Salma Hayek’s daughter sees ghosts
Salma Hayek and daughter This was taken from AllHeadlineNews:
Salma Hayek’s Daughter “Sees Ghosts”
February 11, 2009 9:05 a.m. EST
Joanna Mazewski – Celebrity News Service Editor
Hollywood, CA (BANG) – Salma Hayek’s daughter sees ghosts.
The actress is convinced 16-month-old Valentina has a sixth sense that allows her to communicate with spirits and admits her child’s behavior scared her.
She said on TV series “The Rachel Ray Show”: “Last night she saw a ghost. I’m convinced. She woke up and her eyes were open. And she’s looking at one specific point and she’s going, ‘No no no no, au revoir,’ which means goodbye in French. And she’s looking at someone, but there’s no one there. I was so scared, and I’m like, ‘Yes, au revoir, whoever you are, get out!’ And then she started saying it in English, ‘Bye bye, bye bye!’”
“I guess she was trying in different languages to see what nationality this ghost was to go away. It was terrifying!”…..
It’s odd the number of stories I hear about parents noticing that their children (usually toddlers) see ghosts.
There has to be some connection between the under developed brain of a child and the paranormal. Much like the the connection people think exists between puberty and poltergeist phenomenon.
This would make an excellent article….Maybe I can work on something 
Do you guys have any stories about babies and ghosts?
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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“There has to be some connection between the under developed brain of a child and the paranormal.”
there is a PRS joke in there someplace, i just know it.
babies and toddlers mimic their caregivers (usually their parents).
my child didn’t say goodbye in french, but he did say “Oh F_CK” when he was around 18 mos.
he, all comfy in his car seat – i’m no britney momma, had just heard me say it driving home one day — i had to slam on the brakes due to some moron or other pulling out in front of me. so a day or so later, i had to hit the brakes hard again for some reason and i hear “OH F_CK” coming piping out over and over again from the back seat.
no wonder my very christian babysitter was giving me bad looks when i’d picked him up the day before.
kids are sponges and usually their brains are on learning overdrive. staring into space in no way means they’re seeing a ghost. in fact, i really can’t even believe that someone would be so ridiculous as to even suggest such a thing.
no one can prove that grown adults have seen ghosts, much less a newly communicative baby.
sigh.
bellaboo,
Hahaha, no PRS jokes.
I really do think that there might be a connection between very young children and ghosts.
I know this sounds silly, and I think you have a point about children absorbing everything like sponges. As much as I want to agree 100% with you, I know from personal experience that somethings are not easily explained.
My niece described seeing her grandmother (father’s side)standing in the room with her in very vivid details a few days after she had passed away. She had never met her, or if she had, she was a newborn. There were no pictures of the grandmother either for her to make a reference.
So with no preconceived knowledge of the physical description of the lady, why did she point at the corner of a room and ask who that lady was, standing there and looking?
I’m not saying that this proves anything, I just do not find any scientific explanation to satisfy as an answer.
Also, I’m not saying that all kids do this. But I think as kids, people are more in tune with whatever forces exist that can help them see spirits.
IMHO: It’s a fifty/fifty shot with babies. Did they see it? Are they just babbling? (Imagination). This issue can be debated for a long time. On one hand, babies are so young and the memories are forgotten by all of us over the years, and even memories we have are grainy at best, so we cannot reference ourselves. And the level of communication is so basic we cannot ask concise questions in order to make a determination. On the other hand, if a baby saw anything, how can we be sure that what they saw is paranormal or imagination? I don’t have children, so it may be out of place for me to make any comments on babies, but I don’t think I am too far off the mark.
And bellaboo, what do you mean no one can prove that grown adults have seen ghosts? I don’t think this and many other sites would exist without the proof of ghosts that exist nowadays in books and photo’s, not to mention the personal experiences many people have had. Many of these pieces of evidence were usually experienced by more than one person.
Gary P,
Yea, I can see were you are coming from. We really cannot get a clear description or information from babies. I think when it comes to kids, the line between paranormal and imaginative is very thin. Not that they lie about things, but I think it’s difficult for them to distinguish what is supposed to exist and what is not.
Excellent discussion.
Exactly Javier, even with our personal experiences, some of the things I have seen/heard as a child I almost have to write off as imagination today (besides the shadow). Look at how a child can have an imaginary friend, and how absolutely interactive the child can be with the imaginary friend. It’s almost scary. Not to mention when a child is sick and feverish, the amounts of hallucinations you can have can be overwhelming. I know a couple of times when I was sick and feverish, I had some of the most -bizzare- visions and sounds and they were sooooo realistic, it really rode the line between what is real and what is possible.
