Arkansas Blog

Fascinating, but not surprising.
Ghosts exist. I know.

Spent many wonderful hours, in that place, as I was growing up in the oil patch.
I know there are ghosts, lost souls.............
I see my brother often, always in the same spot in our house and hear my Grandma
calling my name.
Don't scoff, it might happen to you.

People who believe in ghosts are predisposed to seeing them, according to some scientists.

Just sayin'.

Maybe they exist...Doubt it, but maybe they do.

"People who believe in ghosts are predisposed to seeing them, according to some scientists."

Here's a corollary:

People who don't believe in ghosts, then experience them personally, are predisposed to believing them, according to me.

Not quite the same thing at all, DrRingDing. Unless you're trying to say you've personally seen ghosts after previously not believing they existed.

Here's a funny bit about paranormal investigators in the Skeptic's Dictionary:

"There are numerous groups of paranormal investigators that spend their spare time investigating allegedly haunted places. They arrive with coffee pots, flashlights, tape recorders, EMF detectors, video cameras with night vision, metal detectors, and other devices that were not designed to detect ghosts and therefore have no instructions on how to use them for that purpose. (I know. There is no equipment designed for this purpose. How could there be?) The equipment looks scientific, but does that make the investigation scientific? I'd say you're about as likely to detect a ghost with a Sony camcorder as you are to get the truth out of a house plant by hooking it up to a polygraph."

Who knows? I've heard some bizarre stories, but they're hard to believe.

MY GOD!!

One of the investigators smelled perfume in the lobby and another felt like they were being followed!!??!

Call James Randi and get that million bucks he has pledged to give away for proof of paranormal activity.

C'mon folks it's 2008.

The owner (a novelist) wants to write a book about the theatre.

That's really all you need to know here.

Like Ray Parker Jr. said, "I ain't afraid of no ghost."

about as likely to detect a ghost with a Sony camcorder as you are to get the truth out of a house plant by hooking it up to a polygraph.<<< Skeptic

In fact that was done numerous times with plants. May not have been an actual polygraph but was a detector which could detect changes in their electrical fields. It was done in Rogers, Ark. Yes, plants are sensitive to us. One of our astronauts ran that once famous experiment that sent mental signals to the earth bound plants while astronaut was circling the moon and the plants responded.

So maybe your great Aunt Lorena can be found lurking in the roots of your Hibiscus.

See: The Secret Life of Plants.
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I was pretty sure it is Ali Mcgraw haunting the Rialto. i watched her die there in Love Story 1970. But a quick look at IMDB and i see that it may well be Ray Milland, who was also in the walking dead Oliver's Story. A film so still born as to maintain "male rear nudity" as the significant plot key word. You gotta admit The Thing With Two Heads is an immortal flick. But i don't know if it ever graced any Union County audiences. Look! It's Rosey Greer's styrofoam head!

Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church is currently doing a sermon series on "What Happens When I Die" and Easter Sunday's Topic was Apparitions. It was interesting to hear ghost stories from the pulpit. Rev. Betsy showed that clip from Ghost Hunters where they find that ghost staring at them in the basement of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka.

Here is an interesting link, detainling haunted places in Arkansas.

http://www.myufo.com/2006/03/haunted_places_in_arkansas.html

I have been good friends with someone with the "sixth sense".
This was long before the movie, but her experiences were similar to the young man,
but perhaps not as confrontational.

Send in Ghost Hunters Int'l. If TAPS concurs, I'll put a little more faith in these claims. They never have been afraid to call bull$#!% when they see it. Until then.....

For people who choose to believe,
no explanation is necessary.
For people who choose not to believe,
no explanation will suffice.

For people who choose to believe,
no explanation is necessary.
For people who choose not to believe,
no explanation will suffice.