HDC Weekly Debate #8: Do you believe in ghosts?

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

wicca is just an excuse to have wild orgies and dance naked.

[Bub the Zombie]

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks that.

[urgeok2]

i think all of these things are experienced by either people who are crazy - or those who want something to cling to to make themselves appear more interesting than they are.

[ChronoGrl]

I think you need a third option in your poll:

"I WANT to believe, but need proof."

The idea is fascinating to me and I'm a sucker for "true ghost stories," but since I haven't seen anything in person, I an an unbeliever.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I think you need a third option in your poll:

"I WANT to believe, but need proof."

The idea is fascinating to me and I'm a sucker for "true ghost stories," but since I haven't seen anything in person, I an an unbeliever.

I'm basically in the same boat, I love ghost stories. Like those "Haunting in Alabama" shows even. :(

[urgeok2]

my favorite movies are the ones that have for forces of good battling the forces of evil (ex The Omen) but i dont believe in god or the devil.

i just enjoy fiction. and i'm happy to leave it as that - fiction.

[La Chat Noire]

I'm not sure if I believe in ghosts per say, I certainly won't rule them out....but I think there are definitely some unexplained forces and energies lingering around.


As for Wicca, if people bothered to learn anything about the religion, they would know it can be a really beautiful faith.

[Festered]

Originally Posted by Leprucky Cougar

I remember visiting the Eastern State Pennitentiary in Philadelphia, where lots of big time criminals in the states where held. One of the cells I visited was Al "Scarface"Capone's cell. It was mindblowing a bit. We were allowed to enter in it, explore it, a couple of us took pics. Weeks later, Maury Poulvich sent producers there with special tracking communicating devices to track audio and visual images--to see if it was really haunted. They spent the night, waited til it was late, used their devices and asked any of the spirits to reveal themselves. Many did and in very distorted yet feasible voices, they respnded with emphatic "I'm Real." Then they went to Scarface's cell asked him how long was in for, his name, and the crimes he committed, and he did.

Al Capone would have made you into a ghost, if you’d have used that “Scarface” nickname around him. He was not particularly fond of it. He kicked the bucket a good 7 years after leaving prison in 1939(died from a coronary, not syphilis, like everyone believes) in Palm Island Florida, his home away from business.

So my question is, why would Capone haunt a cell that he may have spent a miniscule amount of time in, en route to Alcatraz? One that held no personal significance. And wouldn’t his ghost be more likely to be hanging around his old estate in Florida? Or one of his old hangouts in Brooklyn? The Lexington in Chicago? Alcatraz? I mean, surely, a newsman of Maury Povich’s caliber and integrity wouldn’t attempt to bamboozle the public with say……tricked out sound equipment?

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by La Chat Noire

, they would know it can be a really beautiful faith.

most of them are in theory ...

[La Chat Noire]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

most of them are in theory ...

Right. My biggest pet peeve is when people criticize religions or ideas that they have no knowledge about.