[chesley]

When I was a kid, back in ‘57 or ‘58, I asked an elderly neighbor lady if she believed in ghosts. She said no, and I asked why she didn’t. What she said has always stuck with me. “Those people in heaven don’t want to come back, and those people in hell can’t come back.”

[Aquinasfan]

When I was a kid, back in ‘57 or ‘58, I asked an elderly neighbor lady if she believed in ghosts. She said no, and I asked why she didn’t. What she said has always stuck with me. “Those people in heaven don’t want to come back, and those people in hell can’t come back.”

True, but ghosts could be some form of demonic manifestation. And it wouldn't be beyond demonic powers to impersonate the dead, whether during seances, as ghosts, or as poltergeists.