These days I'm not usually shocked when politics pops up in strange places, but I have to admit being a bit shocked at the politics woven into this AP story on ghostly encounters. The poll questions people's belief in the supernatural and gives statistics on beliefs of conservatives vs. liberals, Dems vs Republicans...
Poll: One-third believe in ghosts, UFOs http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_us/ghosts_ap_pollSo ok, whatever, part of me instantly said how freaking stupid, but I'll bite, something new for the forum... State if you've seen a ghost, ufo or have had some kind of supernatural experience and what you consider yourself to be, dem, republican, conservative or liberal... or other. And tell your story to make the thread interesting... I'll go first.I have seen a ghost, twice. The first time when I was very young. I was lying in bed unable to sleep. The moonlight was casting moving shadows of a tree on the wall. I was looking at the patterns like we use to look at clouds to see things. Pretty soon I thought I envisioned a face, then I could see more, shoulders and a shirt and tie. He wore a suit. I followed the image downward and was shocked at the materializing of a full figure in the patterns. He held a brief case in his right hand. But then as I continued down I saw that the rest of him was lower than the light cast against the wall and continued down to the floor, right next to my bed. The apparition was not against the wall, it was standing right by my bed looking down at me. I freaked and ran for the door, went and screamed like a fool to my parents… who promptly insisted that I go back into my room and go to sleep… nobody believed me. About 30 years later, I was joking with my mother about not believing me and making me go back into the room. She suggested minds make up things when we’re young. I said that he was so clear, I could not have made it up. She asked what he looked like. I then stated that I looked at him long enough and the ghastly image was so fearfully imbedded that I could draw what he looked like. So I sat down and sketched out the image and went home forgetting about the conversation. I then got a call from my mother. My father had come home and picked up the drawing without knowing why it was drawn and stated that it looked exactly like a man he knew named Melvin. My mother asked, “who‘s Melvin.” My father then stated that he was the brother of the person we had bought the house from were we use to live and that he was a hypochondriac who always carried with him a brief case filled with medications. I felt somewhat vindicated after a long long time of keeping that experience. The second time I saw a ghost was working in an old bank. I was headed to the vault which had only one entrance of course but another employee had reached the door before me, or so I thought it was another employee. I paused for a moment and followed them in, looked up, looked all around, nobody in the vault. I stopped for a person walking in and followed right behind them and nothing. I of course freaked out a bit and went to tell the experience to another employee who then told me of similar reports from many others and that the bank manager had shot himself there during the great depression.
So that’s it, I’m a Dem,… for now, could change before election time. and I lean left and I believe in ghosts
