OT: Ghosts

[monty_rhodes]

For reasons that have been well researched and documented the heyday of ghost stories was probably in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
However, when I was growing up in Rotherham in the fifties and sixties every adult I knew used to recount ghost stories. I don't just mean fictional ghosts. Just about everybody said they had first or reliable second hand experience of hauntings. Several places in Rotherham - including just about every pub around the town centre - was supposed to have a ghost or two.
Now I lived for several years in two supposedly haunted houses and although other inhabitants swore to seeing or hearing ghosts I never witnessed a thing. There's a lane where I live that locals claim is haunted by a headless coachman but I have walked down it alone every night for twenty years and seen nothing supernatural.
Anybody ever experienced anything ghostly?

[mikemiller]

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[sickly_child]

There is a reason you never saw a ghost Monty.

[monty_rhodes]

There is a reason you never saw a ghost Monty.

That would suggest several dozen adults in my childhood were dishonest or delusional! Hm, now I come to think.

[great_fire]

People did seem to believe in ghosts more back then.

Science has given us more explanations for things that were attributed to ghosts back then I suppose.

[caytonmiller]

Only reason I can give is it's the 80s fault. Ghosts were every where until the Ghostbusters came along. Typical, the few spoilt it for the masses

[frogmiller]

only reason i can give is it's the 80s fault. Ghosts were every where until the ghostbusters came along. Typical, the few spoilt it for the masses

[sickly_child]

That would suggest several dozen adults in my childhood were dishonest or delusional! Hm, now I come to think.

Probably just mistaken Monty.

[Back of the net]

I’ve seen a ghost 👻

[sickly_child]

You think you have.