Ah, but from whence cometh our fear of ghosts if there are no ghosts to fear? Hence The Roaring Trade itself, no doubt - religion, magic, folklore, witchcraft, ghostlore, horror and all things ghastly that persist without a shred of objective evidence. And yet we all, even the most rational of us, have a Ghost Story, do we not? Such things become comforting in themselves even though we know not what they are, just that there is something that might betoken there is more to it, despite there being nothing to fear but fear itself... And what else is Fear but this nebulous, natural-born or otherwise atavistic capacity which culture has been swift to exploit for our general amusement simply because such things do scare us - even, if pushed, into objectivity...