I truly appreciate this post, and I would add-After rereading this thread, I've come to the following conclusion: The believers among us need to ask more skeptical questions like Dom Heffner and the non-believers need to be a little more open to possibilities. Both camps seem to dig their feet in like they are involved in a religious crusade. In the end, everyone--on both sides--needs to act in a more scientific manner. Using anecdotal evidence to "prove" ghosts does not do the job, nor does out of hand denying the existence of paranormal phenomena.
If we throw out the laws of physics, then we might as well just be talking about the Easter Bunny.
To say that a ghost pushed you or that you can see one, violates natural laws that we live and breathe by.
If you want to say that you think these laws don't apply at all times in our world, then hey, anything is possible. So if that's what some of you are saying, well, maybe there are tiny people living in my salt shaker right now and maybe we just can't see them.
If that's what being open-minded is about, consider mine closed.
This nonsense of people dying, their energy transforming into something else that is visible at times, they can then move through walls, move objects, speak....these are basic tenets of physics that have been violated and I'm not willing to go there based on a perception of the human mind.