GHOST

PRESENTED BY
ABHINAW PANDEY
 Why do ghosts exist?
One of the paranormal
phenomena that has been
around for thousands of year is
the belief in Ghosts. Ghosts have

existed in several cultures over

many periods of time
and even in this modern day and

age; they still seem to have a

permanent place in
virtually every culture, region or a
 Why do ghosts exist?
between science and religion. So far
in time, although with few
exceptions, ghosts have
been seen, heard, felt or even

smelled but have not been

validated using any scientific
reasoning. Even though science has

not backed the existence of

ghosts, it’s still
fascinating to see how the concept
 COMMON PERCEPTION
• Recent polls in US through ABC news
indicate that majority of people in
USA believe in ghosts. For the most
part ghosts exist due to the mere
fact that people want to believe in
them. Ghosts are the by-product of
an influence of cultural and
psychological factor on people’s
mind and exist entirely in people’s
minds. There are a several ways
people use to validate the
existence of ghosts. Some of
 HOW PEOPLE BECOME GHOST
->WHEN INDIVIDUAL DIE WITH
UNFULLFILLED WISH.
->WHEN INDIVIDUAL DIE ACCIDENTLY.

->SUICIDE.

->MURDER.

->WHEN INDIVIDUAL DIE WITHOUT LIVING

WHOLE LIFE.
 PROOF OF EXISTENCE
• 13
people were informally asked for some

paranormal experience in their life and

amazingly all 13 of them had some sort

of a story
to related that related to some sort of a

paranormal experience. Everybody was

asked to
rate himself/herself in terms of his/her

religious devotions as Strictly Religious,

Normal

 Stories obtained from in terms
of their origin and cultural
influence is as follows:

Number Interviewed Birthplace Religion

4 USA Christian

3 INDIA Sikh

3 PAKISTAN Islam

2 USA N/A

1 PHILIPPINES Catholic

1 PAKISTAN N/A
 CONTINUE
• There are a several ways people use
to validate the existence of ghosts.
Some of
• the ways include real life
stories/incidents, scientific data and
ghost hunting trips. Let’s
• analyze each one of them and see
how we can disprove each one of
the ways used by
• people to prove ghost’s existence.
FEW YEARS BACK SCIENTISTS
EXPERIMENTED ON EXISTENCE OF
SPIRIT. THEY TOOK A RAT THAT WAS
ABOUT TO DIE AND KEPT THAT IN AIR
TIGHT JAR OF GLASS. AND WHEN RAT
DIED THE JAR BURSTED.
IT WAS THE PROOF OF EXISTENCE OF

SPIRIT.
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• 1. Almost all of the stories happened at
a night time.
• 2. Most of them happened while either
somebody was sleeping or right when
• something woke the person.
• 3. A good number of stories were also
preceded with a traumatic event in
the
• person’s life.
• 4. Almost all of the stories involved an
old house, cemetery, or a far country
 Some haunted places
• The Myrtles Plantation The Myrtles
Plantation
• The Tower of London The Tower of
London
• Eastern State Penitentiary Eastern
State Penitentiary
• The Queen Mary The Queen Mary
• Waverly Hills Sanatorium Waverly
Hills Sanatorium
• The Whaley House The Whaley
House
• Raynham Hall Raynham Hall