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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 77393" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>OK, I'm being a cynic here (= scientist) but one big reason why days after a ghost tour you'd be noticing weird things happening - you've been programmed to think along those lines by the ghost tour. Where normally if a jar falls off the kitchen bench you would pick it up without thinking, now your mind is saying, "Hmm, why did that happen?" and thinking for a supernatural cause BEFORE you think of a logical one. You've been sensitised - but not necessarily in any spooky way.</p><p></p><p>That doesn't mean I totally disbelieve in ghosts - "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...". </p><p>My mother moved house about three years after my father died. It had been a house full of their love and he especially had loved that house. He had his favourite places, his routines and we were so used to him. He would sit out on the front porch and watch the sea. In the evenings he would pour himself a drink and walk barefoot across the kitchen floor to get some soda water in his drink. Or we'd hear the side gate rattle loudly as it clanged shut when he came through it. My sister had moved into a house she built on the back half of the property, so she was always popping in to check up on Mum. We were staying in Mum's house so our large brood wouldn't be disturbed by hers, and vice versa.</p><p>My mother had just moved into her new, very small, flat. husband & I were staying at the house - still furnished and now on the market. The kids were asleep. It was about 9 pm. husband was dozing in one of the recliner chairs while I read my book. I heard the very quiet sound of bare feet on the kitchen lino and mentally thought, "that will be my sister, I wonder what she wants," and turned around to see - an empty room. Then I remembered - I hadn't heard the back door squeak and slam - this house was full of noises which sequenced, and the bare feet on the kitchen floor had not been preceded by any other noise.</p><p>I checked the kids, in case it was one of them but I knew it hadn't been - the footsteps had been those of an adult, not the patter of a small child.</p><p></p><p>Another day, mid-afternoon, I heard the side gate slam. But it hadn't moved, nobody had opened it.</p><p></p><p>Did I hear my father's ghost? I like to think so. He was happy there, I didn't feel at all afraid. I felt safe.</p><p>It is possible that being in that house and remembering past familiar noises tricked my mind into thinking it heard what it had heard so many times before. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>If ghosts exist I do not think they are anything to fear or be spooked by. And we also have to be aware first of the logical explanations. Only when something cannot be explained logically, should we begin to give any credence to the apparently illogical.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, I still watch ghost shows myself. And UFO shows. I like to try to find logical explanations, but that doesn't stop me wondering.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 77393, member: 1991"] OK, I'm being a cynic here (= scientist) but one big reason why days after a ghost tour you'd be noticing weird things happening - you've been programmed to think along those lines by the ghost tour. Where normally if a jar falls off the kitchen bench you would pick it up without thinking, now your mind is saying, "Hmm, why did that happen?" and thinking for a supernatural cause BEFORE you think of a logical one. You've been sensitised - but not necessarily in any spooky way. That doesn't mean I totally disbelieve in ghosts - "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...". My mother moved house about three years after my father died. It had been a house full of their love and he especially had loved that house. He had his favourite places, his routines and we were so used to him. He would sit out on the front porch and watch the sea. In the evenings he would pour himself a drink and walk barefoot across the kitchen floor to get some soda water in his drink. Or we'd hear the side gate rattle loudly as it clanged shut when he came through it. My sister had moved into a house she built on the back half of the property, so she was always popping in to check up on Mum. We were staying in Mum's house so our large brood wouldn't be disturbed by hers, and vice versa. My mother had just moved into her new, very small, flat. husband & I were staying at the house - still furnished and now on the market. The kids were asleep. It was about 9 pm. husband was dozing in one of the recliner chairs while I read my book. I heard the very quiet sound of bare feet on the kitchen lino and mentally thought, "that will be my sister, I wonder what she wants," and turned around to see - an empty room. Then I remembered - I hadn't heard the back door squeak and slam - this house was full of noises which sequenced, and the bare feet on the kitchen floor had not been preceded by any other noise. I checked the kids, in case it was one of them but I knew it hadn't been - the footsteps had been those of an adult, not the patter of a small child. Another day, mid-afternoon, I heard the side gate slam. But it hadn't moved, nobody had opened it. Did I hear my father's ghost? I like to think so. He was happy there, I didn't feel at all afraid. I felt safe. It is possible that being in that house and remembering past familiar noises tricked my mind into thinking it heard what it had heard so many times before. Who knows? If ghosts exist I do not think they are anything to fear or be spooked by. And we also have to be aware first of the logical explanations. Only when something cannot be explained logically, should we begin to give any credence to the apparently illogical. Mind you, I still watch ghost shows myself. And UFO shows. I like to try to find logical explanations, but that doesn't stop me wondering. Marg [/QUOTE]
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