Last night I was visited by the ghost of Gloria Gaynor - At first I was afraid, I was petrified.

I say to each his/her own. I personally don't believe in ghosts but if I did, they'd be in the same category with cats, a bunch of jerks. Think about it, only cats and ghosts are always involved in some hijinks always at night when you're trying to sleep, they purposely knock over stuff and they're always downstairs making doors open and floors creak. Oh no, what if the noises I've been hearing wasn't Buttons at all and it was Grandpa Donald?

There are a few people on this site who believe ghosts may or do exist, and there's no reason lack of belief in god would prevent someone believing in ghosts.

Personally, I think gods and ghosts are complete tripe.

I don't believe in god, or ghosts.
I'm not going to speak for anyone else.

If you can find Arthur C. Clarke video debunking ghost you will never have doubts about the validity of apparitions again.

I have had an experience, and a friend of mine, a very no nonsense gentleman, had a couple of experiences that keep me from completely dismissing the idea. The universe is a very mysterious place.

I don't think a lack of belief in a supreme being automatically discounts a belief in an aferlife or ghosts.

I don't believe in them myself, but s long as the belif causes no harm to anyone, I have no problem with those who do.

Ive seen things but I couldnt say it was a ghost.

I see ghosts all the time ... maybe its about time I bought a new telly .

You can be anything and beleive in anything. The mind is a terrible thing to train. But once it is trained, the mind is terrible!

Having had a personal experience with what, for lack of a better term, might be called a ghost - I definitely entertain the possibilities ...

All one needs to do to be an atheist is not believe in any gods. You can believe in ghosts, leprechauns, or invisible time-traveling refrigerators and still be an atheist.

All one needs to be an agnostic with respect to god is to see no way to arrive at a defensible knowledge claim about the existence of a god. Even though this is a logical line of reasoning that applies equally well to anything supernatural, and even though to do so would be logically inconsistent (using one epistemology for one thing, another for the other), you can be agnostic about god and gnostic about ghosts.

I don't believe in God or gods, but I've seen and heard things.

If you're worried about ghosts, don't be.

No rules. Anarchy of belief is key. It's hard to deny what you have actually experienced.

Being an athiest just means you don't believe in a god. Other than that you're good.

I saw some really weird things living in a house down in Florida with a recent widow. I don't know if it was a ghost or the widow's energy making that shit happen, but my mind doesn't make up what I saw in that house.
I also went on Astral trips in my sleep in my younger days. I could later retrace my route a day or two later and confirm what I saw on my trip.
No drugs, no kidding

It's not about "believing," it's about finding evidence. At the moment, there isn't evidence... in fact, Brian Cox once said that if ghosts existed, we would have found evidence in the Hadron Collider.
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Ghosts exist in the minds of people who search for answers where none exist. As the latest Cosmos series mentioned, before there was universal night lighting, people pondered the stars, dreaming up stories of gods. Not knowing the answers does not make these dreams true.

I think we have to assume the "null" position until we can find verifyable evidence of such things. That doesn't mean we can't play with the ideas, and look at their posibilities, but I would say that we're still looking for some sort of verifiable data.

Do or don't? OR I cannot make sense of this.

"Can. . ." Yes.

Do I think atheists, are less likely to believe in ghosts then those who accept a faith based claim of a supernatural god? Yes.

There was a time when I was very young and had figured out the entire god concept was baseless but for a brief time I entertained other supernatural beliefs (ghosts). Luckily, I encountered a repeatable and testable scenario with a ghost manifestation and was able to demonstrate that the ghost I encountered existed only in my mind, not in reality so ghosts, the ones I encountered, were a product of my imagination.

So how do you define "believe"? I believe I believe Lord Voldemort exists in the literary realm of Harry Potter. Likewise, I believe ghosts exists in the realm of the imaginary.

Our minds would be pretty lame if they were never able to fool us. Humans evolved to need reasons for what happens, Even when something is not true, if we believe it is true, we can continue on with our lives without worrying about it. For a great example of how a marathon bicycle racer thought he was abducted by aliens, read Michael Shermer's account of it in his book, "Why People Believe Strange (or Weird?) Things". He founded Skeptic Magazine, writes for Scientific American, and is a professor, but was still fooled by his exhausted mind. This fantasy allowed him to complete his race.

I have seen things that I could have described as ghostly activity, but I prefer to file the experiences in my WTF file. I love scary movies, but I know better than to watch them while alone at night because I know I have a very active imagination. I'm pretty skeptical, but if Marley ever comes into the bedroom rattling some chains, I'll re-think my stance.