What can we learn from ghost stories? | Amy Tudor | TEDxVCU

So, science tells us that there is no such thing as ghosts. I know some of you will be very relieved to hear this. Others will take issue with it. I know this because every time I talk about this, every time I lecture about it, somebody will come up to me afterwards and swear they have seen a ghost or talked to a ghost. But in an academic environment, we have to bow to the absence or presence of scientific data. And despite all the years of looking by researchers, by ghost hunters, there is no hard evidence ...