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Originally Posted by lizsquiz
I don't know if I believe in ghosts or not, I think I probably don't as there's lots that doesn't make sense - like what Ricky Gervais said about how isn't it odd that there's no reports of ghosts from like ancient Egypt or cavemen or anything, only from sort of Victorian times onwards.
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That's not true. Ghost stories as we know them now come from their popularity in Victorian England. It's Classical and Silver Latin literature that is really responsible for the idea of a "ghost." The reason we don't hear about ghosts in, say, ancient Sumerian texts, is b/c they didn't didn't believe in them or have any kind of context to explain the phenomena we attribute to spirits.
Ghosty stuff has been happening since the dawn of humankind, I suspect, it's only recently that we've started calling it "ghost" or whatever.