# Tell me about ghosts. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028 "2012-08-20T03:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/21 "2012-08-20T14:44:35Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > There’s no such thing. Apparently you’ve never seen Ghostbusters. ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/22 "2012-08-20T16:54:00Z")
> [@Mdcastleman](#): > > I know Stephen King was writing fiction, You mean when he isn’t writing about pedophilia? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/23 "2012-08-20T21:07:30Z")
“Everytime a child says ‘I don’t believe in ghosts,’ there’s a a little ghost somewhere that falls down dead.” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/24 "2012-08-20T21:14:48Z")
> [@Mdcastleman](#): > > Why is it that most hauntings are interesting / old places, as opposed to a random office building or strip mall? Because in interesting / old places people are already scared, and so more likely to attribute any creak or groan to a ghost. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/25 "2012-08-20T22:20:32Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I dunno, guys - [this video seems pretty legit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR22Ef5-84w). (Don’t worry - it’s not a scary pop-up scream video.) you can tell it’s a real ghost because of the creepy music. also, it make me say “sheet” ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028/26 "2012-08-22T22:41:08Z")
When I was a teenager I lived in a house that was built on what used to be farmland, the farmhouse was still there, at the entrance to the new modern housing estate. This was in the days when people knew who their neighbours were and all that. I knew that the house was occupied by a middle-aged couple and their 20something daughter. One afternoon while walking passed the house I saw someone in the kitchen and waved. As I continued to walk passed the house it dawned on me that there were no cars outside the house (it was in the crook of an L on the road, so you got a 360 view of the house as you walked passed it). So there was no one home. Not only was there no one home, I’m pretty sure none of the occupants were a tall, thin man who wears a frock coat. Plenty of people have dismissed what I saw, but I’m not the only person who says they saw a similarly dressed tall, thin man in the house when passing. The daughter’s former boyfriend admitted that one night when he was in the house he turned around to see what he called a “Victorian doctor” standing in the doorway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-ghosts/632028.md?page=1)