Poll: One-third believe in ghosts, UFOs

Posted by Kendall Harmon

It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.

Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp of the 34% of people who say they believe in ghosts, according to a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That's the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects — exceeding the 19% who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.

Forty-eight percent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP. But nearly half of you knew we were about to tell you that, right?

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Posted October 26, 2007 at 5:30 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Vincent Lerins wrote:

This is an area were the church is lacking in teaching. Many people have had these type of experiences, but the church has no or weak answers for its members. All one needs to do is research Genesis 6, ancient Jewish and early Christian writings to discern that UFOs are encounters with fallen angels. Ghosts, spirits and related phenomenon are encounters with demonic powers, the offspring of the fallen angels and daughters of men.

-Vincent

October 26, 9:40 am | [comment link]
2. Thunder Jones wrote:

I think that Tillich actually spent some time doing theological reflection on theology after alien encounters…

October 26, 11:13 am | [comment link]
3. Words Matter wrote:

#1 -

I tend to agree with you about ghosts, but the possibility of alien races remains an open question. I just enjoyed a few hours at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, gazing unimaginable distances into a vast amount of space. It’s equally unimaginable to me that we are the only created intelligence in all that space. Which is not to address the UFO phenomena on this planet; I have no opinions about that.

October 26, 12:37 pm | [comment link]
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