A lifelong agnostic researching ghosts, Richard Sugg writes that while “there is good evidence that ghosts with a purpose exist, there is much to show that some sightings involve purely passive, unconscious imprints of a dead person, moving automatically, and with no awareness of the living.” Andrew Green, England’s premier ghost-hunter of the late 20th century, largely shares this view, believing that apparitions “were bursts of electromagnetic energy” rather than conscious spirits from the afterlife.
Suggs says as he did research for his book, he found the accounts he had come across hard to swallow: “Yet the tales, spanning over hundreds of years, were given directly by every possible kind of witness; the personal, unpublished anecdotes I went on to collect would easily fill several volumes.”
Read Richard Sugg’s “On All Hallows’ Eve: 200 years of the Telegraph’s real-life ghost stories" in Premum.Telegraph.co.uk now! Check put this related 2011 reading in the Forum, “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths.”
