Ghosts?!?!

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OK I too have seen stuff that I cant explain… Its knda funny but whatever I saw my “ghost” was in a well lit room at work neer noon.

1 There can be something scince behind all this we just dont understand yet. As such we assine supernateral behind it.

2 It could be an angels. Perhaps thay are trying to confert a loved one who has lost someone. Here we must juge them on how thay act and what thay say. For as there are good angels there are also bad ones.
  1. Demons Lots of resons for a demon to pull this trick off. Thay are smarter than us and will not likely miss a chance to try to hurt us. A demon would say something loving and kind to someone. Just for a chance that that would spend less time praying on whoever has died behalf. Let alone those who would turn to psychics and what not in order to talk with someone thay miss. Thay need not turn to "child sacrifice " for a demon to have done its work. 😦
😃 Try this next time you are faced with something supernatural…Sing a song of prase to Jesus. Say a prayer. any prayer well maybe not the one we say before we eat. . My goodness ask you guarding Angel for help. All of this can and will help you. Do not get cheeky. The dumbest demon is smarter than any one or all of us. Be carefull. :gopray2:
 
Just to play devil’s advocate . . .
  1. We know that some saints have appeared to people on earth in visions.
  2. Everyone in heaven is a saint
  3. Why couldn’t a ghost be a non-canonized saint sent to deliver a message to a loved one?
  4. This doesn’t explain the ghosts who appear, but don’t say anything.
 
THere is a book available from TAN I think , I got it from Providence House, when that was around called “Father Anthony?(someone-can’t recall) Tells a Ghost Story.” It was about a priest who came and told this family about ‘ghosts’, and its premise was the priest explaining purgatory to the kids. It was interesting and my kids liked it, but its been awhile and I can’t recall whether he got into other stuff, besides, sometimes someone will appear asking for prayers in purgatory, as has happened with many saints.

Some Near Death experiences have included visions of purgatory where they saw people confined to a space, like on earth, repeating the same mistakes that plagued them during life. Maybe some people are more prone to ‘sense’ these other earth-bound/purgatorial spirits. Thankfully, I can’t.

That said, I believe alien abductions, and most poltergeist type ghost sightings, including some seeming benevolent child ghosts are demons. Anything unsettling, like the woman who said her daughter seeing the ghost in a very angry, evil feeling home… That would be pretty obvious.

Ergo, keep the holy water and blessed salt around and use it periodically.

My humble .02
 
My Mom died in December of 2000. She was a pack-rat who kepted everything and I do mean EVERYTHING – such as telephone bills from the 1950’s … but it wasn’t neatly organized but scattered all over the place – in the pantry, stuffed in a coat pocket, under the fridge, etc.

It took me the better part of a year to go through everything and throw out the junk, keep the important stuff and give away the rest.

I had my own key to her house and so I took her keys and placed them on a high shelf in our kitchen. The keys sat there untouched for several months.

Then one evening, my wife & I were sitting on the floor playing “Adventures in Candyland” with our little daughter when we suddenly heard a loud crash. It sounded to me like a lightbulb had popped and/or exploded.

I carefully walked into the kitchen expecting to find broken glass but instead I found my mother’s keys on the floor. How did these keys suddenly fall off the shelf and unto the floor?

No wind. No earthquakes. How did the keys fall off of that shelf after securily sitting there for several months? To complicate the situation further, the keys were in the middle of the kitchen floor and not directly under the shelf. To get to where they were, they would have had to fall off the shelf at a 45-degree angle.

Was this the ghost of my dead mother? I doubt it because as was already pointed out, the souls of our dead ones go to one of three places. Was it an evil spirit (demon)? Could be. Is there some other earthly explaination for what happened? Maybe but I haven’t been able to come up with one.

Any opinions from anybody on this?
 
I’ll tell you a short…but true story. A couple of my brother’s friends…back in college (~94)…were messing around with a Ouija board one night. They weren’t having much luck…so…they were trying to decide upon who they would try and contact next…they all decided upon Lucifer…and shouted his name out…while navigating the glass piece. As soon as they shouted his name…there was an enormous bang from within the room…no one else in the neighborhood heard it…and the glass piece spun like a top…off the table. Needless to say…they never used a Ouija board again.
 
