THE GHOST！ BELIEVE OR NOT

Name: May & Phyllis
ID: 94152315 & 94152328
Date: 12/13
Topic: The GHOST! BELIEVE or NOT

Phyllis : I’ve heard of true stories where poltergeists have moved and thrown articles around rooms. They have been the cause of all kinds of rumblings and knockings and have made appliances malfunction.

May : I believe there must be a more s c i e n t i f i c explanation. I’ve read that some experts suggest that since poltergeists tend to focus around young adolescents, it may be a case of psychokinesis and not have anything to do with ghosts.

Phyllis : you mean the ability to move objects with your mind, like in the movie Carrie, which was originally a Stephen King novel.

May : exactly. There have been rare cases where some stressed-out teenagers have developed this uncontrolled ability and have been unaware of it.

Phyllis : I suppose you think the child is the cause of all the unexplained activity. Don’t you believe in ghosts at all?

May : I think most reports of ghosts are nothing more than someone’s overactive imagination.

Phyllis : I believe in them. Have you ever heard about that old story of a runaway girl from Yonkers, N.Y.?

May : I can’t say that I have.

Phyllis : she was homesick and decided to call her mom and tell her that she was returning. The girl hitched a ride on a stormy night and the car crashed. Both the driver and she were killed. After her death, her ghost would sometimes stop a motorist, on stormy nights and ask to be taken home.

May : well? Did they give her a ride?

Phyllis: Each time a motorist brought her home, she would ask him to knock on her parents’ door. After the motorist returned to the car with her parents, she had vanished.

May: I still think people’s imagination can get the best of them.

Phyllis: what about cases of people who have reported getting a surprise visit from someone who had just died thousands of miles away?

May: perhaps one’s culture and environment can make people imagine things.

Phyllis: I still think they exist. I’ve heard too many stories that I think are inexplicable.