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Originally Posted by Jessica.
Why would anybody want to believe in ghosts though? I just don't understand. Sometimes I see something out of the corner of my eye and then I think; "hmm I could have thought that shadow was something spooky if I didn't know it was a car passing the window of the other room". If you actually think about the things you are experiencing instead of allowing your imagination to go wild then you wouldn't have a reason to believe in this thing.
I believed in ghosts and was terrified of them for all of my youth, I thought my father or some other dead relative would appear to me and traumatise me. Eventually I started thinking about why I believed those things, which was obviously stories and influence from other people. I decided to make my own mind up and realised that my fear had been very juvenile and unnecessary.
What I'm trying to say is, I understand the belief in ghosts possibly existing if you want to believe in them, but claiming that what you saw or heard was a ghost without any evidence other than your perception is very confusing to me. I don't think I'll ever understand completely.
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One very strong emotion in humans is the need to be liked and the need to feel important/worth. Saying you saw a "ghost" feeds those needs in some people and amoungst their friends - think back to a time before tv, radio and the like - a good story was a very popular commodity so I can fully see how such things occurred - look at Tam o Shanter by Burns etc
Because in certain sections of society seeing a "ghost" would be seen as rare and special and no one would perhaps question the validity of the claim so it is given status.