I definitely believe in them...but when you say ghost do you also mean a sprit? I definitely believe that are realtives are still out there after death. After my grandmother died she came and visited me in a dream. Maybe it sounds crazy, but I believe it to be real.

skeptic but who knows.

Well I do, and, well...

So let's say there is the seen world, and there is the unseen world, and there is a reason why we, imperfect souls can't see everything in the unseen world...
There is that thin line between the two, and when it breaks inside somebody that is insanity with fuckin weird hallucinations and stuff like that, but there are also people who naturally have the ability more than the others (as everybody has it, just for some it just happens, such stuff is learnable anyway), they are considered to be the shamans, mediums between the seen and unseen world, to help people... (Though you can't just become a shaman in an eyeblink, one has to learn a lot to become a real shaman...) The effects of psychedelic drugs, aka hallucinations and stuff like that are also to reveal some things of the unseen world, by chemically bugging your system so it changes for a few under the drugs... (That's why in countless cultures drugs have been being used forever, especially by shamans...)

So I just wanted to drop this in before anyone thinks am nuts, I do have had ghost experiences in quite several times years ago, for the few first times it was equal with sheer terror for me, but after a while I got used to it, it was still freaky as hell though... Then I got fed up because looks like I couldn't communicate with the spirit visiting me like it would have been ideal, so I just asked him not to visit me anymore, and indeed, nothing similar has happened ever since... (It is said that the first spirit who visits the possible shaman is the "calling spirit", to call the shaman to do his/her duty of that nature - there is a wee bit of mental imbalance in my family, I guess I inherited some of it, but at least I never considered it to be mental illness, rather that I am "special", because indeed, I have quite the sensitivity when it comes to stuff like that, energies, divination, seeing and feeling people, and what not... Don't wanna sound bigheaded as if I was bragging, though it's still better probably than to sound like an idiot... ~lol ^^ ~lays ears blushy)

So anyway, I strongly believe that souls are all over, like in the Bosch pictures, and it is a blessing that one can't see them all, people tend to think that there is nothing at all anywhere inside and around them, but them and their selfish little things, whereas everything is built up of energy, even the hardest materials - if you do some research about physics and quantum mechanics then you will find info about it!
So souls are souls, spirits are souls, ghosts are souls, we are souls, the fact that it is mostly unseen doesn't mean it doesn't exist - just ask a little creature living in the deepest levels of the ocean, what would that lil one say if you said "well yep, there is the sun, it's everywhere and you can always see it for half of the day" of course it would say "that is total bullshit, what a delusional guy, saying such ridiculous and funny things!" ^^

I think the fear of the unknown has something to do with my fear and being skeptic. I've done the whole "jump in the car with friends and go to the so called haunted house" but nothing ever came of it than us freaking ourselves out and to be honest I'm happy it went that way.
Just the stories of some that you see on these television shows where people claim to have been attacked, that is what scares me. I don't think I could handle that. I bailed on going to this mansion here in Ohio (the name has slipped my mind) but it was featured on the TAPS team came out and filmed and episode because I worry that "something" would follow me home.
To me, I feel like maybe since I'm not dead set (no pun intended) on what I believe that nothing will show itself to me, or atleast that comforts me.
I really got into the ghost shows awhile back and started freaking myself out and stopped watching them when I'm in my 20s and got scared of sleeping alone in the dark =/. I'm over that now but I have a Rosary hanging on my bed post "just in case".
So I probably sound as crazy as you think you do!

I just enjoy hearing people's stories, reading books about experiences and watching movies. Though like I said some TV shows have had me flipping the light switch on before entering a room and I've had two books creep me out enough that I slept with the TV on for a week or so lol!

i dont believe in leprechauns either.

I believe in fairies

Yes I do.

I'm a complete sceptic. Unless the existence of something can be proven, then I have no reason to believe in it.

Simply put, we are just an energy source wearing a bio-suit. And since energy is something that I have heard over and over stated as not being able to be created or destroyed, I have to ask the question, where does our energy go when we die? Spirit, ghost, with either or I have to believe that something like that exists. It would be really nice to have absolute proof of that before we die. Oh well, therein lies the greatest adventure ever.......death!!
Dan Brown does a nice job with his explanation of this in his latest book, The Lost Symbol. The experiment done as someone is in the process of dying, that is pretty damn imaginative and can really get you thinking. It's a fun read, and the Noetic Society talked about in the book actually exists, which makes the book even more interesting.

Being a former paranormal investigator, I'm still inconclusive on the existence of them. I only use 'ghost' as a lump-word in my records.

But I had experienced some weird shit ...

I don't know if I would say that I fully believe in them, but I'd like to keep an open mind and imagine that there is something else in the beyond out there.

Most of the time I try to stay in a scientific mindset, since I know there's usually another explanation, but I've had too many personal encounters to write off the existence of ghosts.

My most significant encounter was when I was eleven or twelve. I forget what upset me, but I was laying face-down on my bed crying into my arms when I felt someone gently but firmly rubbing my back. That went on until I calmed down a bit and looked up, then it very suddenly stopped. I'd assumed it was my mom or dad, but nobody was there, and anyone would have had to go by my head to leave the room.

Other times I've seen brief apparitions of humans and animals (which is why I firmly believe animals have souls), and sometimes I hear words being spoken very clearly - usually someone calling my name, but sometimes other things as well. I don't like looking into mirrors if it's dark or if the mirror faces a door or hallway, since I've seen things appear behind me, as well.

This is The Brown Lady, considered to be good proof of a ghost. The thing is that for skeptics NO amount of proof is ever enough.

Yes, I believe in spirits/ghosts. There have been many a documented case and I've experienced more than enough on my own to know better than to doubt their existence. Also, animals have great reactions to them, a little freaky but interesting.

I think to a point I do believe.

iv seen some things man...