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…?
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.
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).
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)
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.
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…?
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.
cool explanation and response, thank you.
Microplastics dissolve the soul
Chokes it
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
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).
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)
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.
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Could be a matter of energy. Perhaps it takes time for a ghost to reform it’s spirit.
surely modern ghosts could just suck down a lipo and go full poltergeist?