GHOST

A mystery that will never be discovered...

Ghost stories have been told for many years, some of them are just the jokes from the mother to the son to make them stop being annoying. But some of them are from those who have seen ghost in the past. Base on many religions, many stories, ghosts are spirits or souls that come from a dead bodies such as human and animals. To make this world balance, living things have to die and when they die, they become ghosts. Many people try to connect to the ghosts by many ways, sacrifice animals, put food in front of their tomb, talk to them at night. They do that to remind the next generation about their ancestors. There are lots of kinds of ghosts in different area in the world:

Mexico:

China:

In Vietnam, people say that it depends on the way how person had died. They will become a ghost or a soul. A dead person turns into a ghost if they die in the way they don’t want to. For example: they got shot or killed in the car accident .However, they want to get revenge or to finish what they have not done in this life. So the God of Hell gives them a present. Usually they will have 49 days in this world to finish what they have begun. And after they finish what they want, they will have to pass the door of truth. It is when they have to drink the water of truth, to tell to the God of Hell what they have done wrong in mortal life. If they didn’t do many wrong things, they may go to the heaven. But if not, they will have to stay in hell, to be suffered. After 120 days they will return to the world as a form of an animal. In the other hand, souls definitely are good person that have done something good before they die or they die because of something good. This is called reincarnation, according to the Buddhism belief.
Many people believe that ghost is real but many people don’t. People are trying to find the answer by using modern technology. Many people say that we should not try to find them because if you try, they will find you.

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost
Resources: an interview with Nguyen Thi Phu (a Vietnamese mom)