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I want to keep this opening brief, so I won't give any more details now, but I will be glad to elaborate or explain any questions I can as they are offered. I know this may be difficult in the sense that you don’t know me, and are not able to evaluate my psychology, but assuming I am not a basketcase, could there be some explanation for these experiences that do not involve the paranormal or the supernatural?
To be clear, I DO NOT believe in ghosts or demons, or the disembodied spirits of dead things roaming the Earth; I DO believe there must be a rational explanation for these experiences, and would love to hear from any of you, religious or otherwise, to hear what your thoughts are on such things.
I want you to try something.
Imagine something so well you actually SEE it.
Imagine hearing something so well, you hear it.
Now do that but forget you are imagining it.
I'll bet you can't do that. I don't know anyone who can. But that is exactly what most people who do not believe in ghosts will tell you you are doing.
Can I explain what happened to you, your wife, and friends. No
What is a "ghost"? I don't know, but they appear to have been around for all of recorded human history in every culture.
Try expalining this, I can't and I was there.
In 1971 my older brother and his wife's brother were out snowmobiling. to make a long story short Pete, my brother's brother in law died in an accident.
He left behind a wife, a 2 year old son, and a 3 month old daughter. It was not a happy time for our family. My brother was not doing well with it and had taken up drinking to dull his pain.
I was a bit worried about him. One Saturday I went over to see him about noon. He was already looped up, not too bad, but definitely under the influence. He wanted me to take him to Pete's grave. I did, driving his 1966 Chevy Impala SS. That car had very long doors. I parked the car a bit off the road and it was pitched at an angle that made it very difficult for me to open the drivers door but the passenger door fell open from gravity. My brother didn't close his door.
He was crying and walking toward Pete's grave. I was maybe 20 feet behind him. He turned to look at me and turned white as a sheet. He wasn't looking at me but beyond me toward the car. I turned and saw the car, and I saw the passenger door slam shut.
There was no wind and no reason for that door to slam. My brother said,"Let's go home".
My brother said he saw Pete standing by that car door and he was pissed and slammed it shut.My brother stopped drinking as a result of this expierence, at least to excess in regards to Pete's death.
I didn't see Pete, but I did see that car door slam shut for no reason.
Unlike our "friends" here at this board, I don't get to pretend this didn't happen. It did asnd I don't have a physical explaination for it.
No surprise to me some people believe in ghosts, or prehaps KNOW they exist would be a better way of putting it.
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