Another story…my father’s aunt was on her deathbed…and told her family that was visiting…“He’s here.” No one was there…so they asked her…“Who?”…she turned and pointed to a picture of Jesus. She died shortly after.
 
:eek: I have had a bad experience with the ouija board back in college. :eek:

I used to tell the story to people all the time but something weird would always happen when I would get to the end of the story.

A very good friend of mine who is a NA Baptist (ex-Chatholic) calls the idea of ghost as heresy. He uses the story of Lazarus
to back up his point. (Luke 16:30-31)

:eek: Personally I think they exist, but are for the most part evil. :eek:
 
Eep! o__o I always get creeped out whenever people mention a ouija board (probably because the movie *The Exorcist *scarred me for life.), so I’ve always stayed away from them.
 
I have always thought that ghosts were just something imagined by people with a little too much time on their hands until an incident my wife and I both watched, in of all places, on “Good Morning America” two years ago on a September morning. They had the tape of a survallence camera at a tow lot in California that had just towed in a car that had just been brought in after a fatal accident. On the tape was an image of a ghost like image frantically running around the car. It was quite chilling. I assume that it was not "doctored ". It really looked like the person was looking for direction. Did anyone else see this?
Mike
 
This is pure speculation…but, I’ve always wondered if some of the individuals who have ESP…if ESP could indeed be a gift of the Holy Spirit…the gift of prophecy/revelation.
 
This is also great speculation…but there is a gift that runs through my father’s side…and my immediate family…I wonder if it has any significance to the fact that we are direct blood descendents of St. Clothilde…St. Lievin, Bishop of Treves…St. Begga of Brabant…and St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz…who knows…it’s interesting to think about.
 
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EddieArent:
Turns out her mother (my grandmother) died at the very hour that we heard the noise. Is it out of line to say that her spirit visited us?
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I had the distinct feeling that my uncle had visited me after he had died and I spent some time praying for his soul. He touched my shoulder and I just knew it was him. It could have been otherwise and am of course open to the Church’s teachings.
It was a different experience than the one other experience I had before, which was frightening. A demon indeed, a ghostly spirit chasing me into a bedroom late one night. Thankfully my faith is stronger now so I wouldn’t be quite as scared as I was then.

Just another quick story. I can’t remember where I heard this, but it was a priest talking about the protection offered by the rosary.
He was staying in a rectory after giving a talk one night and had been warned by a nun that there had been unGodly sightings there.
He didn’t think much of the warning and went to bed. He then heard steps coming up the stairs, called out, and there was no answer. He was getting a little scared but remembered his rosary and started praying it. The steps and sounds stopped immediately, not to return.
 
Sir Knight:
I carefully walked into the kitchen expecting to find broken glass but instead I found my mother’s keys on the floor. How did these keys suddenly fall off the shelf and unto the floor?

No wind. No earthquakes. How did the keys fall off of that shelf after securily sitting there for several months? To complicate the situation further, the keys were in the middle of the kitchen floor and not directly under the shelf. To get to where they were, they would have had to fall off the shelf at a 45-degree angle.
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You admit the keys had been placed high on a shelf and ignored for months. They may have moved ever so slightly every time a door was slammed, until finally they went over the edge.

As for landing on the floor, the keys could have bounced off it or off something else, thereby landing some distance from the shelf. I often am surprised at how far something I drop (such as a paper clip or a peanut) lands from where I was sitting.

In all these cases it is best to expect a purely natural explanation. We do ourselves a disservice if we too easily think the cause must have been supernatural.
 
crimson dragon:
most people are taught the idea of soul/spirit (spirit being yourself, “you”, and the soul being that which “animates” us (therefore we humans having both spirit/soul, animals it is assumed having only souls)
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Thar be error here.

You draw an incorrect distinction between the human soul and the human spirit. They are one in the same.

All living things have souls: man, animals, plants. In the cases of animals and plants, the souls are material principles and “die” when the animals and plants die.

