| The question are ghosts dangerous has got to be the | | | | for the publicity. But there are also those were no |
| number one reason for fear of any kind of spirit, | | | | evidence was found to suggest the story was |
| believing your in danger from something you can't | | | | fabricated. Such claims were there is no proof of them |
| always see that could be anywhere is quite a scary | | | | being fake are extremely rare though, and the chance |
| thought. So are they or can they be dangerous? Well, | | | | of encountering one of these spirits AND it causing |
| it is a common belief that they are not dangerous and | | | | you harm are very, very small indeed. There would be |
| that there is nothing to fear physically from them. | | | | a much higher chance of being injured in a |
| But, there have been a large number of reports of | | | | conventional way such as being hit by a vehicle, or |
| people being touched by a ghost, including people | | | | even winning the lottery than coming into contact with |
| claiming to be pushed or scratched by them, these | | | | a spirit that causes you harm. |
| reports are very rare though, some of the more | | | | The amount of people who have stories about being |
| common reports for physical contact are things such | | | | hurt by a ghost where they provide evidence of the |
| as the feeling of a hand being placed on someones | | | | account, and no one has been able to prove it as a |
| shoulder, or the feeling of someone gently brushing | | | | fake are actually, in fact less than the number of UK |
| past. | | | | national lottery winners. |
| But, I'm sure you have heard of a story some were | | | | Whether you wish to believe such reports about |
| about a spirit of any kind causing great amounts of | | | | people who have been hurt by a ghost is up to you, |
| damage to people, such as a the story based on the | | | | but my opinion is that they are not dangerous. A spirit |
| famous film the exorcist, which is claimed to be based | | | | will be more concerned with the reason it is still here |
| on true events. There are also claims of people who | | | | then going out of its way to cause harm, if they are |
| are living with poltergeist that say they have been | | | | even capable of causing harm, that is. |
| attacked violently in some way. The most important | | | | There is nothing to fear from the presence of the |
| thing to remember when hearing such claims is how | | | | dead apart from what we don't understand, but |
| much you trust the source, there have been a lot of | | | | considering they are such a difficult subject to study, |
| people who were proved to of made up there stories | | | | that leaves quite a lot! |