Why are ghosts seen more at night?

Question

that seems to be the common idea, that ghosts are mostly active at night?

Answer 1

people tend to go looking for them more often, if not always, at night. besides, it's much scarier during the dark and therefor much more fun.
but how can we tell who, or perhaps what sits down beside us on the bus the next time we're going to visit our gran' ?

Answer 2

Number of ideas -

- Pubs close at 11pm
- Waking up in the middle of the night and see a ghost when 1/2 asleep
- People are scared of the dark / unable to see things clearly and more likely to read into things.
- Midnight is 'the witching hour'

Answer 3

Simply because people are looking for it at night, they expect it. You see you may hear a noise in the back of you room you didn't notice in the day, b/c of tv and this and that.

Also people see things that are not real at night, because fear may get them... now not all mind you! Half of me believes in ghosts and that part comes out in the scariest places. So it maybe a cat or smoke and people may think they have seen a ghost and therefor there are more reports real + people who think they saw it.
I believe ghosts are active when ever you allow them, when you are in fear.
Later.

Answer 4

I think that is a baseless suppostion. There is no evidence that ghosts, if they exist, are more active and night. I only know 2 people who claim to have seen a ghost or ghosts personal and none of those incidents took place during the night.

Answer 5

paranormal phenonom (spelt wrong) usually takes place between 12.30 and 2am. This has been cited in quite a few books on this subject. i do agree though it is easy to trick people into believing they have seen something they have not. The mind is very complex. There is a party trick that was played on people in the 1950s/60's. You get a bottle and fill it up with cold tea. You lace the top of it with rum and get some one to drink some and the partt trick is they end up getting drunk on cold tea. This auto sugestion can work with other things as well, like ghosts.

Answer 6

There are no ghosts. To prove a point my friend and I concocted a story about a gatekeepers wife who had hung herself 200 years ago from a beam in the holiday cottage we were staying The whole thing was made up. By the time we went to bed both of our wives believed the story. They were so convinced they even said there was a cold spot under the beam. My wife swore blind she heard a horse on cobble stones, and my mate's wife said she heard chains rattling, and saw an old woman sitting on the end of their bed.The cottage was in the middle of a field and had never had cobbles anywhere near it. The beam was put in the cottage 30 years earlier to support the ceiling and roof, and there was no cold spot. The cottage was only 100 years old and was only ever occupied by the gatekeepers. No woman had ever lived or died there. It was on a private estate and the history of the cottage was well known to the owners, whose family had lived there for centuries. There simply was no ghost. Even after we told them what we had done they still think they saw and heard things in the night. The programme "Most Haunted" is a classic example of using the darkness of night to elaborate the hoax of mediums and ghosts. Ghosts do not exist. It is all in the head.

Answer 7

you're dreaming or having close to sleep hallucinations. There are actually not any ghosts and if there have been, why the fvck might the hover around your mattress like floating morons while they may be everywhere interior the international? Do you particularly think of you're that distinctive? be beneficial there are actually not any uncovered electric powered wires or noxious chemical ingredients close to your mattress and don't devour close to bedtime. The "ghosts" will circulate away. I actual have been a factor of a number of "paranormal investigations" and have on no account considered something remotely like a ghost. i've got purely met alot of stupid human beings. element do not fly from cabinets, however the do fall from them or get knocked off. don't be so dramatic and superstitious.

Answer 8

If you're going to see a ghost it'll be within about 30 seconds of waking up when the brain is capable of seeing anything it can imagine....it's no coincidence. That's why most people say that they've been woken up and then see a ghost. It's a sort of hypno' thing.

Answer 9

I see, faces and animals in clouds, in wallpaper or material, the way the sun reflects on a road and makes it look like water and I see figures in shadows. I am educated I know why these things appear so they are my ghosts, my imagination. I'm also fond of art so my eyes are attuned to see the shapes. I dont believe the souls of the dead walk the earth or a nearby plane. Its hard to see something you dont believe in so I've never a real ghost! But others want to believe the dead are near or that Aliens are amongst us, when they see the shadow they want it to be real! Their mind fills in the description for them. the story ghost, the Alien or a recently deceased loved one. Imagination and suggestion = ghost. Why more at night? We are in more subdued lighting which creates more shadows, and our minds are physically tired then. Imagination takes over from logic.

Answer 10

Great point. It just backs up the case that ghosts are a symptom of human fear of the unknown

Answer 11

The brain and its interpretation of events is more vulnerable to poor light. Couple that with a supernatural fear of darkness, (common, but rarely admitted) and you have ideal conditions for hallucinatory phenomena.