Are Ghosts And Hauntings The Real Thing?
Are there such things as ghosts? Can a person or place really be ‘haunted’? Third Story We think of B movies, Casper, and kids scaring themselves silly over a campfire. According to a Gallup poll in 2001, more than 40 percent of Americans believe that a place can be haunted — up from about 29 percent ten years earlier. Meanwhile, Hollywood is about to produce a major film on long-rumored ghosts in the White House (Abraham Lincoln was a believer in this, and at least once participated in a seance) and many saints believed in visitations from the dead — most notably the recently-canonized Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who asserted that he saw numerous spirits of deceased souls seeking his intercession. At the famous apparition site of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina, which is still under review by Rome, the Blessed Mother allegedly said that souls in purgatory are sometimes allowed to manifest in order to remind us of the need to pray for them. That sounds like “ghosts,” and the concept g
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- Skeptics claim that ghost sightings and activity associated with so-called ghosts and hauntings are easily explained or mistaken predections. Is there an answer to this?
- Why do so many people believe in Ghosts/hauntings even ones who claim to of not experienced any?
- Are Ghosts And Hauntings The Real Thing?
