Yeah, by profiteering scam artists selling “ghost tours” to gullible tourists.
Some? Some?
You’ve come so close – and yet fallen short – when it comes to solving the world’s problems by extrapolation: how can we rid old-timey haunted mansions of ghosts who can’t yet bring themselves to move on? By replicating the methods, and success rate, of those who pour out a forty for their homies who ain’t here no more.
You state that as if it were hard, cold, verifiable fact.
The reality is that discussing ghosts is very much like discussing vampires. Each storyteller puts their own spin on the legend, so we end up with evil vampires, stupid vampires, sexy vampires, sparkly vampires, and a thousand other variants.
The fact that somebody made up a bunch of “sciency” words like ectoplasmic and noosphere doesn’t make their story any more real or believable than the ones who explain ghosts through magic, religion, aliens, or leprechaun poltergeists.
Have you read any books about the history of Spiritualism? Any of them? Just one? No?
Because if you had, you would know that 19th century mediums constantly channeled (i.e. either genuinely believed themselves to have channeled, or else pretended to have channeled) “new” poems by long-dead poets. This happened all the damn time. Like, all the damn time.
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You state that as if it were hard, cold, verifiable fact.
The reality is that discussing ghosts is very much like discussing vampires. Each storyteller puts their own spin on the legend, so we end up with evil vampires, stupid vampires, sexy vampires, sparkly vampires, and a thousand other variants.
The fact that somebody made up a bunch of “sciency” words like ectoplasmic and noosphere doesn’t make their story any more real or believable than the ones who explain ghosts through magic, religion, aliens, or leprechaun poltergeists.
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Pshaw. Leprechauns are not poltergeists. The ornery ones are clurichauns.
Fair enough. You got me there.
Especially true if you own a bar called Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon.
I don’t think any entity that resembles somebody with a sheet over their head would last very long in the 'hood.
Do you really believe that?
Nah, they wear their sheets sagging around their knees, just like when they were alive.
No mathematicians, though, huh?
I guess Barbie was right.
The existence or non-existence of ghosts is independent of what I (or anyone else) happen to “believe” about them.
But, I am on record stating that I have encountered too many ghosts to believe in them. I find that belief just encourages their shenanigans.
'cause they white.
(ducks and runs)
Ahhhh, got ya 
Damn cheeky ghosts
Have you seen the number of V. C. Andrews books that have come out since she died? 
Because no one in the hood wears her hair black and long, along with an all-white night gown.
That’s only half true. Long dishelved black Yaki hair weave is in abundance in the hood. I’ve personally been petitioning for it to be considered an epidemic for some time now…
OP says
"do urban ghosts not have “time fo all dat”? "
And everybody is fine with that because we all know that’s how “urban” people speak.
Sure.
I actually think your concern is impressive.
However, Google “ain’t nobody got time for that”. It’s a pop culture reference.
Even the dead have better sense than to show up on Martin Luther King Blvd. in a white sheet.
Hit the nail square on the head!