No better time of the year than now to put up a post about ghosts and whether or not they really exist.
The folks at U.S. Catholic are asking if Catholics believe in ghosts:
About 10 years ago, Marla Fisher and her husband, Everett, were leaving their Pasadena, Texas ranch-style home for a weekend getaway. As Everett backed out of the driveway, Marla remembered that
she’d left her curling iron in the bathroom, and she went back to retrieve it.
The couple had been renting the house for about four years, and every once in a while Marla would reach over to turn on a lamp and nothing would happen. Then she’d tighten the bulb and the light would come on.
Anywhere there was an exposed lightbulb—a lamp, a ceiling fan—at some point the bulb would loosen just enough for the electricity to misfire. The Fishers lived in the flight path of a nearby airfield, so they attributed the loose bulbs to the slight shake the house underwent each time a jet approached.
Once in a while they’d joke, “We must have ghosts.”
On the day Marla went back into the house for her curling iron, she walked through the door to the master bedroom and saw what she thought was a shadow going into the bathroom.
“There’s someone in the house,” she thought. But she and Everett had just left the house moments before.
To be sure, Marla checked the back door. It was locked. And then she realized the light was coming into the house from the back door, meaning the shadow she saw couldn’t have been a shadow. The light was coming from the opposite direction. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up.
Marla, who calls herself a “cradle Catholic,” is involved in her parish. Before this experience, she hadn’t really thought much about ghosts, or what the church teaches about them.
“I felt that this was a spirit, but does that mean this was someone’s soul?” she asks. “Why would someone’s soul be here in my house? Are the souls of those in purgatory living among us? What do ghosts mean in the spiritual sense?”
Do you believe?
There's much, much more and it's all intriguing.
Do you believe? Leave a ghost story in the comments.
Personally I’ve never seen a ghost, but I’ve heard of guy, a shadowy figure, a man of complete mystery and intrigue.
Nobody knew much about him. Not his background, friends, how he paid for his very expensive college education. Furthermore nobody seems to have ever attended any classes or was involved with any student groups with him. Surprisingly he was even the president of the student newspaper, yet there is nothing in record that he ever published. Same with all of his college class records. It’s as if he never attended college but we’re told in fact did.
The mystery continues after college when he supposedly was hired as a lawyer and some type of lecturer or professor, depending on who you talk to. Yet there is very little or next to nothing on record to show that he ever accomplished anything in those positions.
The only time we get to see a glimpse of this man of mystery is well into his thirties as some type of community organizer. But again, we’re not able to witness his accomplishments in this capacity either.
Then after that he’s elected to his state senate, then the US Senate and finally, lo and behold, this man we know close to nothing about is elected to president of the United States.
So do I believe in ghosts? Yes, yes I do. And he scares the freekin’ wits out of me.
Posted by: Lands’nGrooves | Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 01:36 PM
Nicely done tim... nicely done.
:)
Posted by: Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest | Friday, November 01, 2013 at 06:48 AM