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Ghost Encounters and Age?

Posted on: August 19, 2009 - 4:25am

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Ghost Encounters and Age?

Has there been any studies about what age people are more likely to have ghost encounters or similar occurrences. I suspect that many people have such encounters when they are young and infinitely influenced by things such as ghost stories or horror movies. Has there been a study of any kind about this?

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Posted on: August 19, 2009 - 5:38am #1

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When I was 5 I saw a ghost.

True story.

Then I turned into a rocket ship and flew into the sun.

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Posted on: August 19, 2009 - 5:43am #2

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Lol ClockCat. I've never

Lol ClockCat.
I've never heard of such a study. An interesting suggestion, though I'm personally inclined to think that youth has little to do with it. I can't recall more than one person that was under 20 that relayed a ghostly tale to me in all seriousness, but plenty of older folk. But that's just my personal experience.

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Posted on: August 19, 2009 - 5:49am #3

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By personal experience, the people who most claim these are real tend to be poor, uneducated nightly-drunk people that host orgy parties, marry off before 20 and make babies to raise.

Just saying.

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Posted on: August 19, 2009 - 6:07am #4

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ClockCat wrote:these claims come from poor uneducated .....

Well I understand what your saying,but I disagree with the "poor" part.When I was young we lived in the projects and I never once remember anybody claiming there are ghost,but when I got older and moved out of the projects into an upper middle-class neighborhood I heard about ghost ,so in conclusion poor people don't have the leisure to think about ghost,its more important to think about improving your situation.

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