You know why ghosts aren’t scary even on an anecdotal level? because none of the people who have seen them are credible. They aren’t credible because the people who see them are not fascinated with finding out more, have not given their lives over to finding scientific proof, an explanation, a logical reason. If you saw a ghost it would change your life. You would not merely become some weirdo who is obsessed with the afterlife, you would become a weirdo who has seen into the future, seen something that directly impacts you, the mortal. Ghosts, where they occur, are windows into the future, into the biggest unknown known to man. Their existence would have an impact. You would have evidence, personal, at least, that there is something else here other than what we have examined thoroughly, something conscious and active. It would be too profound to just keep as an anecdote, something that you would take only to other superstitious people. You would want to learn more, be freed from ignorance.
As it is, they are a fiction by people who make money from fiction, repeated by easily swayed people who are fans of the fiction. One rule of life is that there is always a mundane explanation for the inexplicable. Even the wondrous, marvelous things are founded in the same forge as the boring and the mundane, your ignorance is the difference, ignorance and the desire to feel confounded.
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