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Because there's many ghosts already, and the 2000s ghosts can't afford rent. This is why most places are NOT haunted. They are officially owned by few older ghosts, but they just rent them out, and the rent is too high to be afforded by most younger ghosts.
And those few that can afford it are too busy for any actual haunting.
Such is ~~life~~ death.
There have been several short windows in time where the soul pipeline was blocked because of [REDACTED], this leads to a buildup of departing souls and the most [REDACTED] of them end up getting dropped from the backlog database and, bam. Ghosts.
Just never ask them what they saw when they tried to [REDACTED] the [REDACTED]!
it does need an answer though. so why isn't there more modern ghosts? all haunt those stereotypical psych wards or whatever. why not modern places? was lead paint the requirement to um trap souls or peoples IQ...?
pretty sure it's literally just that ghosts were a pop-culture thing during that time, like really it was a HUGE thing, everyone was doing seances and hiring mediums, it was completely normal.
Then when the trend faded we were left with the cultural memory of it, associated with the period.
It's like how disco has some very specific associations.
People used to have big families and lots would die at home. Also a lot of people would die at psych wards and many lived there.
Houses now have fewer people, and people are more likely to die at a hospital. Most houses today are not that old, while a house from the 1700's would have hundreds of years for people to die in it.
If you want a modern ghost maybe look in an ICU unit or possibly a new cemetery. My friend once silently pointed out a ghost to me outside in the daylight outside an old mental hospital that had been converted to a school. She was a white mist just walking down the hill wearing a gown, no shoes but for some reason her head wasn't visible. I want to say looked like maybe late 1800's early 1900's.
I'm not sure if I should laugh about how much you are playing along or if I should be worried about you
It happened over 20 years ago. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't seen it and had someone point it out to me. My friend didn't even say anything so there was no expectation for what I would see when I turned around. It wasn't a creepy setting, being daylight and eating lunch. I haven't seen any since then.
I make no claims on what a ghost is, it could just be residual or glimpses through time, glitch in the Matrix, who knows, probably not a conscious being and it did fade away so possibly not even permanently around. All I know is there appears to be some rare phenomena that can be pointed to and briefly observed by multiple people. Of course there is only my word on that and I am just a person online so it makes sense to be skeptical especially in modern times. Given the topic seemed a fun place to share my experience.
I'm an atheist myself because I have never personally had such an experience, but I think it is unwise to dismiss the experiences of others. Just because I have never seen something doesn't make it an impossible thing. It just makes it very difficult for me to understand the experience because I have never had one like it myself. I always tell myself that maybe that will change someday and so will I.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
I'm an atheist too besides some interest in Buddhist philosophy. I consider what I saw as more like something residual, not a conscious soul walking the Earth. But honestly I have no idea.
I do like the idea that something could exist still scientifically undiscovered though. In modern times we can't just go into the wilderness or hop on a boat and make a new discovery. The low hanging fruit has been found before we were born, and in a way it has made things more mundane.
Microplastics dissolve the soul
Chokes it
Statistically there are still far more people who are dead from prior to 2007 than there is from after, so I think it’s just a game of probability
Probably less CO floating around from indoor fires and such. Also just more (justifiably) skepticism today, as we understand much more about... well, pretty much everything (compared to the Victorian era).
I thought Paranormal Activity had pretty modern ghosts. I also recall that the Conjuring 2 had a ghost from the 1980s (albeit he was likely a child of the 30s)
Personal opinion is ghost story gain credibility over time because people wrote about it or talked about and built a legendarium around the place so when you look into it there is substance it's not just one guy talking about something that happenned to him.
If it's just the experience of one person and there are no books or stories about the place it's just less appealing and stimulating for peoples imagination.
Could be a matter of energy. Perhaps it takes time for a ghost to reform it's spirit.
surely modern ghosts could just suck down a lipo and go full poltergeist?
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
If I get to haunt a location when I die, I am totally making dick jokes through Ouija boards and other devices.
WHAT'S YOUR WIFI PASSWORD!!!!! (Stolen from some comedian....Aziz Ansari...?
School Spirits, good show
Oh BOB SAGET!
I kind of hope Bob Saget is out there haunting someone in Orange County.
Sucking their dicks for coke.
I find it funny whenever someone talks about a past life, it's always something exciting or famous. But no one ever recalls being a field worker that did nothing notable besides die of dysentery at 34.
oh thanks for the idea im gonna use that for tonight's psyop against my neighbors.
I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF Y'AAAAAAALLLL
NOW YOU WON'T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF MEEEEEEEEEEE
Honey, I live for this. Boo, bitch, boo.
Do any of these fuckers ever blast out of the wall and have like a huge cumshot?
Ghost don't haunt places at 3am if there are cats in the vicinity - scheduling issues, cats have dibs that ghosts are bound to honour (they just move their haunting at midnight usually ... that is if there are no witches around which too have them outdibed, poor spectres have to haunt at the awkward 1:30am timeslot if they want to get any work done).
Or one that's always telling you that you have no rizz.