| The very fact that ghosts are a source of much fear | | | | people indeed started paying attention to the fact. |
| for many people seems somewhat bewildering to me. | | | | Some ghostly sightings have probably been nothing |
| The reason is probably because they represent the | | | | more than tricks of the observer's imagination, including |
| 'unknown' and this factor is unsettling to the human | | | | the smoky, haze like apparitions that sometimes |
| psyche. But why should the unknown be something | | | | appear in photographs. A flaw in the film perhaps? |
| that causes such angst? | | | | Psychic theory also poses the possibility that some |
| Many world renowned psychics consider ghostly | | | | ghost sightings are of spirits of deceased people who |
| phenomena as being nothing more than pockets of | | | | are visiting from the other side in order to warn |
| intense emotion that are trapped within the layers of | | | | humans of impending disaster or related troubles. Of |
| time. The emotional states of human observers often | | | | course if you don't happen to believe in life after death |
| seem to match those of the ghostly figures | | | | then this idea may seem a little ludicrous. |
| encountered, as though these said expressed | | | | One often hears stories that someone has seen the |
| emotions trigger off the entity that we know as a | | | | ghost of a beloved Aunt or Grandmother or some |
| ghost. | | | | other relative. Perhaps this occurs as a strong |
| Those who have encountered the spectra known as | | | | emotional bond continues to exist after the family |
| a poltergeist, that being a spiritual phenomena that | | | | member has passed away. A ghostly experience may |
| seems to hang around children who are approaching | | | | indeed be simply a reminder of a loved ones continued |
| puberty, may have witnessed an unusually violent | | | | existence. |
| force that can move objects, slam drawers and | | | | From personal experience, after my beloved |
| levitate heavy furniture. It has been theorized that the | | | | Grandfather passed away from pancreatic cancer I |
| energy surrounding the child somehow causes the | | | | thought that I saw his image in a television show. It |
| disturbance and in fact there is no other being involved. | | | | was a very unusual event for me and one that left me |
| A famous ghostly case known as the Enfield | | | | wondering about his continued existence. |
| Poltergeist was eventually thought to have been a | | | | It seems unlikely that ghosts are beings that are at all |
| psychic disturbance caused by a lonely young girl who | | | | threatening to humans and the ongoing fear that |
| was simply seeking attention. When doors and | | | | surrounds them probably has more to do with their |
| furniture started moving, seemingly by themselves, | | | | unexplainable factor. |