{"id":69,"date":"2019-03-15T21:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cranleigh.org\/philosophyzone\/?p=69"},"modified":"2019-03-15T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:07:07","slug":"why-do-people-believe-in-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cranleigh.org\/philosophyzone\/thought-starters\/why-do-people-believe-in-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people believe in ghosts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the biggest questions asked by most people nowadays is \u2018why do people believe in ghosts?\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons why people do have a belief in ghosts is first hand experience, whereas some people simply believe in ghosts through word and media online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tatnall<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/QYs58HmCz-s?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Tertia van Rensburg<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/ghosts?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest questions asked by most people nowadays is \u2018why do people believe in ghosts?\u2019 One of the&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"pull-right read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cranleigh.org\/philosophyzone\/thought-starters\/why-do-people-believe-in-ghosts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thought-starters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why do people believe in ghosts? 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