Do You Believe In Demons And Ghosts?

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[TheorionMage]

I was the firstborn of my paternal grandfather's firstborn. While the family as a whole was avowedly Catholic, my paternal granddad was far more. One Sunday when I was seven, my father, brothers and I were down visiting the paternal grandparents. Earlier we'd went to Sunday mass at their local RC church but granddad never went with us.

I naively asked grandmom why granddad never went with us. All she'd say was he was of a different faith. Later that day, Granddad Theodore took me down into the basement of the brick rowhouse. There stood a large handmade armoire tool cabinet seriously padlocked. Theodore asked if I said my nightly prayers. "Of course!" I said. And then he opened that cupboard. Within as one might expect were the requisite 1940's & 50's cheescake pin-ups but ALSO some cryptic diagrams I was to later learn were alchemical pentacles & sigils. From one of the drawers, he withdrew a silver metal talisman of a caricature of cocked-snooted Demon. He gave it to me to place neath my bed's pillow and to add what I later learned was an incantation to add to my nightly prayers. I did as I was told and shown it to no one. For several nights I'd said my prayers unwitnessed and then one night, Mom came in to hear my prayers and we didn't get to visit Granddad Theodore for over a year!

In my younger years I was endlessly fascinated with Hollywood's embellished Wizards, Witches, Vampyres, Sorcerers and Satanists. But what was the truth?
I attended a parochial grade and high school but when I asked questions in 'religious studies' class the Nuns and even the parish priest were loathe to give honest answers.

At age twelve, we moved to a new home and there one night, I met the spectre of my Uncle Bobby who'd passed decades before I was born; he'd come to let his mother and MY mother (his sister) that he KNEW they'd relocated and that he STILL watched over them.
Pittsburgh is blessed with an exceptional public library system thanks to Andrew Carnegie, and while my father put himself through night school for his master's degree I'd accompany him because I LOVED to read. By age fourteen, I'd read EVERYTHING in the public stacks on the subjects of Magic and Witchery and kept copious notes and bibliography... unbeknownst to me, my Granddad Theodore was an Initiate in a genuine ceremonial magic Lodge (the S:. S:. S:.) and he'd brought my interest to the attention of that Lodge's Grand Master. I met him 'coincidentally' in the library's closed stacks and he was impressed by my bibliography... I got invited to his nearby home's private library and wound up 'apprenticed' for six years as I rose through the Lodge's degrees.

One of the 3rd Degree 'Master' requirements was a 'practical' witnessed, old school full Conjuration of an alleged 'demon'. I chose 'Asmodeus' and done respectfully a Sentience manifest in front of six impartial witnesses~ I have not since abused that meeting. ; )

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[Dargil]

I believe Demons exist. I may have seen someone Demon-possessed.
When I bought my house, I lived in it alone for three months. The previous owner, age 99, went to assisted care. Over the months, I heard noises. Doors shaking. Stacked up books and papers falling. Sure, it could have been the wind. I used to say: "Hello, Mrs. Copeland!" (the former owner's deceased wife, when I heard them.
Then they stopped. I learned later that Mr. Copeland had passed at about the same time the noises stopped. Maybe Mrs. Copeland's ghost was looking for him. And when he died, maybe they were rejoined and she stopped looking for her husband.

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[shroomerite]

I believe they both exist although I’ve never never encountered either. I feel like it all depends on the energy that gets left behind from previous folk or even the energy that one consciously puts towards thinking about those energies.
One strange thing though: my dad works from home and he tells me about how he always hears footsteps coming from my room when I’m not home.
Not too long ago when I got home from work he told me he heard a loud drop come from my room while I was away, he checked my room but he didn’t notice anything out of place so he told me to inspect if anything in my closet had fallen off the shelf and when I checked there was literally nothing in my room that could’ve fallen off anything, so that was weird.
Another thing: recently my dad told me about how he saw a ghost in our house last week. He was in the living room fixing the blinds to the window and when he turned away from the blinds he looked over at the staircase & he saw a little blonde girl wearing a yellow dress just standing there staring at him. When he saw her he said had to do a double-take and when he looked again she wasn’t there anymore.
That’s weird shit to me tho because I’ve never felt anything in our house and we been living here for the past 5 years lol
He says that if we ~do~ have a ghost that it doesn’t feel like it’s bad energy so *shrugs* who knows

