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There is no evidence for ghost, so they're as likely to exist as anything else you can come up with for which there's no evidence.

• muzani 7y ago
  Arguably, there's a lot of attempts to document ghosts. We probably have more documentation for ghosts, than, say, orcas eating sharks. We probably have more evidence for ghosts than the siege of Troy, but less than, say, documented sightings of dragons. Then again the number of stories on dragons have gone down drastically, perhaps hunted to extinction, but the ghosts are still around. It affects housing prices, and has possibly caused deaths in some cases. The big difference is we have seen sharks, we have seen orcas, and it makes a lot of sense for an orca to want to eat a shark. But ghosts seem to make less sense and there is no clear source. We have no evidence that humans have pooped on the moon. But the people claiming so are credible. The people claiming ghost sightings are much less credible and often in the group that believes other mystic things. There are some dedicated ghost hunters, but they are as credible as the Mythbusters, at best. Ghost hunting requires expensive equipment and possibly some scientific training. It's likely to be a career dead end - you can't go from being a ghost hunter to being a physicist. And very few would want to fund it.