talking about ghosts and "spiritual experiences" in general is kind of tricky, because on the one hand, there's a lot of strictly anecdotal evidence for their existence, and if they aren't real, that would imply that literally every single piece of anecdotal evidence like that throughout recorded human history is actually evidence of people outright rejecting reality, the laws of physics and causality, and their own memories/experiences to fit a literally impossible narrative just because they want to believe it's true, which in turn would have extremely troubling implications for all theories and personal anecdotes in general. and on the other hand ghosts aren't fucking real and all those implications are true
like the central issue here is that you can say "ghosts aren't real" and someone will say "okay well my grandma's house has unexplained cold spots and people have heard voices there for decades after someone was murdered, are you saying that's just coincidence?". and responding with "yes + your grandma should check for gas leaks" is considered a more embarrassing thing to say than the thing it's responding to
never mind actually ghosts are real but only for this person's grandma
