(October 7, 2016 at 9:25 am)robvalue Wrote: The flaw of reasoning is that if lots of people report something vaguely similar, there must be some truth behind it. Sure, there's probably a reason behind it. But that reason could be any number of things.
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Directly to that bit above.....people often see anecdotal accounts of ghosts from many people as evidence of ghosts, and miss the fact that the common thread in all the anecdotes...is that human beings are telling the tale. If we wanted to use ghoist anecdotes as evidence of something......it;s evidence of a common -human- tick, not of common -ghostly- interaction.
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