[CherryDarlingXoXo]

Definitely. I've seen them since I was little. Now that I'm older I'm a diagnosed paranoid schitzophrenic with PTSD. Personally, istopped taking the medication because the symptoms were still there and physically making me worse. However, I discovered that just like the ghost hunting shows that you see on TV where they call out to a ghost if there is one in the room while using a recorder. And as they play it back there you can hear a response to the question. Well I can do the same during a episode of psychosis in which I hear voices and I can play back my phone recording and hear the same comments I heard in my head earlier now being played back on audio recording. The way I see it is it's energy. And some people are just more sensitive to it than others. People with PTSD especially considering at one point they had one foot in that realm before stepping back & surviving death. If you're familiar with that saying if these walls could talk well mine do and they will repeat the energy that remained and it's terrifying really. It's been so vividly real and on point that it terrifies or intimidates the people around me because we all have secrets of what we do in the dark or behind closed doors & trust me I don't want to know but when it affects intentions to me or children from your past that's when I get mad and get called crazy.

[DaveJord]

So the predominate theory is that if you do believe in ghosts and demons then your 10 times more likely to see or come into contact with ghosts and demons. So I error on the side of caution and refuse to believe in such things, because I never what to see or come into contact with ghosts or demons... and in 45 years it has worked out great for me.

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[Goforit1010]

Yes, I believe in them. Demons and definitely Lucifer (Satan) believes in God - and they absolutely FEAR Him!

I DO know they're fallen angels - the ones who attempted a war in Heaven. God threw them out and all the angels that decided to follow Lucifer. That was about 1/3 of them. Satan is NOT God's opposite, he's more like that of Michael's or Gabriel's.

Nonetheless, these fallen angels, now demons and Satan's minions, were cast down to Earth. They roam the Earth doing everything they can to make man's life as miserable as possible. Their goal is to keep everyone from believing in God. When you encounter one, don't attempt to fight them. Even as a fallen angel, they're extremely powerful beings. Best thing is to cast them away in Jesus' name.

[19magic]

I believe there was ghosts, I remember when I was little there was a small windowless room I stayed in. There was a rocking stair that creaked a little when it moved used to wake me up sometimes. One time I got really scared and went to get my mum the second I put my foot on the floor I saw the rocking chair completely stop and an old lady standing up pointing her finger at me. I jumped back into the bed and hid under the covers, just to slowly hear the roakcing chair move again. The next day I saw a picture of her in black and white inside the family album and the explanation that she's quite a mean lady. I never got out at night again.

[shroomerite]

If I were you I would’ve literally broken that rocking chair to pieces and set it on fire lol fukdat bad juju chair

[19magic]

It was bad at the time but kinda funny now, I used to get shouted at by mother for getting up out of bed and rocking that chair, which only happened whenever I was around, thus I must of been rocking it. Till one time she said she came in and I was fast asleep and it was rocking all by itself. Then she never told me off again for it

[Oigit]

I don't but in a way it would be nice if demons where real. Because people can do some seriously screwed up things. It would be nice to honestly be able to prove a demon did it and not a fellow human being.

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[Rambling010]

I dont believe. I know they are real. I I won't go into detail here because it's too much to go into. But I've researched it for a long time. Just really something you can do on your own with YouTube. There's so much for the graphic evidence that there's no way that it's all faked. The quality of it is so good that there's no way. There's no money in it. And with cameras pointed everywhere we are saying all kinds of weird shit for the first time. I feel like it should be on the news every night. But it's not. And I'm not just talking about people that have died.

I've seen things like werewolves and shit on videos. I've felt things touch me before too that weren't there.

Too much eyewitness evidence from reliable sources. This world is something beyond what people believe it to be. It's so much more. That brings religion into it and everything. It's amazing the things we don't know.

[Aerissa_Jade]

Yes I do, they are not necessary spiritual entities though, there are plenty of evil people who are demons.

I do believe in angels though as one saved my life, many times.

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[The_Shadow_Dweller]

If you believe in God, who is simply one side of the coin then you should also believe in the the other side of the coin, i. e. The Devil and his minions.

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[RedStiletto88]

I think we have more to fear from the living who are psychotic than any ghosts or demons that might or might not exist.

