I thought I saw a ghost once after smoking weed. Almost pissed myself until i mustered the courage to investigate, it was just a very large piece of cobweb floating around in a draft in my dads living room, but the motion was very "ghost" like and almost sentient.

I can't believe I'm just now finding your channel... Here I go binging again.

Some years ago I adopted a young cat. I spent many hours in front of my pc, and it was usual for my cat to be around. I had some months of constantly hallucinating my cat every time there was a hint of movement in my peripheral vision. Hallucinating as in instantaneously, pre consciously reacting as aha-there-goes-the-kitty, only to disappear as soon as I turned my head and looked at that hint of movement. I believe that our minds work in such a way as to fill in the gaps with “probable happenings”. That’s how we get fooled by magic tricks, for example. If you are eleven years old, are totally obsessed with ghosts at the moment and see whatever not too defined shape, your vision will show you ghosts while your eyes try to effectively focus on the image. This focusing might never come to fruition if you are terrified and react by running away. Memory might show you that that you stood for what seemed like an eternity, but memory lies to us in many ways. It is only normal that we humans have a bias to identify shapes as human faces, bodies, etc. I have never heard of the sighting of an animal ghost. Then, depending on your cultural background, you will attach that misunderstood experience to something that makes sense to you. In my country, Spain, which has had a very engrained catholic culture for millennia, the usual interpretation wasn’t ghosts or aliens, but a sighting of the Virgin Mary or whatever. The innumerable apparitions of ghosts, aliens, virgin mary’s and so on, depend a lot on the era they happened. If you can show me sightings of 60’s shaped aliens and ufos centuries before the trope appeared in pop culture, I would be very surprised. My main opposition against the ghosts however, is that there is no set of particles or forces in physics that make such a being possible. For clarification on the “science is not finished” argument, I dearly recommend Sean Carroll’s talk named The Big Picture, available on KZfaq. However, ghost stories are great! So keep them coming!

This is something I've waffled back and forth on my entire life. Well done ghost films are still some of my favorites, and tend to creep me out the most.

Personally I'm of the mind that it's something in the human brain, but what's fascinating to me is the uniformity of many of these phenomenon. For example I assume you've heard of shadow people? My younger brother when he was less than 10 often had night terrors. He'd "wake up" screaming with his eyes open and he couldn't see or communicate with us. After these episodes he'd talk about the shadow people he would see in his room. It was really freaky! I know that tons of people who experience night terrors see the exact same thing. After telling my peers a friend of mine (who is a devout Catholic) said that she experienced the same thing and had always interpreted them as angels. Really interesting stuff.

Oh, my reason to disbelieve in ghosts is that most evidence is anecdotal or have a questionable scientific method behind it.

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My father was drinking beer one night, it was maybe the Summer of 2014. He looked out the terrace door to the street. He saw the same phenomenon you've described under the lamp post at the crossing. He calls it an 'angel' because it wasn't intimidating. The apparition then quickly moved toward and past him like it was a holographic projection, crossing his left hand which turned cold from it. Note that my father is rather skeptical and very atheistic.

Sandy thanks for challenging my beliefs.

This is an interesting discussion. Some themes, symbols and ideas are present in different cultures separated by geography, language, time, etc., and yet we put little thought into why these common cultural elements exist. The circle of fire, for example, is an image that is present in so many ancient cultures. Is it referencing a solar eclipse? Sometime around 1000 AD, someone wrote the story of Beowulf fighting a dragon, a monster that apparently was already present in Norse mithology. Well, there are Chinese dragon statues dating back to the fifth millennium BC. In fact, Ancient Chinese referred to unearthed dinosaur bones as dragon bones. Maybe dragons did exist, just not exactly like the ones in fairy tales.

Hey Sandy, 1. Just found your channel and I absolutely love it, great work and it definitely deserves more exposure - I'm defo going to promote this channel with my fellow UK nerds. 2. As a Fortean myself, the giant squid example was great - damned data and all of that. I also agree that the relatively common presence of spooks and specters throughout history and the human experience suggests some universal human phenomenon, triggered by the physical, psychological or para-psychological 3. A third example you are missing in your opening remarks is the malleability of memory. Isn't it possible that as an 11 year old boy you witnessed something relatively innocuous (strangely shaped mist) but were in a heightened emotional state (from freaking each other out about haunting) so your brain leapt to the spookiest possible explanation. It's then possible that you have told this story dozens of times as a youngster, with the pressure to entertain your peers, with the story becoming subtly more different with every telling, but with each telling it becomes more "real" to you? It's like when you're in a meeting and you say something a bit dumb. You then continually revisit it in your mind over the next 12hrs, remembering it worse every time, until in your head the one silly thing you said has become this monumentally stupid thing that your super embarrassed about, but actually everyone else has forgotten. Like that, but it's with something a bit spooky that turns into a 100% supernatural incident in your mind. 4. I have similar memories myself from when I was 19 or so, and though I could recount them to you and no doubt pass a lie detector test, it is my belief that they are likely 50-85% fabrication due to the way the stories we tell others and ourselves change.

