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Why aren't ghosts ever funny?

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I have a question for the believers out there... and I promise that I'm not trolling; it's a question that I've been thinking about and bringing up to friends jokingly, but now I kind of want a serious answer. Why aren't ghosts ever funny?

It's always ghosts pushing people, pulling hair, and the voices investigators capture on tape are always something like, "leave!" or "so-and-so killed me!" In other words, it's always something creepy that a ghost is doing...

If I were a ghost, man, I'd be grabbing peoples dicks... and they'd capture an EVP of me saying something like, "sit on my face, hunny!" I'd appear to people cranking on my pecker... I'd be a stupid, silly ghost. Why don't ghosts ever do things like this?
 
i kinda of believe in ghosts.
but i think most tapes are indeed fake.
i dont think real ghosts would care for so many years about who killed them and ect.... bc their well dead they cant hold a gudge that long.
 
I have actually read of encounters with humourous ghosts/spirits/entities/etc. I think it's just that we always hear about the scary ghost stories because it's more entertaining.
 
I think this has much more to do with the nature of humor than the nature of ghosts. From what I've been able to deduce, we find things funny when they're wholly unexpected, but not at all threatening; once we expect it, it's boring. Once we're threatened by it, it's serious.

Encounters with ghosts are usually unexpected, at least in the small details. But there's nothing un-threatening about being touched, having things thrown around in our midst, or hearing noises made by something whose true nature is entirely unknown to us. What's so viscerally scary is that we just don't know what such an entity is capable of. If a ghost can pull my hair, it could just as easily choke me. If a ghost can pull books off a shelf and send them flying across a room, it could just as easily aim something at me. If a ghost is moving towards me or hovering near me, who's to say what its interest in me is?

I can imagine someone who has gotten very comfortable and trusting with an otherworldly entity that appears to share the same living quarters, finding much humor in the antics this entity plays. But this takes a special kind of person with an unusually low fear of the unknown.
 
perhaps we just don't get their older sense of humour. Maybe fucking with people by opening all the cupboards and turning lights on/off randomly is really funny for someone who lived long ago... lol. If you've ever hid somewhere funny on your friends and popped out to scare the shit out of them, you'd understand why ghosts think that sort of thing is comical.

i think the above responses are solid, people fear the unknown and this fear manifests itself in different ways. It's also tough to tell if ghosts are really messing with you, i could swear some sort of spirit fucks with me when i'm really high on psychedelics. :D
 
I would just love to see a ghost doing something really ridiculous that might take me a second to process... like, wanking it or something.

I'd get back to my bedroom, wake my girlfriend up and tell her, "baby, I uh... I saw a ghost in the bathroom just now, and uh... it looked to me like it was masturbating, and I mean really masturbating... like, frigging itself furiously..."
 
I don't want to get into anything here, but i've had some weird coincidences in my lifetime that I could not explain(namely one time)that had me bursting out laughing. Heres a really short version(i'm not going to bother getting into this as I don't want to argue about it, I personally just believe its weird coincidences, honestly out of not wanting it to admit it to myself as I would rather places not be filled with things besides myself...)weird things always happen in my bedroom, foot steps the like. Since I got a screw in light dimmer the thing constantly(sometimes not at all, others 500 times a day until I unscrew it)switches. It has three light levels and occasionally or like said sometimes often it will change down one level or occasionally flip down two levels or turn all the way off. The worst part is, it usually happens the second I think anything about the light. Its only 50% of the time as I attempt to expel the thoughts/not think about it at all. Anyways I had just laid down, sunk the fuck into the couch and got that sweet spot of ultra comfort. I had a package and realized I needed to read the instructions on the back and thought "Fuckkkkk just when I got the sweet spot, come on dick you turn the light on whenever I think" and bam the light flips on and I just burst out laughing. I even said thanks. The rest of the thought was going to something along the lines of "Fuckkkkk just when I got the sweet spot, come on dick you turn the light on whenever I think about it but when I really need it you'll never do it....".
 
I had every expectation of closing this thread when I saw the title, but you've actually got a good discussion out of it. Bravo.
 
