Society & Culture

Have you ever seen a ghost or encountered anything spooky?

Society & Culture

Posted by: Rainbow

15th Aug 2011 10:44am

Perhaps you have a room in your house that never quite feels right. Do you hear bumps in the night or see shadows out of the corner of your eye? Are you a medium or clairvoyant who can communicate with the ‘other side’?

littan
  • 22nd Sep 2011 11:07pm

I dont believe in ghosts, but I do believe in spirits. Im not a 100% sure what the difference is myself, but it may be the softer touch to the terminology that makes me think in favour of spirits but not ghosts. Whatever the perception, I believe the difference to be that spirits are all of living creatures that were once on this earth and have returned in invisible form to protect/look over their loves ones still alive.
I think in Japan, it is said that passed spirits take an year to part from earth to wherever they go, many of which would call heaven.
My dog passed years ago, and for the first time I experienced a ghost/spirit. It was weird as i knew when she was around in the house, or sitting close-by, and there was no way of explaining it other than that i knew. She used to sleep by my feet at every night for as long as i can remember, and on few nights, I had felt the weight of her on my bed, just as it felt when she was alive. I'm one that is scared of ghosts more than many others, but with my dog, it just made me smile of our memories and miss her a lot.
However, my mom commented "she hasn't been visiting you recently has she?" and we realised I had stopped sensing her almost exactly an year after she had passed. Its been over a decade and my dog's spirit still lures the house from the memories, but she is not "there" anymore. She seems to have visited once after when my sister went back few years ago to my parents' place- my sister felt her lingering the house for a day or two while she was there, but thats about it.
Funny how that is, but I have no choice but to believe after this incident that there must be invisible forms of life we are unaware of that maybe come clear to us at death... who knows?!


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