Good video Sandy. I think you handled the topic well. I personally don't believe in ghosts for two reasons: First, while most of the research into ghosts is done poorly, there is still a lot of investigation that hasn't ever turned up anything. And second, in an age of cameras everywhere why doesn't anyone have good photos of them? Though I recognize that I'm choosing to declare the results of those investigations inconclusive and the photos we do have as tricks or errors.

I believe that hallucinations are quite common amongst children. We tend to forget them when we get older, or simply explain them away. However, I also believe that auditory hallucinations are more frequent amongst kids than visual ones.

It is not possible to prove a negative, e.g., I cannot prove that ghosts do not exist. However, if ghosts exists, it is possible to prove that they do exists. I do not believe in ghosts, because there is no scientific evidence that such do exist.

I find the 'Stone Tape Theory' (residual/repeating ghosts) very interesting, because it is only those who are deceased that are seen. If it was just visual echoes stored in the walls that are projected, then we'd see ourselves or others that are still alive. There seems to be a link to only those who are deceased that can have that visual echo and not those who are alive.

Have you read the new study about how CO2 poisoning and Ghost sightings are linked in most cases.

I don’t understand why there are so many people on here telling you you’re wrong because ghosts haven’t been scientifically proven. I believe there’s a logical explanation for most “supernatural” experiences but I personally don’t see any harm in believing in ghosts. Humanity’s understanding of our universe is so incredibly minuscule that it’s entirely possible that they do exist in some form or another.

I've never seen a ghost myself, but people from my family have experienced strange stuff in the past, so to me your story doesn't seem impossible. Nice vid, I admire your courage for talking openly about this even when this is badly received in modern society. I agree, there is something in common to the root of these aparitions.

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I love it Sandy, so well put. You've really covered all the bases and the usual pitfalls of skeptics and 'believers'. Maybe one day we will work out what these phenomenon/s really are. The UFO subject needs your same logic applied to it. Unfortunately the approaches to the paranormal that exist in mainstream have so turned off science and the general public to the subject when we should be more interested and put our heads together.

We are social beings. Deeply adapted to live in groups. We are very very good in interpreting and navigating "social space". In fact, a good amount of our brain activity is constantly busy with checking what going on socially around us. One of the things we are best at is being social. And with good reason, for our life depends on it. And being social includes the ability to recognize other persons, that is to interpret patterns as human. Shapes look like faces, human silhouettes, sounds sound like voices and so on. And even more than recognizing phenomena as human, we excel at recognizing phenomena as friends and family. So this, I think, is a solid explanatory approach towards most if not all ghost sightings. We are just far more likely to misinterpret something as human or a relative than as a tree. And this can extend towards non human animals that you include in your social environment. Since we got a cat, I started to misinterpret all manner of boxes, sacks, heaps of clothes as my cat. That sure feels spooky. But there are no cat ghosts haunting our apartment, I just really care abound my cat and since he's small, silent and prone to sit on the floor, presto - lot's of small, silent, on-the-floor phenomena register as cat in the first moment.

It is the claimer that has burden of proof, not the sceptic.

Did this happen near Memory Grove at the State Capital? I experienced something similar when I was a teenager. I was walking in Memory Grove, and it moved the trees in the path behind us as it did a similar type of screaming. I felt something strange in my head before it happened. The other people with me said it seemed like I was flung backwards. They described it something similar to your description. Tall, large, Victorian dress shape (we said Disney princess), with some sort of smoke or tentacles at the top. I don't remember anything before, just the strange feeling in my head. The next thing I know, my friends and I are running down the path away from the area. I could still hear it screaming as we ran. I saw the trees swaying when I looked back. To add to the strangeness, after we stopped running and started walking again. We walked straight into a deer. It staired me straight in the eyes as it was walking across the path. It startled us but was not near as scary as what happened before. Not sure if the two incidents are linked in any way. I've never had it happen again or anything like it. I still remember the strange feeling in my head.

