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So you believe in ghastly ghosties, wicked witches, unearthy UFOs and all that other nonsense? (Do you like my non-judgemental way of asking the question?) [6 vote(s)]

Hell yeah. In fact I dated one once! Or something.
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Pff. Claptrap all of it.
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I refuse to answer because the question is clearly biased in favour of the 'nonsense' people.
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ddvmor


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Someone's done one of those very impressive studies in one of thos most important of subjects. Ghosts! There's a big long article about it here, but here's some highlights for ya:

34 % of people say they believe in ghosts

34% also believe in unidentified flying objects. Dunno if they're the same ones.

19 % accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.

48% believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.

23 % say they have actually seen a ghost or believe they have been in one's presence, with the most likely candidates for such visits including single people, Catholics and those who never attend religious services.

For some reason they decided to do some political comarisons as well: By 31% to 18 %, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter.

Anyway - read the article if you want more. Vote in my lovely poll anyway.




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I dont believe in Ghosts. Theres no evidence for Ghosts but I wouldn't want to spend time in a haunted house or a graveyard..unless its the graveyard in the music video for Thriller...

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I looked into ghosts quite closely when I was younger - my view is they dont exist.

I do though believe in UFOs because I have often seen things in the sky I couldnt, at the time, identify - but aliens? unlikely...

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Derek Acorah believes in aliens, though! You still haven't fully made up for making me watch that, you know...

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Two people saw ghosts in my old house (& no, the 2nd didn'y know about the first, not until years later). The freaky thing was, as the first person told me, the morning after, there was o load of noise coming from the (empty) kitchen. To take the p I yelled "Oi! Ghost! Shut up!" & there was complete silence...

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I wonder if that corrolates with the number of christians / catholics / muslims as 66% seems to be a high number of implied atheists.

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on second thoughts this was an American survey and the poor sods probably got confused between scary ghosts and their preffered sky fairy of choice.

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ddvmor wrote:

Derek Acorah believes in aliens, though! You still haven't fully made up for making me watch that, you know...



To be fair he didnt just fool me - he fooled the whole production team for about 3 years and they were right there with him!



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I wasn't suggesting that you believed it - just moaning cos you made me watch it! biggrin.gif

I saw Yvette Feilding on some ropey list programme a couple of weeks ago. She said she never wanted to go back to Pendle Hill ever again. Probably because it's embarassing rather than scary. no.gif

Heh:

Just two minutes later Acorah was communicating with an alien he discovered in a broom cupboard! He not only saw them, but was soon communicating with one ... in colours.....





-- Edited by ddvmor at 14:25, 2007-10-26


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Well the ghosts in Stead's house last Sunday even managed to start playing music in the empty spare room.

Until we figured out that it was Stead hitting keys on his wireless keyboard in a completely different room that was turning the PC's radio on! biggrin

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HaloBurn wrote:

on second thoughts this was an American survey and the poor sods probably got confused between scary ghosts and their preffered sky fairy of choice.


Hee hee hee biggrin
Hey, we Americans believe Paris Hilton is important, too weirdface

48% believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.

 And how many psychics have actually won a lottery? wink



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Check this out then....

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article385529.ece

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It's unusual to say the least! but paranormal - probably not -

It's interesting how the 'acceleration' is very smooth suggesting something magnetic going on - I know they 'ruled out' magnetic fields but that probably depends on who 'they' are -

It would be interesting to overlay a map of its exact location on to city plans for cables / pipes or even underground trains.

Lets see how it develops!

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Notice the kinda circular motion it's making as it starts? I wonder what their 'physics experts' actually were. Big Al from the pub who did most of a Physics A level back in 1993? You know, the same guy who says dogs can't look up!

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They cant look up!

Its probably a vortex of some kind - or some annoying little sod with some fishing wire.

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Ahhh ghosts.  One of my favorite subjects. Oh the stories I could tell you about my house.  Last Christmas, my mother left in a state of fit and said she would never be back.  She has been back of course, but still...

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Ok . I can't stand it anymore. I have to tell one of my most interesting events. One day I came home from work at lunch time to change shirts. The top landing of the stairs that go down into my bedroom has whitish carpet. The stairs, as well as the bedroom have this same carpet. As I begin my downward trek to the bedroom I notice on the third step down there are muddy paw prints. The prints continue down until the second step from the bottom and stop. Vanished. None on the rest of the stairs. None on the floor. Nothing. It was as if something just appeared on the third step and disappeared before reaching the bottom. Now I have to tell you that these were really muddy paw prints and we were in about the fourth week of no rain. And oh yeah, we don't have any pets.

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How about really big rats? They can be very stealthy! Or a fox. They must have brought a bucket of mud with them.

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I've seen dogs and cats 'bound' down stairs missing the first few and the last few steps all the time - particularly when startled or annoyed. Any open windows in the house? Loft hatches - large air vents?

Gotta say matey it sounds like a wild animal or next door neighbours pet to me!

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Maybe one of your family is actually the devil and has goats legs and those are the footprints you saw. Being the devil, he or she can materialise on the third step at will, just to screw with your head!

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"I knew you would'nt believe me" he said whilst kicking his toe in the dirt.

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I believe you. I'm just convinced that there's a logical (and possibly stray) explanation for it which doesn't involve ghosts. I'm pretty sure that given time, we'll figure out all of these phenomena with the mighty power of science (which mostly involves killing stuff and cutting it open to count the rings)!

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Please don't cut open the Tooth Fairy and count the rings!

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Dont worry we wont -

"we're ready to believe you!"

what a great film that was...

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How big was the twinkie on your stars then, Commandz?

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I prefer to keep my twinkie out of this! weirdface.gif

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So you not admitting to it being... say, 35 feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds?


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