Are Ghosts Real

Lynsey De Paul was a popular blonde female singer back in the seventies. After consulting with a psychic, she believed that her family was cursed by paranormal spirits who had met their bitter fate at the end of a Winchester gun. The soul of person who has been a spectator of brutal death or death due to some unsettled affairs or unacceptable rituals of funeral is predisposed to alter into a ghost.

There have been many permutations of this legend, but the most famous one tells of a vengeful ghost of a woman that has reportedly killed the person calling her; clawed the summoner's eyes out; drove the person mad; or pulled the caller into the mirror with her.

Telling ghost stories fills the need we as humans can't deny, the possibility that we don't simply turn to dust and fade from the earth when our bodies no longer are of any use to us. Even the greatest sceptic is willing to put their view aside, even if it's only subconsciously, and wonder if history it's possible to come back after death and pay a little visit to those we love, or perhaps those we were never too fond of.

These are the spirits of people who have died in particularly bad circumstances eg. murder or traffic accidents or even a baby who has died shortly after birth. Ancient Egyptian literature also believes that ghosts are the souls of dead which bear the prospective to harm anyone and there is also a leeway of second death.

I have collected a list of and ghost stories and urban legends from all over the world that have contributed to people's growing interest, if not fear, in these creatures of the night. The Huguenot Cemetery is considered to be one of the hottest spots for real ghost stories and paranormal activity - both by the locals and the tourists that travel to St. Augustine.

Pliny Younger also describes about a haunted house in Athens where a chained ghost shrieks in pain. In the West, the ghosts terrify not only the famous hotels but also numerous towns abandoned by the miners and cowboys in the past century. Others tell about women ghosts that could be seen in early mourning looking out of the Slogars hotel or dancing in the Eldorado hotel.

While the spookier ghost stories might be too frightening for younger children, ghost stories or suspenseful stories are a great way to share this time honored Halloween tradition with children. One Night she dreamt she was being smothered and woke up with a startle and saw a "habit" (the Robe they bury a dead person in) floating across the room and disappear through the wall.