I saw a "ghost", which looked like a woman floating outsite my bedroom door. I had just woken up, and I was under a lot of stress as my nan was dying. Mum said it was nan visiting me, astral projection or something. I honestly can't explain it.

My view is that I cannot not whether there is an an afterlife or not. However, most ghost stories don't make any sense to me. Why would ghosts just stick around to throw around glasses or to scare people in other ways? Why wouldn't they explore the universe or even just places on earth?

If you define ghosts broadly as some kind of supernatural entity, it's more palatable to accept as real than the idea of a dead person's spirit. If you believe in anything like an immaterial soul or spirits (which most humans across time and place have accepted), it fits. The closest experience I have is once while I was lying in bed, the door opened, and I saw a shadowy figure walk into the room. I could barely see, but it was gone when I turned on the light. On the one hand, I was tired, so I wouldn't put it totally past myself to have been seeing something. But something did open the door...

I had an encounter with the supernatural once, and to this day I cannot say for sure if it was an authentic sighting. As a Christian, I'm open-minded to the presence of the supernatural. However, in the Christian worldview, any earthly encounters with the supernatural are overwhelmingly likely to be extremely hostile (or at least subversive), which would explain why so many "witnesses" describe feelings of dread.

Obviously its impossible to judge this sort of story without having experienced it, but my instinct for an explanation here is a mixture of a very strong trick of the light and a perspective illusion , plus a dash of pareidolia filling the blanks and being in just the right frame of mind that it leaves a very intense impression.

It is always amazing to me how many rational, reasonable and otherwise skeptical people have had supernatural experiences. Most are loathe to share these experiences with confidence. However, I doubt that all of these experiences are merely mistaken identity or encounters with mirages. Furthermore, as far as the doctrinal part goes there are a couple things to share. I believe Pres. Wilford Woodruff was known to communicate often, in a casual "day in the life" manner with deceased people, remarking to one person offhandedly "You know, I haven't seen your since he died, if you hear from him, let him know I'd like to see him". Joseph Smith stated that he could have written roughly 100 times the content contained in D&C 76 of the character of the unseen realms, but was instructed not to due to unbelief. I personally think the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, more so than any other Christian faith, leaves the door open for all manner of strange, mysterious and otherworldly entities, beings and intelligences that can affect and influence our little slice of reality.

Sandy, you met the giant woman from Resident Evil Village 🤣 I love a good ghost story though, thanks.

Interesting vid yes I believe in ghosts and a after life too but I don't believe in god i have see one ghost when i was younger and been on one ghost investigation and too a few photos of ghosts I like taking pics in front of mirrors I get interesting images and faces at times but I like to keep a level head about it all human brain can fool us all at times so it is good i feel to look at all possibilities before coming to a ghost conclusion

Human memory and human sensory perception isnot reliable. The idea that you "saw" something which defies physical laws is less likely I think than the possibility that you just experienced some kind of fault in your memory or sense perception.

wow, strange, i just commented on your other video before seeing this one and what you describe is so similar to what i experienced ....

Because I have had visions of the future that have impacted my life and they have never had ghost

I think the best reason not to believe in the existence of ghosts is simply that there is no scientific proof whatsoever to back that up. That doesn't mean that I think every single person who has ever claimed to see one is lying though. Quite the opposite, I believe many of them absolutely believe they are telling the truth. But, that doesn't mean they actually saw a ghost or that ghosts exist. Our perceptions and our senses are very imperfect and can easily be changed or deceived by any number of factors. I had a friend who did DMT once and swore up and down that he saw tiny versions of himself running around on his coffee table and that he talked to aliens while on it. And I knew people who claimed they prayed so hard that they could feel god's presence in the room with them and that they could hear Jesus talking directly to them. Do I think any of them were lying? Definitely not. Do I think that their claims meant any of those things were real? Hell no. You, yourself, prefaced your story by disclaiming that you were 11 and that your brain was underdeveloped. Kids have wildly overactive imaginations. When I was 11 I was absolutely convinced I was seeing UFO's every night. Doesn't mean that I was. You have the right to believe whatever you want. Your video is entitled "Why I Believe in Ghosts" and not "Why You Should Believe in Ghosts", so you do you, man. That's all good. But I do think it's worth considering why you think you saw what you saw, and maybe examine it with a more critical eye.

