My fellow Nairalanders, have been really wanting to ask several questions regarding the myth surrounding Ghost..like for example, how true is it that when somebody dies and has been buried, they'd go to another place and continue their lives? Somebody told me that it is not possible! "Where will they get the flesh and blood?" It is high time we know the truth, to begin i'll drop a true life story i heard, Location and family if you wish to visit;

Village: Ozalla Nkanu.

COMMUNITY: Enugu-Agu Ndi Uno
FAMILY: Umu-Nwa-Ohaa

This woman died, she was known very well as MAMA EVELIN (MAMA EVELI)..The day she died (phone wasnt rampard then) her first son, second and third were staying at WARRI..

As early as 5 am in the morning she visited the first child, warned him not to go to the shop that day, that he should start traveling back to the village immediately, Same to the second son and her daughter..Before village people could send messengers to go see the children in the city the next day.. they have all returned home..and were telling everyone that their mother was the one that asked them all to come back immediately...She got burried sharply...

She was going to church called ABOSO, Every Saturday morning, This woman has swept all the church compound and inside the church sitting and be waiting for others to come to church...For about one month nobody went to that church, just her and her alone..Every night when everyone goes to bed, This woman starts cooking, You will be hearing her pounding fufu and singing church song, Nobody dares come out to pee, Tomorrow morning the families will wash plates and pot that she used in cooking, to be continued tomorrow...The day one woman came out to talk to her, The kind of beating she received that day is second to none, She pinched the woman at her bottom and her bottom swole up (boil) she could not sit down for months.. Na she Dey sweep their compound every morning, all the compound before 5, This woman have two orange trees at the back of her compound, no child goes near that orange tree,

She had this two girls that were her favorite before she died, they are the only two that goes to that orange tree to go pick the ones that have fallen, Not to pluck ooo....

I'd like people to share their stories, views and opinions too, "Do you think Ghost really exist, and do you believe in them"? How true are these stories?

Nigerians love superstitions more than they like reality.

You mean James St Patrick

yeah in movies

They can be real, it depends.

kessyR2B:
My fellow Nairalanders, have been really wanting to ask several questions regarding the myth surrounding Ghost..like for example, how true is it that when somebody dies and has been buried, they'd go to another place and continue their lives? Somebody told me that it is not possible! "Where will they get the flesh and blood?" It is high time we know the truth, to begin i'll drop a true life story i heard, Location and family if you wish to visit;

Sorry this post is going to be very long. For people who love spiritual information and don't mind going out of their regular religious comfort zone to seek it, they are welcome. Ghosts are real. Ghosts are simply the souls or spirits of formerly living human beings who have died but their souls are stuck on Earth due to an unfinished business or two. These ghosts hang around on earth for a variety of reasons. Many reasons. Some may have been overly tied to their family, children, loved ones, or material acquisitions that they just cannot let go and move on. Some ghosts are the souls of people who died suddenly or sudden deaths that they just cannot accept it, they loved the thrills, ups and downs of life so much that they wish to go on. Upon death, the earth plane the soul finds itself in is no much different from physical earth and a soul finds soon after that it is able to do most of the former things it did as a human on earth, although with less restrictions, of course without being seen, and certain souls may decide to pretend living on as though they were still alive.

Sometimes, some people die and they do not even realize that they have died as the soul often temporarily takes on the same shape as you and your last dressing just before death, because the soul would often remember itself the last way it once was while alive and would appear so until it realizes later that it is no longer human but in soul form and its appearance adjusts accordingly. These are souls who did not pay much attention to life after death or what to expect after death that even after their death, they do not realize that they are dead. They find themselves still on the earth plane, able to see others but others cannot see them. They return to their last place of existence and attempt 'to continue living like nothing happened'.

Some ghosts are stuck due to religious reasons, such as conservative Christians who died suddenly before they could 'repent or give themselves to Christ for "salvation"', such that after death, they realize that they are dead and see the white light that leads home but refuse to leave the earth plane thinking that they would be 'judged harshly and cast to hellfire for not repenting'. These souls often learn later that religion is man made and no one religion holds the absolute truth of the creator.