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[OfDeath]

No. Ed and Lorraine Warren were charlatans. I saw Ed in a video holding up a copy of the Simon Necronomicon and telling everyone it was a powerful grimoire which was extremely dangerous in the wrong hands. The Necronomicon is a fictional book (not a fiction book, a FICTIONAL book, i. e a book which doesn't actually exist) imagined by H. P Lovecraft and used in his weird tales. It's not a powerful grimoire lol. The guy is a Joke.

They also had nothing to do with the Hodgson family fiasco (which was a hoax) in the house at Enfield. They literally read about it, flew to England, showed up unannounced and were asked to leave.

Ghosts and demons are imaginary beings.

[Flower7]

I believe in demons, but not ghosts. “Ghosts” are probably demons trying to present themselves that way.

[Mary087]

Wrong…

[Mary087]

There are good positive ones. That’s like saying the ghost or spirit of your loved one that passed is automatically bad or evil which is wrong to assume.

[Flower7]

No, you misunderstood what I said. I do not believe that the ghosts or spirits of deceased humans are here walking around on Earth.

I do believe there are demons on the Earth who can take the form of multiple entities, like the shadows or ghastly figures that people have seen. Possibly even making themselves appear to look like a human who has passed away. I believe they are also responsible for the poltergeist-like behavior that people have observed.

[Sincerly_KittyCat]

you're right they are called familiar demons.

[call_me_scar]

Nope if that shit was real we wouldn't need to question if it is real or not as we would have evidence plenty of people and things have died in horrible ways so it wouldn't be hard to find ghost if such things are real

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[Mary087]

It’s not hard because some people actually have the evidence

[call_me_scar]

@jason0808 np
@Mary087 once again we would have plenty of evidence if ghost were real. Over 100 billion+ humans alone have died in human history even if 1 out of 100 million people turned into a ghost we should still have at least 1000 spooky ghosts flying as tourists attractions yet instead all we got are fake as hell movies by a couple who hired a scriptwriter to come with them on their adventures, youtube videos that get debunked, and conversations on g@g. Long story short if their evidence was real it would be recognized but like with the anti evolution people your "evidence" doesn't hold up

[purplepoppy]

I don't believe in them but I do find the topic fascinating. I love visiting haunted places and learning the history that led to the alleged ghosts

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[Nagahime]

I don't think they exist, but the topic is very interesting. I love stories and shows centered around this stuff.

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[annabananna]

I like 80% believe. I have seen a ghost twice in my life and had weird things happen but who knows there could be an explanation

[annabananna]

I used to live on land that a big murder took place and it was also by a cemetery.

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[Paris13]

I belive in Spirits Good and Bad. xxoo

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[ObscuredBeyond]

Ghosts, no. Demons, definitely! I've felt them. I've been violently shaken by them as they fled in frustration when they were denied by God the chance to take control of me. They swirled around in my room in 7th grade.

And they never stop trying to remind me of any and all shortcomings.

[Fireguy17]

on the fence about it.
There just might be someting to them, but hard to say because things like that can usually be explained away.

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[Anonymous]

sometimes i believe but not much, until a few years ago I was afraid of a creature called a Ghoul. but now I know that it is just a character portrayed in the film.

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[Iron_Man]

I’ve heard way too many stories out there to overlook it And they claim it’s in real life Not when you’re sleeping

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[Massageman]

This is not to mock anyone with PTSD or any other disturbance that causes them to have dreams, see ghosts or other visions. My wife is a counselor and is having more a more clients with these sorts of conditions - along with more financial stress- every day.

Too bad these dangerous spirits are real.

[ThatguyDon]

when I was young something would make the clothes in my closet swish back and forth. I would jump out of bed and open the closet door and not see anything except the movement from me openning the door. The hallway linen shoot door would slam occasionally also. I never felt threatened. We had our house blessed and never had a problem after.

[TyLeeAndPink]

There’s a ghost in our house that can mimic voices. Sometimes when I’m home alone, I swear I hear a very adult voice coming from my mother’s room. We also have doors randomly slam or shake in our house. It’s quite frightening.

[Shiningtempest]

@jason0808 I don't believe in demons & ghosts because there are no verifiable pieces of evidence that confirm their existence.

