Interesting read Mason. I've never believed in ghosts either, but I'm not so stuck in my beliefs that I'd dismiss solid evidence. Especially if I saw something like that with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears like you did!

I'm an analytical type of guy, always thinking. If that happened to me, I'd be compelled to think it through too - to try and rationalize the experience and see if there was a better explanation for "what really happened".

If I couldn't come up with any sort of alternative theory, then I'd have to move my skeptic-o-meter from "highly unlikely" to "further observation required".

You see so many show on the tube that tell stories of people encountering ghosts. Sometimes it seems plausible, but they never provide any proof beyond the story itself.

Or you go to a tourist attraction, and the employees will tell you that it's haunted and relay some of the experiences that some of them have had with the ghost(s). I've usually dimissed it as "going with the territory" - part of the supposed thrill of the attraction.

I'd be interested to read a follow-up on your thoughts.

Always a rational explanation for things. As I walked down to the lobby for coffee this morning I could see that where I appeared to see ghosts was in fact a reflection of an adjacent hallway on a pane of glass in the window of the exercise room, which was darkened at the time.

Their clothing was another matter though. Several people were standing around in the lobby wearing late 18th century costumes. I gathered from their conversations that they were supposed to be going to some horse related event today and were grumbling about the fact that it was raining and the event was postponed.

Yeah, reality can ruin all the fun.

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That was certainly a contributing factor, no doubt.

Trucking to ghost town? Hope you're too busy out on the road to write here

Over the years I've stayed stayed at many "haunted" hotels. I have yet to see an actual ghost that couldn't be easily explained  in the light of day (and sober). Not to say there's no such thing, but as a sceptic I am yet unconvinced.

Easy. All of the reports are quite false, and all true.

The universe is exactly what we each choose it to be, nothing more and nothing less. To search beyond that is an exercise in futility.

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