Ghosts

[Worm of Despite]

I saw a ghost this evening, I believe! The moon was very bright and I saw what looked like a shadow of a deer. I got closer and it made some kind of hissing or huffing sound, then I saw the shadow run off and a sound of various hooves rustling through the leaves and around trees.

I tried to get a picture of it but this is all I could get:



Very spooky if I do say so.

Maybe you guys are more technical or the Photoshop type and may be able to see if the camera's detected anything.

Anyway. Now I'm really spooked and won't be able to sleep for hours.

[sgt.null]

sorry i believe in no ghosts or aliens or monsters.

[deer of the dawn]

Not to rain on your parade, but I don't understand why you don't think this was a live deer. Deer hiss and huff, and they have hooves which they stomp when they feel threatened, and run away when approached.

I believe in the spirit world, but if it looks like a deer and sounds like a deer and runs like a deer, it's probably a deer.

[Morning]

In 1986 as my friends and I were debating the number of the Beast being based on carbon (6 protons, 6 electrons, 6 neutrons) coal chunks began falling from the sky. We all went home scared shitless.

In 2006 my dad, over lunch, asked me "say, did any of you guys ever happen to notice me crouching in the balcony pelleting coals all over your heads twenty years ago?"

[Fire Daughter]

Of course they are real. Although, "ghost" isn't what we call them. Spirits, Souls, Remnants...that seems more fitting.

"I walk in both worlds at once sometimes, and what I see can be both glorious and horrific. The veil that separates both is very thin...very very thin." ~Tracie McKinney-Hammon 9/18/08

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Hard to say for this particular case - could be an actual deer, or the noises and shadows of the wood, but no guarantee. Did what you see look like a shadow cast by a deer, but surely without the actual deer there? Looks like that from your description. And I can't see a thing on the photo, except for the trees and the ground - though I understand you mentioned it wasn't caught well - can you point out the place on the photo to look at? Looks like something vague near the center, slightly to the left.

As for the supernatural forces in general, absolutely.

Of course they are real. Although, "ghost" isn't what we call them. Spirits, Souls, Remnants...that seems more fitting.

"I walk in both worlds at once sometimes, and what I see can be both glorious and horrific. The veil that separates both is very thin...very very thin." ~Tracie McKinney-Hammon 9/18/08

Very well said, thank you for quoting this here.

[Worm of Despite]

Not to rain on your parade, but I don't understand why you don't think this was a live deer. Deer hiss and huff, and they have hooves which they stomp when they feel threatened, and run away when approached.

I believe in the spirit world, but if it looks like a deer and sounds like a deer and runs like a deer, it's probably a deer.

Well, you are an authority on deer, deer.

I will try to remember that the next time I encounter a "sighting" and not let my camera get so shaky.

Anyone else who has encountered or "felt" a ghoul in their life please tell us your story!

[Menolly]

Perhaps it was a patronus?
*soft smile*

[Frostheart Grueburn]

Perhaps it was a patronus?
*soft smile*

Which means he shared the forest with a zombie Severus Snape casting a ghost patronus against undead dementors?

[Menolly]

Nah.
Harry's patronus is a stag as well, isn't it?

[Orlion]

Don't believe in ghosts, but Richard Matheson had some very interesting ideas regarding them in his books What Dreams May Come and Hellhouse. What Dreams May Come in particular dealt with questions of afterlife, where the soul is in relation to the body, what people see when they see 'ghosts', reincarnation, etc. You have to read the book, the movie glosses over all that commentary and replaces it with "Your wife will be in hell forever because she committed suicide! Whelp, you somehow saved her, how would you like to live again and risk losing her forever again?" Bah!

[Major Isoor]

Nah.
Harry's patronus is a stag as well, isn't it?

Yeah, Harry's was a stag, while I think Snape's was a doe, wasn't it? I can't really remember his though, so don't hold me to that!

But on the topic of ghosts, I really don't know, so I'm just throwing in a vote for 'Maybe'. However, deer may be right there, and you may have just seen an actual deer/shadows, (while hearing a deer or other animal/s nearby, sort of thing) there.

Also, Morning, I had a good chuckle at your story! Seems like something my dad would also do..

[aliantha]

My in-house HP expert confirms that Snape's Patronus is a doe.

[Major Isoor]

My in-house HP expert confirms that Snape's Patronus is a doe.

Heh, I guess my sister's near-constant playthroughs of the HP audiobooks on her laptop over the past few years have rubbed off on me!


...Now whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, that is the question!

[Menolly]

My in-house HP expert confirms that Snape's Patronus is a doe.

Heh, I guess my sister's near-constant playthroughs of the HP audiobooks on her laptop over the past few years have rubbed off on me!


...Now whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, that is the question!

IMO, a very good thing.
Jim Dale's reading of the stories is awesome!

[Worm of Despite]

Perhaps it was a patronus?
*soft smile*

Is that from Harry Potter? I haven't read that series, consider it spoiled for me?

[Iolanthe]

Worm, if you haven't read HP your education is sadly lacking. No spoil, small detail, much more to it than that. Don't get the films first, there is so much more in the books, especially the last one.

If I can be persuaded to read the Gap series, you can jolly well read HP.

[MsMary]

Worm, if you haven't read HP your education is sadly lacking. No spoil, small detail, much more to it than that. Don't get the films first, there is so much more in the books, especially the last one.

If I can be persuaded to read the Gap series, you can jolly well read HP.

1+

And, nope, definitely not a spoiler.

[Worm of Despite]

Worm, if you haven't read HP your education is sadly lacking.

Maybe my "experience" of book reading could use some HP, but I'd say I'm darn well erudite already!

As for books to read before dying--LOTR, Thomas Covenant, some Philip K. Dick, Cormac McCarthy, and Wuthering Heights.

[Iolanthe]

Erudite? Patronus was obviously missing from your vocabulary.

As for Wuthering Heights, wonderful book. Must read it again sometime.