Ectoplasm, spirits, and ghosts

This is probably the wrong category, moderators, feel free to move the thread anywhere you like.


I was just thinking of this phenomena. Ghosts I mean. I am quite certain they don't exist, no, I KNOW they don't exist. But for me, this is kind of a dilemma, because you see, I have witnessed alot of "supernatural" activities (i.e ghost sightings) in my relatively short life (I'm 17). And I have been told many times by my father that he has met his dead father, which doesn't make sense of course, but he's one of those people that NEVER lie. I've had experiences like seeing blue veils flying in the air, invisible hands touching me, and the classical seeing dead persons in ghostlike states walking about, and also sounds of footsteps, creaking, and voices.


Now, I wonder, am I, as well as my father completely out of our minds (as in schizo, paranoid, whatever), or is there a scientific explanation? I know there is one, I'm a nihilist. But my knowledge in the scientific field is very sparse.


Enlighten me. I'd rather be psycho than superstitious