Some reasons why we have to suspicious of stories that contain such remarkable and unfamiliar occurrences, such as so-called ghost stories:
- Some people will just blatantly make up things just for attention and validation
- People subconsciously exaggerate details in their recalls of these fascinating events, confirming what they already believe
- People misremember certain details. Multiple studies in psychology lend support to this.
- People aren't paying attention to all relevant details. Again, studies in psychology back this up.
- People misattribute observed events to things or entities that often weren't physically observed by them anyway.
- Sometimes, people express reports in a manner that they themselves experienced these first hand when in reality they're just reporting what someone else had experienced
