Have you ever seen a ghost, or witnissed some kind of paranormal activity?

Yes. In Lambertville, NJ. Yes, it was scary.
It was a ghostly thing. I would say it was a haunted bed & breakfast. Full of Freemasonry symbols and weird mirrors and ghost apparitions.

I don’t believe in paranormal activity, I never have, never will. Probably because I never experienced anything like that.

If you’ve seen one and you prove it you can win a million dollars.

And here is the Ghost Box Challenge

Just because something has not been proven to exist does not mean it doesnt exist. I have not seen anything that I would consider to be paranormal but I willing to believe that there is more out there than we will ever see or understand.

Barbara Streisand at the Oscars? Scared the shit outta me anyway.

No only the constant paranormal activity going on in my brain day in day out!

There was a “ghost” in my bathroom when I was a teenager.

I don’t know what it was, but you could hear something walking back and forth in the bathtub, all day long. Occasionally, faucets would turn themselves on and off.

I named the “ghost” Dennis, and talked about him a lot. My parents thought I was making it all up, until my sister and I were both away for the weekend, and they woke up one morning to a flooded bathroom.

Told ya.

Well, I’m a sceptic. But I was sorta chased by somebody/thing running home one night. Turned around and saw them under a street lamp. All dark clothes, not the kind people would be caught dead in…..the kind people would be caught dead in.

I woke up one day with three distinct scratch/claw marks on the back of my neck that were not self inflicted. This began a two week long ordeal of haunted feelings and all around bad stuff. I could only sleep half hour at most at night, and 2 hours during the day. I felt like something wasn’t letting me go to sleep, trying to keep me weak. I thought it might have something to do with the house, so I went and stayed with my girlfriend. The experiences continued there for me, and then began to affect her as well.

What, are you all, like, 10?

@The_Idler

No, but I was 13 when my story happened.

It was probably a cat under the house, in retrospect. The plumbing is a separate issue entirely.

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Nope. Never have. It severely hinders my ability to believe in such things. I know people claim they have had the experience, but I can’t help but think they can be explained by other things.

@DominicX I agree. even if all that is real there’s probbaly an explanation somewhere other than aliens or ghosts. (For example most alien sightings seem attributed to sleep paralysis, which in the middle ages had to do with ghosts instead.)

No.

Yes. I’ve typed these stories too many times already.

I once saw a Sasquatch kick the shit out of a Yeti, but I guess that won’t really count.

@MissAnthrope I knew it! I’m being haunted by this question!

I’ve been to some of America’s “most haunted” places, The Stanley, The Myrtles, The Queen Mary, Eastern State Pen, etc. I have had many experiences I could not explain. The one place that never fails to produce some kind of activity is the Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Kentucky. If you ever get the chance to do an over night there, do, it is way fun.

Walking to a friends house around 11 at night, i saw a guy in a jacket walking his dog opposite side of the street to me. i thought nothing of it, and continued walking. suddenly, he vaporized into blackness, and it felt really cold outside (even though it was only 40 degrees F out) that kinda freaked me out a bit.

Sarah Palin considering to run for President in 2012 is as weird as a paranormal activity can get. Some scary ghost must have told her she’s qualified for the job. If she wins, a major battle in the war against science will be won and hordes of paranormal ghosts will sneak into school curricula.

@mattbrowne LOL. She is as scary as anything I have ever imagined or seen in any scary movie. You’re absolutely right on this one. And that there are all sorts of people who support her agenda and think that she’s qualified to be President of the United States is even scarier.

@lillycoyote – A study would certainly reveal that Palin supporters have more paranormal “believers” among them.

@mattbrowne—do you think it is much of a stretch to say most religious people are more pre-disposed to magical, paranormal ways of thinking than non-religious people?

No, they are just more likely to be blessed with a vision from the Heavens.

OHMIGO- I CAN SEE THE FOUR HORSEMEN IN MY TOAST!

@cockswain – Worldwide I’d say about 70% of all religious people are pre-disposed to magical, superstitious and paranormal ways of thinking, probably somewhat higher in the US due to the strong evangelical creationist movements. However, I would also say that at least 20% of all atheists are superstitious and perhaps 50% of all agnostics.

I’m religious, but I reject magic, superstitions and any paranormal ways of thinking. The same is true for almost all science-educated religious people and modern theologians. Please note that both the concept of a self-explanatory universe and divine wisdom and creation are acts of faith. There are two ways to deal with the issue of infinite regress, an explanation for self-explanation or an uncreated creator.

Do you believe in angels or demons? How does modern theologian philosophy differ from, say, evangelical thinking? please don’t think I’m crticizing, I swear I’m not I think your numbers sound like reasonable estimates.

I have worked in the paranormal field in the past (setting up fan events, not ghostbusting) and I noticed that a majority of the people that came to the events and the people paid to do this stuff were Catholic. Protestants usually have to keep it on the down low b/c their communities and churches went all wonky on them with “your playing with the devil and witches”.

Or at least because the Protestants generally consider it to be ridiculous superstition worthy of a Catholic.

@cockswain – I believe in angels, sure. But they are mythical beings representing abstract concepts. Or symbols for human insights. Metaphors. When Jesus talked about the salt of the earth, he wasn’t referring to NaCl. Modern theologian philosophy does not contradict with science. Evolution for example is God’s way for changing species. It’s creation in progress. The Catholic church despite all its flaws does embrace the big bang and evolution.

@mattbrowne Interesting comment. Would you say then that religious beliefs are susceptible to change as new discoveries are made in science? While I’m aware of the various sects of Christianity (protestant, methodist, catholic, etc..) I’m not familiar with how one is distinguished form the other. So hearing that the Catholic church believes we did evolve from monkeys is news to me. I do know the evangelicals are among the least receptive to scientific knowledge. My experience has shown me they have a staunch philosophy of inventing disprovable theories to justify the contradictions between science and the bible, like God created eath with a false history 3000 years ago to explain how carbon dating could show a fossil to be millions of years old.

@cockswain – Yes, many forms of religions evolve. Unfortunately, a few forms like widespread creationism (part of the evangelical movement in the US) do regress toward the dark ages. Bashing evolution and fruit fly research is not so much different from bashing witches. The only small progress is refraining from burning evolutionary biologists while some alleged witches in fact lost their lives.

The bible was not written as a science book. Many contradictions between science and Christianity disappear if we don’t take every sentence in the bible literally. The bible also contains myths, such as the two creation myths.

It seems that outgroup homogeneity bias is quite widespread in certain circles as if all forms of religions were the same. If you look at my recent question

http://www.fluther.com/disc/77776/raising-children-can-explanations-for-the-existence-of-religions-explain/

you will find an atheist who views himself as open minded (good one!) and who equals religious nutcases (which do exist) with religion in general wanting his child to grow up “religion free” and saying that “stopping religion is like trying to cure a disease. If we don’t treat every symptom, the disease could come back in our own children.” Well, it seems to me that this poor guy Jason needs a vaccine against close mindedness.