And you probably never will, because anything a ghost could do to haunt traffic would just get blamed on “asshole drivers”

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    You hear a lot about haunted morgues, but that’s of course just people projecting their icky feelings toward death: The vast majority of people don’t die in the morgue. Similarly, the vast majority of people are long dead and partly preserved before they’re in a graveyard. Kinda’… proves it’s all BS projection.

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      What about all the other haunted locations where only one person died? The number of corpses doesn’t seem to correlate with ghosts very well. Also, if a single dead guy is enough to make a place haunted, nearly every house should be haunted after a few centuries have passed. Guess what, there are cities where people have lived well over a thousand years. Aren’t Luxor, Beijing or Delhi super haunted by now?

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        Yea, there’s little correlation anywhere with anything except people hearing spooky stories or assuming spooky things. Or the rare case where there is loud sub-audible noise or EMF that makes people feel uneasy, and make up the rest.

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          The human mind is a pattern-seeking engine. Even when real patterns aren’t there, imaginary ones will be detected instead. Just look at the clouds for a while, and you’ll see what I mean. This applies to images, sounds, events, just about anything really.

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            Yea well some people imagine the patterns themselves, too. A shocking number of people have a tenuous grasp on reality as best.