Are ghosts real or false? by Obaidul Karim Khan
A poll finds 43% Americans and 49% British believe in ghosts. Apart from the UK, European are not so ghost believers. I Nordic Europe only 27% people believe in ghosts.
Whie staying alone home, my wife sensed a shadowy figure rushed through the door. She explained that, it looked like a skeleton just like a blurry aura. She felt a cold wave passed through. I was not very convinced with her explanation but could not ignore my fear.
My wife is not alone in her belief. Many cultures around the world believe in spirits that return from death to live in another realm. Millions of people believe in ghosts are interested and countless people read ghost stories and watch ghost movies
I live in Denmark where the number of ghost believers is relatively low but there are many professional clairvoyants who claim to contact with ghosts. While I am writing this story, I searched the word “clairvoyance”(witch doctor) on Google and I found many paid announces for clairvoyance services. To clean a house for evil spirits cost six thousand Kroner or about 1 thousand USD.
Some Danish channels broadcast programs about haunted places. Once a TV channel aired a program of a haunted discotheque. The reporter described that Nazi German soldiers used to come to the club and ghosts of those soldiers still dance among the public.
They interviewed some workers of the club. All of them saw dead soldiers dancing together with living people.
As a consequence of the TV program, the popular club lost a significant number of guests.
No doubt, many people believe in ghosts and afraid of ghosts although they do not want to confess it.
It is obvious that many people have experienced something that has no logical explanation. They have not tried look for any other explanation than ghosts.
I was born and brought up in a Bangladesh village. I also witnessed a couple of things that I still can not explain.
My grandmother and an aunt of 17 years were living together with us. One evening my aunt suddenly disappeared. Everyone was looking for her but failed. Suddenly, some heard a loud laugh from the top of a big mango tree.
There was she. We gathered under the tree. She was brought down. But she suffered from a high fever for two weeks.
She never climbed a tree before. I still do not know how she ended up in the top branch.
Another thing I remember, we had been out on holiday for several weeks, and when we came back home, we could not open the main door. The door was locked from inside by two metal bars.
We did not understand who and how closed the door by bars. Anyway, my fatherc ould not open the door by any means. We had to break the door with the help of a carpenter. My mother and grandmother did not have any doubt that it was a deed of a ghost.
Maybe there are explanations of those happenings. I neither agree nor disagree that ghosts exist. I am somehow neutral.
Has science proved that ghosts exist? Scientists do not believe in ghosts but ghost believers do not buy their arguments.
If ghosts existed, that must have been proven. They argue that Ghosts don’t exist otherwise the advance science experiment would have traced them by now.
The ghost believers answer, that the existence of ghosts hasn’t been proven is because we don’t have the right technology to find or detect ghosts or spirit. But most of the scientists don’t agree with that.
Ghosts exist or not is an eternal question. Whatever arguments believers present, non-believers have their counter-arguments. People are almost equally divided about beliefs in the existence of ghosts. The people who believe ghosts don’t change their mind. The people who don’t believe don’t change their mind either.
No one has ever given any solid evidence that ghosts exist. It is all about stories of personal experiences. People describe how they have experienced ghosts. They attribute many strange sounds, winds, sudden door closing to ghosts.
Researchers have not found any evidence of those personal stories.
Regardless the ghost exists or not, ghost movies are more popular than even romantic movies. Ghost stories are popular than thrillers.
The fear of ghosts exist in our subconscious mind because we hear many stories, watch many horror movies.
I admit that the fear of ghosts has been stuck in my brain since my childhood. Although I do not exactly believe in ghosts,I am somehow afraid of ghostly things. I don’t find any scientific reason that ghosts exist, but I am for example afraid of staying in a home near graveyard alone.
If all dead people become ghosts, then there are about 7 billion ghosts in the world. (7 billion people have died so far.)
Atheists and believers can never agree. Both sides have arguments and counter-arguments.
Similarly, people have been debating on the existence of ghosts, but the issue is not solved and is not likely to be solved anytime soon
Thank you for reading.
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