The Psychological Reason
“According to recent surveys, as many as three quarters of Americans believe in the paranormal, in some form, while nearly one in five claim to have actually seen a ghost.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141030-the-truth-about-the-paranormal
First, if you have faulty activity in the brain and it could be caused by the right hemisphere that is responsible for visual processing. Second when you stare at your own reflection in a half light causes the brain to struggle to make out your own face. That your mind starts to fill in missing information and leads you to believe that there’s a skulls, old hags, or hideous animals in the mirror. Third, religion have a belief that the paranormal could be a shield from the harsh truth of the world.
Top 10 Paranormal myths
“Just because the paranormal is the realm of the unexplained doesn’t mean there isn’t any explaining to do. Believe it or not, even when dealing with the mysterious realm of ghosts, aliens and creatures, there are some things we can fairly confidently label as false. So, to clear up some incorrect assumptions about the unexplained, let’s take a look at the Top 10 Paranormal Myths.” ~ Aaron Sagers
https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/top-10-paranormal-myths
First, paranormal facts: a lot of scientists have created may theories about the unexplained things and paranormal facts don’t exist. Second, ghost only come out at night: they are also effect during the day its because that’s most likely when they were alive at that time. I’ll go more in depth the next I post so, stay tune.
The History of Ghost
“Since ancient times, ghost stories—tales of spirits who return from the dead to haunt the places they left behind—have figured prominently in the folklore of many cultures around the world.”
https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/historical-ghost-stories
What are ghost? Ghost are known as a specter. It’s based off of ancient idea that the persons spirt exists after it separated from the body. Early sightings of ghost was in the 1st century A.D. great Roman author and stateman pliny the younger from Roman Empire. The 3 famous historical ghost, in the 16th century king henry VII and queen Elizabeth I were first sighted in the castle. Second, is Benjamin Franklin was sighted in Pennsylvania in the late 19th century. Third, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt were in the white house. Haunted places are caused by dramatic or grisly events that occur in the past.