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For discussion of everything rum and uncanny, from cryptozoology (mysterious or out-of-place animals), UFOs, high strangeness, etc. Following in the footsteps of Charles Fort and all those inspired by him, like the field of anomalistics.

As this community is on Feddit.uk it takes a British approach to things but it needn't be restricted to the UK - if it's weird and unusual it probably has a home here.

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Why People Believe In Ghosts – A Psychologist Explains All (www.iflscience.com)

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... The belief in ghosts is a funny thing. Despite there being no evidence to support their existence, ghosts have haunted humanity wherever they have settled across the planet. Every age and every culture has its own type of ghost and ghost stories, each shaped by its own peculiar context. And despite the rise of scientific thinking in the 20th and 21st centuries, the belief in unquiet spirits is still very much alive...

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago

I’m guessing that it’s, as Damien Hirst phrased it, the impossibility of death in the mind of one living. That your mind/spirit/point of view would cease existing when you die is an idea that is hard to intuitively grasp, so humans across cultures come up with ideas of an afterlife to rationalise it.