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- Why do we love ghost stories? Because they're a temporary sort of terror. They allow us to return to our world, however imperfect, and ultimately they make us feel better about our lives. They send us snuggling into the arms of the person, just moments before, who was perhaps full of flaws, who now feels like our greatest protector.
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- Overall, stories provide a safe container for us to feel our emotions. So many of us spend our lives trying to push our uncomfortable emotions (like sadness and worry and shame) away, or numb them, or run away from them … or whatever it takes to not feel them.
- Feeling fear is good for us. While worry and anxiety (which is fear gone amuck) is NOT all that healthy for us, fear definitely has an important place in our lives.
- Ghost stories are a metaphor for all the “ghosts” we’re dealing with in our lives. All of us are “haunted” by things in our past or are struggling with our own “ghosts” of things that have failed (such as relationships or careers).
- Ghost stories help us explain the unexplainable. We all have had events that have happened in our lives we can’t explain—that we can’t come up with any good reason for what happened or didn’t happen.
Oct 26, 2021 · Post-horror relaxation: While we feel highly stimulated during a horror experience, a sense of relief arrives after a positive conclusion of the experience (e.g., the evil entity gets obliterated ...
Oct 26, 2010 · We retell ghost stories because we're rarely alone when we're listening or telling them. Stories of the dead and mutilated, it seems, will abate loneliness. Because there is no better feeling...
Mar 21, 2014 · From Gaiman’s explanation as to why we love a good ghost story: Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors...
Mar 9, 2021 · Like, why are ghost stories so irresistible? BROCKMEIER: Well, traditional ghost stories - I think people just like to experience the chill of encountering creatures who are us but not us. And...
Dec 15, 2021 · Like most longstanding cultural customs, the precise origin of telling ghost stories at the end of the year is unknown, largely because it began as an oral tradition without written records....
Oct 22, 2018 · The ghost story shape-shifts because ghosts themselves are so protean — they emanate from specific cultural fears and fantasies. They emerge from their time, which is why Jacobeans saw ghosts...
