Do you not find it odd that there are plenty of Victorian Ghost stories around?

Question

but nobody ever see's ghosts of ancient Egyptians or ancient Greeks or ancient Celts or Vikings or Indians running around????

Now I believe in spirits but this makes me question.

Why ONLY 100 yr old ghosts.
Is there something special about 100 yr old spirits?

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Answer 1

I agree with the first Answerer. Are you talking about ghosts or ghost stories?

There are recorded sightings in Britain of the ghost of what might be Queen Boudicca rising out of a Lincolnshire mist in her chariot; a Saxon horseman galloping wildly in the southern countryside, and Roman soldiers in, I think, York, among others. I think we would see the Egyptian ghosts in Egypt, and Greek ones in Greece, etc, unless they had travelled and/or died here.

In Victorian times, there was a huge surge of interest in the occult, with table rappings, seances, demonstrations of Mesmerism and hypnotism et al gaining popularity. We tend to associate ghost stories with those times; some of the very best and scariest were written by M R James. Here's a little information:
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Book-Victorian-Ghost-Stories/dp/0192804472

I have also heard it said that whatever it is that causes the manifestation of ghosts tends to lose power with the passage of time, so older ghosts fade leaving the more recent, stronger ones. (I tend to believe more in the theory of "replay", which is when someone on the right wavelength can see actions of the past played out. But I'm a sceptic...)

Answer 2

I think it's a matter of what we are exposed to in the West, especially in the U.S. In the U.K. they have ghost sightings of characters from every period of Britain's history, including Romans. I am sure that if we knew more about ghost stories in Egypt and Greece (I for one do not hear many stories about day to day life and culture in these countries) we would know all about their ghosts. There is a long history of ghost stories in China as well, and Classical Greek mythology is full of ghosts.

Answer 3

There are lots of storys of American Indian ghosts. They tend to occur in the more remote areas.

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Answer 5

Maybe it's because all the people from the Victorian era lived miserable, contained lives, and just didn't feel that they had had enough fun to move on.