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[dbee]

Got talking about the subject of ghosts last night in the pub. Made me wonder, do you believe in ghosts ??
If so, has anyone seen one in Korea (or elsewhere) ??? .... seriously !
I'd be interested to know.

[everydavid]

Would love to see one, but so far I have not.

[VanIslander]

I know someone who did.
When I offered a newbie silk worms to eat and aloe juice to chase it down.

[JacktheCat]

[vlcupper]

I haven't seen one or had an experience, but I do get creepy vibes from my bathroom. I can't sleep with the door open. If I do, I feel like somebody is watching me.

There is an excellent website about ghosts for you: www.ghoststudy.com

[funplanet]

only after drinking half a bottle of absinthe....

[itaewonguy]

I know people who have.. and In korea I always talk about the paranormal with my adult classes.. its a great topic and everyone has something to say. I also say a few ghost stories to get the girls jumpy..

I would love to see one though./
it would answer alot of questions I have..

[chronicpride]

There's got to be a paranormal research group in Korea. Probably at one of the universities. I would be all over that like flies on shit, as I'm totally into that kind of stuff.

[captain kirk]

Funplanet, half a bottle? That stuff is 75% alcohol and made from wormwood, which is kind of like 'a trip'. I dunno. I found a bottle in Vancouver for seventy bucks U.S. Had always heard about it, so bought it. Drank not a lot, and diluted with orange juice. The effect? Felt very clear, not 'drunk'. More like everything was very vivid. But the next day felt wrecked like normal alcohol.
It was from Czecheslovakia, I think. I'd heard stories about artists going to town with it, so was curious. Not a big drinker, interested in the special, legendary effect. Swill of the culture vultures, like.

[vlcupper]

[Howard Roark]

I have had nightmares all my life, maybe a couple of a times a month, I thought that everyone did. I'm also terrified of the dark. I have to sleep with the door open and a hall light on or a lamp or the tv or something.

Anyway I recently changed apartments. I moved in with a friend. Immediately I felt like there was something strange about my room, not the apartment, only my room. It felt really creepy.

I started having what cannot be simple nightmares, but night terrors. I had the most horrific dreams several times a week. Once I woke up and it felt like someone was sitting on my bed. Another time I was being strangled in my dream only to wake up and feel like I was still being choked for about 30 seconds. My friends cannot even stand to hear me describe the things I dreamed about.

I asked my roommate one day if he had ever experienced anything strange when he had my room (before I moved in). His eyes widened, he said "why would you ask that?!". I explained what had been happening. He told me he had had similar dreams when he slept in my room.

Also, he told me a Chinese lady (friend of his girlfriend) was at our house one day. Upon her first visit to the house she said the house had "a bad qi" and she didn't feel comfortable there.

Well that was quite enough to freak us out. I started sleeping on the sofa with my bedroom door shut tight, but with the light on inside. I couldn't even stand to think of the room being dark inside. Some other strange things happened too. My roommate told me he woke up one morning and I was alseep on my bedroom floor, in my pajamas, door wide open. I have no memory of doing this.

We became convinced the house was haunted.

...to be continued

[thorin]

I killed all the ghosts in my apartment when I left the fan on all night with the windows closed.

[HamuHamu]

I *HATE* discussing this with people because everyone thinks I am a total whack-job when I tell the story, but one of the houses I lived in as a kid was haunted.

My grandparents owned the house years before and then when I was a kid and my mom and dad separated, the house was up for rent -- owned by different people - and my mom rented it. My grandparents were set against it but would never tell her why. After about 6 months of living there, REALLY weird things started happening and it got to the point of none of us sleeping at night. We didn't talk about it for a long time with each other, but when we finally each got the nerve up to say something we found out that everyone in the family was freaked out by a series of really creepy upsetting things that had happened.

We would regularly hear footsteps up in the attic above us, even though all of us were together in one room. And not just like, creaks in the ceiling, but someone absolutely definitely WALKING. It was the kind of attic that had a doorway in the hall, and you walked up a flight of steep stairs and the attic covered the whole floor-space.

The night we sat downstairs and we all were convinced we could hear someone walking up there, we started hearing creepy laughing and muffled voices. My step-dad came home a few minutes later and asked who was up in the attic, because he saw the light on when he pulled-up in the car (there was a window on the street side). Well, no one was because we were all downstairs. We went up to the 2nd floor together and could see the light from the bottom of the attic door. OK, so someone left it on...right? As soon as my dad turned the key to unlock it it went out and we opened the door and it was off. Of course, parents tell kids all kinds of things to calm them down and they told me and my sister that the lightbulb must have just burned out right then at that very second, but we could tell they were freaked out too. My step-dad went to the light switch and it was turned OFF and he clicked it and it went on fine. We all walked up the stairs together and found a trunk of old clothes was open and the clothes messed up and some of them on the floor. My step-dad had been up there only a week before and swore that it hadn't been like that -- the clothes in there were things like his parents' wedding clothes and none of us had opened that trunk since it had been put up there.

That's ONE of sooooo many really weird things that happened over about a year before we moved out. When we did move, all my grandparents would say was that they had sold the house because my grandma hated being there alone because she had started feeling "creepy" - my grandpa tried to say she had been going through menopause (!) at the time, but my grandma just gave us "the look" and said that the discussion about that house was over, and never to be talked about in her presence again!

Call us The Nutter Family if you want, but I know what I experienced in that house and no one can convince me, without any hard evidence, that all of the things that happened were caused by something other than supernatural beings....

[phaedrus]

[vlcupper]