who has ghosts?

Not sure that ghosts are real, but if this one appeared in my house, I think I would move.

 

The Swayzetrain.

 

Every time I see one of your posts, chucka-boo-boo, I can't help but hear that character from The Wizard of Oz singing 'If I Only Had a Brain'....

 

i saw katie perrys' show last night in newark.
last night the darkest streets in america were filled with caucasian ghosts.

 

lol wtf were u doing at a katey perry concert??and in Newark lol,I bet a lot of cars were broken into

 

What the hell is this tread? Flip flops and Katy Perry shows? Soft!!!

 

my daughter is 12. re broken-into cars; street law takes effect: pay enough $ and the car is fine…
newark was awash in well-behaved caucasian wahines …not something you usually see...

 

I would do some internal investigating on the wifey. Sounds like she may be messing with. If so, she gets the all time achievement award for practical jokes. Everytime you walk downstairs, she is pulling a surf shop tee shirt out from her drawer, folding it up nicely, laying it out and then running back in the bathroom before you come upstairs. When you are looking the other way, she sneakily swiped the one hitter and puts it in her pocket. After 10 minutes of flipping the couch over, she sneakily slides it back i the couch. Classic. Well played Mrs. Chicharronne.

 

Discalimer: I don't believe in ghosts. I have had too many reasons to probably have had encounters if they were to be real. I.E. My best friend in college hanged himself in his dormroom (Tower A, Room #312). The entire campus started talking about it and it became a big deal. We heard students talking about it, and everyone was saying, what are they going to do with that room? Anyone who moves in there will be in a "haunted" room and all that. So, I went to the Admin's and told them that I wanted to move into the room. They allowed it. Offered me medical exemptions on my classes that semester and I declined. The next day, I moved into the room, hung my clothes up on the bar in the closet in which he hanged himself in and slept in the bed of a dead man for the rest of the year. Never a whisper, never a shadow. If ever there was a time to "sense a spirit" it was then, but it was nothing.

Only unexplainable encounter I have had though, was here on Hilton Head. My investor and I opened an ocean front restaurant last summer. It was a crazy, pop up kind of thing and I had 12 days, from start to finish to get a fine dining restaurat open. Permits, licenses, everything. Menus... So, the deal with this restaurant, was that back in 2000 or so, it was the PREMIERE restaurant on the whole island. It was a chef owned, super popular restaurant. One night, back in 2007 or so, the Chef was driving his Porsche on the 278, going about 90 MPH (He was a drinker and had too much that night) and when he took the exit into Palmetto Dunes where he lived, his 911 went sideways and he wrapped it around a tree. Dead instantly. Within the next year, the restaurant went under and closed. This guy was a well loved, local legend. So, despite the expensive rent and what not, we opened this place up last summer on June 11th. What happened over the next 2 months was pretty crazy. We would be locking up at night, it was two levels with a kitchen on both levels. I was up with our executive chef locking up. We went to close the back door. and when we closed the door, we heard the 3 compartment sink turn on almost full blast. We turned around. No one in the room. As the chef walks over to the sink, he got about 3 feet away, and we both watched with our own eyes, the handle on the sink slam shut and the water turned off. Chef's hand was outreached but no where near it. He almost sh** a brink and got all freaked out. I explained to him, dude, it was just pressure in the pipes, or the fact that we slammed the door jarred something loose, don't worry about. So a few weeks go by, and I actually had my wife on payroll a few morning to go open up. She called me on a Monday morning and said, Zach, the restaurant is flooded. I show up, there is about 2 inches of water on the bottom floor, all over the bar and water all over the top floor. We walk around, check all the pipes, check the sinks, dishwasher. Nothing. We had HD IR cameras everywhere, so I go in and review the tape from over night. NOTHING. just out of no where, you see water start dripping through the floors. Our insurance came and investigated. After a week, they couldn't figure out where the water came from, so they cleaned it up and said "inconclusive"... Fast forward 3 weeks later, the exact same thing happened. This time, we review the tape, and we saw some crazy sh**. In the kitchen, a white "ORB" appeared on two different occasions in the IR tapes. One just developed out of thin air, sat there for 5 minutes, then lightly drifted to the left and dissipated. Strange I thought, so I googled it, and they say ghost hunter identify this as tell tale evidence of the supernatural... I still don't buy it, and after asking around, our contractor that installed the cameras said, when Mold Spores appear on an IR camera, that is what it would probably look like, an ORB. Its just something about the way it appears on reverse video.... Anyway, our insurance company told us we had to leave because they again couldn't figure out the issue after sending 10 engineers and claims guys. Completely baffled. So, at any rate, we bounced.

Another factor was, the guy that owned the place is notoriously crooked and just a bad dude. Things on this island are all bearing his family name... But he is a bad dude. And STILL, I don't believe in ghosts, but my Chef was so freaked out, he moved back to Nashville and my other managers were convinced the place as haunted.

Still not sure what I believe, because at certain times I really did feel like there was something in the room and something going on there, but NOT in a bad way. I felt like if this was really this spirit of a dead chef, he wasn't trying to ruin us, he was trying to warn us. There were far deeper problems with that location, that building and the owner, and I ALWAYS felt like even if it wasn't a ghost, something was telling us to get out of there while we still can....

Strange. But I still don't believe in that sh**.

 

Visit the Gettysburg Battlefield. Go up on Little Round Top at night. The friggin hair will stand up on your neck.

 

Dems ghosts be real. I've never seen any though.

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Used to go up to Little Round Top as a kid. Loved it up there. Much to my dismay, instead of moving south when my mom retired last year, she sold her house in Maryland and bought a new home right up in Gettyburg. Haven't been there since I was a kid, but man, if ever there was a place to be haunted, it's that one for sure.

