Comments on: Skeptics and believers

By: Amazing Viper

Amazing Viper — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:34:54 +0000

I’m a skeptical believe if that makes any sense? I do believe they’re there. Just don’t believe that every ghost picture is a ghost. I believe that there are explainations for most orbs, streaks, and faces in MOST pictures. Also a lot of hoaxes out there so like said somewhere on this site. It’s hard to believe any proof of a ghost unless your actually there experiencing it.

By: Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:51:42 +0000

When you have several different kinds of evidence and multiple people have witnessed paranormal phenomena, it’s foolish to dismiss it as mere imagination.

Most of us who have had psychic experiences, then pursue ghost hunting from a scientific standpoint. We know that the phenomena are real… we’re looking for solid evidence.

This quotation seems appropriate for skeptics who go to extremes:

“A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is forgery.” — Morris Bender

By: raven

raven — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:21:44 +0000

i also believe in the evidence that we have collected. meaning pics, evps and, so on, that there is something out there, which cannot be explained. what do you call it when your own kids see things, and other guest in our home, that know nothing about things going on in here. i don’t think a room full of people are all nuts.

By: CelticMystik26

CelticMystik26 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:12:45 +0000

I believe that with all the evidence that I have collected on the way and experiences that my family had while living in a house that was haunted for 13 years, that there is another side to reality. I am also a sensitive and it runs in our family so I can see, feel, smell and hear ghost. I have also had dreams of them. What caused me to become even more interested in hauntings was when my children, brother and anyone who decided to come over to our house saw and heard things. I decided to start investigating and so now my sister and I look for scientific evidence. What really changed my mnd though was when I saw one start to form in our home! That really made a believer out of me and so now I am on a crusade for the truth!

By: Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:29:15 +0000

Not dizzy, and not certain of your point.

We’re looking for solid, scientific evidence of hauntings. We haven’t found it yet, but we have sufficient anomalous evidence to keep looking, and thoroughly enjoy the search.

By: Dadeus

Dadeus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:10:39 +0000

Hi. I fall into the category of skeptic. But, to clarify, I do not doubt the experience, but the cause. If you were to look at our physical and psychic existence, you would easily see that what we perceive most of the time is not quantifiable. That is to say that we cannot and should not assume that we see, hear and feel everything that there is to be seen, heard or felt. Our minds take in sensory input from our five sense organs and WE assign meaning to it, based on our individual life experience. Everything we think is tinged with bias on some level and what we settle on as real is heavily based on what we expect in the situation. The more time we have to process the perception, the closer we will get to the reality of the situation, but when time is limited, the reality we lock on to is usually the first one we come across (with the situational bias). If you were expecting to hear a crying baby in a supposedly haunted building, and heard a soft, somewhat vague sound, your sensory pattern might just fill in the blanks and lock onto identifying the sound as that of a crying baby. Maybe what you really heard was a cat, but in the heat of the moment, your mind doesn’t go all the way to “Cat”, but stops at “Baby”. When presented with a vague image, our minds compare the sensory input against everything we have already experienced in an effort to assign meaning to it. Given more time and repeated exposure, maybe the Cat sound is more believable. I have heard evp recordings which stretch the imagination to the point of being rediculous. I have seen photos with “images” in them that could be anything. I have taken photos with a digital camera outside at night which show a clear image of a group of people in one picture followed by another with a bunch of orbs, only to be followed by another clear photo. The one with the orbs has a license plate in the field, which although 30 feet away, is clearly a source of bright reflected light. The IC chip receiving the image is less than 1/4 inch square and since I don’t know what happens electronically to the image once received, I dismiss the orbs as physical, not psychic. The human mind does a great job filling in the blanks in our perception. Did you hear ir see something? Yes, Whas it what you thought? Maybe. Here are a few real statistics to keep in mind. As you sit reading this, the combined velocity of the Earth moving through it’s 292 million mile orbit around the sun and it’s spin means that you are moving through space at roughly 66,ooo miles an hour. How many of you were even remotely aware of that? In 2006, astronomers identified an extremely dense star (a pulsar) that is 20 miles in diameter and is spinning at 716 times per second. Not once per day, like Earth, but 716 times per second. Are you dizzy yet>