I'm on this site for memes - eviltoast
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    11 hours ago

    American houses are also more haunted than European ones despite the far longer history of dense habitation.

    Now you could say this is because of some cultural reason but the real cause is much more simple.

    This is actually due to HOAs binding spirits to the land forever, check your fine print people!

  • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    God help those haunted by the dubstep fanatics.

    Rattling chains and haunting moans? Nah, nonstop basement wubs.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Because there’s many ghosts already, and the 2000s ghosts can’t afford rent. This is why most places are NOT haunted. They are officially owned by few older ghosts, but they just rent them out, and the rent is too high to be afforded by most younger ghosts.

    And those few that can afford it are too busy for any actual haunting.
    Such is life death.

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    1 day ago

    it does need an answer though. so why isn’t there more modern ghosts? all haunt those stereotypical psych wards or whatever. why not modern places? was lead paint the requirement to um trap souls or peoples IQ…?

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      17 hours ago

      pretty sure it’s literally just that ghosts were a pop-culture thing during that time, like really it was a HUGE thing, everyone was doing seances and hiring mediums, it was completely normal.

      Then when the trend faded we were left with the cultural memory of it, associated with the period.
      It’s like how disco has some very specific associations.

    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      Statistically there are still far more people who are dead from prior to 2007 than there is from after, so I think it’s just a game of probability

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Probably less CO floating around from indoor fires and such. Also just more (justifiably) skepticism today, as we understand much more about… well, pretty much everything (compared to the Victorian era).

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I thought Paranormal Activity had pretty modern ghosts. I also recall that the Conjuring 2 had a ghost from the 1980s (albeit he was likely a child of the 30s)

    • VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee
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      Personal opinion is ghost story gain credibility over time because people wrote about it or talked about and built a legendarium around the place so when you look into it there is substance it’s not just one guy talking about something that happenned to him.

      If it’s just the experience of one person and there are no books or stories about the place it’s just less appealing and stimulating for peoples imagination.

  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
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    There have been several short windows in time where the soul pipeline was blocked because of [REDACTED], this leads to a buildup of departing souls and the most [REDACTED] of them end up getting dropped from the backlog database and, bam. Ghosts.

    Just never ask them what they saw when they tried to [REDACTED] the [REDACTED]!

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    I DIDN’T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF Y’AAAAAAALLLL
    NOW YOU WON’T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF MEEEEEEEEEEE

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Ghost don’t haunt places at 3am if there are cats in the vicinity - scheduling issues, cats have dibs that ghosts are bound to honour (they just move their haunting at midnight usually … that is if there are no witches around which too have them outdibed, poor spectres have to haunt at the awkward 1:30am timeslot if they want to get any work done).