Exactly! Where is your evidence that they did?
Indeed, and why would they assume a ghost as the cause? Indeed what is a ghost, and what objective evidence can they demonstrate they are even possible?
Welcome to AR by the way.
I’d like to recommend “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles MacKay. It was first published in 1841 and is still widely available. My local library has both a paper and ecopy.
A quote from MacKay: Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
The readiness of people to believe extraordinary things with flimsy amounts of real evidence is not a harmless human trait. A woman named Lori Daybell was just convicted of killing a husband and her two children while thinking they were possessed and it was the only way to “save” them. Her current husband Chad Daybell goes on trial for the same offenses soon. Similar things happen on a regular bases.
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The book is available on YouTube for listening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsCZ_zggt3E
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Excellent suggestion. I actually heard about this book from the writings of Carl Sagan, James Randi, and Michael Shermer. I have yet to read it, so I will put it on my list.