Whether it is on Halloween night or simply sitting around a campfire with your closest friends, telling ghost stories is a popular American tradition that goes way back. Individuals who are part of these organizations believe that they are able to contact various types of "spirits", "ghosts" - these may be described as "pure", or those of the "light". Most of the ghosts have been found to be the spirits of males. Anthropologists deem that ghosts, accurately talking are the souls of dead persons very prominent in the ancient history as white mists.

The same word was also used to indicate the aquatic spirits during the olden times in Scotland. When Lynsey told Michael Bentine, an expert in the paranormal, about her experience, he told her that the white light was just a friendly manifestation of energy, dating back to the time of the Druids.

It tells how Uncle William and Aunt Mary came to visit and spent the night, but refused to stay longer as they believed the house was haunted. Chinese culture is also loaded with testimonials of ghosts and Confucius even states that people must admire God and Ghosts and must keep themselves away from them.

While the spookier ghost stories might be too frightening for younger children, ghost stories or suspenseful stories are a great way to share this time honored Halloween tradition with children. One Night she dreamt she was being smothered and woke up with a startle and saw a "habit" (the Robe they bury a dead person in) floating across the room and disappear through the wall.

In all these cases the ghosts are somehow related to tragic and untimely deaths. It used to house tuberculosis patients and people refer to it as the most haunted place ever. If any one of the linked person's family sees them he or she is at the jeopardy of being dead.

Ancient literature also corresponds to human souls as birds or some other animals and even the verifications also advocate that human souls are having the strict body structure like that of the dead creature and also wear the equivalent clothing that they wore at the time of their death.

The ceremonies of feeding the spirits of dead are still in practice in the Chinese culture and even the western world today exults the All Souls Day for the spirit of deceased. The belief in ghosts as the souls, or spirits of the person who has passed on is tied to the very old concept of animism, which teaches that everything in nature has a soul, including, animals, plants, human beings, rocks, trees, unique places etc.