 

But here is my "Joe The Plumber" outlook on ghosts. Same as Aliens. So, for thousands and thousands of years, many people believe in "spirits" and many people believe in "aliens", yet there is ZERO evidence of such occurrences. Zilch. Nada. There has been no proof. No encounters. Nothing....

So here is my deal. If you DO NOT BELIEVE in religion, or god, or what have you, you SHOULDN'T believe in ghosts. They are one in the same. And for the same reason that people, most of the users on this site completely disregard the thought of there being a god or a higher power, so these same individuals would be hypocritical in believing in the latter.

Even though it was documented in many forms, that Jesus was killed, and resurrected and everything. I mean, they didn't have video cameras and other things like that. Call it a conspiracy. Call it what you will. But the only even close to real documentation would be the Jesus situation, which was written about and recorded by TONS of sources at the time. It was believed and witnessed (supposedly) and it changed the world that we know, religiously anyway.....

So, if you can't find any way to even remotely believe in that, I don't know how you could smoke a blunt and think that Casper stole your one hitter while you weren't looking. You know?

I mean, it's like bigfoot and ghosts. Thousands of people spend their lives with cameras on, trying to catch these things, and they never do...

Summation? They do NOT exist.

Aliens, in some form or another are out there for sure. They HAVE NEVER touched down near this planet. Not ever. Area 51? There aint no aliens up in that joint. Ill tell ya that. The only UFOs we have ever seen have been military test flights.

So, like I said, if you don't believe in Deities, then you can't belive in ghosts either. Cause with that rationale, when your clock runs out of time, everything goes black. And thats it. Your spirit isn't floating. You are not stuck in another dimension. Life just ends. Breathing stops. And black is black. Gone. With nothing.

So, I am as confused as anyone here, and I am not telling you what to believe, but if you believe in the supernatural, I would stop for a moment, and apply that to religion, beliefs and really think about the possibilities out there. And before you go calling a certain few on this site, childish believers, that pray to fake characters and all that... just sit back and remember that you think your squeaky hardwood floors are being walked on by ghosts... And who is crazy?

 

FYI, I don't believe in ghosts. As for the JC, his existence was well documented in many different texts. Most paint the picture of a pretty awesome dude, who was a revolutionary of his time. However, many religious texts are likely exaggerations, and his resurrection is completely unverifiable.

 

Ain't no such thing as ghosts people, and all the supernatural ghost huntin' TV shows are staged BS, trust me, I know from firsthand experience. So if Wifey or 'ole Uncle Cheech start filling up the DVR with that sh*t you best let em know that it's all for show. Uncle Cheech, you need to cut back on the mota.

As long as there's gullible and open-minded people, there will be psychics, snake oil salesmen, ghost-puppeteers and ghost show producers. You know, cons. Except the confidence trick in this case involves the customers confidence in the supernatural...

Cep, great post, 'before Home Depot and levels,' haha, that had me cracking up. And yeah Unsolved Mysteries, one of the greatest shows of all time, right up there with Rescue 911. 1990's trash television is the best, a Golden Age of identifiable crap, the last wonderful gasps of 20th C. television before the narcissistic internet social-media aesthetics took over trashy TV... leaving us with 42 versions of 'Urban Skank Housewives' or 'Teen OctoMomzillas."

Seldom, sick post on Guttermouth, thanks for continuously reminding me of them. "Bruce Lee vs. Kiss Army," what a f*ckin song, thrashy powerchord madness at it's best, vocals are gnar too. I think that song influenced any punk jams I wrote for years... anyway that's a post for the punk rock thread, maybe ill throw that song up there.

 

Thanks Slashdog, got ya covered homie.

 

Yeah, agreed. But that is one of the few times in History, where numerous sources, in large numbers had documented the "Resurrection" thing. It was so long ago. It could have been a big stunt. Who knows. But back in those days, you can really only go off historic documentation. I know all the stories are "Parables" and all that, but when you have multiple documentations of basically "Miracles", regardless of your beliefs, it has to make you wonder.

I'm not trying to say what did or did not happen. I would just say that it is idea that has never been proven or dis proven.

I just find it interesting that there are a lot of people, who will go so far as to believe in ghosts and big foot and all this other nonsense, but the thought of a "Holy Spirit" is just ridiculous to them.

Im just saying, you either only believe in science and proven facts or you don't. But to think there is a ghost standing over you at night, but the next day tell someone that people who believe in God are crazy, it just breaks my brain.

 

Just remember that Jeebus lived in a time of great confusion. Many people were in a bad place, and needed answers. Science of basic things like weather, space, geological anomalies, and medicine was basically in its infancy. The dude started a movement, and many people followed it. The issue is that after he died, other people wanted to keep the ball rolling. That is where you get all the stories that ended up in the bible. At least that is my take on it. There are many historians and scholars that know much more about these things than I do. There is a general consensus among them that much of the old stories were nothing more than tall tales. The gospels were originally written anonymously, and names were later added to them using speculation and oral tradition.
As for ghosts, if people still believe strange things/events today are ghosts, can you imagine what people thought back before basic science was general knowledge. I have been to a dozen or so "haunted" places. We are talking places close to home like old civil and revolutionary war battlefields, to places far away like London hotels/pubs and Italian churches. I have never seen anything, so I can't verify anything strange ever goes on. Anyone who has ever taken hallucinogens knows how powerful the mind is over vision and perception. Does it not make sense that the mind could wander, mixed with memories of old tales, to create the right situation for a supposed ghost encounter? Besides, do you really want to believe that there are dead people floating around watching you masturbate?