[Bells]

There's just so much to it. For me, I do believe in spirits etc. (to be specific, on Earth that is - talking about organisms in the universe as a whole is a different matter to me), not necessarily 'scary' or 'spooky' ones though. I've never really had any experiences with the paranormal myself, so I'm half and half in that I believe that there are spirits, but I don't think they actually make any contact with humans. Yet so many people have at least one ghost story to tell, but the whole stereotypical haunted mansion thing just doesn't appeal to me anymore. I think the reason people feel afraid of such things (and in fact I too probably would be) is because of the way it's portrayed, the things they've heard, and therefore they'd associate anything untoward happening in a so-called 'spooky' mansion with it being supernatural.