Who you gonna call?
I know that ghosts do not exist. There is no afterlife, there’s no returning from beyond the grave to sort out unfinished business like tax returns or pointing at the person who murdered you going ‘OooooOOOooooOOOOooooh!’.

And yet.

Should I happen to watch ‘Most Haunted’ (or something of the like), I will happily sit there and pick it to pieces. It’s clearly faked. Derek Acorah has even been exposed as a fake by the production team. Sometimes, it’s actually funny.

And yet.

After seeing such a programme, I’ll go to bed. And it’s only then, in the cold darkness, that I believe in ghosts. Every creak is a ghost coming to shake its chains at me. Every groan of the pipes is a monster on its way to devour my head.

My disappointment? I’m 28 years old, and I still sleep with the hallway light on. Well, it’ll make for a quick escape!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:15, 9 replies)

Fer God's sake DIT
The best thing about being an adult is I can now sleep with the light off and without the covers over my head.
( girlinthehole, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:19, closed)

I didnt believe in ghosts for 29 years
until I moved into my 1st house, which has one. After the initial "oh", I dont mind and sleep with the lights off.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:23, closed)

I'm 39.
and I still have a light that's on every night when I fall asleep. I call it the TV. I can't get to sleep without watching a movie, or part of.

EDIT : Normally Horror or Sci-Fi.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:25, closed)

I know!
I know it's irrational and stupid!

I think that part of it is that when I was a kid I had a recrruing dream where I was in the dark, and could see the shape of a doorway in light ahead of me. But whatever I did, there was something in the way, and I could never get out of the room.

Light would combat that, see? :)

(I am not mad).
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:27, closed)

lol
I can sleep without the lights on...but i cannot sleep with the window open...
(Wandering Nomad still wandering on, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:32, closed)

.
I have to sleep with the hall light on and the door open just a crack, the thinking being that if a burgler / rapist / axe murderer comes into my room in the night I'll see them coming.

The flaw in my thinking is that any such intruder worth his salt would just switch the hall light off.
(G-Lo, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 11:46, closed)

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( Cawl, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 12:03, closed)

Oh my
"a ghost coming to shake its chains at me. Every groan of the pipes is a monster on its way to devour my head."

These are some right kinky ghosts.
(Oben, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 13:11, closed)

I think even people who do belive, such as myself...
enjoy picking apart that show. What a load of bollocks it all is.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Wed 2 Jul 2008, 16:57, closed)