigade. Turned out that the water softener was pouring water into it's drain in the slop sink in the basement; slop sink had pump to send water up into septic systems. Shut the power, opened the windows and thought nothing more of it UNTIL quite some time later...
2) There was a "guest quarters" with a full bathroom above the garage... this is where the ghost 'lived' as I found out later. There was a full bathroom up there. One morning, I was going into the garage to go to work and saw a deluge of water pouring thru the ceiling from (guess where). The toilet tank in the bathroom of the "ghost's" quarters had blown apart and was pouring water all night through the floor into the garage. WHO has EVER seen a toilet tank explode..????
But the best was yet to come....
3) I had re-connected with a girlfriend who I had not seen in 20 years (since going on active duty in the late 1960's). One evening, I drove her way out to my house on this beautiful mountain. We had gone out to dinner and went back at my house until it was very late; and I had a long drive to get her home. I left her in the living room while I went to the bathroom and, when I came back into the living room, she was obviously somewhat shaken. She said: "guess what................. you have a ghost in here". I asked her about it and she said it was "an old lady and she had come down the stairs from that "guest quarters" you showed me earlier. When she came through the dining room and saw me here in the living room, she was very angry; she turned and went back out".
There are more vivid stories, but this post is already too long....
J.

 

[peachhead]

I will just say that I don't believe it is going against Christian beliefs to accept that there are ghosts/spirits/etc.
I asked my Dad about it once. He said "there are more things in heaven and Earth than we know about."
I have no doubt that after he died, he made a couple of appearances to let my mother know that it was ok.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

Most things have a mechanical explanation, at some point the principals of physics apply, "you cannot destroy matter, you can only change it"

 

[coach]

I’ve experienced a couple of unusual events but can’t say for sure they were paranormal happenings.

 

[ole442]

I believe that these occurrences are possible. Never seen or heard one yet but spritual energy after life is possible IMO! YMMV

 

[Tenbore]

Human ghosts? No. More likely demonic presence.

 

[Huskerguy72]

Human ghosts? No. More likely demonic presence.

This. I have had a demonic confrontation and it was very real and extremely scary. Humans do not return from the grave but demons do not have those limitations. They can take on many forms.

 

[Stantheman1986]

Yup, the last owner of my house died of a heart attack in my basement. He's still here

My parents also have a ghost. A guy burned to death on their property back in the 1950s and he's there too

 

[Kevin]

This. I have had a demonic confrontation and it was very real and extremely scary. Humans do not return from the grave but demons do not have those limitations. They can take on many forms.

I’m not sure why you would think only evil spirits have the ability to return from the grave and not good natured people.

Both my wife and I fully believe her grandparents are watching out for her. There are just too many times when something happens and we both just know it’s what her grandma or grandpa would do to keep her from getting hurt somehow. Just too confidential.

 

[Watertender]

My son died after 10 months in a coma as the result of a motorcycle wreck when he was hit by a texting driver. This clock stopped at the time of his death and I never reset it. Our bed is a captain's bed with the drawers underneath. They are heavy and on nylon slides instead of rollers so they open hard. When we got home from the hospital where he died, one of the drawers was open and his favorite cat was pulling something out of the drawer. It was a Sunday school lesson that he had done when he was 9. The page that was showing said "Whose final destination is Heaven"...In the middle of that night my wife and I both saw an opaque figure standing at the foot of our bed and smelled the cologne that our son wore. After his death his bedroom door would rattle like someone was trying to open it. The door rattled so much that I put Q-tips in the frame to stop the sound. We also have a mat on the floor where he used to like to sit, this mat is heavy with a rubber backing and is the only thing in the house that moves itself. It's not explainable but it happens almost daily.

I have many other instances of contact with spirits even to being saved from a boiler gasket blowing out under full pressure. The blown gasket would have burned me severely except for a shadowy figure standing between me and the manhole plate where the blowout was. I jumped over the catwalk rail and fell 3 stories down. It felt like it was in slow motion and someone grabbed me. I landed on my feet with no burns or damage from the fall. As I looked up the figure disappeared after it waved to me.

I can't explain the instances but they did happen and some things keep happening...