Do you believe in ghost?

[Bill]

* 36 percent of Democrats report being in touch with someone who is dead, compared with only 21 percent of Republicans.

* 21 percent of Democrats say they have seen a ghost, compared with only 11 percent of Republicans.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119022

[Uncle Saggy]

Sorry for replying without reading all the replies. Cool thread. Anyone arrogant enough to believe that we are the only people in our universe and that nothing is true unless written in the bible scares the heck out of me.

[wilded]

Here is my story about a spirit, ghost or Stranger. I really don't know who or what was at the campfire that night.

The Stranger at the Fire

This is a true story, as I believe it, that I have related to only a few people. It is of a strange and haunting event that comes drifting into my consciousness every once in a while. Last night I had a dream and saw the visitor in my minds eye again. By telling the story I am hoping the stranger will quit sneaking into my dreams. I will tell you that I do not believe in ghosts that walk the earth but know that strange things occur. I also am aware that the Bible speaks of spirits and demons. The following is my story as best I can relate it to you.

Many years ago my brother by choice, Ken, called and told me his family company was purchasing a ranch to hold as an investment. The ranch was located in far North Texas in the remote Caprock Canyon Brush Country. The place was supposed to have deer and hogs on it and he wanted to know if I would like to go up and spend the weekend. He planned to explore the ranch and possibly do some hunting. I was told it had an old cabin we could stay in while we were there. I always do the cooking on these trips so I began to get the supplies together that we would need for a weekend. I picked up some nice steaks along with some baking potatoes for the first night. There is nothing quite like a good steak grilled over mesquite coals when you are out on a hunting trip.

I drove from Austin up to Abilene to meet Ken. We loaded his four wheel drive truck and started the long drive north. It was almost dark when we arrived at the gate of the ranch and we saw no game as we drove to the cabin. We quickly unloaded the truck and each of us threw our sleeping bags on a bunk in separate rooms of the cabin. I then gathered some dry mesquite and started a fire in a stone fire ring out back of the cabin. I placed the grill I had brought over the fire and wrapped the potatoes in foil to bake while the fire burned down to coals. After a great steak we enjoyed the warmth of the fire and the company of a good friend until we decided to turn in for the night.

It had been a long day and the warmth of a sleeping bag to ward off the North Texas chill was welcomed. The moaning and creaking of a windmill just outside my window made it difficult to go to sleep but exhaustion got the better of me and I finally nodded off. I awoke to notice the flickering of the fire reflecting off the walls of my room. I set up on the edge of my bunk and looked out the window and noticed that someone had put more wood on the fire and the flames were swirling in the wind. Smoke was rising against the cold filling my view with eerie white clouds in the freezing night air. At the edge of the illumination but close enough to take in the warmth of the fire stood a figure dressed in a western duster with the collar pulled up to block the cold wind. A familiar silver belly hat was pulled down over his face so that I could not make out the eyes. His hands encased in golden buckskin gloves held a steaming cup of coffee against his chest as if he was savoring the smell as much as the taste. My first thought was to get dressed and go have a cup of coffee with my bud, but thinking that my snoring might have driven him out into the cold I decided to let him enjoy the fire and his thoughts without my company. Besides the coffee would keep me up the rest of the night. As I climbed back into the warm sleeping bag it felt to be the right choice.

When I again woke there was a pinkish golden glow in the sky to the east. I walked to the front door and went out on the porch to relieve myself. The pre-dawn sky revealed an unbelievable scene with stars visible that I had not seen in a long time. Frost covered the ground and brush while my bare skin tingled with shock as I stood against the cold wind and looked at the sky. It never ceases to amaze me how visible the stars are when you get out in a remote area where the sky is dark with no lights from the city. I returned to the cabin to get dressed for the day. I lit the propane stove to make coffee and prepare breakfast.

The coffee made, eggs and sausage cooked, I hollered at Ken to get up for breakfast as I took the biscuits from the oven. After his brief morning ritual Ken came to the table and asked how I had slept. Feeling guilty about driving him from his bunk with my snoring I immediately started apologizing for waking him up in the middle of the night. He looked at me with a strange look on his face and replied that his head never left the pillow until he woke just a few minutes before. I retaliated with the fact that I had seen him standing out by the fire in the middle of the night. Visibly seeing that I was getting upset he again assured me that he had not moved from his sleeping bag all night.

I hurried outside to the fire pit where the fire still burned in the early dawn. No one was around and I could find no evidence of someone coming or going other than the fire not yet burned down to coals. We were miles from anywhere and would surely have heard any vehicle driving into the ranch. Anyone coming in on the road also would have had to come through a locked gate. The cowboy I had seen at the fire was dressed in period cowboy clothing but that is the usual garb for Ken or me when we are not on a hunt where camouflage clothing is needed. Both of us were wearing Silver belly old style cowboy hats on this trip and either of our coats would pass for the one worn by the stranger at the fire. I never found anything that pointed to who or what was standing at the fire that night. I will always wonder if he was sent for me and something kept me from going out to the fire that night. I can think of a lot worse things that could come in the night. Peaceful dreams, Wild Ed

[Bluesman]

I grew up in a 17 room house in Kansas. The house was scary as all get out.
Noises, visions, things being moved. We all moved out in 1969.
The people living there to this day have problems and we have discussed it with them once in recent years. I won't go back! Their problems are way to silimar to our experiences.
Some stuff just happens and I'm not sure we need to know how or why.

