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The spirit, image, or presence of the dead.
A ghost is popularly considered an apparition, generally of a dead person but sometimes of an animal. Such an apparition may come to warn the living of impending trouble or (if the deceased died vowing revenge) to haunt them.
Mention "the supernatural" to most people and they immediately think of ghosts, the inexplicable supernatural manifestation — appearance, sound or feel — of people, animals, objects or spirits, which does not inhabit the usual three dimensions or conform to reality as it is usually understood.
Humans have always believed in an afterlife in which the disembodied soul has an existence and perhaps even a form.
Ghosts usually seem to be tied to the places in which their beings lived and suffered — it is rare for there to be no apparent connection between a place and an attendant apparition — and to be universally unhappy. Indeed, so rare is contentment in the world of apparitions that to speak of a happy ghost seems a contradiction in terms.
Ghosts have been recorded from the earliest times: Greek and Roman literature, in particular, are full of them, and innumerable instances of their appearance have been recorded up to the present day. Neither religion nor rationalism has managed to damage the general assumption that some places can be haunted, either by particular ghosts or simply by an atmosphere which somehow places them apart from other, happier places. Since the late 19th century there have been many studies of the phenomena, but conclusive proof of the existence of ghosts and apparitions remains elusive.
There are many different kinds of ghosts and few rules that can be applied to their appearances. Beyond an occasional lowering of the temperature, they do not seem to affect the environment much for example, lights do not brighten or dim and they can be seen in bright sunlight or in dark shadow. Occasionally, the figures seem to have some inner illumination.
The ghost or apparition is seen obliquely for example, out of the corner of the eye; indeed, some people claim that one can never look directly at a ghost. Nevertheless, there are many records of conversations purported to have been held with apparitions. Sometimes, more than one person has seen the same ghost; occasionally observers claim to have actually touched ghosts, or have made physical contact with a human being who, it has later been proved, could not actually have been there.
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