I don’t think it’s necessary for people to have experiences in order to believe in “ghosts,” though without it people are probably less likely to believe.
As for experiences and still don’t believe… it’s pretty easy for doubts to creep into your mind after a bit, or to just think there is an explanation you haven’t thought of.
I’ve had a number of select experiences I was never able to figure out any way how the heck it happened… I still remain a skeptic and don’t entirely believe in that stuff, though those few things are an exception that get more consideration out of me.

No – I keep an open mind.

The paranormal just means not ordinary and i have had things happen to me out of the ordinary.And people have had experiances even when they don’t believe.And yes i do believe in the paranormal.

i don´t believe and never had such wierd experiences

i think that there r other beings in this world coz 1 is dat God is a spirit if there r spirits here wel that means there is God. It isnt necessary to have a paranormal experience 4 som1 2 believe in ghosts. dats my opinion. :]]

i dont believe in spirits or ghost and i dont buy into religion. all the ideas are rediculous to me. some dead guy is pissed off and comes back into reality as a translucent being and scares the crap out of living people. the idea that jesus ressurected is crazy too. wtf is that. but you are entitled to believe whatever you want.

I don’t know what to think. I used to believe in them when I was little, then I thought I grew out of it, then I had one of those so called experiences you’re talking about. It wasn’t a ghost though, if it was anything at all. It was more like that movie Fallen, with Denzel Washington, where something was communicating through the people around me. I’d be talking to whoever-it-was through a guy rolling a cigarette one moment, then I’d get on the bus and it would be a kid that would continue the conversation the next moment. Weird stuff, long story.
I guess I’m a little more open to anything paranormal these days. How about you?

There’s an old joke in the skeptical community that the best way to get rid of ghosts or exorcise demons is to bring in a skeptic because amazingly they never appear when one is around.
I believed in ghosts when I was younger because I wanted to believe in something so fascinating and otherworldly. I did my research. I wanted to see one. I looked and looked and looked. All of the so-called haunted houses I visited were just cool, old spooky buildings. The hauntings seemed to be no more than a backstory to give the place some history and to make it creepier. People tell such stories for the same reasons they go to see horror movies–they like to scare themselves. It gives them a rush.
On top of a lack of positive evidence there is a preponderance of false evidence–hoaxes and the like–that further diminishes the credence that ghosts are in fact real.
After being a true believer, seeking to find confirmation for my beliefs and failing to do so, I was forced to reconsider. After all, if we have no evidence that something exists then how can we say it does exist? Many people are comfortable with saying, “They exist because I just *know* they do.” I am not one of those people so, barring evidence to the contrary, I am comfortable with saying there is no such thing as ghosts.