Why Were Americans Obsessed With Ghosts In The 1940s?

In 1940s America, two folklorists, separated by more than 2000 miles, undertook the task of collecting and studying the “modern” ghost stories of their time. Despite the time and distance separating their two studies, their findings are creepily similar.

Both studies found that people more often reported solid, human-seeming ghosts, rather than the wispy transparent figures of popular imagination. In many cases witnesses are unable to tell that they are experiencing ghostly phenomenon until they are later informed that the person is dead.

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