do ghosts exist in reality?

A "ghost" forms when a person's mental energy (the mass of electricity that allows the nervous system to function) leaves the cerabelum following a traumatic cranial injury (typically caused by blunt force). The nature of this electrical flow forms a valence cloud in the atmospheric atoms nearby, leaving the victim in a comatose state. Doctors fix this problem utilizing a device typically referred to as a "proton wand" to essentially vacuum up the cloud and store it in a battery-like container (the protons have a positive charge, attracting the negatively charged electrons forming the valence cloud). From here, electrical contacts are strapped to the victim's head (they look something like those white circular patches with the wires you sometimes see in the movies), allowing the cloud to gradually flow back into the cerebelum, allowing the victim to regain consciousness. They sometimes retain memories of an "out of body experience" during the time the cloud was floating outside the body.

If the victim does not recieve the medical attention required for this process, the cloud will gradually disperse, and the victim dies.

Nope - but they are a powerful fantasy. In psychology they are looked up on as repressed memories - heavy duty emotions pushed down into the unconscious usually when you're very young. Then as they begin to come back in later life they can be actually hallucinated as "ghosts".

Anyway - if you were a psychologist and had a patient who was absolutely terrified of ghosts, this is the way it probably works. You could assure your patient that ghosts don't exist - BUT - old repressed memories do exist and they're just memories and can't hurt him.

I'll answer this quickly before I go out: some people believe in them, and there is a Scientific side to it as well, not to mention I'm for anything that can really give at least some what a logical answer to an Hope you find the answer you're looking for Minerr!

I believe so. I've had some pretty crazy experiences, like things flying literally across the room when no one was there but me, and my kitchen drawers opening and closing on their own. So, yes, I believe in ghosts or at least spirits. However, for those who haven't had experiences like that, the idea of ghosts seems outrageous.

Oh, I forgot to add--I'm not crazy. I've been tested and I'm totally sane.

Now I don't really know much about ghosts at all, save, like most/all of you, I have enjoyed a few ghost tales in my time. But I certainly never expected to meet one.

Just before the winter of 1980 my husband and I set out to explore the Australian bush. My husband had got tired of doing high pressured, top secret computer work for the defence forces and wanted a change of pace that he hoped rural life could offer. So we went out, intrepid late 20th century explorers and pioneers, looking to carve out a new future.

We found a little house in a small village (northern NSW) situated about 3,500' above sea level, where the winter temperatures can get to -18 degrees Celsius. The previous owner/builder of this cottage, a retired feather-weight boxing champion, had wanted so much to live out his life there, but his wife, suffering with arthritis, wanted to move to the coast where it stayed warm. So we bought the house. They moved to the coast.

I arrive first with our animals whilst my husband stayed behind to sell our city home. Much the best when one owns a very, very, very large Great Dane, she muses. The animals and I settle in quickly. The days shorten into an icy winter and much of the time I spend gathering fire-wood to keep us all warm. One evening around 9 o'clock, with my animals all huddled close to the fire-place trying to keep warm; I pass the time reading an old favourite, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Suddenly we all felt a strong swirling current of icy cold air in the room and loose papers got tossed around. My dogs started to whimper. Bother, thought I, as I went to check the windows.

The house seemed shut tight as a drum.

The "wind" suddenly stopped. I make a mental note to go over the house with a proverbial tooth-comb in the (warmer) light of day to find the crack/flaw in the structure. I go to the kitchen to make a cuppa.

As I stand at the fuel stove pouring hot water into my mug, from the corner of my eye, I see a misty shape sitting at my dining room table. I turn to face the table and do not see anything. I turn back and again from peripheral vision I can see the misty shape of a man complete with hat. My mind puzzles over the hat for a moment. From the lounge I can hear my dogs still whimpering. I turn again to the table and see nothing. I look side-on. Something or someone definitely sits there. The shape seems like the man who sold us his house … but … why/how?

Not much I can do save return to the lounge and keep my dogs company.

We stay up that night. I keep the fire going and read my book. Every time I go to the kitchen to make a cuppa I see the misty shape of a man still sitting peacefully at my table.

Come the dawn he had disappeared.

At 9 o'clock next morning, the little post office/telephone exchange opened. They had a message to relay to the village (most of us did not own telephones). At 9 o’clock the previous evening, one former resident died of a heart attack ... the man whose house we bought.

I never saw the "ghost" again. I guess that he just wanted to return (briefly) to the place he had loved so much.

some people believe in them, and there is a Scientific side to it as well, not to mention I'm for anything that can really give at least some what a logical answer to an occurrence rather than just shrugging it aside.

Since I don't believe in life after death... I have to say no. Also, there's no credible evidence to support that they exist. The imagination is a wonderful thing.

what are seen as "ghosts" are, in fact, manifestations of the forces of evil.... the souls of humans do not stick around haunting when they leave the mortal body... and they do not come back for visits... or communicate with this world in any way....... if you see a "ghost" you are seeing evil... there is no such thing as a "friendly" ghost.... any such encounter is a great danger

Yep. One used to use our computer until we moved. It was kind of scary for me, though she never said anything.

yes