The problem with ghosts is that there's no established mechanism for their existence. That paired with the incredibly fallible nature memory along with things like psychosis and delusions and hallucinations make it very hard for any kind of witness testimony to be believed. And we'll never really get an answer for sure there's very little functional difference between someone who believes in ghosts and someone who doesn't. There's thousands of different religions on this planet, and each person has their own slightly different interpretation of that religion. Only in extreme cases do these differences cause conflict. There's also the fact that there's a lot of people who claim to be skeptics and scientifically minded but really aren't. A large group of people just happen to be accidentally correct about some things. Like how if you're incredibly bad at math you could still come to the right conclusion even though logically doesn't make any sense to get there. Anyway thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, I'm looking forward to the Zoog video.

My Religious Education teacher back in school believed in ghosts. Claimed he saw one when he stayed at a coastal town in a lighthouse and that it changed his mind at the time that they existed

Well, I can only speak for myself but I am not religious in any common usage sense, so I do not have any ideology at all regarding an afterlife, but I do not fail to believe in ghosts due to some rejection of these concepts. I do not believe in ghosts because there is no compelling evidence. Now, YOUR definition is different. I absolutely agree that people have visual or psychological experiences that led them to conclude something along the lines of an unexplained being. Sure, sympathetic light vibrations from a different point in time could somehow trigger an opaque reflection on the human retina...sure. So when I say I don't believe in ghosts, I only mean I do not believe in any sentient form of existence beyond our current understanding of matter. I won't try to force an explanation of what you saw on your story, but I can think of several simpler explanations than a phenomena not currently embraced by science. So yes I believe you saw something but, no I do not believe in the existence of any states of life or matter beyond those currently observed by science or humanity. Again, this is simply because I have never seen compelling evidence to do so. You brought up "flat earthers" and this is a great example. There are thousands of people reporting that they observe the earth is flat, but they fail to produce compelling evidence. I LOVE ghost stories, but ghosts are simply not real unless you include psychological phenomena and optical illusions as a ghost. Show me an experimentally proven and reproduceable state of matter that could allow the production of light and sound in a space in which it has no determined point of origin and I will agree I may be wrong. Meaning, if you are seeing something light is either bouncing off of something or being generated, more or less the same with sound. So if you can show me an instance in which light is neither bouncing off matter or being generated by a source, I will falter in my stance. This is of course assuming a person does not define a ghost as well, a person standing there because...I mean we are being pretty fast and loose with the definition here. Like, by your definition seeing a person is seeing a ghost lol. If you counter that a ghost is comprised of matter, well that is something that we can measure with great subtlety and though I do not consider a failed result proof because you cannot prove a negative, I also consider the inability to demonstrate evidence of this matter unconvincing. Sorry for the novel, but sadly no...I can with total confidence say that there are no ghosts on this planet. There are indeed optical illusions, psychological events and confused observations.

I have seen what some mgiht describe as ghosts but that doesn't mean that i believe in ghosts in the typical sense of the phrase. I suffer from sleep paralysis which is a condition in which you are semi alseep and awake. This can cause you to see and or feel things that are not there whilst sleeping or tying to sleep. From figures and floating objects to loud noises and voices. This is because whilst my eyes are open and i feel awake i am infact in a sort of paralysis where i cannot move and i see things/ hear things from my imagination which seem real. This doesnt mean i hear voices in everyday life or anything. It is terrifying and worth looking into. I believe the mind can visualize things that do not exist as i have seen it myself.

I imagen many chost stories are like this. A person saw something cool and/or unusual, and now we can't investigate it. I think it's counter productive to call it a ghost, as we usually connect that to dead humans, and as we don't have any proof of humans having somekind of soul, spirit or håg that could be left behind it would need an extra assumption to assign that to the witnessed phenomena. Also problem would be, if this is not how your other encounters looked, then maybe that was something else, and none of them were remenants of dead people. When all who see wierd unexplained human-ish shaped phenomenons say they saw a dead person, but in actuallity none of them experience the same thing, it just make it more difficult to investigate.

I guess I believe that it's possible and I would believe 100% if I saw one myself, right?! Like faith in a sense.

