Why Do Ghosts Appear to Some People and Not Others?

Imagine your brain is like a radio. Sometimes it picks up signals from the world around you, and sometimes it makes things up, like ghostly figures in the dark. Some people’s radios are more sensitive, so they hear ghosts better than others.

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Examples

  1. A child sees a ghost in the hallway because they're imagining it after hearing a creaky floorboard.
  2. An old man thinks he sees his wife every night because he's lonely and misses her.
  3. A scared person mistakes their shadow for a ghost when the lights flicker.

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