Ghosts

I have been starting to put together material for an eventual book I would like to write dealing with the question, "Do Ghosts Exist?" And, if they exist, what are they? Are people who witness them just imagining things, are they spirits, are they a link to some parallel dimension, or are they just some random form of energy, or some form of "psychic imprint"? Obviously I most likely won't get a definitive answer to any of these questions but I will try to get as close to an answer as possible.

Now , there is the question that is often asked of me when I tell people of this project, "Do I believe in ghosts?" Well, for now, I have to answer, "I don't know". I haven't actually seen one and I would certainly prefer to see one with my own eyes before I could answer with a definitive "yes" but I know of enough credible people who have seen something that they can't explain to answer with a definitive "no". I have had a strange experience that I can't quite explain but there were enough variables that it could be explained as something other than a ghost or spirit. I'll go into that a paragraph down. Now, the term ghost is a blanket term for various entities. There are so called poltergeists, supposed spirits that can make things move, there are ghosts in the form of people who sometimes react to humans and sometimes go as if there are no humans witnessing them. Then, there are the so called "orbs" or balls of light that are said to resemble spirits. This is what my friends and I may have come into contact with a few years back.

We were at a church that is one of the more notoriously haunted places in Connecticut, a state that has many supposedly haunted places. Photos are included at the top of this blog. The church is surrounded by a cemetary. My friend snapped a few photos in the cemetary and, while we were looking at those same areas as photographed, we saw nothing but on the pictures there were some weird, unexplained bits of light that look similar to the photos of the orbs that I have seen. We thought that they might have come from reflections of light, something like that but no, in the end, we couldn't logically explain where these small "orbs" came from. Again, none of saw anything bizarre with our naked eyes. Anyway, I have to wrap up this blog now so I will post more of ghost stories and adventures in trying to solve this mystery.