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So Fort Ontario wants more business. Clever marketing strategy...kinda.

i believe in ghosts, and i use the term ghost because there isn't a better term.

however, i fall short of all the assumptions and dumb implications people put on the idea. "ghost" to me is the same as UFO. it is an unexplainable phenomena that while it defies reality has no evidence for being "something" (where something is whatever myth is in vogue at the moment).

I didn't expect you to say that you believe in ghosts. I'm not sure how much you are redefining the term. Ghosts are disembodied spirits. I will entertain the existence of ghosts as seriously as I will the existence of unicorns.

When you say that you define ghosts as unexplainable phenomena are you saying that the phenomena in question is currently unexplained, that it could be explained, or that it is eternally unexplainable? Simply put, are you saying that there are natural explanations for these phenomena, some of which are currently unknown, or are you saying that there are no natural explanations even to be discovered?

I think ghosts and UFOs are basically the same thing. Social phenomena of some kind. It's the only reasonable explanation. If a place gets a reputation of being haunted then people expect something weird to happen and then will even go so far as to create a false memory that they saw something that defies reason when they visit the place. Also note how when someone sees a UFO there is often a spate of similar sightings in the same area,