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[Mistanuddi]

You can tell whether a person is intelligent or dumb by if they believe in ghosts or not. People who don't believe think they're super smart and know everything, but the reality is they're stupid and lack the 3rd sense. I can just tell ghosts exist. I knew they did before I ever saw one, I could jus sense they were real

[fireforeffect]

I believe in Demons, But i do not believe in Ghosts.

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[DukeDango]

My favorite thing about the terms supernatural and paranormal is that they're telling you upfront that it's bullshit; if ghosts were real, then they would just be natural!

[Mary087]

Very much real that’s for sure.

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[WessexJesse]

Open minded. I’ve seen no evidence that they exist and I think it’s likely that most, if not all, sightings have a rational scientific explanation. But maybe there are still things we just don’t understand.

[Wade12345]

I've actually seen the "Grey Aliens" and other evil/demonic beings in dreams before. I've been attacked by them before in the past.

[OfDeath]

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[Bel88]

Yes, I do, because they're real, as real as you and I :)

[the_bruh]

Ya, my dick is a ghost scanning machines. When deamons are near it alerts me by pumping up with blood and it rises. Cool right?

[andreasderjuengere]

As I said in a similar thread earlier:
Demons and ghosts apparently do not believe in ME :)
So we opted for a tolerant co-existence with no interaction.

[lrina]

i accidentally misclicked lol. but no, i find it kind of childish to believe in ghosts and demons.

[Mistanuddi]

Cos you're a stupid fuck that's why. They do exist. Oneday you will see one and realise how stupid you was to not believe

[lrina]

@Mistanuddi welp, looks like you lied about your age...

[OfDeath]

@Mistanuddi You just called a 13 year old a stupid fuck for expressing a rational opinion. Check yourself.

[AviatorTom]

Not sure about demons, but there's enough evidence to make ghosts a real possibility, and I accept that.

[Slartybartfast]

Ever seen kennith Copeland preach?

That simply can't be a human being.. I keep waiting for him to burst into flame.

[annabananna]

He looks like a literal demon. He kinda makes me scared.

[Likes2drive]

Never saw or felt one but know someone that believes in demons and not ghosts

[OddBeMe]

No. But luckily for the 59% who said yes, I have a “ghost busting” business. I clean house for $5k.

Disclaimer: not actual cleaning, your paranoid fantasies are not guaranteed to be resolved, no money back, anyone in Oklahoma need not apply.

[OfDeath]

A guy I went to high school with literally does this. He told me about it on Facebook and I expressed my scepticism and amusement. So he actually invited me to go and attend "a haunting" with him and his team. They literally have devices that detect electric charge and they hold them near light switches and stuff and say the place is haunted.

[OddBeMe]

@OfDeath networks making millions on ghost hunting shows. All you need a consumer camera with night vision.

[OfDeath]

There's one born every minute. I've thought about making youtube videos about it. I don't have the time though.

[XXblack88]

I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe there are demons

[FunkyMonkee]

Ghosts: yes. My ex-sister's house has them and so did my ex-fiance's house.
Demons; I've seen or heard no proof.

[uwu_princess]

Demons - nope
Ghosts - little bit, but I'm not 100% sure...

[Anonymous]

yes when the giants die
their spirits roam the earth
biblical
GOD killed them in the flood

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, I believe they exist

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[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

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[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@jason0808 My late great-grandma soul was in my great uncles house
her ghost did not want him to remodel the house and make a deck onto
the house

[GlassTop]

They aren’t demons/ghosts. They are angels messing with humans. They aren’t dead human spirits or anything like that. They are biblically documented.

[bamesjond0069]

Yes and no. Not like how people think but i do believe satan and evil spirits can infect someones soul and then they will commit evil acts. Its pretty obvious usually.

[FatAssassinmoo]

Do I have objective evidence and hard facts for the existence of demons and ghosts? No. But I can't ignore or deny the hundreds, if not thousands, of witnesses and testimonies in regards to the paranormal.

[humanearth]

Yes, look how the world is, some group of demons is controlling the Earth

[Anonymous]

I believe that there is a force of evil whoch s ometimes called the Devil, Satan, etc. I don't believe in ghosts.

[exitseven]

No, they are not real. Assholes and creeps are real however.

[MrTaboo]

Yes, but demons are the ghosts.

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[kellytheman]

I more believe in sprits but not really ghost or demon things.

[AndrésC64]

No. I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Gremlins, vampires, Bigfoot, Etc

[CrazyGirl2]

No, not even a little bit!

