Have any Atheists persons ever seen a ghost or had a paranormal experience?

As an atheist, I'm perfectly comfortable with the answer "I don't know what it was". I've never seen anything that I thought was a ghost, but just a couple of nights ago I saw a light moving in the sky that looked like a satelite, but was moving in a very odd direction for a satelite.

And rather than feeling the urgent need to invent a supernatural explanation, my sense of not knowing motivates me to learn.

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I'm not sure I understand your follow-up. Most atheists WOULD associate beliefs in the supernatural (ghosts, etc.) with beliefs in gods. They're all the product of insufficient understanding of the natural world, generally.

Hello, I am not an atheist. I believe there is a god guiding all! And i do believe in spirits,good and bad as well. I have had experiences with both. A guardian angel has protected me when i was in need.I have witnessed the presence of dead relatives, Had smelled scents related to them,as if they following me! And the most memorable was when i was awaken by a gargoyle! I did not know what a gargoyle was at that time. I have gone to so many physics and spiritualists. I went to get answers from them. I can feel when friends or relatives are thinking of me! But at this time i believe that god guides us and that the spirits souls have not come to peace!

Good question. No I haven't. I have seen things that looked wierd and that I couldn't explan. I had a friend once who always did mind reading at parties with friends. He was amazingly accurate. I was a believer. But then, after having a couple drinks, he told me all about "cold readings" and "warm readings" and how psychics trick people. He had learned it from a few books, practiced and made it into a party trick. But there was nothing magical about it.

I have seen other things in this realm but the above story summarizes it all.

Being Atheist is only that you don't believe in a god. It does not mean that you do not have a religion (Buddhism is a religion and its Atheist). It also does not mean you have no spirituality. Why is this so hard to understand?

Yes, many of us have had paranormal experiences. We just don't attribute them to a god. They are simply things that have yet to be explained.

The difference between an Atheist and a religious person is that Atheists say "I don't know but I'll keep searching until I find out" while a theist person says "I know everything because my religion says so".

I'm an atheist and haven't had any encounters with ghosts. But I don't think that all atheists are a-spiritists, and that there may be some who believe in the "possibility" of phenomena that is part of the natural world that cannot currently be explained by scientific reasoning.

I've seen and felt things that I could have taken for alien or supernatural.

A UFO that utterly convinced me

A sense of presence that was overwhelming.

But the UFO wasn't: I was utterly convinced and utterly mistaken, which has been a valuable lesson.

And the mind can play all sorts of tricks.

I know some of myself, and have learned of others.

I don't believe in the supernatural, but my definition of the natural may be broader than most!

The "earthlights" hypothesis involving induced electromagnetic fields is interesting both for visible UFO's and for odd mental experiences, for example.

And I've seen what subsonics can do.

I'm a Zen Buddhist, and in my view of things, there is no god but the one inside every one of us. I certainly do not believe in the Abrahamic god, so maybe I'm qualified to answer this. I've been contacted in my sleep on two separate occasions by friends who were already dead. The first time, I had been driving all night, and passed out from sheer exhaustion, outside in subzero weather. The voice of a female friend (who I did not know was dead), called my name until I awoke to find myself freezing to death - she saved my life! The second time, a male friend who had committed suicide appeared to me when I was asleep - not a dream, but a vision. He was seated in a meditative pose, glowing golden and smiling. He just wanted me to know everything was fine with him. I suspect I have some psychic ability, but I have not tried to develop it or anything like that. Yes, things happen that cannot be explained by science, but I believe someday we will have scientific explanations for these unusual phenomena. As an example, people couldn't explain lightning until the time of Benjamin Franklin - after whose experiments we accepted the idea that Thor wasn't hurling those bolts...

I am an atheist who has lived in a haunted house for the past 11 years. I have seen the 4 spirits that dwell within my home, as have my children, my landlord, my mother, and friends.

I believe that we possess souls, and I believe in an afterlife. I don't know where our souls come from, or what they are, but I think they are what gives us our humanity. I don't know where we go after we die, but I feel that we continue on as a sort of spirit energy.

I believe in angels, but not of the Biblical sort. Guardians, if you will, watching over and protecting others. That may be our purpose in the hereafter.

I don't believe in a god or gods. That is the only thing that makes me an atheist.

I have had too many odd occurrences to not believe in other aspects of spirituality, and if you would like to read them, contact me. They are on my blog but I keep the link private to deter trolls.

I am an atheist. I've never seen a ghost or had any experience I would describe as paranormal.

I love how you put this question. Very good one. But the way some atheists question God's proof, they are apt to not answer if they've encountered the paranormal, because that opens "where's your proof" they are always demanding of Christians. Or,as many, (no matter the beliefs) will deny encountering for fear of ridicule.