RobotRipping said:
perhaps we just don't get their older sense of humour. Maybe fucking with people by opening all the cupboards and turning lights on/off randomly is really funny for someone who lived long ago... lol. If you've ever hid somewhere funny on your friends and popped out to scare the shit out of them, you'd understand why ghosts think that sort of thing is comical.
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Whilst I agree with your last sentence (lol =D), remember that not all ghosts are old and from "long ago" ;)
 
I don't think ghosts would be that conscious to be fair. Humour takes an ego, and linking of thoughts and ideas (even toilet humour) Would you really be a sexual predator pervert ghost? I'd rather haunt bad people and act as an embodiment of karma, now that would be fun.
 
Good thread, I've been on a couple of ghost hunts which was pretty scary... but back to the original point, if you're a ghost then you're dead so i guess you wouldn't have a lot to smile about... some great answers above though, lmao lmao
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
I think this has much more to do with the nature of humor than the nature of ghosts. From what I've been able to deduce, we find things funny when they're wholly unexpected, but not at all threatening; once we expect it, it's boring. Once we're threatened by it, it's serious.

Encounters with ghosts are usually unexpected, at least in the small details. But there's nothing un-threatening about being touched, having things thrown around in our midst, or hearing noises made by something whose true nature is entirely unknown to us. What's so viscerally scary is that we just don't know what such an entity is capable of. If a ghost can pull my hair, it could just as easily choke me. If a ghost can pull books off a shelf and send them flying across a room, it could just as easily aim something at me. If a ghost is moving towards me or hovering near me, who's to say what its interest in me is?

I can imagine someone who has gotten very comfortable and trusting with an otherworldly entity that appears to share the same living quarters, finding much humor in the antics this entity plays. But this takes a special kind of person with an unusually low fear of the unknown.
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Damn good answer IMO.

*applause*
 
There is a story of a sexual ghost. A ghost who would grab womans tits, there asses, say sexually explicit things. So They are out there. But think about it. How happy would YOU be...finding out theres NO spectacular afterlife except being a shadow of the living?
 
Typically emotionless. They need a strong force such as love or hatred to manifest themselves.
 
oh man when i die i'm gonna troll youguys so hard, i can't wait, why can't i do it now already
 
Ok, I still don't quite know what to make of these two experiences but they did happen and they were, in retrospect very funny. I have not talked to anyone about them and probably would never have had I not seen this thread. My son died recently. Some of you here knew him and so you know he was, in life, often very funny. The night that we discovered his body was a nightmare--no other way to describe it--humor did not even exist. However there was a point when we were ordered by the police to "leave the body and wait outside". No one and I mean no one hated police like my son did. If we were riding in a car together and he even saw a police car he just started this visceral growl. Anyway, I was outside of his apartment in the parking lot looking in at the cops ransacking his stuff, hyperventilating, sobbing, screaming and all of the sudden I felt my son's presence but he was not with me; he was on the roof and he was laughing uproariously watching the cops go through his stuff. He was literally dancing on the roof and laughing at them. Suddenly, I was no longer hyperventilating, I was laughing and crying at the same time, asking my husband if he could feel him there and if he could hear him? He did!

The second experience was about a month after he died. I was lying on the couch, my husband and older son were at a table not far away and all of us were pretty down, trying not to cry and set each other off, but not being too successful. Suddenly, Caleb was there walking across the living room towards me. He lifted up my ankles, sat down on the couch and put my ankles back down across his lap, a gesture my boys have done all their lives. It used to be funny because I would say, "there are two other chairs and one other couch in this room and you have to occupy the same space as my feet?" Caleb's response was always, "apparently, yes." So, even though he did not exist in any way that I could touch or even interact with I got this great feeling of peace and actually felt the presence of his silly wit which is one of the things that we all miss the most. So, though it goes against any belief I have (don't believe that Caleb exists as Caleb) these two experiences were both very real and, well, funny.
 
I'm sure they mess with people for the first month or so. But then they have the rest of eternity to do what? Mope around, hate the fact that they are ghosts and push shit over and slam doors because they're pissed off. So you are consistently missing the first month of ghosts pulling pranks.

It's always fun looking until you have it. Then, once you have it, it's not really all that exciting.
 
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