Why Ghosts Can't Possibly Exist
For all you ghost believers out there, here are some compelling questions. But before I begin, I will say that many people who believe in ghosts have never seen one. So this content, then, is directed towards them. I'm not going to convince a person, who believes he saw a ghost, that ghosts do not exist. This is for believers who have never seen a ghost or apparition.
If ghosts exist...ever wonder why the only places they haunt are either old Victorian mansions, prisons, abandoned farm houses or other abandoned buildings, graveyards, and places where deaths have occurred such as bridges, old country roads and houses? Don't you find this a bit odd? How come hospitals aren't infested with ghosts? Lots of people die in hospitals.
Many people die on the streets in car wrecks. You'd think that ghosts would be appearing left and right on major highways and intersections.
And when ghosts do appear, why do they always seem to be from a specific era of time, namely, the 19th and 18th centuries? Or earlier, but not too early? In other words, the apparitions wear clothes indicative of these particular centuries.
Where are all the ghosts of times going much further back, when men and women wore animal skins? Why don't we see ghosts of people who lived 10,000 years ago? Why don't we see ghosts of cavemen? Why don't we see ghosts of modern man, like the ghost of someone wearing bell bottoms yielding a peace sign?
Why do ghosts run the moment we see them? Are they afraid of us, like we're going to kill them? Why don't ghosts ever appear before huge crowds of people? Ever wonder why child ghosts are always spotted disappearing around a corner? Or scurrying away to a room, never to be seen after that? Is this the typical behavior of children? I'd think that even in ghost form, a child would want to come up to adults and interact.
It is said that ghosts don't realize they are dead, and thus, continue to hang around the places they haunt. How can you not know you're dead? Isn't the inability to pick up a sandwich and eat it a tip-off? Isn't the ability to walk through walls a tip-off?
And when they are seen, why don't they just come right out and start verbally communicating? "Hey Mack, don't be afraid of me. I just want you to give a message to my wife. Tell her there is an after-life and I am watching over her." You'd think more ghosts would get this message across in either words, if they can be heard by us, or in some kind of fashion, even if it's mouthing out these words.
And if ghosts can make lights go on and off, and start up electrical appliances, and make objects fall from shelves, then why don't they have the power to make a pen write a message on a piece of paper?
Finally, if ghosts exist, how come judges who sentence murderers to death, don't eventually get haunted by these killers after they die? Why don't jurors get haunted by murderers they find guilty, after the killer eventually dies?
You'd think that anyone who was mistreated on the job by some corrupt manager would haunt that manager after he or she died. I used to work in a place where everyone hated the manager. Several people died over a period of five years. None of them, apparently, came back to haunt the dickens out of this manager.
Why doesn't Hitler haunt anyone? Or Saddam Hussein? You'd think he'd be haunting the American soldiers who found him. Or what about the man who abused his wife and then killed her? How come she doesn't come back to haunt him day and night? Or the teenager who was killed by a drunk driver who got away with it. You'd think he'd haunt the house of the driver.
What about EVP: electronic voice phenomenon? I'm skeptical. Ever wonder why these recordings are almost always of only one, two, or three words? And that's it? If you're roaming around as a ghost, would your vocabulary be so limited? I have yet to hear an EVP consisting of full-fledged conversations amongst ghosts. Instead, it's always one or a few words blurted, usually out of context with the conversation that the ghost hunters are having while their recorders are on.
I'm not ready to believe in ghosts.
Published by Jillita Horton
Freelance writer for fitness print magazines and fitness Web sites; ghost writer for fitness Web sites View profile
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19 Comments
Post a CommentThe ghost that I have seen was a dark shadow walking down a dark hallway. It walked into my room and I never saw it again. I also seen a ghost in a picture I took. It was a polariod, and I think you can't have lay over on a polariod. I also think some people are more intoned with spirits then others. I do not know what it means to cross over but we will find out when our death comes for us!!!
