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Ghosts: Those Things That Go Bump In The Night

Our planet is loaded with strange and unknowable things. Ghosts and goblins,the walking dead...whatever there's a lot of it around to understand more about. Apparitions, ghosts, phantoms, spectres, spirits, spooks, wraiths - call them what you will like 'things that go bump in the night' if you wish. Here's a mystery that needs explaining. Who hasn't heard and/or read about ghosts? Ghosts are a staple of thousands of novels, short stories, plays, operas, TV episodes, feature films, video games, documentaries, theme park rides, songs, mythological and not so mythological legends, and all manner of campfire and other tall tales, and have been, in one form or another, for generations upon generations. So, ghosts are the theme to be explained here. Now I must stress that I am NOT, repeat NOT, talking about seances, Ouija boards, spiritualism, mediums, channeling, and yucky ectoplasm. Rather, just old fashion unexpected, unplanned, undesired, unwanted close encounters wi...