I know better but sometimes I let my fears rule...

Maybe it was a good thing that you paid attention to your fear! I would never ignore my fear and try to override it with a false bravado, I have experienced the negative repercussions of doing that too many times! For all you know there was a good reason for you not to stop in any of those 'dark and lonely' places!!!!

I don't really believe in ghost before, when I hear my classmates tell tales of it, I just laugh at them. I told them, I come at this age I haven't even encounter one. There was one time when we are having a rehearsal on our play at school, my classmates suddenly scream, then out of panic, runs all the way to the guard station. I approach them and ask what happened when they told me, there is a girl in the ceiling of the room. I don't believe them, so I went to see for myself, of course I ask for a company but none volunteered, so I ask the guard to come over, you know what we discovered? It's not in the ceiling, it is in the door steps. I'm at my feet when I see that incident. Tell this day, thinking about it gives me ghost bumps. It's like an answered request in my part. But I've only seen ones. But they still told me that it happened again, I didn't comment out.

I likely wouldn't have stopped either but not because of ghosts (not that you did) but I do believe in light and dark spirits which seek to influence humans.. and also believe places have an aura depending on what's been done there and what spirits have been/are(?) there..

Hi whywiki, I have experienced the same thing although I have no reason to believe in ghosts. I guess it comes from thoughts instilled in us and in our parents and grandparents. We probably heard or read stories when we were younger that had an impression that we didn't realize. Even though we may not consciously believe in ghosts, there must be a fear hidden in our subconscious. Blessings.

Same as me. I do have some fear like that. Though i tell myself that fear for a ghost is for a child only. But still i felt that fear. My family member is always making fun of me because their are times that i cannot go to the kitchen without someone with me.

Hi whywiki, I don't blame you for not stopping in those places if they make you feel scared or uncomfortable. I wouldn't either. You were driving alone and it was dark and it is easy to let your imagination get the better of you. I do believe in ghosts so I would never rule out anything. I can't swear that I've ever seen one but I can't swear that I haven't. I don't think that in the situation that you were in that you were being silly. Being that you still had to drive by yourself and you were scared I think you did the right thing by not stopping until you were ready to.

I am 58 years old and I still don't like the dark. I have all the lights on when my husband is not home. It seems ricicioulous to me but that doesn't stop the fact that the lights are on. My husband when he comes home just shakes his head. I also can not stop by or near a cemetary and as you say it seems silly.

I have a phobia of grills and grates on the ground. Even tho I knew cars were driving over this one grill, I was in shock after I had to walk over it to the ferry - this was in 1985. I still don't like them, still avoid walking or driving over them.

I have those beliefs too that always seem to get in the way in the things that I do. I just hope I could conquer those fears so that I could live my life without any worries. Sometimes I try to face them so that I wouldn't be bound forever in that belief so that I could start living life the way I want it.

Hello, whywiki. You opened the box that hided in our mind about the fear part. I dare not to watch a thrill movie, because i can't stop review the horrile picture and think the ghost or freaks are just behind my back, and what's more, the fear gets more and more severe in the dark and i can't fall asleap. There must be a very magical device designed in our mind to hold the fear and we can never defeat.

yes, but just be brave and to drive the fear away..you have ways to distract that feeling. or ways to ignore it. silly or creepy feeling is there every place or situation...it depends on you if you listen to it or ignore it. its just normal to feel that way. human nature.

hi ,my name is ruilong ge.you can call me long' when i was a young boy,i am afraid of the ghosts,but now i don't believe it.when i was young,my parent always gally me with the ghost.so i fear them.

Yes even though your conscious mind doesn't believe in something supernatural, there is a hidden part of your mind that takes in all the information that you have heard about them. The ghost encounters that you have heard of throughout the years, the stories that you have read somehow they were absorbed in by your brain and released at an environment that brings out your fear. Therefore it is natural to feel fear, but never let your conscious and scientific part of your mind lose the battle. In fact, many people face such 'battles' within the mind in situations like yours, or during a nature camp, etc. You know that they have let the superstitious part of their mind win when you hear them screaming just because some leaves whistled in the cool night air... Just my 0.2 cents, hope it helped.

I have the exact same problem but that is really problem because even though we are not scarred our fear keep striking. Like i have fear of dogs and i keep acting like im not scarred but when i end up meeting one i get scarred and its not my fault but it just happens and i really hate when something like that happens. Well id like to be free from that

I do believe in ghosts. Let me tell you a story of something that happened to me a lot of years ago. I was only about 20 at the time and I had a 3 year old son. We moved into a house that had an upstairs but it was more like an attic although it was livebable, we didn't use it. After we lived there for about a week my son went upstairs to play and he started crying so I yelled at him to come down. When he didn;t come down I went up to get him and as I was starting up the stairs it sounded like someone ran up them in front of me but there was no one there. I grabbed my son and we came back down and I told him the up stairs was off limits. That very night, after we went to bed, I woke in the middle of the night to a bunch of noise. I turned on the lights and walked around my house and saw that all the pictures were off my walls and on the floor. Every one of them. Also my phone was one of those ones that hung on the wall, it was off the receiver and hanging down to the floor. I got my son up and we left and went to my parents house. No one believed me so we went back the next day and I had about 10 of my friends come and spend the night. We were playing cards at the kitchen table and my son came out of his bedroom and said he heard something upstairs. So my friends, three guys, walked towards the stairs and as they got to them something ran up them. We all heard it. So they went up the stairs and looked everywhere and could find anyone. We all went to sleep that night, all over the house, some in my bedroom on the floor, and some in the living room and some on the floor in the hallway. Everybody slept and there was no noise to wake us up. But yet when we all woke in the morning all the pictures were off the walls again and the phone off the hook. I moved out that day. There was no way we all imagined it. There were eleven of us, we couldn't all have been wrong. I found out about two months after I moved, that there was an older lady killed there just two weeks before I moved in. She was murdered in her own home and she was about 90 years old. Her nephew was later charged with murdering her. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good mylotting day, Chris