Since ancient times, ghost stories or tales of spirits who return from the dead to haunt the places they left behind have appeared in many cultures around the world. The concept of ghost, also known as a specter, is based on the idea that a person’s spirit exists separately from his or her body, and may continue to exists after that person dies. Because of this idea, many societies began to use funeral rituals as a way to ensure that the dead person’s spirit would not return to haunt the living.
Places that are haunted are usually believed to be associated with some occurrence or emotion in the ghost’s past, often a former home or the place where he or she died.
Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts, concluding that we are witnessing a revival of paranormal beliefs in society.
Paranormal investigators believe ghosts use energy to manifest themselves in the physical world, as we know, energy is neither created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another or transferred from one system to another. If humans are made of energy, what happens to that energy once we die? It doesn’t die with us. That light, the essence of your energy, will continue to echo throughout space until the end of time. This light, our soul goes somewhere and lives on.
Nearly one in five American adults (18%) say they’ve seen or been in the presence of a ghost, and I am one of them.
My story takes place at an old boyfriends home, years ago. Him and his roommates told me of a female ghost that followed him around and haunts the place. A skeptical at the time, I didn’t believe any of them. However, later that night I woke up alone in his bed. The bedroom was very cold and one candle was lit on the headboard just above me. I pulled myself upright and felt a strange uneasy feeling, like someone else was there in the room with me. It was so cold I could see my own breath, and just then the candle went out. I felt something blow on my face and my hair moved in the wind. I was so scared I ran out to the living room, all the boys were there watching a movie. Once I told them what happened, they all said, “I told you.”
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