Ghosts: Are They Real or Fake?

For this post, for my AC class, I am writing to evoke a response. A big controversy is the belief if ghosts are real or not. There are many shows on TV and a lot of them make ghosts seem to actually exist. In my opinion I am half way in believing this and half not. I think the main idea of these shows is for pure entertainment because I am quite entertained, but on half the shows they can't prove anything that they have seen or heard.

So I'll ask this: Do YOU believe in ghosts? I think that if you watch the show Ghost Adventures, you will have an answer to that question. The three guys on that show make their ghost hunting seem so real that for a couple of episodes I would believe that ghosts are real. But when I am watching it with my mom she says, "Don't you think that they could have staged all of this?" She brings up a very good point because I had never really thought of that WHILE watching the show because I was so into watching these three men get scared by the littlest noise that they hear.

Now, about this whole Paranormal Activity stuff...does it seem more real than the shows on TV? These movies deal with something completely different: demons. Obviously this is made up because they use the people from the first movie in the second one, but that doesn't mean that demons don't exist. I think that they don't because it just seems way too out-there to believe that someone could be possessed by something that physically doesn't exist.

I hope that I evoked a response out of whoever reads this. This topic is talked about all the time that people have debates as to the theory if ghosts exist or not. Take into consideration that I'm not completely convinced that they exist.