Meet a ghost or alien, who ya got?

[bowilbury8]

Let's not mess around with stuff like this. You really want that guy running around, how is that going to help?

[bpink21901]

He kinda reminds me of Smoky the Bear...

 

I suppose I'll take ghost since it wouldn't freak me out a lot.

[jholz]

Smokey the Bear? That's a leprechaun dude! Ain't you know nothin'?

[bpink21901]

It must be his hat....reminds me of Smoky for some reason!!

[scruffynick]

Can't believe I missed this thread in lockdown... Anyway, I would love to see my grandparents again, mainly my grandad so I could shake his hand after Dunkirk, D-day etc.... But an alien would be my fantastic, especially if it was one like Paul! 

[golfandfishing]

Ghost. Already know aliens exist. 

[Moby]

Alien.

[ohioglfr]

First, I never want to meet a real alien.  After watching Mars Attacks (1996), I would freak actually seeing one.

 

I attended school in a supposedly haunted building on Mare Island in California.  The former Naval Hospital, built in 1871, was kind of creepy and unkept, but except for creaky floors, I never had an encounter with a ghost.  Sort of wish I had.  I don't think a ghost would be as intimidating as an alien.

 

Some years ago, after my mom passed, I read a book called, Life After Life, by R. Moody.  Dr. Moody did a study on near-death encounters with many subjects.  The fairly consistant narrative was of going through a tunnel of light, being in some beautiful place where you would meet someone who preceeded you, a relative or close friend.  They would always say something like, "It's not your time yet",  or "You have to go back".  That's if you're going to the "good" place.  But I digress . . . that's the spiritual realm. 

[shoot4par]

Ghost because its proof of an afterlife or some sort of thing after death assuming its a real ghost and not a figment of the imagination.

[Dpavs]

I have to be honest, IMO asking to meet a ghost is like asking to meet Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, ergo I'll take Alien for $1000 Alex.

Edited November 2, 2020 by Dpavs

[dan360]

Ghost.   No desire for aliens.   Would prefer Bigfoot.

[just_steveu]

When I was 5 my sisters were giving my mom a perm in the dining room. Mom told me to turn off a lamp in the living room. Lamp would not turn off with the switch so I went to pull the power cord, lamp was lit but not plugged in. We had lots of strange stuff happen, doors opening and slamming shut. Footsteps upstairs when everyone was in the same room downstairs. Sisters saw orbs, brothers best friend said he saw a ghost face at the top of the hallway steps. Dog would go to the foot of the steps and bark but you couldn't drag him upstairs. From time to time I still get wierd feelings upstairs or in the basement but the weird stuff stopped a while back.

 

Second story, when I was young and bulletproof a friend and I decided that we should try to cross a set of 4 Conrail railroad tracks to beat a freight train. We did not know which track the train was on. He made it across and I tripped, fell between the last set of rails. Someone grabbed me and pulled me off the tracks just before the train came through. I thanked my for helping me but he said he was 20 feet away and was afraid he would have to tell my parents that I was splattered by a train.

 

I have had way too many of those wierd spidey sense feelings to say that I maybe haven't encountered spirits. I've had enough of those feelings that screamed GTFO of this place to figure I ducked out on an encounter with something not so nice.

 

As for aliens, I was born a few miles away from Kecksburg at the same time that the "object" crashed there Dec 9 1965....

 

I figure I got my bases covered.

Edited February 14, 2021 by just_steveu

[garyt]

Definitely a ghost for me. The confirmation of life after death would be incredible.

[homergolf]

Aliens are likely out there.  The probability of us finding them or they us is pretty small even if they’re in our galaxy. 
Because I’m sure aliens exist, I think I’ll take the ghost.  Thanks!

 

[Sean2]

On 2/27/2020 at 3:05 PM, BeerPerHole said:

When my grandfather passed away unexpectedly he visited me in a very vivid dream right afterward and told me he was ok. It was not a normal dream at all. And, years later I read that it is a fairly common phenomenon for a person to pass and visit one person very close to them (usually a child) in a dream. I'll never forget it, of course. I'm not a big mystic or after-life guy. But, it was really something.

I think that if there is alien life it won't be the common bug-eyed humanoid we've come to expect. No...it'll probably be some kind of goo or some squid-looking critter that cartwheels around...

I was coming home from the park, where I took my almost 3 year old son to play, and he was in the back seat when he piped up, "I remember when I was the father and you were the son and we lived in Richmond, VA." He then promptly fell asleep. 

 

How about an alien ghost?