Do you believe in ghosts?

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Intellectually no, I don't believe in ghosts but you're not going to find me raiding to many spooky buildings or messing around with Ouija board much either. Some things I don't tempt.

My family has some stories, nothing I've personally experienced.

I've never actually seen a ghost or experienced the presence of a ghost. But, I love to believe in ghosts, and I love to hear a creepy story, whether it's made up or not, and just imagine myself experiencing it.

Sometimes, though, I do have the creeps, and I start thinking that I'm going to see something supernatural, like those twins from The Shining standing up my hall, and my mouth goes dry with fear.

But, the way I see it, it's not the dead I'm scared of, it's the living. So if I was in an abandoned building at night, somewhere quite lonely, I would be worrying more about murderers and rapists hiding, than any ghost. I suppose a ghost would give me a thrilling sort of scare, and a murderer would give me a horrifying scare.

No. I've seen things that were pretty weird, but I couldn't say whether it was just a trick of my mind or something more real. I don't discount the possibility that things we can't see but can experience in other ways may exist. In fact, my limited understanding of quantum physics and the truth of our very limited range of perception suggests to me that the existence of 'things' out there is probable. It's not really important to me whether they do or do not; neither option makes a practical difference to my life as it currently is.
Same answer for aliens; they might exist, but it doesn't currently affect me one way or the other, so why should I bother to make a choice about it?

No I don't believe in ghosts. I've never seen one.

I don't not believe. I'm open to the idea.

There was a time when the electrical force could not be reliably manipulated, tested, or even consistently observed.
Being a non-material thing it proved to be challenging and mysterious.
Some regarded it as the work of spirits or demons.
Others, especially those who had not personally witnessed significant electrical effects could have easily dismissed the claims of others as being delusion or hallucination, and unfortunately the witnesses had no idea how to reproduce the event to offer as proof to the skeptic.

Today our perception is heavily biased by our ability to reliably manipulate the electrical force to a significant degree.
Perceptions and labels change over time even though the existence of the force does not change.
There is an important lesson here about perception and how quick we are to dismiss ideas based on current beliefs and feelings towards the labels being used.

I don't believe or disbelieve, but one thing is for sure: I would want to see one for myself.

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I don't believe in ghosts but I'm afraid of them

I used to work at a deep space radar station with an 80 ft dish, 450mhz. When the dish was pointed towards the living quarters the radar waves would trigger appliances on and to behave strangely. For instance a CD player might start up and play backwards.
These unseen forces count as ghosts to me.

One of my neighbors once claimed to have seen a ghost (she was 12 at the time). Noting all of the attention she was getting, most of the rest of my female classmates reported the same sighting of the same ghost at the same time and place, even though the neighbor reported being alone in the house when she allegedly saw her 'ghost'.

Mass sightings likely play off the Bandwagon Effect, whereby people want to be part of the 'In' crowd. Other don't want to seem stupid or un-cool, so they also report similar 'sightings'.

Haven't you ever heard of the "Virgin de Guadalupe"? A couple of poor peasant girls claimed to see a holy apparition, and pretty soon their little pueblo is over-run with pinche touristas buying up every souvenir and tchotchke in sight.

Some of those touristas have claimed sightings of their own, and made a decent living for themselves as a result.

There's money to be made in unprovable claims! Just ask any storefront psychic or self-ordained preacher.

As a child/teen I saw a few things which could be put down to an overactive imagination- I was a very logical kid so would look for scientific explanations to things that happened. But I did encounter quite a few things that I could never find an explanation for.

We lived in a big old Victorian house. I had a room with a small shelf around the top, which required a ladder to reach so never got touched. I'd walk in to find objects from the shelf on the floor or bed, on the other side of the room. They were not light objects which could have been caught by a gust of wind or anything, or anything someone would have an interest in (often happened when we had all been out for the day).

The really scary things were very violent noises and experiences, including when others were there. Once I got a "bad energy" feeling and my friend's leg jerked behind her, causing her to fall down the stairs. She instantly said something had pulled her leg, like I thought I'd seen, and had to go for X-rays etc :/ Another time a door was stuck half way open and 2 of us couldn't open it, I could discount these kind of things as just weird shared human brain phenomenon but weird things happened in that house all the time.

When I moved into a new bedroom I heard EXTREMELY loud banging and scraping noises above my room. These would occur sporadically for a few years, sometimes every night for a week. I had my parents about exactly where all pipes etc were, ruled out our neighbours (although the level of noise made this impossible anyway) and any other perceivable explanation. I got used to this happening and would just turn the TV on and try to ignore it. When my mum heard it when I was about 16 she was terrified. I just calmly said "Oh that's just the ghosts. I told you about them". I had to go upstairs with her to prove it wasn't my dad throwing furniture around or something lol. She even apologised for having dismissed me a few years earlier.

With my scientific mind I still didn't believe in "ghosts" as such, but now I realise how energy works in the universe (science and spirituality are sort of meeting up now), so I think I might class myself as a believer now :/