In man, the soul happens to be a spirit, not a mere material principle. Spirits by their nature cannot die, which is why man has an immortal soul.

For more on this, I recommend Frank Sheed’s “Theology for Beginners” and “Theology and Sanity.”
 
Karl Keating:
… the keys could have bounced off it or off something else, thereby landing some distance from the shelf. I often am surprised at how far something I drop (such as a paper clip or a peanut) lands from where I was sitting …
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Except, being metal and being heavy, I should have heard the bounce and there was none – just one single crash. Again, sounding like glass breaking.
Karl Keating:
… In all these cases it is best to expect a purely natural explanation. We do ourselves a disservice if we too easily think the cause must have been supernatural …
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You are indeed correct. As a matter of fact, the “ghost” explanation didn’t even dawn on me until it was suggested by others when I posted this experience on another bulletin board. My initial reaction was that it couldn’t be a ghost because the spirits of our departed ones already have assigned places to go to.

Might have been a demon PRETENDING to be a ghost but I seriously doubt that it was a ghost. And of course, like you said, it is entirely possible that there is some natural explanation for it but nobody has just figured it out yet.
 
My 2 cents Ghosts are really demons who pretend to be our loved ones so they can establish an emotional connection with the living , so they have a better chance to possess the living. They are Liars and Crafty Evil Beings.

You Encounter Something Say Jesus Christ of Nazereth Rebukes you. Worked for me once
 
Quite a few authorities on the subject claim that these spirits can’t come to terms with being dead, so they linger here on earth.
I always wished I could see a spirt.
 
Saw a ghost once, in an old house that had been converted to apartments. We had just moved in to the apartment. Our bedroom was once the living room. My wife and I were in bed and were just about to turn off the lights when we saw this image of a man. He had an expression on his face that seemed to say “what are you doing in my house?” He turned and walked into our closet. (This is where the entrance to the living room had been.) My wife and I were not scared, We had felt a little odd at times about the place but tried to pay it no mind. We asked our guardian angels to escort the “person” to Jesus, had the apartment blessed and I offered up my Sunday Mass for that poor lost soul (if that’s what it was). We never saw anything or had any odd feelings afterward.

Bill
 
Last thing I ever want to see is a ghost. I scare pretty easily, unfortunately, :crying: , and the last thing I need is something spooky to make me jump out of my skin.

This explains why I have never seen The Exorcist, nor do I ever. My husband mentions once and a while that I should but I tell him I’m afraid it is too close to the truth and it’s something I don’t want to be exposed to.

The only ghostly experience I ever had, and I didn’t exactly see something, was when I was a teenager still living under my parents roof.

I was sleeping and I woke around 3 in the morning or so. This wasn’t just a flicker or two of my eyes and I was sleepy. This was laying on my back and in a split second my eyes were wide open as if during the middle of the day and I could sense a presence in the room. Infact, what seems like a matter of seconds after having opened my eyes, they quickly darted to the corner of the room. I couldn’t get my eyes off the corner of the room because it felt like someone was there with me. There was no movement of this “person”, just as if they were standing there staring at me. Don’t ask how I knew this but I did. I could feel it.

It was only me, my mom, and dad in the house at the time. They were in their rooms at the time too. I remember this because I could hear my dad snoring. I asked my mom later that morning if she had come into my room during the early morning hours and she said no.

You know when you’re taking a nap and someone walks in the room you tend to wake up (or maybe this is just me). They may not necessarily make a sound, be real real quiet even, but you still know there is someone there and that wakes you.

This is exactly what I’m talking about that happened at 3am. I think I may have even tried to say hello but I couldn’t get the words out. This overwhelming sense of fear and panic came over me. Usually I don’t feel this when I wake up in the middle of the night but for some reason I did this particular time.
I barely was able to pull the covers over my head while at the same time wishing whatever it was would just go away.

When I asked later in the morning if my mom had indeed been in my room and she replied no, I told her what happened. Boy, did that ever freak her out. For the next hour, or what seemed like it ehehehe, she had me in my room on my knees praying whatever it was would not come back to visit me.
 
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