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@undercarver8777
October 27, 2026 at 3:27 pm
Animals have no soul?!!!! My dogs have tons more soul than I do!!
@Veronica-t9
October 27, 2026 at 3:30 pm
90’s ghost: “OOoooOOooo….that’s raaaAaaaaAad….” ..
@jippa
October 27, 2026 at 4:17 pm
Ghost is a band. Nothing more nothing less.
@DoloresJNurss
October 27, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Um, no, Christians originally believed in ghosts. St. Sebastian, one of the earliest Christian martyrs (A roman soldier who converted) appeared to a woman named Lucina, after his death, to tell her where to find his body, so that she could give him a proper burial. This happened in 288. The Bible wasn’t compiled even in its earliest form, until 382 so we’re talking very early, pre-biblical Christianity. (Yes, all of the books that would eventually wind up in the Bible were circulating – in various forms – but so were a lot of books later rejected as non-canonical. So no, there was no one, established Bible at that time.) Pope Gregory the First didn’t become Pope until 590. For that matter, in the Bible the Apostles saw Jesus walking on water and thought he was a ghost.
So at this point you’ve lost me and I stopped watching the video. This “expert” hasn’t done his homework.
@Kasey.yeahwoo
October 27, 2026 at 4:58 pm
15:38 hold on, cloak… someone forgot to log out
@fftl1827
October 27, 2026 at 4:59 pm
As a kid I lived in a traumatic household and never knew God or any belief at that and I seen a ghost in our hallway. As I was sleeping something just woke me up and as I gathered myself I turned my head towards the hallway and seen her standing there. She looked at me and the fear came over me as I pulled the quilt over my head and looked through the holes in it I just froze. She looked directly at me and smiled and turn around and walked away into my parents room and disappeared. I just happened to fall asleep in the living room on the couch. Now here is what’s crazy as I got older I started thinking deeper and deeper as i grew older and the more it played in my head I started to realize that her smile was sinister. So here’s more crazy stuff my sister visited me one time and we were just talking about our past and I brought this story up which I never told anyone and she looks at me shockingly and says “How do you know this?” And I said “Because I seen it….”. She then proceeds to follow up with “I seen that exact ghost with the same description as you described and there is no way you knew because I never told you”. I got goosebumps etc. Anyways this face has been etched in my head for decades now lol. This is why I believe in ghosts. I later found God when I hit a deep rock bottom and got pass my arrests etc and I have never turned back but I had a lot of weird supernatural encounters since believing in God as well. Anyways yeah my household was dark due to my parents so it wouldn’t be surprising some sinister entity wanted to hangout there lol.
@BariLax
October 27, 2026 at 5:00 pm
I feel compelled to remind everyone that fictional stories shared by a well educated person who seems like they believe them to be nonfiction are very much still fictional stories.
@nemoxero
October 27, 2026 at 5:15 pm
To avoid becoming a ghost…
At the moment of death,
merge into the clear light without
fear or hesitation…
@thomasmccarty1746
October 27, 2026 at 5:17 pm
Fastest click of my life. This series is the best.
@Cabochon1360
October 27, 2026 at 5:18 pm
I don’t believe in any of this stuff, but the ideas are fascinating. I write ghost stories, so am always interested. Excellent talk.
@TAGER_321
October 27, 2026 at 5:20 pm
the catholic church doesn’t believe in ghosts if asked they will bless or preform a mass in a place that believed to be hunted for you but that doesn’t mean the church condones the idea of the soul being stuck on earth purgatory isn’t on Earth
@janetf23
October 27, 2026 at 5:44 pm
👻
@tonyr.546
October 27, 2026 at 6:10 pm
“He’s got a bit of ghost in him”. lol. That’s awesome!
@mysterymayhem7020
October 27, 2026 at 6:16 pm
Herobrine to the rescue.
@Dr_Mel
October 27, 2026 at 6:23 pm
Oh great, my grandparents get to haunt a well built house people will probably be living in for generations. I’m gonna be in a gamefaqs forum someone’s hosting on a VM.
@parkermae
October 27, 2026 at 7:06 pm
I love ghost stories and folklore in general. Also, shout out CLOAK brand 👍
@shannonessig9776
October 27, 2026 at 7:19 pm
I would go to his Ted talk, class or literally any he hosts
@sasnadiia
October 27, 2026 at 7:25 pm
THIS WAS MY PROFESSOR!!!! He is awesome’nnn
@nilus2k
October 27, 2026 at 7:32 pm
12:25 Not really. Didn’t Ronald Reagan consult an astrologer regularly? Sadly a lot of President believed some pretty out there stuff
@pytl9
October 27, 2026 at 7:33 pm
A comment : Día De Los Muertos is a Mexican tradition (may also be part of some Central American traditions, I’m not sure). It is not a Hispanic tradition. Just like there are many countries in Europe with different beliefs and traditions, there are many different Latin American countries – with different beliefs and traditions.
@B.H.56
October 27, 2026 at 7:34 pm
interesting topic, it was sometimes hard to understand what he was saying. Talks really fast.
@nickalotdegit
October 27, 2026 at 7:51 pm
❤
@Dexterity_Jones
October 27, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Awesome expert.
@sethhousley5940
October 27, 2026 at 8:17 pm
13:48 interesting, because Europe is just a giant graveyard. So many wars and deaths.
