While going vegan (and raw) has improved my health and calmness greatly

Snap!
But really, this is kinda gay. Unless I see it, I don't believe, there you go.

Except aliens, you'd just have to be completely ignorant to think they are fake. Come on, there has to be another planet somewhere in a location like earth is (far enough from the sun but close enough too).

and stuff....

Well, it's funny that you mentioned this in this topic. But I just went to the haunted house in my little village. They say it's haunted and that some druglords lived there. I don't know the true story behind this. But this nice home is sealed shut.  And nobody lives there anymore.

Let me find a link:

"We gaan terug naar de Westerduinlaan en lopen rechtdoor naar de Wilhelminastraat. Rechts op de hoek verrijst het ‘spookhuis van Monster’. Het is niet voor te stellen dat het heerlijke huis met het schitterende rieten dak een spook herbergt, maar de verhalen doen je de rillingen over de rug lopen. Nachtelijke geluiden, wc’s die worden doorgetrokken, de verschijning van een oude vrouw op een bed. Ze hebben in elk geval twee kopers na korte tijd uit het huis verjaagd. Het is overigens weer bewoond door mensen die in hun vorige huis ook al ‘spoken’ hadden en daarmee uitstekend kunnen leven.

English: We go back to the Westerduinlaan and walk straight ahead to the Wilhelminastraat. At the rightcorner the "haunted house of Monster (my village name)" appears. It's hard to imagen that this lovely house with a beautifull hai roof is the home of a ghost, but the stories will shiffer you. Noices over nighttime, toilets that are being flushed, the appearence of an old lady on the bed. They have spooked 2 buyers in a short time, they left. Though, people still live there, they said that their last home also had ghost and that they could live in it properly.

Anyways, still a bit weird that everything is timbered shut at the moment :p.

Yeah, The Ghost in the Machine would explain why we see ghosts, but it wouldn't explain why cameras picked them up as well. (Assuming any of those millions of pictures are in fact real)

It also wouldn't really explain the things that happen due to ghosts. For instance, seemingly unexplainable physical oddities, such as water faucets turning off/on by themself, the turning off/on of lights, etcetera. However, this is probably due to the oldness of said place, but it seems sort of strange how these things seem to collaborate to make a place "haunted", so to speak. I'm sure these ghostly inquiries will lead to scientific explanations, and over time will assert the reasons why people perceive places as being haunted.

oh I have terrible sleep paralysis almost every night.

it's horrible I eventually just lucid dream to break out of it but no one can hear me and I know I'm dreaming but I want nothing more than to wake up. I imagine it's what hell is like.

I used to when I was younger, but I was haunted by gnomes... Garden fucking gnomes!
For some reason, the idea of those fuckers coming to life and attacking me was scary when I was younger, and the fact that I couldn't call for help only made it worse.
I've only once had a night terror, which was basically me being chased around the house by a horde of angry giant crabs, which was just a little bit unusual...

I'm not joking by the way :[

would you guys consider believing in ghosts compared to believing  say, The Chupacabra, or Aliens, a totally different catagory? So to speak.

Many people believe in alien life.
There's a very high probability that life has or will evolve on another planet, just not how we usually perceive it.
Humans tend to think up alien life forms which are either humanoids, or which resemble something like a dog or a bird.
Chances are that we'd not find anything similar to what we imagine alien life to be like as any alien life forms would evolve to suite their home planet, which would probably differ in gravity, atmosphere, chemical composition, star type, orbit, flora and fauna.
There's no set in stone universal law that says that any sentient species must have two legs, two arms and a head, or that they have to be carbon based.
So no, I wouldn't lump belief in life outside of Earth in with belief in the souls of the dead making people shit themselves or the belief in some psychotic midget vampire with a grudge against livestock (which is probably just Grindie anyway).

Fog is fucking SCARY. Me and my ex were driving up to my cottage once and there was this thick band of fog up ahead of us. A car drove in (on a perfectly straight highway (a straight stretch of highway 7 in Ontario) in front of us, and then we went in. As we approached it, it honestly looked like the road just ended. I was scared we were driving into a dead end, even though I've been on that stretch of road countless times. It didn't look like fog, it looked like the road literally ended there. Anyways, we forged through while bracing for impact (or something) and then when we got to the other side, the other car... Wasn't there anymore. It was only maybe a hundred metres in front of us, in the middle of the night, and it's lights were nowhere to be seen. It was scary.

I can't believe people buy into this ghost crap. Someone was saying earlier that if you can believe in a certain religion, then why can't you believe in ghosts? I believe that they might be the same. In church, if something happens that you can't explain, they call that a miracle. Ghosts are just the same way. We don't get to decide what we believe because of the influence of other people. For example, every one of those stories that people posted happens in a setting that we could consider "scary" (old run down house, nighttime, fog). These are the things that we normally associate with ghosts. If you people were really open-minded then you wouldn't just be trying to portray ghosts like you have only seen on TV. You are trying to explain something that needs no explaining. Back then people were seeing things like werewolfs and vampires and that stuff really scared them. Today we see ghosts that commit suicide by jumping off buildings. Tomorrow could be completely something new. Should ghosts be able to evolve through time to suit our idea of "scary"?

How can the idea of something absurd like ghosts even exist? We have no clear proof that they are even real but some people choose to believe in them. Is not religion the same way? We believe because so many others do. If ghosts were real and they are out to get us, how come in the history of ghosts, a person has never been harmed during their experience. When you realize this, does it make you wonder why ghosts even exist? Is their only purpose to go around and scare people? Does the idea of pointless scaring with no harm to the person remind you of something? uhhh.... DUH, how about dreams? I hope you people that believe in ghosts and consider yourself open-minded because of that realize you are really stubborn unless you consider both sides of the argument equally plausible and you are willing to look at each statement without bias.

I think we have enough proof that ghosts don't exist