My 08 Acura TL sure gets a lot of attention. I've had the car for about a year now but still can't get used to how much its stared at.

I'd park the car at a spot and come out later to find people gathered around it, trying to get a glimpse of the interior. But its at night the looks intensify when the sat nav and electroluminescent gauges light up.

Some drivers even wave or give me the thumbs up at stop lights. Only positive from it is, folks tend to stop and let me join a lane. Took a long drive from PH to Benue State recently and I recall the reaction I got in the town of Katsina-Ala where I visited. Damn right crazy.

Billyonaire: Ghosts are simply the Souls of departed ones that has not yet crossed over to spirit world. Since they exist on a different frequency or dimension of existence, one has to attune to that frequency to see them. They are everywhere. I have encountered them, sensed them, been on their frequency. This is real. Ghosts do exist and they are for real.

Billyonaire, can you share any specific sightings? My friend ACM10 will be curious to learn more about this.

ACM10: The disembodied spirit of a dead person [size=28pt]imagined[/size] as haunting the living
m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ghost

By your definition, disembodied spirits of dead people do exist. Its their haunting the living that is thought to be imagined, right?

ACM10:
Since you are science-inclined, I will like to know your field. Can you quote any science literature to support the existence of ghosts? You can't tell me that no one has done any work on it; since the claim had been around for thousands of years. By the way, do you know that "hallucination" is a symptom associated with the transient or permanent brain disorder?

Well let's not go down this route. Someone having visual hallucinations and someone seeing a paranormal activity experience two very different things. There are multiple studies on both of these but the findings on the latter remain inconclusive, just as the reports on outer-body-experience or OBE.

My belief that ghosts exist is not based on a scientific report but on what I saw and you can't tell me that I suddenly began hallucinating in the middle of my walk that night. I know what the mind can cause the eyes to see but my friend, my mind wasn't playing tricks with me that night. I can tell you that.

Now, I'm not arguing that any sighting of an apparition is someone seeing a ghost, no. Lights and objects and our strong superstitious beliefs in these parts can contribute to a lot of claims of ghost sighting I know. What I'm only saying is that people do witness things that science can't readily explain and no, they aren't hallucinating or high on drugs.

Sharing an experience is not attempting to mislead. That was my experience. Others have shared theirs. I am happy you believe I reserve the right to choose. You too should have. Just indicated your belief and perhaps tell us why. Not make a sweeping statement such as the one you made, declaring people who believe in ghosts mentally unfit.

ACM10:
So what's your point here?

My point is, you can't infer that everyone who believes in ghosts suffer from any of the medical conditions you listed. Are you an expert on the subject? What is your declaration based on? On a clinical study?

^^ Hi Doc ACM10, you're not supposed to swallow it if it don't taste right. I have a strong scientific background and don't readily accept the whole paranormal phenomena but my experience gave me a different viewpoint to these subjects. So again, I believe ghosts exist. You don't, so that makes it even. Now you will not get a straitjacket and lock up me up in a padded room, will you?

ACM10: NO! I've never seen a ghost.
Nobody will ever see a ghost. It only exist in our imagination. Anyone who claims to have seen a ghost must have had a visual hallucination. That person was either hypoglycaemic, hyperglycaemic, high on recreational drugs or has mental disorder.

Excellent Doctor, excellent. The world is one big unit of hypoglycaemic, hyperglycaemic, high on rec drugs and mentally disturbed patients. I get it. Its a shame you don't work for Pfizer, you could have fixed us something to clear our heads with.

Well, as unlikely as some people think ghosts are, they exist because until I saw one, I was heavily sceptical just like you guys are.

Couple of years ago, I travelled home to deliver some items to my granny. I was supposed to spend a week but found the family home slightly uncomfortable so after two nights, I decided to move to the home of a cousin who lived apart.

My cousin, it should be pointed, lived behind the only cemetery in the town. Not that was not an odd thing because a lot of folks lived there and didn't care at all about the sights of gravestones just behind their window. Anyone who is familiar with Bonny Island in Rivers State will know the cemetery and the community of Orosikiri behind it.

So, after spending the day with my old lady, I had a late dinner and set out to meet the cousin. I took a bike and pulled up at the stop between the Shell or Mobil yard around a roundabout, then walked the 100 metres to the point where I'd have to walk through the graveyard before making an exit.

It was pretty dark but I wasn't worried because I'd gone through that path severally in the past but after three, four steps inside the cemetery, I saw a figure approaching me.

It wasn't unusual to meet people walking through so I didn't give an extra thought to the figure of a man walking strangely towards me, but suddenly I had goose bumps all over and became extremely light headed. I peered closely at the 'man' and saw a face I'd never forget. It looked truly bizarre. And then it dawned on me, that what was coming towards me was no man, but a ghost.

To my astonishment, I couldn't turn and run, even though my whole body was screaming for me to get away from the object. I could also not make sound. Everything was just surreal. My head continued to swell and I became afraid that I was going to die there.

Eventually, it reached me. It stared at me for a while, with eyes that were just black holes and walked past with a loud hiss. There was a sudden coldness as it remained near me but as it went away, the night became humid again. I remember regaining control of myself and turned to watch it go, still walking/floating away. Everything must have taken 30 seconds to a minute but it felt like forever. I then ran quickly to my cousin's place and told him what I saw.

He said a chief was buried there recently and a neighbour had complained seeing a man at her kitchen door twice.

I left Bonny the next day and returned to Port Harcourt. Shared the experience with a friend who advised me to go to church, but I dismissed the idea. I had a few nightmares after the incident but have pushed the whole thing to a quiet corner of my mind, but seeing this topic brought back everything.

Crazy, crazy, joke. Got me laughing my eyes out.

Wonder why he didn't erase his name off completely.

Interesting comments so far. My fiancee attends the church and we've argued on these very same subjects. One thing I want to say to followers of this man is, look critically at the actions of your leader. Beyond the rhetoric and promises of financial freedom, what lies beneath?

There's a striking difference between what should increase efficiency (one jet) and the blinding desire for money and power (four jets).

And my friends, there's no place in heaven for the greedy and those who lust insidiously for money. Your so called MOG has demonstrated his unashamed quest for the finer things of life, things any TRUE BELIEVER of God should know are purely vanity. A Rolls Royce Phantom? WTF?

If you choose to turn a blind eye to this, carry on. But if you question the actions of a man you call Daddy, then maybe, just maybe, you'll get on the path to the miracles he's promised you lot. There's no saying what a rationale mind can do. Oyedepo has shown he's rationale and shrewd. His jets are there to testify this. Why then do you, with all the problems in your life, be irrational by suggesting he's honest and holy?

Doesn't the part of the bible that warns against things of the world strike you? Or you think Oyedepo is exempt from these? Anyway, good luck.

Is this vehicle still available?