I love a good ghost story

[Curmudgeoness]

1. I love a good ghost story too.

I love the chills that run up your spine when someone tells you about an experience that cannot be explained.

With that said, just because it can't be explained doesn't make it true. I believe that our minds will work overtime when other people put suggestions in our minds. I remember when I was a teenager, several of us went to a supposed haunted road with someone who was an expert in the area of spirits and ghosts. There was supposed to be a ghost of a woman with a light who roamed this old road. All of a sudden, someone said they saw a light moving toward us. We all started staring at this light, and sure enough, it was appearing to move closer. I stared and stared, and realized that it was a distant streetlight or other fixed light and that it just looked like it was moving closer because we were concentrating so hard on it. I still laugh all these years later at the expert who said that my spiritual power was so strong that I chased ghosts away, which is why I have never seen or felt a ghost....it seems that I scare the shit out of ghosts. Pretty strong medicine, if you ask me. Or it could be that I will not join in on group hysteria.

So my answer is, an atheist cannot believe in ghost. If there is no afterlife, and there is no soul that lives on after we die, there can be no ghosts. But I still love a good ghost story.