🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello Folks:

I'm new to this group and let me start by saying I have always
been facinated by ghost stories but I am as of yet not convinced
that ghosts truly exist. I guess I'm sort of a hard evidence 
kind of person and I've never seen any hard evedence that proves
the existance of ghosts. Part of my problem may be that I have
never had anything close to a paranormal experience(and I'm
not sure I want to :-) ) and I've never really known anyone
who has.

The closest thing to it would have to be my three cousens who
all say that as children they saw a bucket suspended in midair
in a room in their grandfathers 18th century house. The bucket
dropped to the floor after a few minutes and they ran screaming
from the room. Childhood memories can be distorted and changed
so while they may very well have witnessed such an event they
may have also distorted what happened over the years and now
remember it quite differently than it was.

Many ghost stories are mearly legeonds that are passed down
through the years and often are played apon by those who
might profit from them. Then there are the haunted houses
that were occupied bt screech owls or some other noisy living 
thing rather than ghosts. My grandmother tells a story about
an old spinning wheel that used to spin on its own but I've
heard that squirrils would sometimes run in a spinning much like
a mouse does in a mouse cage wheel.

I'm not making the statement that ghosts do not exist simply
that I've never seen any convincing proof that they do.

My questions are...

If ghosts exist... What are they? Do they really retain there mortal
looks and clothes as is depicted in some stories(this is one of the
hardest things for me to swallow)? Are they demons? Are they lost souls? 
If they are lost souls why do they remain on the earth?  

I guess my last question is is there anyone out there who has
experienced something concerning a ghost and they are totally
convinced that it truley was a ghost and could not have been
created by "mortals":-) .

KRM