These are some deep interesting questions, I have no answers for you. I never pretend to know everything or to be able to explain everything, I was just stating my non-believing opinion and wondering what others thought. If you start seriously thinking about questions of reality and perception you can totally freak yourself out. Maybe we're all still plugged in and ghosts are just a glitch in the Matrix.
I have an interesting question, I brought this up to DH on date night last night, he is also a skeptic, and we were wondering if ghosts are real and able to physically move objects then theoretically shouldn't they be able to type. If a ghost can stack up chairs then surely it can type a message on say it's Facebook page. Ghosts should be able to keep up their online life and keep in touch with family and friends because they can type them messages on Facebook! This works too if you believe that they cannot physically effect objects, but rather use energy, shouldn't they be able to zoom into the computer and let their continued prescence be known to the world? Can you imagine the status updates we would receive from the other side?
I can't believe this thread has generated so much interest, yeah me for picking a cool, fun topic! Again all ideas are welcomed, I honestly do not think anyone is crazy or delusional, sometimes I wonder if I'm the one with the problem because I can't convince myself to believe in anything and have to constantly question everything I hear. I'm like this about rumors and urban legends too!
Well. . .this is something I usually hesitate to mention, because I dunno. . .well.
Okay. When I lived in the haunted house, I was really, really, really into Sims2. I had several multi-generational families who had all intermarried and had big rambling houses and, uhm. Yeah. Anyway, my favorite family at one time was a mom a dad and their two kids. The woman was the closest to me I had in the game. My coloring, my taste in clothes. Their house was decorated the way I'd like my house to be decorated. One day, while I was playing, the toddler's rabbit's head in this house turned 360 in place. Just the head. Not the ears or any other part of it. (The rabbit head is a child's toy that teaches essential skills to a toddler.) Weird, but I thought it was a glitch.
A few weeks later, I sat down to play and the mom was GONE. Dad was there, the kids were there, and here's the weird part - her picture was still on the family, her husband still had his memories of her, they still shared kids, but the character? Was wiped out like she never existed.
There were only 2 people in our houseold, myself and my DH. I'm pretty sure my DH had no interest in my Sims 2 game. I went and checked the character files, and sure enough the character number I was pretty sure should be her - just missing.
I checked my security programs and none had run in that directory that day.
Go figure. I never mention this is when I tell the tale of my haunted house, but those two little things have always bugged me.
I had some other things happen to me in that house that I directly attribute to the ghost, but could be easily written off as belonging either to my imagination, a dream, or outside, but non-paranormal causes. These things, taken all together, along with the fact that our fireplace had a "safety oven" that was obviously added later along with these two instances make me wonder. (Fireplace built. A few, not too many, years later a second outside entrance to the brick oven was added and used extensively. The family who built our home had some distant family connection to the Adams who had this built into at least one of their homes where it is displayed as a real oddity, which makes me really, really wonder.)
It's my own personal belief, which could be entirely wrong, that a woman about my age was baking, and her dress caught fire. She was taken to the sick room off the main room downstairs at some point and at some point taken upstairs to the bedroom. She died. Her husband never really got over it.
But yeah. I had two things happen on the computer that I cannot explain. That doesn't make them ghostly, but. They both run counter to what logically should've happened.
My friends all wanted to know how I knew. I can honestly say it's not that I really smelled her. .. but it was as if I "smelled" her. It was the closest way I had of explaining what I sensed. And it wasn't some coincidental reasoning. . .I "knew" it just like you know the sky is blue!
, to describe the "sensing" of spirits. Because people may not only see spirits but sense them in other ways, and these ways are often not exclusive. Some may hear things, some may smell things, some may see things, etc. The terms are 
