I would same that I am mostly a combo kind of gal. I am a mixture of several things. At times, I am a realist. Other times, I am a cynic. Sometimes, I have an optimistic bend on things. On the other hand, I can be pessimistic. Through it all, I am an introvert. But my main “wish” in life is for goodness in the world. I wish for truth, and peace, and virtue to come through, not only in myself but in the world around me.
That’s what I think of myself. But I am sure people have their own thoughts about my character.
When I was doing this self-assessment, I began to say that I am mostly a realist because I seek the truth about all things. I want there to be empirical proof that something is “so” or “not so,” mostly because of my scientific leanings. That being said, I believe that we humans are not smart enough to understand everything about this Universe. In fact, we only know a tiny little sliver about this place in which we live, which I like to point out, goes on infinitely. Infinitely. Should I say it again?
So there it is. We can’t know everything. There are things that happen in this world that simply cannot be explained.
Which brings me to this article I recently found at Popular Science.
The title was: 8 Famous Figures Who Claimed to Have Encountered Ghosts.
The eight they listed are:
Joan Rivers
King George IV
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sting
Athenodorus Cananites
Dan Akroyd
Cher
Keanu Reeves
In the article, each of these people had a lengthy story to tell about their ghostly encounters in life.
Here are a few:
Joan Rivers
Joan purchased a swanky Upper East Side penthouse condo in 1988. It was J.P. Morgan’s. After moving in, Joan found herself facing the ghostly niece of financier and banker J.P. Morgan.
Joan tried to do renovations. But the electric would quit working at random times. The condo would get freezing cold for no reason. Joan’s dog wouldn’t enter certain rooms, and on.
She tried different things to get rid of the ghost who would constantly cause disruptions in the house. Eventually, she said she made peace by putting up a photo of the woman and giving her flowers.
In 2015, less than a year after Rivers’s death, a Saudi prince purchased the penthouse for $28 million. According to reports, he disliked her decorating style and planned to gut-renovate the apartment. No word, however, on whether he’s also personally experienced the ire of Mrs. Spencer.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
At the peak of his fame, Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became obsessed with the paranormal. He believed in ghosts, wrote books about spiritualism and fairies, and attended séances. He even opened a psychic bookstore. Doyle didn’t believe he possessed supernatural powers himself, but in his 1930 book The Edge of the Unknown, he described several chance brushes he’d had with spirits.
In one anecdote, Doyle described waking up “with the clear consciousness that there was someone in the room and that the presence was not of this world.” His body was paralyzed, but he could still hear footsteps echoing across the room. Then, he said he sensed a presence leaning over him and heard them whisper, “Doyle, I come to tell you that I am sorry.” Moments later, the mysterious visitor vanished, and Doyle’s body unfroze. Many other encounters happened in Doyle’s life as well.
Sting
At the time of his sighting, Sting had young children and owned a 16th-century English manor house. One night, the musician awoke with a jolt at 3 a.m. He “looked into the corner of the room and thought I saw [my wife] Trudie standing there with a child—our child—in her arms, staring at me,” the musician recalled in a 2009 interview with BBC Radio 2.
Sting then reached over and noticed that Trudie was still in bed. He “suddenly got this terrible chill,” he said. “And she woke up and said, ‘Gosh, who is that?’ and she saw this woman and a child in the corner of the room.”
The ghostly figure disappeared, but Sting’s spooky encounters were far from over: “A lot of things happened in that house, a lot of flying objects and voices and strange, strange things happened,” he said. “When you live in old houses, you get this energy there.”
Dan Aykroyd
Dan claimed to have once lived in a Hollywood abode that was haunted by singer Cass Elliot from American folk rock group The Mamas & the Papas, along with the ghost of a man buried under a hillside next to the house.
“I had several experiences,” Aykroyd recalled. “I saw things moving around on our counter, and doors opening and closing. The staff also had experiences, direct contact in terms of tactile touching, and then turning around, and there’s no one there.”
One day, Aykroyd claimed, one of the two ghosts crawled in bed with him while he was taking a nap. He woke up “in a trance,” he said and noticed that the bedroom’s previously closed door was ajar. Then, the actor spotted “a depression in the mattress, like somebody was getting in there,” he said.
Keanu Reeves
Reeves said he was around 6 or 7 years old, and his family had just moved to New York from Australia. He and his nanny, Renata, were in the bedroom. “There was a doorway and, all of a sudden, we’re looking over there, and this jacket comes waving through the doorway, just empty—there’s no head, there’s nobody, there are no legs,” Reeves recalled. “It’s just there, and then it disappears.” When he looked over at the nanny, she appeared to be shocked, mouth agape, which led Reeves to think “that was real!” He described the experience as “cool.”
So. There they are. Our stars with their ghosts.
Believe them or not?
Well. One thing is certain. They all believe they experienced the paranormal.
And who am I to say they did not?
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“The world is more mysterious than anything we can imagine.” – Carl Sagan
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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“That which is known is small compared to that which is unknown.” – Ancient Proverb
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“The paranormal is like a shadow. It’s always there, just beyond the edge of our perception.” – Howard Phillips
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The stars see the ghosts too. Big stars.