[loveslongnails]

Do you believe there's a God, and/or there are angels, or other spirit forms of life?

[CrazyGirl2]

@loveslongnails I was raised, as you know, learning both the Christian , and the Jewish faiths. But given everything that has happened to me, I am leaning rather agnostic, these days! I mean, I don’t know it all, so why pretend I do? Given that I’ll go with agnostism! That being said, throughout the years there have been innumerable ghost and demonic sightings! So… one would have to conclude that given the ubiquity of high definition cameras, in absolutely everyone’s purse of pocket, that the number of ghost sightings would only increase (along with the photographic evidence) however not only have those sightings NOT gone up… They have actually dropped recent years! So more cameras, but less sightings… crazy, it’s almost as though there’s really no such thing or something?

[FýrdracaDócincel]

You realize you don't need to end every other sentence with a ! right?

[CrazyGirl2]

@FýrdracaDócincel Not only are you unbelievably rude, by butting in on a conversation that was nothing do with you, but you are only butting in to flex your grammar nazi skills? As for the exclamation point (!) by the way, fuckin’ hilarious that you don’t know what it’s called, which just REALLY buttresses your knowledge regarding its’ proper usage, especially within the context of the social media milieu, vis a vis conversational etiquette in an ever changing social media landscape. This particular social media platform prefers a conversational tone, thus if one is exclaiming something as one would verbally, well it stands to reason the exclamation point would be the acceptable punctuation. That being said, if you are bothered by my informal conversational tone and exclamatory statements, might I suggest that you simply avoid furthering your suffering by actually NOT communicating with me? Try it… here, I’ll even start by ignoring YOU from now on!

[FýrdracaDócincel]

You also realize that complex ideas can be conveyed without the use of walls of text, correct?

[loveslongnails]

Well hold on a dang minute. LOL Where are you getting reliable data that ghost sightings have gone done, or up, for that matter? Whatever data there is, it still relies on only "reported" sightings, so there's bound to be quite the margin for error. As for cameras, do you think people who see what they imagine is a spirit form are going to have the wherewithal to whip out their phones, or get their digital cameras, and start taking pics? I'd imagine they'd be pretty freaked out, so I'm not buying the "better cameras, more ghost sightings" logic, sorry. :)

As an agnostic, by definition you neither have faith in NOR disbelief in God. You don't know, so you can't say one way or another. But are you saying your agnosticism prevents you believing in anything spiritual whatsoever? In other words, do you require your own belief in God to believe in any other things in the spiritual realm, including angels or devils/demons? Is that what you're saying?

Back to the cameras. It's a very common belief that humans (and all life forms actually) generate an "aura". But that aura can't be seen by your eyes, nor can it be seen by high def cameras. Kirlian photography is a way to capture electrical coronal discharges, but no one has those at their disposal in the general public.

Throughout history, there are thousands upon thousands of tales and sightings of unexplained phenomena. Some people will swear they were ghosts, or spirits, or demons. Some will swear they saw angels. There have been possessions and exorcisms. So to me, there appears to be a preponderance of evidence pointing in the direction of spiritual, or non-corporeal, activity occurring on the planet.

[BlackAndBlueBalls]

your belief that sightings or experiences have "gone down" is interesting to me, because I've been wondering myself if they've actually been going up anywhere else. Among my friends and family, there's been a large increase in how many of them are claiming to have heard or seen "spirit activity" recently. My personal belief is it's related to... current events in one way or another and given the character of the people in my circle who are making those claims, I have no reason to doubt them on this. Yep, sorry for butting into your conversation here. Just had to throw in my 2 cents based on my experiences.

[Chthou95]

Not demons. But i do believe in ghost. I saw something like 12 years ago that til this day that i know for a fact a people wouldn't be able to explain

[Still-alive]

I mean i exist dont i? 😈

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[fred_durst]

nah , i need to see them with own eyes first , then i would believe it

[Paul09]

I'd like to believe, but no. Well a lot of humans are démon like.

[dragoblack]

I've experienced enough paranormal shite to say absolutely

[EnglishEuropean]

As Sean Bean used to say: A madman sees what he sees.

[najekim]

Demons, no. Ghosts? I'm open minded due to have I have experienced in the past.

[ThulrVo]

I've had paranormal experiences that were too real to deny.