If your church is based on the Bible then there should be no conflict. I can think of two stories in scripture that imply or involve ghosts. First is when Saul asks a witch to call up Samuel's ghost, second is after the resurrection when Jesus meets the disciples after they've gone fishing. He asks to be given food to eat to prove he's not a spirit, which implies that spirits both exist and can not eat.

I don't believe in ghosts because I don't believe in the supernatural, and it's also less scary that way :p But in seriousness, I have seen things in the dark that my eyes/brain have completely misinterpreted upon closer inspection. I have also experience *not* seeing things that are there; in particular, checking for a car before turning in my neighborhood, seeing nothing, and then almost getting hit by the car that wasn't there (according to my eyes). I have also remembered things with absolute certainty that have been proved false; one type of memory that has been easy to prove wrong is when I see a movie for the first time in many years and the ending is different, even though I have an image or video in my head of a false ending or remember a specific line of dialog that isn't there. All that is simply to say that I don't even trust my own eyes or brain, given how many times they've been wrong, so I probably wouldn't trust myself if I myself saw a ghost.

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First, I love this channel especially all the HP Lovecraft stuff. And I have every intention of buying some of this guys games. That said, I think it's interesting that he challenges those who do not accept his account to be a ghost to examine their preconceived notions. Yet... he doesn't truly examine his own preconceived notions. The human brain is hard wired to see faces and forms. If you stare at any textured surface long enough you're almost guaranteed to see a face. Humans take great pride in our ability to look at clouds and find all sorts of recognizable shapes. We can even look at the stars and find the shapes of people and animals. Was that really a carousel horse in the sky? No. It was a cloud. It was water vapor. Only my human brain (which likely evolved these strange proclivities as a form of protection from camouflaged animals) saw the horse. So, given that. What is more likely? Fluffy sky animals are real because countless humans across the millennia have seen them? Or that our brains just like to make shapes out of nothing. Is it more likely that Sandy saw the ghost of a Victorian woman, or that some mist, or smoke, or even steam from a nearby sewer was shaped by the constrained light of a streetlamp and given a form that existed only in his mind. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is always better to err on the side of evidence, regardless of the mistakes made by some scientists over a hundred years ago. As Sandy points out, the scientists were proven wrong. That's what's so amazing about science. It's self correcting. While individuals don't like being proven wrong, science loves being proven wrong. Just look at all the ways science has been proven wrong, and therefore advanced, over the past couple hundred years. Meanwhile, religion and superstition hate to be proven wrong. In fact there is no mechanism for either to be proven wrong. Thus they endure for centuries corrupting the masses.

Giant squid are only sea monsters by an old definition of the word 'monster'. By definition a monster is imaginary; if it exists then its not a monster. Same goes for ghosts; If its not a dead person then its not a ghost. It could be the thing that people think is a ghost, but its not a ghost. Simply put, you're using those words 'wrong'. They don't the currently accepted definitions when you use them in the way you are using them. You're essentially having an argument over semantics rather than the existence of ghosts.

I actually experienced a paranormal experience once in my life

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Oh by the Nine Gods of the Celestial Council, Sandy, don't tell them the secrets of spirit travel through space time manipulation on quark inverted light waves!!

Pretty interesting. I used to be extremely scared of ghosts as a kid (watched a lot of movies I shouldn't have, yet), cycling home from friends at night I'd cross my school, and I was always afraid to see a ghost or something inside one of the windows when going past it, so I cycled as fast as I could looking only where I was cycling while singing ''Jesus loves all the children'' to comfort myself, though I also believed it would keep me safe. Still do really. Personally the closest thing I've come to seeing a ghost myself would be one time, as a kid roughly around the same age as you, when I walked up the dark stairs in my house to a lightened up hallway, as I looked up and was hit by the light, it was as if I saw a dark shadowy figure in front of me, resembling a fictional character to that of a dark Jedi or a Nazgul. In my case I don't think it was a ghost but an illusion based on the sudden changes of brightness and my mind trying to personalise something I wasn't sure what to make of. I don't usually comment stuff on KZfaq and I don't feel like this is much of a contribution, but I guess it's nice to express oneself once in a while. I think we all have a shared fear of ghosts despite ''not really believing in them'', and that there's a lot of things we can't really comprehend even with reasonable minds and scientific methods.

Lingering memories of your past?

This is a sensible attitude I think. I've seen a couple of odd things, including poltergeist activity, objects moving, so clearly some phenomenon caused that. But jumping to the conclusion that this was the remainder of a dead person seems irresponsible. It could be any number of unexplained things.

