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.
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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“Yet the tales, spanning over hundreds of years, were given directly by every possible kind of witness; the personal, unpublished anecdotes I went on to collect would easily fill several volumes.”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! (https://premium.telegraph.co.uk/newsletter/article5/on-all-hallows-eve-200-years-of-the-telegraphs-real-life-ghost-stories/?WT.mc_id=e_DM867058&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Edi_New_Reg&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Edi_New_Reg_2018_11_01&utm_campaign=DM867058)
Check put this related 2011 reading in the Forum, “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths.” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)