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Do I believe in ghosts? Well ... no.
... And yes!
I believe that some credible observers have seen something extraordinary. And it might be ghosts, in the sense that they are seeing into the past, for some baffling reason. All kinds of phenomenon exist in this universe that we're only just beginning to become aware of. Just as gravity isn't perfectly symmetrical on any heavenly body, even the Earth, maybe it's like that with Time. There may be ripples, here and there, that do not present Time in an entirely linear fashion. A fragment of the past might overlap the present, allowing us to see people and events from the past in a very hazy, ghost-like manner. And only an investigation into the Paranormal might reveal something like this. I'm not saying that's what I believe, I'm just saying that the possibilities fascinate me.
Much like how investigations into the U.F.O. phenomenon revealed that moving, bright lights in the sky could be caused by electrically charged particles of air. Even swamp gas! That's pretty neat ... I think it is, anyway. And who all would be looking into any of that stuff, unless they were looking for the cause of something else, entirely? Not that it's useful knowledge, really, but it's another revelation about the natural world ... about reality. Seeming encounters and "visitations" with reported "extra-terrestrials" have been reproduced in the minds of certain test subjects. Such factors could play out in real life for people who believe they've had such experiences. In other words, even if there's no ghosts, or aliens, or big foot, the study into Paranormal Phenomena is not without its value, when handled in a scientific, objective manner. Unfortunately, there are too many scam artists involved in it, now, to give the culture it's embedded in much credence. But the pursuit of Truth, even in these matters, is a worthy one, in my book.