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Ghostly flashes

One time I was sleeping, and I woke up because I heard thunder in the distance and it was raining. I got out of bed to shut my window and as son as I put my hand on the window, FLASH this huge flash of lightning strikes and there is a deafening crack of thunder. It scared the S*** of me. It was proably the closest to strike of lightning I've ever been. It hit one of the lightning rods on my house. Then soon after there were two more strikes of lightning that were very close. One of which fried my neighbors dog's invisible fence.

I believe that the dreaming is one of the most intriguing parts of the brain.
 
Guitarius said:
Ghosts are some scarey things. I think they do exist, and unless you can give me hard evidence as to the contrary, I will continue to believe this.
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Bah. Give ME evidence they DO exist and I'll become a believer. Faith, like in religion, is still just faith. And remember, the brain is an incredible gizmo. What's to say the apparition was nothing more than a mild form of "A Beautiful Mind"? By any chance were you both doing acid or 'shrooms?
 
Interesting story. I know ghosts exist, no faith involved -- other than that we all have, that our experience of reality is valid. But I see no reason to think this was a ghost or "ghost-like entity." Ball lightening was the first thing that came to my mind.
 
Well according to Wikipedia; a blue orb may be a spirit from heaven. a sort of guardian angel. if you believe that. a red ball is apparently from hell. soon as i see one of those i'll worry :D

It couldn't have been ball lightning. unless it can form indoors without storm conditions even outside. there was no noise either; which ball lightning is supposed to have- a loud cracking noise.
 
raggedjimmi said:
It couldn't have been ball lightning. unless it can form indoors without storm conditions even outside. there was no noise either; which ball lightning is supposed to have- a loud cracking noise.
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I've had ball lightning indoors without storm conditions. Ours did have the crackling sound, though. Showed up at the top of a closet, apparently still until I opened the door, then it shot out and vanished.
 
Phat_Pat said:
this may be interesting to you....

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Hee hee, after that screaming german car ad thread, I don't trust anything on here anymore. I totally watched that in slow motion first, before allowing audio. Creepy, though.
 
w_parietti22 said:
All this talk about orbs remind me of this picture of my house:

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Where do you keep all those flashlights hidden? :D

Interesting picture.
 
Les Kern said:
What's to say the apparition was nothing more than a mild form of "A Beautiful Mind"?
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Paranoid Schizophrenia? For two people at the same time to have their first symptoms (advanced symptoms, too, not preliminary) and see the exact same hallucination is something that would require an Improbability Drive.

And to anyone who uses the word 'shizo', please stop now. It is a grievous insult.
 
sorry to bring this back up again... but the little ball's been reappearing! though this time I was alone. Again it was on the far side of my bedroom. blinds and curtains shut, no lights on in my room or the house. I noticed whilst I was on the phone to Caroline. Just lying in bed chatting away. then something flickers, the blue ball again. same size, same colour etc. I'm thinking "oh bugger not again" in a tired, cant be bothered way. not in the expected "oooooh! run away!" way. but it mostly appears when Caroline is involved.

I don't appreciate the flickering. If there is something there I'd rather it stay put whilst I have a look. I think it's being very selfish.
 
Sesshi said:
It will be something very obvious if you really look for it, and you will end up feeling foolish.
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This is most likely the case. If I learned one thing from Ghost Hunters, it's that you need to try and "debunk" everything in any way that you can. If, after exhausting efforts, you can not find any reason to believe there may be a logical explanation, only then do you run and scream like a little girl. :eek:
 
someguy said:
This is most likely the case. If I learned one thing from Ghost Hunters, it's that you need to try and "debunk" everything in any way that you can. If, after exhausting efforts, you can not find any reason to believe there may be a logical explanation, only then do you run and scream like a little girl. :eek:
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That is exactly what I did. I turn off all my plugs at night, the wall where the "whatever" appeared has no power, water or gas pipes or cables running through. It simply is a solid brick wall. Figured it was an electric problem at first (though there was no snapping or cracking noise, or raised hairs or anything common of electric discharge) but an appearance during a blown fuse just pushed the electricity idea away completely.

Apparently, and I'm not religious, just open minded. This thing could be a guardian angel. Does make sense with a lot of good fortune and luck thats been coming my way.
I've tried to dissect this and find the problem, there just doesn't seem to be one. which should make me scared, but as I said above it's just getting annoying!
 
someguy said:
This is most likely the case. If I learned one thing from Ghost Hunters, it's that you need to try and "debunk" everything in any way that you can. If, after exhausting efforts, you can not find any reason to believe there may be a logical explanation, only then do you run and scream like a little girl. :eek:
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Only seen the one episode that itunes had for free. I was rather underwhelmed. What would be interesting is Mythbusters vs. GhostHunters.
 
MongoTheGeek said:
Only seen the one episode that itunes had for free. I was rather underwhelmed. What would be interesting is Mythbusters vs. GhostHunters.
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Ghost Hunters, like most similarly-themed shows, is basically full of situations where you think something is going to happen and nothing does. False hopes all around with something actually interesting thrown in here and there. I still watch sometimes for the rare interesting occurances that do happen.
 
someguy said:
Ghost Hunters, like most similarly-themed shows, is basically full of situations where you think something is going to happen and nothing does. False hopes all around with something actually interesting thrown in here and there. I still watch sometimes for the rare interesting occurances that do happen.
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Aye, I have this one episode of some Ghost show (UKTV Living show it a lot? don't know the name) which took place in a hall near my house, it's a restaurant and I always felt a little strange there. anyways, I only found out that it was apparently haunted last year. There was this shot where a small bird flew infront of the camera and lit up brightly. Of course it was a bird and was debunked but I've seen that image in nightmares before so it was a little creepy to me :eek:
 
raggedjimmi said:
nah its nothing to do with that. but i can imagine that being so scary! happens to a mate of mine.
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What did you feel when you saw it, were you afraid? If you were, were you afraid because you thought 'it might be a ghost, I should be afraid' or was it actually terror, dread afraid?

The fact that both you and your girlfriend both saw it rules out things like tiredness or hallucinations, the chances of two people hallucinating the exact same thing are kind of slim.

Have you got a webcam you could set up to record every night? Maybe you can catch it on film?

Edit: This has just got me thinking back to a supernatural experience a friend and I had a while ago and just thinking about it has scared me crapless. {shudders}
 
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