A ghost or not?

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I used to work in an old mill. Only one floor was in use and had been turned into offices. The rest of the building had been left for years and was as good as abandoned. I used to arrive to work at 6am every day (I was a cleaner) and I was the only person in the whole building. This mill was said to be haunted and had been on a certain TV programme. However I explored every inch of that building every day and although it was a fascinating place the creepiest thing about it was the sound of the wind moaning through the cracks in the windows. No ghosts.

I have to say though that limping a reflection of myself in a mirror that I didn't know was there, in semi darkness did make me jump out of my skin a bit.

I've also explored disused nightclubs and old derelict pubs as well. In fact I used to squat in a derelict pub as a teenager.

I also lived in a children's home (it's been pulled down now) but it was a really old house. No ghosts. The only mischief that happened there was the occasional riot which we did actually blame on a ghost one time.

In my opinion having the creeps like that is as good as seeing a ghost. I'd love to spend my weekends exploring old abandoned buildings, if it hadn't become practically illegal in this dumb country.

Yes but someone would have to pay your medical bills.

That being said I am on your side here, UK is too much of a cucked nanny state where they treat everyone like 4 year olds.

Yeah don't break the law

I thought I saw a ghost once. From what I can tell I was half asleep so the "ghost" was probably just a dream, whereas the rest of what I was seeing was really there.

But yeah, it's probably something more along the lines of an excuse for crashing, or the mind misinterpreting something out of the corner of his eye. I know that happens to me a lot. It takes a fair amount of processing power to take the signals coming in through the eyes and make sense of them.

We have an abandoned psychiatric hospital within walking distance from me. It's another place that has been on a certain TV show and said to be haunted.

My ex once was working as a night watchman there and was so scared he only lasted a few hours.

I'd love to get in there but it's all boarded up now with high fencing around it.

We don't have medical bills here.

I don't know if there are ghosts or not, I would like to live in a world in which there are. As for abandoned buildings where a respirator to protect yourself from Asbestos and mold.

Yeah old "mental hospitals" do seem to be hotspots for spooks. Or at least they show up on TV often.

Urban exploration is almost always illegal, no matter where you are. Risking arrest is part of the cost of doing business.

The term "supernatural" is kind of funny because by definition it sort of means things that do not exist.  If something exists, it is part of the natural world, in that it can interact with particles via the rules of physics.  If ghosts exist, for example, they cannot so much disobey the laws of physics, because scientists would simply adjust the rules of physics to match what they observed in the ghosts.  The most striking example of this are cryptid animals like Nessie or Bigfoot.  In a way they sort of count as supernatural, merely by the fact that they do not exist.  If they were ever discovered, they would be boring old natural animals.  In the sea, the division is even clearer, we can imagine a cryptid enthusiast asking a scientist "Do you believe in sea monsters?", and the scientist replying "Oh sure, there are plenty: great white shark, orca, giant squid, etc".  Here the cryptid enthusiast would become frustrated and say "No, I mean like Leviathan or Kraken".  The scientist might ask "is that not just a Sperm Whale and Giant Squid?".  Frustration increasing, the cryptid enthusiast says "No, I mean things that do not exist."  Here our poor scientist is left to contend with the true meaning of the question: "Do you believe in things that do not exist?".

There are two differences, it seems, between "sea monsters" and "sea creatures".  The first is that sea monsters are named in Greek, where sea creatures are named in Latin.  The second is that sea monsters do not exist.

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(The same logic can be applied to 'ghosts'.)

I don’t know.

The klan have been haunting the woods on southern US states for > century now.
As usual human "ghosts" are far more scary than phantom apparitions.

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