It's not enough to invent ghosts. You then have to offer explanations for their rather more unusual features. And then substantiate those explanations, which will be difficult when the same cannot even be done for the original claims of their existence.
What unusual features? They reveal themselves as soon as you start to consider their nature and origins. How do they work? What are they? Where do they come from? So often they resemble human beings, we are told that they are the spirits of the dead. Okay. So how come there are spirits at all? Why do we not all leave ghosts like them? And why, why, why are we not inundated with trillions of them? There's nothing special about human beings. But we only ever see ghost humans. Some people claim to witness ghost animals, but they are always domestic animals. Nothing older than modern recorded history. No cavemen, for example. What's up with that? No lizards, either. No mammoths. No anomalocarids. No plankton. The oceans should surely be a veritable ectoplasmic soup of the things. And we know that spirits cannot be confined just humans (and there's no reason why they should even look like humans, there's nothing special about the meat of an arm that should be ethereally preserved), because ghosts are also always wearing clothes. Ghost clothes. The ghosts of the clothes they were wearing, which in some cases may still exist and be perfectly functional. How did these clothes leave spiritual essences? If I found and wore them, might my ghost be wearing the very same clothes as another ghost? Can we duplicate ghost clothes like this? And do ghosts always look like the way they did when they died, or other periods? If inanimate objects can have multiple ghosts, can people too? I'm not the same entity I was as a child, my atoms are all different, my mind is massively changed, I don't even look the same. Could my earlier self have left a ghost already? Are we all walking around leaving ghosts of those moments, every single living thing that ever existed? Again, why are we not buried under ghosts? How many infectious diseases impotently haunt the site of their defeat like soldiers at their last battlefield?
The fact is, the only types of ghosts people ever claim to see are the types from our stories. Our culture is rife with very strong narratives we tell each other, and they are so strong that they affect our very experience of the world. The ghosts we see are as we expect them to be, right down to their period clothing. Never anything unusual or unique that we expect from real people. UFOs are the same: the modern narrative is alien space ships (as opposed to the gods and demons of our culture's past). Each our unlikely for many reasons, some of them the same reasons, and some of them at opposite ends of the scale. Alien ships are unlikely because of the size of the universe and the distance they would have had to come. Ghosts are unlikely because they are so provincial and arbitrary. Again, narrative. No one ever talks about witnessing dinosaur ghosts, and even if they did, they would have only looked the way they thought dinosaurs looked, not the way they really did, and we are still learning. Similarly, unidentified lights in the sky are always alien ships or angelic beings, never phantom pterodactyls still haunting a very different and much older world.
So really: what gives? Because even if they are real, the universe as we now understand it is just so much bigger than us, yet these ghost phenomena, which if real would be scientifically revolutionary, seem to be targeted in design and nature to be the sorts of things that ordinary people care about, which is utterly unlike everything real that we have ever discovered. This is very suspicious. It's exactly as you'd expect if they were pure human fabrications.
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