Supernatural (not the tv show)/ alien thread

[camrocl]

Just wondering what your thoughts were on ghosts/ ghouls, things that go bump in the night and even aliens. Anyone experienced any of these strange encounters???

Me, I don’t know if I believe in ghosts but one day my mum was driving my granda to the shop. He pointed at a man walking down the road a bit confussed looking and said his name (I'll call him Joe). My mum also saw him. When they went into the shop, the owner asked if they had heard that Joe had died early that morning. This was only 2mins later….weird

As for aliens. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intelligent life forms in the universe but I don’t believe in these aliens (like in Dr. Who?) but rather maybe other humans elsewhere but that they are not aware of us.

I don’t know, I thought this would a good idea for a thread as I’m pretty board and wanted to get other peoples opinions.

[johnfoss]

I believe there's a lot of stuff out there we still don't understand. I also believe in intelligent life elsewhere. However I don't believe we have more than a tiny bit of actual evidence of either. But some people will believe anything.

[rant]Every TV show I've ever seen on the subject of ghosts/supernatural occurrences or UFOs is a load of crap. No science, or the appearance of science that isn't really science, to fool some of the people. The UFO shows are the worst. All conspiracy and no fact. Like the 9/11 "Truth" movement.[/rant]

BTW, I also beleive there is stuff we don't know about the 9/11 attacks, and stuff that was avoided, ignored or whitewashed in the 9/11 Commission reports, but that is not proof of stuff that's alleged without evidence. Some people will believe anything.

I DO believe in the Amityville Horror. Something horrible really, actually happened in that house, and the guy who did it is still in prison. He killed his entire family with a shotgun, while they were sleeping (at least the first one), in 1968 or so. Then he went to the bar at the end of the street and waited for the cops to come get him. I forget his name. He's real. But then, the new owners of this house found out--after they'd bought it--that it was the site of a multiple murder. I don't think they were happy about that. But it gave them the idea for a story. They wrote a book, the book became a movie, the movie became several more movies, and all the while they continued to try to convince people that all the nonsense in their book was true. They made it up. They cleaned up (financially). Then they moved away. The house is still there, but subsequent owners have done some remodeling to discourage tourism. I've been there. It's the least-scary looking house you could imagine. It's at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY. Would you have an indian burial ground right next to a creek? It's now a boat canal, but obviously it was not entirely manmade.

Okay, enough of that.

[peleschramm]

Aliens: yes.

Ghosts/spirits/god: no.I predict I may have just caused a future threadjack.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I believe that there are probably animals/beings of some sort which are invisble to us.
And aliens probably do exist. The chances are good.

[Into the blue]

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

[Fraggle]

Originally Posted by Into the blue

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

Lol, but still they come.

I don't believe in ghosts. As for aliens, Earth can't be the only planet with life.

[Mikefule]

You may be interested in www.forteantimes.com .

I get the magazine each month. It is a fine blend of light hearted and serious, generally sceptical in tone, but for people interested in everything from bigfoot/yeti/sasquatch to ghosts, poltergeists, UFOs, conspiracy theories, Loch Ness monster...

I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe there is a phenomenon we call "ghosts".

I'm fairly sure that there is intelligent life Out There, but I'm not so hopeful about the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence.

[Fraggle]

Originally Posted by Mikefule

You may be interested in www.forteantimes.com .

I get the magazine each month. It is a fine blend of light hearted and serious, generally sceptical in tone, but for people interested in everything from bigfoot/yeti/sasquatch to ghosts, poltergeists, UFOs, conspiracy theories, Loch Ness monster...

That reminds me, Fortean TV (I think it was), was a series covering that stuff, on channel 4 (I think).

[dudewithasock]

With the immense size of the universe, it'd be pretty egotistical of us to think that we are the only sentient beings in the cosmos. I think the existence of aliens is for sure.

As far as ghosts and stuff (this includes the idea of a god or gods), I believe in the possibility of beings like that, but not in the ability to determine whether they exist or not.

[Axi]

aliens

Lets say, that I would be very suprised if there wouldnt be any.
There is just one thing what I dont understand: Why aliens are supernatural?
If there is an alien it is just as normal than us or other animals down here.

Five or four years ago we were in our gottage in Pohjanmaa.
It was midnight when my grandmother awaked me and sayd frightenedly that there were something on the sky. We went to peach (it was on peach of a lake) and my mother pointed to the sky and said that there were strange lights. I never really saw anything unusual, but anyway we were all REALLY frightened. We backed very fast and rushed to our car. We drowe about 100km to our friends and stayed there over night.

If I think it know, it feels extremely silly, but at that day it felt really scary.

[unibikeling]

ghosts Yes.

Aliens Yes.

proof of aliens - Yes very, see following picture for proof.

[Bondo]

There is no life on other planets.
If there was, I would have seen it on my wife's cell-phone bill.

[catinabag1]

i'm unsure of the whole alien life thing. but one theory i find really cool is that there may be life anywhere, even here on earth, that exists in another dimension to us, thus mking us unaware of each other.

[Into the blue]

Originally Posted by Fraggle

That reminds me, Fortean TV (I think it was), was a series covering that stuff, on channel 4 (I think).

Gotta love the Rev Lionel Fanthorpe.

It was Bill Watterson in a classic Calvin & Hobbes strip that said "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

[Mikefule]

Originally Posted by dudewithasock

With the immense size of the universe, it'd be pretty egotistical of us to think that we are the only sentient beings in the cosmos.

It'd be pretty egotistical to think we're the only sentient beings on this planet. Sentient means capable of sensory perception, but even in the widely misunderstood sense of "intelligent" dolphins, some breeds of dogs, some of the great apes and some members of the crow family (jays) have been observed to have quite high levels of intelligence, including reasoning powers.

On the other hand, I think we can all think of humans who appear to lack any form of intelligence or reasoning.