To be or not to be, THAT is the question....

If I came up to you, and said..... "I just saw the three headed dog in that building over there" I'm sure your first response would be to see the three headed dog yourself, right? I know most of us are not lunatics and have a tendency to be skeptical about most things, but there are some that we just seem to accept without any proof.

We will not get into the God thing because that seems to evoke emotional responses rather than rational responses, so instead we will focus today's topic on Ghosts. How many of you have seen ghosts? How many of you know someone who has seen ghosts?

You can imagine by now, I have never seen a ghost. I have quite a few amount of friends who swear up and down that they've seen a ghost and in many cases other people have seen the same ghost they have. I often wonder if what my friends claim to have seen is really a ghost, or rather a strange sound or even a figure of their own imagination?

In one case, one of my friends tells me that there was a complex where she used to live at and all the people in the complex had seen a particular ghost. The first thing that popped into my mind was "If everyone at the complex has seen the ghost, surely someone must have some sort of proof?" A photograph, a video of the ghost, anything to make me a believer, but of course no one has any kind of physical proof...they only have their stories.

At the same time I say to myself "Considering the amount of technology that exists out there, I'm shocked that there isn't one ounce of proof to verify the existence of ghosts" Think about it, so many people in this world who claim to know ghosts exist, yet in this day and age there isn't one credible bit of data to prove to all the nay sayer's wrong?

I've also heard that the reason why I don't see ghosts is because I don't believe in them. (scratches head)... Ummmmmm... I would believe that ghosts exist if I saw them, and normally people are that way with everything, no? I mean... In order to believe that Dinosaurs existed I needed some sort of physical proof and I got it via fossils. It wasn't the other way around where I said... "I believe in Dinosaurs even tho there isn't any proof of their existence, and IF there should be some proof later on, it will prove me right".

The other day I was watching a show on the Science channel called "Is It Real". They tackled the topic of Ghosts and took cameras to a place where people claim there are ghosts all the time. There was a group of a dozen people there and one person was trying to call out the ghost. Ironically enough no ghost showed up and the person had no explanation for this. Rather, they had one participant hold a pair of Dowsing Rod's and because the rod's moved in a certain direction that was their proof for Ghosts. Yep, I had the same reaction "That was the proof?"

The following are pictures of supposedly ghosts caught on camera:

Why is it that I don't see any ghosts here?


Apparently this is the Ghost of Jim Morrison.


A smudge is evidence of ghosts?

Why is it that I don't regard photographs as proof of ghosts? Well, when dealing with photography you have to understand how the lens works. If there is a slight shift in the amount of light the lens is set to take in, certain things happen in the camera. If a real ghost was photographed, then I'd like to see it in all it's glory, not in a small corner knowing that if it's halfway photographed someone will notice it.

So.... do you have proof that ghosts exist?
Or am I the crazy one here?