[Loneaggie]

Personally I don't believe in the, but at the same time, I'm not going to accuse someone of being crazy that had a truly inexplicable experience. The spiritual realm is very real and that is told us in the Bible.

[Roy]

WOW! Thanks for sharing your experience wilded!! You have a way with words my friend.

[BonesandArrow]

My daughter came in my room one night shaking like a leaf on a tree and said she heard people playing cards in the house. She also had told me on several other occasions that she heard people walking through our dining room on the wood floor. She is 7. Maybe 3 months after the night she was shaking I was in a dead out of it sleep and heard cards being shuffled! I instantly knew without moving what I heard. I slowly lifted my head to see over my feet and out the bedroom door into our living where the sound came from. Sure enough there is 7 or 8 guys dressed in old clothing made of blue jeans and cotton. Like 200 year old stuff. They are sitting on the floor indian style playing cards in my living room. I quietly tried to wake up my girlfriend and couldn't so I said her name out loud. Right then all of the ghost turned their heads and looked at me. I almost ****** myself. My girlfriend woke up but did not see them and told me to go back to sleep. Scary!!! Anyway they don't bother me and I don't have a problem with them if they are here??? Hopefully I don't wet the bed tonight being that it is about that time.!!

[sasquatch]

I know this may be hard to believe, but yes I do. Long story. No question I believe

[Swampa]

Spirits can be cleaned OUT of your house and propery with the blood of Jesus..you have the power to make them go away, unitl you invite them or someone they are attached to back on your property. We have had them at our house...cleaned them out. My daughter at 2 1/2 saw them and talked to them. We made them leave, and they stayed away until I invited a friend over, that was also a satanist person(I didnt know that at the time) and we had to "clean" the house again....No more creepy little child figures walking around the house, and doors open/shut, lights on/off....Got rid of them with the Name of Jesus!!

KellyC

Seriously?

[gekko man]

Spirits can be cleaned OUT of your house and propery with the blood of Jesus..you have the power to make them go away, unitl you invite them or someone they are attached to back on your property. We have had them at our house...cleaned them out. My daughter at 2 1/2 saw them and talked to them. We made them leave, and they stayed away until I invited a friend over, that was also a satanist person(I didnt know that at the time) and we had to "clean" the house again....No more creepy little child figures walking around the house, and doors open/shut, lights on/off....Got rid of them with the Name of Jesus!!

KellyC

I was told the same thing by the daughter in law of a friend.

It has been quite around our house but one more sign and I will be calling a local priest for sure.

[sneedb82]

The Bible teaches that if you are saved, then when we die, we are absent from the body and present with the Lord. So I have a hard time believing that the "spirits" of people, or ghosts, are of people that are saved. I do watch the Ghost Lab and other same type shows, mostly because I'm intrigued by the lengths that people go to to hoax this stuff. There have been instances where they capture evidence of them. However, having said that, I truly believe that the spirits left here on earth, are not of God (therefore, not good). I do believe in Angels, because the Lord has sent them to the earth in the past, however, I'm certain that these spirits are not the Angels of the Lord that He's sent to us in the past; rather, I believe they are of the legion of warriors that came with Lucifer at his fall. Since the devil has dominion over earth, I believe through the scriptures what simmentalover has said. If you want to have fellowship with the Lord, and live with His peace, then the spirits are in need of being flushed.

A perfect example of this is found in Mark, with the story of Legion, the spirits possessed in the man. Although the spirits were dwelling in the man, they still were affecting his life in such a way, he knew not himself. Jesus rebuked the spirits, and they fled to the swine, killing them all over the cliff. The spirits did not die, but the pigs did, the Bible doesn't mention anything about the resulting impact of the spirits. Same with Judas Iscariot.

It is important to know what the Word of God says about spirits and the world we live in, because it is important to apply the reason God informed us about the Armor of God in Ephesians. God bless you folks. Thanks for allowing others to share their stories.

[billfromtx]

My mother tells the story of her (recently deceased) grandmother waking her up in the middle of the night to go and get her blanket off the clothes line cause it was raining! My mothers grannie had made that blanket by hand and had had it forever, and it meant alot too her. My mothers sister had said it smelled musty and hung it on the clothe line to air out. They forgot about it and it came a storm in the middle of the night!

My mother who has never told a lie in her life, and still got teary eye'd telling the story, Said her grannie shook her and woke her up and told her sternly to get that blanket off the line cause it was pouring outside. My mom, then about 19, got up and went and got it off the line and brought it in the house. She said she wasn't scared or anything cause she was still her grannie and was standing by her bed as plain as day when she told her to get it.

[Johnny]

That's just great everybody. Thanks for making me pizz myself. Can't wait to go to sleep tonight.

[strangmusic18]

My wife went to a New Orlean's plantation home when she was 16. Before entering a particular room they told the guests that the room had seen the most activity in the house. She was wearing a wooden cross on a gold chain necklace that day. When she crossed the threshold of the door she heard something hit the ground. She looked down and saw the chain broken into 3 seperate peices and when she picked the cross up it had a crack all the way down it. She kept all of it and it sits in our dresser drawer to this day. Everyone in the group that day witnessed it and could attest. She never went in the room completly and walked out of the house. Totally true. I will try to post pics later.

[Longhorn95]

^^^^^^^^^

Thanks to Gekko Man for posting this link in Coach W's paranormal thread.

I recall that there are some good (albeit spooky) stories/experiences in this thread as well.