Do you believe?

[starfish]

Aliens? Bigfoot? Lochness? Ghosts? This is brought to you because I am watching Finding Bigfoot. Its my DH turn to pick the evening show. I don't really believe in Bigfoot, but I think it would be fun to go searching for him. I more likely would fake a sighting just for shit and giggles. I just don't know if i could keep a straight face, because I would want it to be dramatic and crazy. 
  When I was younger I went ghost hunting a few times, and was fun! 

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Totally believe in ghosts and aliens. The idea we may be the only intelligent life in a universe that is so immensely large our brains simply cannot fathom it is arrogant at best. It is a statistical impossibility.

[CheshireGrin]

I'm sure there's other intelligent life out there in the universe. Do I think it could ever take a form similar enough to ours to allow us to communicate? (Or even close enough to allow us to reach each other?) Doubtful.

Definitely believe in ghosts, though I suspect that about 80% of supposed sightings are hoaxes and/or imagination. But I think there's definitely stuff that gets "left behind" sometimes, so to speak. Though I think it's more likely to be just energy traces or a loop of some kind than anything with conscious intent.

[GilliC]

I definitely believe in aliens for statistical reasons. However, I have trouble believing that intelligent life is found in the form of bipedal humanoid organisms. I adored Speaker for the Dead for this reason, and I actually started a "xenoanthropology" shelf on Goodreads, because it's my favorite subject within Sci-Fi. I'm currently reading Anathem and loving its unique perspective on the topic.

[DesertMoon]

Ghosts possibly. Aliens, I mean not little green men but I totally think there is bacteria or bugs or plants or birds or other kind of animal/creatures. Not necessarily humanoid.

[AJL]

I'm a skeptic not a cynic. I may not believe in aliens, Bigfoot, Nessie, or ghosts, but I'd love to see one.

[katfco]

Of that list, ghosts are the only ones I'm pretty sure of. I've heard too many stories from reliable people to discount. As a Christian, I believe every person has a soul, and I just don't know precisely what happens to those souls after death (i.e. do they go to heaven/hell immediately or does that happen later).

As for the rest, eh. I can't discount it, but I'm skeptical. If aliens do exist, I have a hard time believing they've visited earth.

[Pippin]

'I Want To Believe' pretty much sums up my feelings on this. I absolutely believe in alien life and besides the obvious bacteria and single cell life I do think there are intelligent life forms somewhere in the universe. No I don't think it's humanoid and I'm not holding my breath that we would encounter it in my life time but I really hope we do:)
I also keep an open mind about alien abductions. I'm skeptical about 99.9% of them but there are some cases that have some really interesting things about them.

I also believe in spirits, mediums etc. I think I maintain a good level of skeptism with that as well.

As for big foot I do find it interesting that there are world wide sightings of pretty much the same type of creature so maybe. :Shrug: Who knows.

[gnorah]

I believe there is life of some sort on other planets, I even believe there is intelligent life on other planets. I don't believe they have visited earth.

I'm not sure about ghosts, I would say no, except that my husband, who is not the fanciful sort, has seen ghosts. Things like he has seen the ghosts of relatives who he had never met. It totally freaked his mom out when he talked about the man who visited in his bedroom. So while I'm not sure, I also believe him. So I don't know.

Big foot, Lochness, etc... I just don't know. I'm pretty skeptical, but then mother nature produces some pretty weird stuff, so it's not necessarily impossible either.

What I really wish? I wish I was a wizard like Harry Dresden. THAT would be awesome.