There are many opinions and interpretations on the subject of ghosts and, it is one subject that there is no concrete answer for.
This is a topic that has caused much controversy. There are many opinions and interpretations of the subject of ghosts and, it is one subject that there is no concrete answer for.
I have always thought of ghosts as made up entities. Something that makes a good camp fire story. Or a means to scare children before sending them to their tents for a fearful, sleepless night. Ghosts are scary. Movies are made about them, novels are written, and stories are told all for a desired effect. To scare, to excite, and to make money.
Personally, I don’t believe. Many of you may not agree with me and that’s OK because like I said, there are many opinions on this subject and without solid evidence one way or the other, each of us with our own way of thinking have a perfect right to believe whatever we believe.
Something may have happened in your life to make you believe that ghosts exist. Unexplained happenings are everywhere. We hear about haunted houses, haunted hotels, and haunted grounds where unwanted and unseen guests cause havoc at the most inopportune times. If indeed such places really are haunted, it only makes sense their hauntingly frightful residents must be ghosts or, are they?
Take the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast in Fall River Massachusetts. I am sure most of you know the story. On August 4 1892, Little Lizzie killed her parents, Andrew and Abby Borden with an axe. The town’s children made up the chant, “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks, and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Lizzie was later acquitted of the heinous murders but the Fall River residents ostracized her just the same and to this day no one knows for sure who really killed Lizzie’s parents.
People are dared to stay at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast. Some guests have seen ghosts, heard noises and worse….they swear they woke to see little Lizzie with her axe held high, creeping toward their beds.
Of course what makes this B&B so scary is the story behind it that has been kept alive for over 100 years. Is this a valid concern or some type of mass hysteria fueled by never ending stories and fanned by hysterical and overactive imaginations? Whatever the explanation, people flock to 92 Second St. in Fall River waiting for an available room and hoping, I am sure, for an exciting stay and if they are lucky, maybe a glimpse of one of the long diseased Borden family members.
Do you believe in ghosts?
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