Are ghosts and haunting mainly Christian and aboriginal heritage phenomena?
It does seem strange that there are no conventional hauntings at locations of genocide or mass death. However, I think the magnitude of the events lends it’s own sense of “haunting”. Muslims very much believe in ghosts, at least in Indonesia. No one would dare go to a cemetary at night for fear that a restless ghost might kill them (or something). So when we drove past the cemetary in the day, people were hanging out on the street just outside or sitting on the walls, but at night you saw no one. Also there were places I was told were haunted by djinn (demons) but other places were just haunted. Many families will sell the possesions of deceased family members (particularly beds) to expats if they think that the family member is lingering. I’m very pale and was told by our housekeeper to get darker or children might think I was a ghost. Indians also believe in ghosts, a friend who is Indian would tell me ghost stories told by her cousins in India and her mother told me about a house an
