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Years ago I sort of did, but now I don't at all. I guess you need to believe in an immortal soul before you believe in ghosts, and furthermore, that requires you believe in a bunch of other things.
Nah, I don't think you have to believe in an immortal soul to believe in ghosts. I mean, I'm agnostic/borderline atheist yet I still believe in ghosts or spirits or whatever you want to call them. I tend to think of it on a more scientific level. Everything is made up of energy (electrons, protons, etc), and energy cannot be created nor destroyed, it has to go somewhere when someone dies. My theory is that when people, or sometimes even animals, die a particularly (in their opinion) traumatic death or maybe even make the conscious decision to just stick around, their energy hovers either where they died or seeks out a particular place or object, instead of being dispersed (what I believe to be the source of "residual" hauntings) and that energy retains certain characteristics of that person's personality, emotions, etc. (which are all essentially actions of energy being dispersed throughout the brain from neurons firing action potentials and various impulses about), these being the intelligent hauntings. It's fairly common knowledge among the paranormal community that "ghosts" appear however they want to appear, not exactly how they looked in life, and the fact that they can manipulate their appearance and other energy sources, such as electricity, magnetic fields, and sound waves just reinforces the idea for me. The fact that I've caught completely unexplainable voices on my digital recorder just completely solidified the existence for me. This probably doesn't make a lick of sense to anyone but me, but oh well, lol. It's just my theory.