The only place ghosts really exists are in the imagination of people. I believe that some folks who have lost relatives, and loved ones want communication so bad that they imagine communication and ghosts.
I think sometimes people may
get so scared and hear something etc. that they also
imagine ghost sightings.
It's interesting how different people react to the questionable existence of ghosts. I think it all depends on who we are and how we live our lives. We have to understand that there are reasons why people do and don't want to believe in ghosts. It's easy to grow out of Santa Claus, dismiss the existence of zombies, vampires, and monsters of any which form, because overall they're fantasies that don't personally effect us (although I admit that I would take it very personally if there was a possibility of me becoming some mindless, cannibalizing zombie!) Ghosts are another category that can't really be taken lightly. Many find it a comfort to believe, craving to hear evidence in order to reaffirm that self-awareness, identity, and consciousness doesn't simply disappear after the heart stops beating. Who isn't afraid of what that last breath will feel like, the possible fear of losing all you have worked for, loved, and remembered? It makes life seem like there's no purpose, and for mos
ive seen ghosts yes they do haunt hospitals exspecially at night?
Ummm...hun, I've seen recent looking ghosts before. Y'know, wearing jeans and t-shirts. I actually don't think I've ever seen a spirit any older than maybe the 1900's. By style of dress most of them looked quite recent. I've even seen animals.
I remember very clearly seeing a young boy in a sleeping bag asking me to play with him. He literally said "Come and play with me." So yes, children ghosts CAN in fact communicate and not run away.
Who knows why I can't see some incredible historical figure. I don't choose who I see. I just see them. Honestly I think it'd be pretty sweet if Abraham Lincoln payed a visit to me. I love history. Haha.
There are obviously people who will make up experiences and make fake evidence. I absolutely NEVER believe everything I see on tv or on the internet. If I can see it with my own eyes then I know it's real, everything else needs to be taken with a grain of salt. People are perfectly capable of making themselves think they've experienced something pa
In my head this is what I believe... I believe there are many levels of life and I see it like a drawing on a paper grab another paper do another drawing and so on. Paper over time get old and thins a bit so you can see it a bit but not from other centuries because those are way under the stack. I think they have houses and everything else like us so that's why it seems that ghost wander in the woods they are in their own house and to us is just the woods, being why also they would run away not used to anything being there. I also believe in imprints, doing the same repeated thing over and over, we leave an imprint and it can be seen for years to come and that is why you can see other century horse men, soldiers and etc. Also imprints of tragedies, the guilty soul reliving the guilt or not knowing what hit them, like stomping through the mud, hitting the mud hard, leaving an imprint. Like a soul not sure what hit them, leaving that imprint. We are ghost to them being able to see throug
For those who believe in ghosts, answer this question in a LOGICAL way. It is my understanding as a Skeptic, that a ghost is discribed as a disembodied spirit. It is suppose to be a spirit trapped in this world that needs to cross over. I am still having problems with the definition of crossing over. Crossing over what? A toll bridge? A valley? A river? A large lake? Beats me!!! I am sure that ghost believers picked this terminology up off television. They don't know what it means but they like to use it because they think it sound good. Or maybe people will believe that they know what they are talking about.
Sooooo in order to be a ghost, you have to have a body indwelled by a spirit. I certainly agree with the part about your body being indwelled by a spirit. That part is true. Now then, tell me why a ghost is wearing clothing every time it is described by someone that has what they call an encounter? Clothing is a material item without spirit. Therefore it would be impossible fo
I do not believe that ghosts are real. I believe that they are just pure imagination. There existence is for entertainment purposes only.
i do believe ghost exist . .
for any reasons, maybe to warn us
Ms. Horton, you really need to do your homework before writing pieces like this. So much of what you have posted had me thinking, "No, that's not true - there's plenty of examples of what you claim never happens." Your arguments only make sense if you ignore 3/4 of the evidence collected and research done by paranormal investigators over centuries.