Dear scientists, we love learning about nanotechnology and flashlight fish and breakthroughs in medicine, because that stuff is fascinating and world-changing and it satisfies the human desire to better understand our world. But really, scientists, can't you just leave ghosts alone already? Because believing in ghosts doesn't hurt anyone, and in some cases it actually helps people, and also it's fun.
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Dear scientists, we love learning about nanotechnology and flashlight fish and breakthroughs in medicine, because that stuff is fascinating and world-changing and it satisfies the human desire to better understand our world. But really, scientists, can't you just leave ghosts alone already? Because believing in ghosts doesn't hurt anyone, and in some cases it actually helps people, and also it's fun.
By /Sept. 1, 2020 11:52 am EDT We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Belief in ghosts predates anything approaching modern …
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, tales of the supernatural have been a source of entertainment, moral instruction, and harmless (and not-so-harmless) frights for nearly as long as the human race has been around. There are similar creepy stories from places like Japan, but the United States of America has no shortage of eerie tales of the undead lurking around its darker, dustier corners. Below you will find tales that have inspired fear across the land of the free and the home of the not-so-brave. Maybe read this one with the lights on.
By /Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 4:59 pm EDT We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Since the first humans huddled around a flickering …
By /Sept. 21, 2020 9:41 pm EDT The only thing scarier than a ghost is a child ghost. No one's really sure why, though. Phantom kids are still just …
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