@elisestanton4993
October 27, 2026 at 9:04 pm
To touch on “digital ghosts” my recently deceased father liked my memorial Facebook post. Could it be a glitch or a hack? Of course, but it’s impossible to tell. I’d like to think he manipulated it somehow 🤣
@kittycatcitycat
October 28, 2026 at 2:03 pm
re lady in white — also grave winding sheets were historically white. Also, weak, sickly people turn paler, so the clothing emphasizes that. But there’s also black clad ghosts – black being the traditional Victorian mourning colour. And this colour scheme is very European and Euro-American. Other cultures have their own very difforent associations with colour.
@kittycatcitycat
October 28, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Interesting comment about the haunted tent. Problem is, that story has a pretty direction. PItch the tent, run out of the tent, get lost in the woods, die slowly and horribly. Or perhaps we get out and burn the tent. Now we have a haunted campsite and no shelter to keep us warm. This reminds me of the kind of haunted object story Stephen King writes. But also, even outside of nomadic peoples, there are certainly ghost stories of ghosts who follow and haunt the people they are attached to, rather than any one place.
@righthandofdoom77
October 28, 2026 at 2:27 pm
1900s ghost – ‘get oooouuut.’
2000s ghost – ‘what’s the wifi passwooord?’
@torsion2
October 28, 2026 at 2:54 pm
christians arent supposed to believe in ghosts……..*the holy ghost enters the chat*
@lucianogarcia7533
October 28, 2026 at 2:56 pm
It’s curious about the lady in white how widespread it seems to be in different parts of the world. In my small town in southern Brazil we have our own story. She was forbidden of being with her beloved or he died, can’t recall. I just know that she supposedly hanged herself in a well and haunts the area ever since
@cablecar10
October 28, 2026 at 3:00 pm
The oracle of delphi thing has been somewhat debunked. The idea that volcanic fumes were inhaled may have been a modern invention. Most volcanic fumes would just ruin your lungs and kill you
@NiktheGreek7
October 28, 2026 at 3:02 pm
that people still believe in ghosts/god/mythology in 2026….
@LuckyDayPottery
October 28, 2026 at 3:11 pm
Very cool presentation.?
@Starchild2013
October 28, 2026 at 3:13 pm
I’ve seen weird, paranormal things. Thought one evil, one some sort of timeline glitch, and another just a spirit, but now I have no idea. 🤷🏼♀️
@dersw.3258
October 28, 2026 at 3:25 pm
how about jinns
@Clear_Night4
October 28, 2026 at 3:33 pm
As a younger millennial it would DEVASTATE me if a 90’s ghost haunted me w “loser, loser, double loser, as if, whatever, get the picture duh” 😭
Ghosts would have to resort to verbal haunting bc with ADHD I would always assume anything strange happening in my house was bc of me, like ofc I must have been the one to open every drawer in the kitchen and just forgot I did that 😅
@DaneScott-j1w
October 28, 2026 at 3:46 pm
This guy seems like a dude.
@JR-cl6qi
October 28, 2026 at 3:51 pm
I want to know how ghosts have clothes. Do clothes die too?
@zainabjilani3701
October 28, 2026 at 4:29 pm
Uh…I have had animal-ghost encounters so……..I don’t know about Abrahamic v. Non-Abrahamic…?
@tomplum5644
October 28, 2026 at 4:47 pm
unintended point he made, if your culture’s belief in what could become a ghost determines what kinds of ghosts people in that culture report seeing……..its all made up!!! however, i do appreciate that a lot of his answers are very broad and nondismissive for either view point. but the fact that he can’t say, ‘yes, there are ghosts’, should also be telling
@cosmicpsyops4529
October 28, 2026 at 5:20 pm
The oldest ghost is Jesus’ biological father.
@Eriugena8
October 28, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Million’s of people seeing ghosts every year, with some creepy photo and video evidence… ‘maybe they are real’.
Tesla, and SpaceX and AI, never making a profit without subsidy…’of course it will!, someday!’
@Pennybrookeify
October 28, 2026 at 6:14 pm
Ghosts, ghouls, gods- people believe in the wildest fictions.
@omarmeza00
October 28, 2026 at 7:00 pm
This guy looks like the Sons of Anarchy Marshall😂😂😂😂 Torak or sum like that
@TheRnesbit
October 28, 2026 at 7:47 pm
I’m an American and my ghost cat would wander around my house. I would hear her footsteps and see her tail.
@upshift_actual
October 28, 2026 at 8:12 pm
7:19 so basically folklore fanfic and og mc’s
@14hoursahead
October 28, 2026 at 8:15 pm
This was fascinating! I’d love to see more content with this expert!
“Ghost stories are written by the victims” – I agree! I consider most all horror stories to be tragedies, I’ve never seen/read one that wasn’t sad.
@chrisjags
October 28, 2026 at 8:20 pm
Ghosts are just the annoying, dramatic attention-seekers in life that STILL want you look at them in death
@Illdoanythingforaklondikebar
October 28, 2026 at 8:41 pm
Gen Z ppl thinking 90s dudes that wore backwards hats are dead now 😅😅😅😅
@idontwantahandle-v4t
October 28, 2026 at 8:54 pm
That “Yes” re the American South was so concise but so loaded.