Some ghosts hover around due to excessive addictions to the pleasures of the human flesh that they acquired in their just completed lifetime, with such addiction deeply penetrated into their soul such that even in death, their souls still crave human pleasures (which should not be) but being without a human vehicle to indulge in the pleasures, they temporarily utilize the bodies of human beings still living to achieve these temporary pleasures. For a soul who was addicted to very excessive drinking, these souls often gravitate to drinking bars or similar spots and locate a human being with similar desires (and often with weak human auras/will) to temporarily attach themselves to to indulge in this desire. Once satisfied they exit and return again to the same person when the indulgence returns (and thus a symbiotic relationship is formed, and this explains why some people get the sudden unusual urge to do something, usually their favorite habit or indulgence, and they do it right away, only to return to their senses afterward). When we as humans have weak wills, especially towards a habit that we cannot control once the urge comes, it reflects in our aura (every human being has an aura surrounding them that protects them, indicates that a soul inhabits a body and also indicates their level of spiritual development at any given time. Dead bodies have no auras, once the soul leaves, the body is only but an empty shell. Auras are readily seen by discarnate beings/spirits/souls/angels etc.) and, by simply observing a living being, ghosts can tell humans with weak wills/weak auras with similar desires to decide who to attach to. The lesson here is doing all things in moderation.

I left this part for last. Souls and angels (angels are very high-level versions of souls) often have the ability to take on human shape and appearance momentarily, especially when need be, to carry out urgent or last-minute tasks. Imagine being stuck in the middle of the night for hours only for someone to suddenly show up and they drop you off exactly where you need to go and zoom off and you never see them again. In fact, nobody around knows the person nor has never met this so-called person. Reminds me of the story of a man that got robbed and shot in the abdomen one night in SE Nigeria and he was fast losing blood and about to die. Passersby did not know any hospital, of all the ones around, who would accept a gunshot victim for treatment and after what seemed like hours of deliberating, one man supposedly driving by stops his car and carries him in his car straight to a hospital that accepted him for treatment and the man left immediately after never to be seen again. Infact, no hospital staff member ever recalled seeing this man when the gunshot victim was brought in. Sometimes angels or our guardian spirits, in their infinite knowledge, may temporarily take on a human shape to intervene for us in the last minute or avert danger that is about to happen. Also, some souls have the ability to do this after death and they may keep on living like they were still alive, sometimes unknowingly/without knowing it. This may explain the phenomenon you wrote up there.

I remember watching a Nollywood movie back in 2002 or 2003 about a man, RMD was the actor, who lived life on the fast lane (robbery, stealing etc. and even killing the only son/child of a woman he had gone to rob, which continued to haunt him afterwards) and he died, but somehow his soul managed to keep on living in another location of Nigeria doing good deeds trying to balance out his karma until he met and married Stella Damasus who bore him a son. Every now and then, Stella Damasus would bug him to know his village and go see his parents and RMD was always reluctant knowing that his people knew he was dead. But then, Stella would often notice strange things happening in the house once in a while, like her husband returning one evening while she was in the living room reading newspaper and he takes off his shoes. While still reading the newspaper, her side vision notices the shoes moving two steps to the side and she was in shock. Or unexplained hanging photo frames falling suddenly. After much pressure, RMD finally yields and takes her to his village. Upon getting close enough, he points to his family house and tells her to go on with their son to meet his parents while he buys some things for his family to join them later. She walks on and gets there, meets his family and introduces herself as his wife and all hell was let loose as their son was single and did not marry before his death. She says, as a matter of fact, she was just with her husband few minutes ago and that he had only stopped at the market place to shop for somethings and that he would soon show up but he never did. They tell her that their son died many years back and take her around to the side of this house and shows her his grave. His bubble had been burst. She shows them their son as evidence of what she was saying and they finally believe her when she points to a birthmark on his body, being the same exact location her husband had one when he was alive. I never forgot that movie till today. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the movie right now but will post the link to it if I do find it online. It's been a long time.

These are just some reasons. Several other reasons why ghosts hang on exist.

Majority of the time, people die, acknowledge what just happened to them but momentarily hang on watching over their loved ones they left behind trying to ease the effects of their death on their loved ones, or wait to observe their burials before they completely cross over. In this instance, they are not ghosts as they have no hangups tying them to earth, but only a loving gesture by them before they completely cross over.

The truth is, there is way too much to this life and universe than meets the human eye, and more than any religious book can cover. Thus, anyone who lives their entire life limiting their knowledge or perception of the universe to only what their religious book tells them would be doing themselves a great disservice.