DU is a good place to ask this: how many people here believe they have encountered a ghost?

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44. These sorts of experiences can be difficult to believe until they happen to you. And most people

who've had such experiences won't bring them up unless encouraged to do so - and even then, often want someone else to go first. There are religions that tell their followers any such experiences are demonic trickery, which can discourage those followers from ever saying anything. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people so convinced this sort of thing can't happen, that it's delusional to believe in an afterlife, that they feel it's their duty to disparage and ridicule any such stories.

I don't find stories of scary ghosts nearly as interesting as the stories of contacts from loved ones who've crossed over that you're most likely to hear from the people who are grieving, but also from those who've taken care of the dying and helped their families (hospice workers, nurses) or had other experience with grief support.

A neighbor of mine died after a heart attack while doing yard work a couple of decades ago. After he passed, both his widow and his grown, married daughter experienced what are called ADCs, after-death communications - but they were reluctant to mention the experiences even to each other until months later.

Here's a web page about various types of ADCs: http://www.after-death.com/Pages/About/ADC.aspx

People at the University of Virginia have done quite a bit of research. See their YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@uvadivisionofperceptualstu9909 .

And see the John Cleese-moderated panel in the video below...and read the comments on YouTube for those YT users' own stories: