what if ghosts are time travellers?

i dunno...maybe they got stuck somewhere during their trip.... i remember as a kid, i lived in a house with a basement and i swear i heard footsteps down there and footsteps in the hallway. a little boy had accidentally hung himself in the basement long before we moved in there. i was probably just a paranoid teenager!

Ghosts would have to be time travellers to manafest themselves in 1999 when theyt died hundreds of years ago. There are even Roman soldier ghosts in Britain. Hawaii has its own brand of Ghosts, all of whom I hope never to meet.

I thoroughly believe in ghosts. After my granddad had died, he used to come to our room when things were hard; one could feel him like an invisible force stroking your hair and face, and smell him, and my sister and I got the sensation at exactly the same time - it can't have been imagination. It was very comforting to know he wasn't DEAD dead; he just ceased existing in the physical sense. I'm sure it helped us deal with the whole thing far more healthily than would have been the case had he not com . I love the idea of ghosts. Last year we went to Northern England, we left the kids with Chris' sister, and went to York for one night. At 8 in the evening we did the famous ghost walk - it was freezing, the wind was howling around the corners and through the narrow street, and we were thoroughly entertained. It was so ridiculously scary we were giggling like a pair of nervous kids!

I, too, absolutely believe in ghosts. My dad had a friend whose house always had something strange going on in it--cold spots, footsteps, sounds as if a large amount of silverware had fallen into the floor, etc. That house completely gave me the creeps. One night after visiting, I came home and had a nightmare about being in the same room with a corpse of a man who had drowned, so I think that was the person who was haunting the house. And what kind of ghosts does Hawaii have, Marcia? It sounds very interesting!

Not kindly ones, I'm afraid. They are more like the vengeful types who afflict people building their homes on Native American burial grounds. Alii also march. You do not want to see them or to hear them. We used to hear nose-flute music (a native Hawaiian instrument) when my son and I were in some remote area of the Island - particularly at eruptions. Not all that comforting!

Whoa, that's cool! I'll bet Hawaii is the only state which has its own type of ghosts!

...and the only state song which extolls the virtues of their monarch...and the only throne room...we are, indeed, unique!

Those Hawaiian ghosts are called Night Marchers, and as I write this at noon, I have "chicken skin" all over!

When I was little, I didn't even know that Hawaii was a part of the United States because it seemed far too different from Missouri(where I'm from) to be in the same country. So, Hawaii doesn't have "ordinary" ghosts? (If there is such a thing.) You know, cold spots and mysterious noises in houses?

Now that there are more and more non-Hawaiians here there are Japanese ghosts (Obake), the usual Western culture ones and probably other cultural specialties. It is interesting how culture dictates the type of hauntings one experiences. BTW, it is death to look at Night Marchers!

*lol* Amy. It is still a sad fact that many Americans do not know we are the 50th state!