I think you are vastly over-simplifying (and arguably redefining) far too much here, as well as ignoring tons of cognitive research that can go a long way in explaining this type of phenomenon. Occam's razor and all that.

I'm just curious as I've read you're a practicing Latter-Day Saint, but what are your views on spirituality as far as ghosts are concerned? I ask as a Christian myself and it's something I've vaguely thought about before, but never in detail. I see it as something than can indeed exist, and like you say not necessarily in the way of the actual spirits of the departed.

I don't believe in ghosts because it hasn't been proven to any reasonable degree. It's hard to prove and not repeatable, like ball lightning. I didn't believe in ball lightning until I had more than simple anecdote.

conversely, saying that you believe in ghosts doesn't mean that they exist.

By my examination your logic is flawed on a fundemental level. Concerning the arguments you make during the "is the witness in error" part; you argue that the notion of believing, and disbelieving in ghosts are equally valid as both relay on personal world views and that the person believing in ghosts may even have the better position if they have seen anecdotal evidence for said phenomena. The problem here is that the world view of ghosts existing is an extraordinary one. Nothing that we know of points to the existance of a soul, yet alone ghosts, so claiming they do is making a extraordinary claim, therefore the burden of proof falls on the ghost-whisperer. When trying to prove the existance of the paranormal in a tested environment, the results never seem to even hint at the extraordinary. Of course this could be because ghosts are shy and wouldn't interfere in such an environment but that is hardly proof. Later in the video you say you doubt that your ghost sighting was a hallucination as you have never hallucinated after or before that. So basically your argument is that you hallucinating would be something extraordinary and therefor unlikely. This would be true if you ignore the fact that seing a ghost is far more extraordinary than hallucinating. There are thousands of clinical instances of hallucinations, but no clinical instances of ghosts. Food for thought. I would love to believe in ghosts and the paranormal but sadly I have not been convinced.

Pareidolia perhaps?

While I have never seen anything myself, I would find it disingenuous to disbelieve when credible people tell me experiences such as this.

Replace the word ghost with loch ness monster or alien spacecraft... This wasnt good reasoning. There is no real evidence of ghosts so there is no reason to believe in them.

I believe in smart dust and black goo.

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I love this video and would like to hear more of your views on ghosts but my only issue is that within the scientific community the reason they denied the existence of colossal sea creatures was that there wasn't enough evidence to prove that the colossal squid was a separate species of squid. The specimens they collected were too few and far between to prove that it existed and wasn't a genetic deformity eg gigantism. If we accept things without proof thats blind faith and blind faith has no fact. If a proper scientific study was conducted using the latest technology that came to a conclusion strongly suggesting that spectral beings may exist I think most people would come to accept it in time. I do belive however this is an experiment that scientists should conduct.

Why I don't believe in ghosts: there's absolutely no scientific evidence for them. I'd argue that with the giant squid example, it would be reasonable to doubt their existence until presented with credible evidence on the contrary. So, what did you see? I have no idea, and there's no reason to make guesses about incredible mirages, or hypothetical entities to come up with. (all that being said, if I had an experience similar to yours, I'd almost certain feel exactly the same as you do)

Science is a liar sometimes

I don't believe ghosts exist because there seems to be a lack of evidence. But show me some good non-anecdotal evidence and I'll gladly change my mind.

I've seen a ghost, and I still don't believe in them. 🤷

I had an unexplainable thing happen when I was about 12. It was weird and it confused me so much that I just never told anyone. I still don’t have an explanation. I basically just try to forget but when I remember, I’m still confused, a little scared, and I assure myself that I must have just been a kid that was mistaken.... but it was undeniable. I don’t see, as an adult, how I could have been mistaken.

Ghosts is inaccurate, but spirits of demons and angels is likely more accurate. If you are seeing a ghost is usually a form of demon. Angels do not appear to people to frighten them. They are direct in communication, but demons appear to scare men and they appear in ways in which you would think its a family member. Spirits are not important, what is important is Jesus Christ and the relationship with have with the Holy Spirit.

You didn't talk about WHY ghosts exist, just that you believe in ghosts because you believe you have witnessed one. But what makes it a believable account and you a believable witness? You are a fiction writer that writes about monsters and strange beings for a living. And I'm sad to say, you also believe in angelic golden plates and seer stones.

Pretty sure ghosts are real. Why not? More fun to believe in them than to not believe in them.