I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
Okay, this post might be a flop, or it may invoke some fun conversation. I just thought we needed a new post, and I think these kinds of things are interesting.
Last weekend I was sitting in a hotel room watching The Travel Channel’s Most Haunted and tried to get into a conversation with my sisters (whom I was staying with) about their thoughts on ghost sightings. Given that we all were suffering from a severe lack of sleep, nobody else really cared and the conversation died quickly. One sister did say, though, that the American Institute of Paranormal Psychology dubbed Savannah, GA (where she lives) America’s Most Haunted City (according to Google, it’s the American Institute of Parapsychology).
There are LOTS of (normal-looking) people out there who claim to have seen ghosts, and there are apparently relatively intelligent people out there who study this stuff for a living (and probably spend taxpayer dollars to do so). Do we put them in the same category with UFO chasers and Elvis sighters, or does the spirit world (in the sense of ghosts) truly transcend the dimensions of Earth?
And do ghosts at all line up with scripture? One would be hard pressed to find scriptural evidence of tormented spirits roaming the hotels and B&B’s of biblical times. But Jesus did ask Thomas to touch him so he could be sure he was flesh and not spirit, which leads me to assume that they did have an understanding of spirit forms.
So I ask you, our loyal but few readers, what’s up with the paranormal?
