So where do ghost stories come from?
Apart from to frighten the fucking jiggeries out of children around a camp fire?

Is it just that as humans we want some enduring link to our lost, loved after their death - no matter how unearthly or scary it may seem?

Kinda glad the other-worldly spirit of my mum isn't around - I don't think she'd have been very pround of me about 1/2 an hour ago! ;)
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 13 Sep 2012, 22:41, 17 replies)

Here is the obvious
www.b3ta.com/questions/mosthaunted/post1728038

To explain what people can't understand
( Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 13 Sep 2012, 22:47, closed)

Yeah I saw - I have to admit I'm sceptical about most ghostie things and yes science can usually be trotted out to explain it.
But... and it's a big 1. Reading this - www.b3ta.com/questions/mosthaunted/post1728018 , that sense of still wanting a connection, somehow seems to be used to explain some of the run-of-the-mill stories.

Then you've got the cunts like John Edward that actively prey on grief-ridden sheeple and use their sadness and loos to his own gain. Big part of me wants there to be a Hell - cause I hope Shaitan has a special little cupboard set up for him when he dies.
Either that or all the spirits from his supposed contacts mob him for the rest of eternity.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 13 Sep 2012, 23:31, closed)

Putting that aside, do you honestly subscribe to the possibility of some kind of spiritual aftermath?
To be even approach this subject being sceptical is FAIL i'm afraid. To have any faith in the paranormal would require religious belief, which is obviously complete and utter bollocks.

Where are the ghosts of Megalodons just out of interest? To even entertain any of this superstitious bollocks for an inch is a reason to visit your doctor
( Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 13 Sep 2012, 23:45, closed)

I'm pitching 'Ghost Megalodon' to SyFy.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 13 Sep 2012, 23:50, closed)

But if we're talking religiously
the Megalodon ghost would only be about 6000 years old!
CBA googling "life span of megalodon"
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 7:10, closed)

No not at all.
Personally I think that once you die you become a hunk of slowly rotting meat. That's all.

But to cover my bases - if there is a Hell, I hope people like John Edward ends up there.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 0:08, closed)

But there are no bases to cover
John Edward will rot or be incinerated like the rest of us
( Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 0:19, closed)

I disagree here.
About the covering bases not the fact that death is the great leveler.

I think I'm an agnostic - I don't really believe in a "God" but then if he turned up and shouted me a round at the pub I'd then say I was a believer.
Belief in itself is a powerful thing (asides from religion) - hence some people genuinely believe that John Edward has a connection to the afterlife and can converse with their loved ones.
The same can be said for bumps in the night and ghostly apparitions (not too sure about Amberleafs ghostly wank tho) - if you can't explain something logically or scientifically then all you're left with is something outside the area of those realms of knowledge. If you already have a pre-disposition to believe (ie. its dark, windy and scary) then of course the wood contracting due to a change in temp. is going to seem like the start of a full-blown fucking banshee's wail.
Just sayin.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 8:27, closed)

Megalodon ghosts have ascended to Megalodon heaven, you plank.
There might be a few left, roaming the Earth,but only a broad-minded Megalodon would notice.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 9:00, closed)

Like after death probably came about as the concept of death being final is pretty terrifying in itself.
Add this to the explanations we ascribe to things we don't understand, I'd say ghost stories were inevitable.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 13 Sep 2012, 23:11, closed)

Human fear of the dark is primordial
it's how people have learnt to milk this has proved fascinating
( Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 13 Sep 2012, 23:33, closed)

This is the first post from you in several weeks which hasn't had the usual dull mob replying with their "witty" standard response.
Have you ignored all of them?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 0:48, closed)

No not at all - maybe they've ignored me?
*finger crossed*
EDIT: I did try them on ignore last week - made qotw a lot quieter but I'm vain and a people-watcher at heart and couldn't go without knowing what they were saying about me.
Maybe they've all been stepped?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 7:08, closed)

Or maybe they've come to the conclusion that you're such a fucking wanker you aren't worth bothering with?

(Legless is a prick., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 7:15, closed)

There we go!
I'm sure you are right.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 7:22, closed)

Hey dingo,
I know it's vaguely about ghosts, but qftw is for stories, this really belongs as a discussion on /talk or /ot.
Jus sayin.

I don't believe in ghosts, I'm sure it's all minds playing tricks, misinterpreted phenomenon and wishful thinking in differing levels depending on who it is. However, I don't like the idea that this life is the end, so maybe I
Wrong. I'd like to be wrong.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 8:39, closed)

Fair call
I do have a story - I'm just getting my Fri. arvo buzz on ready to bash away at it.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 14 Sep 2012, 9:01, closed)