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

[ferretchucker]

I'm kind of a ghost agnostic. I believe they may be around because there are some things that seem to point strongly towards it, though my mind tells me that there's probably a more logical explanation. Nobody really knows until they have no body.

Puns are fun

[Vodstok]

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.

Thats what i was thinking.

[Leprucky Cougar]

Originally Posted by Festered

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?

Well isn't it believed that because these ghosts are ever so endowed with spiritual supremacy, they can also appear in more places than one. Is it not possible that though his estates were in Florida he wouldn't travel back to Eastern State? Yeah I know he didn't spent a long time there, but there's still a great deal of history/legacy behind--whether good,bad, etc. Is it not possible Capone would or does visit all the places you mentioned; but because the spirits can interpret our thoughts and actions before we do them, predicted when people were going to visit the cell he had in Philly, so returned to confirm his spiritual identity was amongst everyone; and once he confirmed it vanished to the other locations?

And many thought it was "tricked out sound equipment," including his behind the stage crew that he sent on the study. Accompanied with them though was some sort of guy whom was a licensed spiritual detector; a couple of times he was brought on the show to deliver messages and deliver omens to families whom had lost loved ones. This one woman had a child killed in a car reck, and another woman's daughter was murdered due to past gang violence & promiscuous activity (although the teen recently turned her life around) and both women told Maury and the gentlemen times when they had intricate moments and sensed and even heard the voice of their children; saw an image even alerting them that they were ok and comforting them. They thought they were going nuts, but the man came to their home, set up his equipment and detected them, and they responded.

[Festered]

Originally Posted by Leprucky Cougar

..... some sort of guy whom was a licensed spiritual detector.....

Now you're getting the hang of this comedy thing!

[Leprucky Cougar]

Originally Posted by Festered

Now you're getting the hang of this comedy thing!

No no no .....I don't know the official name of the profession. But I assume that's similar to what they call it.

And I wasn't trying to be funny

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

I'm kind of a ghost agnostic. I believe they may be around because there are some things that seem to point strongly towards it, though my mind tells me that there's probably a more logical explanation. Nobody really knows until they have no body.

Puns are fun

I AIN'T GOT NO BODY...


Puns ARE fun. :D

[novakru]

I don't.
But I do believe people can leave behind an imprint of a highly charged emotion , especially terror.

[Azazel005]

Originally Posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X

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

Really, see tat's a a belief system I could get behind, we need as many flimsy excuses for such things as possible.

Personally I wish I still had the ability to agree with most posters here "I won't believe it until I see it", it's far more comforting to be able to wave off such things.

I am not a superstitous person, and like to keep the fantastic and supernatural in fiction, it just becomes harder to critiscsize such things when you hear your own voice re-telling something you'd critiscsize as nuts.

Many years ago I may have said "I'd like to beleive" now quite frankly I do, and I'd prefer if whatever they are just stay the hell away from me. You know?

[Leprucky Cougar]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I AIN'T GOT NO BODY...


Puns ARE fun. :D

I aint go no body is also a double negative

[novakru]

Originally Posted by Azazel005

...and I'd prefer if whatever they are just stay the hell away from me. You know?

Sounds like demons.