I always say (now) that I don't believe in gods, ghouls, or ghosts, which somehow offends my religious friends. Go figure. I sometimes still find myself feeling that some coincidences feel like kismet, tbh, but I can usually think through the statistical odds and laugh at myself.

It was a relatively easy step, upon realizing that I'd lost belief in religious thinking of all kind, to recognize that there can be no such thing a miracle. If, after all, we live in a natural universe, there can be no interruption by any supernatural agency that breaks the steady chain of causes and effects.

I love personality tests and used to frequent Astrology forums. I fit my sign (Cancer) quite well, and I do still believe that people’s personalities all fall into general categories and archetypes, but I don’t put any stock in the movement and position of celestial bodies to judge that.

Most supernatural phenomena was determined by people who misunderstood what was happening but spread stories about it anyway that could not be disproved....A lack of understanding, made up stories that become myths and "could" be true..or total bullshit...

I've always been fascinated with the ancient alien theory. I'm not saying I believe it. But the story is cool.

One that has been a bit hard to shake, at least from a scientific perspective, is ghosts.

For starts, my mother, father, and I on separate occasions saw the same ghost in the kitchen. This was when we lived in an old house up in VT. The ghost was dressed in colonial garb, and was leaning with one hand on the counter looking out the window. Whenever any one of us entered the kitchen, it would just turn around, wave hello, and disappear; quite pleasant really. Then again I alone saw, what I named, the basement ghost who was also in colonial attire though was far less content. This one was reaching out as if pleading for help, it's face screamed pain though it made no sound.

Skepticism arises when, for starts I was young (5-6yrs old) so I can't remember if we had told one another about this apparition and can lend it towards a psychological seeding of sorts. Also as far as the second, kids have wild imaginations.
what I mean by psychological seeding- if you expect to see a ghost you most likely will hence why most haunted places rarely hesitate to tell a back story replete with pictures and such to get this person primed in your mind.

The other is that I'm always curious on these ghost hunter shows why electromagnetic interference = ghost instead of electromagnetic interference = messing with some wiring in our minds. Could it simply be that such interference would lead to a misfiring in our brains that creates a mild hallucination of some kind. Frustrating how little study is given to this, then again where would one even start? How much electromagnetic interference is needed to induce these hallucinations? How does one distinguish between auditory/visual hallucinations even under an MRI or CAT scan? Can this even be done alongside such machinery without 'false positives' attributed to mere interference with the machine itself? I could go on, but you get it....

Granted I'm more leaning towards a combination of these two more so than wayward souls trapped here.

It's more of a 'what up with that?' than any belief basically. Though whenever I'm asked if I think ghosts exist I most likely answer with "honestly, I don't know."

I dropped them all. But Ive always been a major skeptic. About everything and almost everybody. Don't believe in ghost, the supernatural or UFOs. Unless you're speaking about, literally, unidentified flying objects. Not aliens.

I have in fact experienced phenomena all my life, but if they cannot send the winning Powerball numbers, who gives a flying F?

Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny... sounds like a band name, Santa Claus & the Easter Bunnies.

I was fortunate enough to have not been brought up in a religious household, so I was never a believer in god.
My parents never tried to tell us that santa was real, he was just part of the whole christmas spirit, what ever that means.

I was also fortunate enough to go to a couple of progressive schools. A bunch of that was during the Carter administration, so we were taught the metric system and a few other things that they thought at the time that was where we were headed.

The one thing that was different about the schools I went to was, we didn't just have to read a chapter in a book, memorize it, and then take a test on it.

We would have a discussion on the matter, then we were given the opportunity to find out the information for our selves and then write a paper on our findings, and conclusions.
Essentially we were taught critical thinking, and how to learn for our our selves. but they were always there if we needed help.

I don't for the life of me understand why programs like that faded away, or never caught on to the main streem.

Sorry, this was a long winded way of just saying, No I never believed in anything supernatural.

"My mother could read my mind," Mom said. "I couldn't keep anything from that woman."

Whenever Mom experienced an upsetting event, her mother called, "What's wrong, Shirley?"

Grandma has a drawer full of watches and other prizes she won by guessing correctly what time a clock would stop on TV.

When I was young, up through my teens, I placed a lot of faith in authority. This is part of what keeps people tethered to religion, but it also plays into political ideology, nationalism, and even things like astrology and unfounded conspiracy theories. Questioning authority and being skeptical of claims has helped me doubt what our political leaders tell us, refute what religious leaders claim, and require evidence for conspiracy theories and other dubious claims.

I do not believe in anything supernatural.

Well pretty much all other Supernatural things go away if you understand that the basic tenets of religion don't exist there are no Angels there are no demons there are no ghosts there are no Poltergeist there is no such thing as an exorcism, a heaven or a hell I have been an Atheist my whole life so I've always just viewed all these things under the same mythological category as religion itself with that said I still enjoy all the books and movies based on these things

I am an atheist pagan. I don't believe in the gods and goddesses. I think they are archetypes to explain natural occurrences that they needed to explain. Now science explains those things. I do believe in the forces of life, death, birth, nature, and how those forces work. The science that explains them is a magical to me. Not in a supernatural way, but in a natural way. Attending births and deaths are very powerful experiences that fill me with awe, and are humbling. I do have a spiritual side.

I've been an atheist since birth. Just like everyone else.
I always knew religion was bullshit. So are horoscopes, ghosts, Santa Claus, etc.

I've always questioned things that have no physical proof of existing.

Wanted to believe in some of the supernatural things (ESP, witchcraft, magik) growing up but a dearth of evidence dissuaded me from continuing to belief in anything without firm evidence of its existence.

I don't think I ever believed in any supernatural oddities.