“And bellaboo, what do you mean no one can prove that grown adults have seen ghosts?”
i mean that there is, to date, no reputable, objective
majority-accepted captured proof – scientific or otherwise, that ghosts exist.
personal experiences are not proof to anyone except the person who experiences them. and what that one person classifies as “ghost” another person might just as easily classify as any number of the incidents you describe in your above post, not to mention hallucination, waking dream, delusion, nightmare, sleep paralysis, pareidolia etc etc.
the human brain is incredibly crafty.
if you can 100% NOT write off your own personal experiences to anything other than paranormal, then i hope you one day find a way to capture these experiences again so that other people can see / experience them.
just last night, i could have sworn that i saw….well, never mind. but it was very, very vivid and seemed very, very real.
then i woke up.
oh, btw, if someone can attribute a baby’s tracking and/or their vocalizations to “seeing ghosts” — then i daresay we have a new show on our hands.
chip coffey WAAAY-pre-K? chip coffey’s baby psychic friends’ network?
LOL @ “baby psychic friends’ network”
Bellaboo:
So if two or more people experience the same thing, it’s still doesn’t count? Your answer is based upon it being subjective and not objective. Once upon a time -many- things were not scientifically majority accepted by reputable sources whereas nowadays it’s scientific fact. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There are many things in the universe that we do not have a shred of evidence on such as dark matter, dark energy, white holes, etc…yet they are almost accepted as scientific fact by astronomers. They could not even prove the existence of black holes until a short amount of years ago.
Then again, I am willing to bet you are an aetheist. I mean hell, there is absolutely no scientific fact as to the existence of God, but then again I go with the notion of hundreds of millions of people can’t be wrong in believing…
i’d say i’m an agnostic – i don’t believe there is nor do i believe there isn’t a god. i simply don’t know, and am willing to say so.
although i WAS a believer in god AND had quite an interest in a few paranormal things for many years – when i was much younger.
personal PN experiences ARE subjective, not objective. so actually my answer is based on the evidence being *objective* for it to count.
think about it, if there were really some credible proof that ghosts exist, wouldn’t the scientific community be all over it??!!
black holes, dark matter, string theory, etc are theoretical and based on analytical models and computational numerical simulations. many are widely accepted, but they are still theoretical.
given the vast amount of bright minds and the complex math involved, i must say i lean heavily toward believing the theoretical astrophysicists over the ghost hunters and psychics.
The paranormal is objective though as a whole. The experience is subjective. It’s a matter of philosophy as to how you want to percieve it.
Without a doubt, I can agree the theoretical astrophysicists
Good discussion bellaboo!
“The paranormal is objective though as a whole.”
i’m not quite sure what you mean.
paranormal “evidence” has a history of being quite SUBjective.
ie, you don’t see objective, skeptical sorts calling PRS (or any other group) for help if they have a strange experience. when someone is able to look at an odd experience objectively they don’t immediately think “ghost! demons! FEAR!!!!”.
are you sure you’re not getting objective and subjective mixed up?
someone was practically having a fit in the comments of one of these articles here at ghost theory — i forget which one — something to the effect of “why would anyone pick apart paranormal evidence?! that’s just wrong and mean waaaaaaah” (forgive my paraphrasing)
see — the thing is, the HISTORY of the paranormal field, *let alone the current state of it*, is rife with fraud and chicanery.
even such supposed bastions of historically superior PN research as the rhine institute are easily picked apart by critical thinking sorts and scientists.
have you ever heard of “project alpha” ? i hadn’t until recently. after reading about it, i was amused and amazed, and felt fairly confident in my growing and continuing skeptical outlook. particularly where “psychics” are concerned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha
Per wikipedia:
Objectivity and subjectivity
In philosophy, an objective fact means a truth that remains true everywhere, independently of human thought or feelings. For instance, it is true always and everywhere that ‘in base 10, 2 plus 2 equals 4′. A subjective fact is one that is only true under certain conditions, at certain times, in certain places or for certain people. For instance, ‘That painting is beautiful’ may be true for someone who likes it, but not for everyone.
The above examples are non-controversial. There are, however, other issues considered objective by some, not all. The role of Evolution vs. Creation in the formation of living organisms is a typical example. Here, there are more objective arguments to support evolution than creation. Hence, an objective person will conclude that evolution is the most objective explanation. This illustrates that the objectivity of a theory does not depend on the approval of all. Sometimes, the objective opinion is held by a minority as, for example, Copernicus and Galileo’s theories on the rotation of the Earth.
EG…it’s a matter of philosophy and how you want to perceive it.
When infants and toddlers are supposed to be laying down and going to sleep, or if they are just bored, they babble and practice words that they have heard, which they are learning to say. Hi, hello, bye bye, etc., are some of the most basic. I don’t believe that babies see ghosts any more or less often than children, teenagers or adults do.