I am posting this in pseudoscience for obvious reasons...I don't believe in ghosts. The problem is, I have had an "experience", or whatever paranormal nutjobs call it.
See, when a skeptic like me actually comes face-to-face with a "ghost", the skeptic gets a little confused.
The story? I served on a nuclear submarine. There was always this rumor that there was a ghost in engineering, in a certain compartment. That rumor came from the fact that our sub was built by "scabs" when the union at Electric Boat went on strike. And this "scab" worker, an old man, for some reason committed suicide by hanging in this specific compartment. Makes for a great tall tale or sea story, right?
And that is all I thought it was, until myself, and one of my old "shipmates", also a skeptic of nutjobbery, ran into this undead fella one night on watch. I am not even sure it was night time where we were, but it was night time in the USA, and so it was for the watch. It was the normal crazy horse crap...it got really cold, and we saw this ghost, and he screamed at us "Get Out" or some such thing.
I remember being scared out of my skin and running for maneuvering. I swear, I refuse to believe in ghosts...but what the heck else could something like that be?
For years I have wondered this, but people either say it was my imagination (which makes no sense, since I wasn't exactly keen on the ghost thing at the time) or the nutjobs who say it was the ghost of the guy who hung himself.
I understand the whole bio-feedback thing...but what causes this when a skeptic like me comes to face to face with some really weird crap like this?
I refuse to believe it was a ghost...that is just a stupid idea. What causes random occurrences or hallucinations like this? And how can such a hallucination occur to two individuals at the same time?
Figured I'd throw this one out there on this shiny new (for me) forum. I have yet to get an answer that wasn't either soaked in stupid, or dripping with sarcasm on other forums.
See, when a skeptic like me actually comes face-to-face with a "ghost", the skeptic gets a little confused.
The story? I served on a nuclear submarine. There was always this rumor that there was a ghost in engineering, in a certain compartment. That rumor came from the fact that our sub was built by "scabs" when the union at Electric Boat went on strike. And this "scab" worker, an old man, for some reason committed suicide by hanging in this specific compartment. Makes for a great tall tale or sea story, right?
And that is all I thought it was, until myself, and one of my old "shipmates", also a skeptic of nutjobbery, ran into this undead fella one night on watch. I am not even sure it was night time where we were, but it was night time in the USA, and so it was for the watch. It was the normal crazy horse crap...it got really cold, and we saw this ghost, and he screamed at us "Get Out" or some such thing.
I remember being scared out of my skin and running for maneuvering. I swear, I refuse to believe in ghosts...but what the heck else could something like that be?
For years I have wondered this, but people either say it was my imagination (which makes no sense, since I wasn't exactly keen on the ghost thing at the time) or the nutjobs who say it was the ghost of the guy who hung himself.
I understand the whole bio-feedback thing...but what causes this when a skeptic like me comes to face to face with some really weird crap like this?
I refuse to believe it was a ghost...that is just a stupid idea. What causes random occurrences or hallucinations like this? And how can such a hallucination occur to two individuals at the same time?
Figured I'd throw this one out there on this shiny new (for me) forum. I have yet to get an answer that wasn't either soaked in stupid, or dripping with sarcasm on other forums.