Some think they are departed souls who can't move on. Others that they simply don't exist. What do you think they are emfire?

A Buddhist would say they are just the mental body ..created as the name suggests by the mind after death.A vehicle created to experience the bardo state which is said to last up to a maximum of 49 days before uncontrolled rebirth occurs.

What about Jinn? Are they these so-called ''ghosts''?

no, jinn are something else

Imaginary

not imaginary, that much i kno... i can't prove it to u or anyone else, but i have seen enough to kno it isn't the imagination...

could be the spirits of those passed on ... or it could be a door that opens, allowin a peek at another time, a time in the past..... if i allow myself to daydream i would dream of passin thru that door of time and do some snooping around.

That's just what I opened the post to add.
Some kind of timeslip is an interesting theory.

I think something like echoes of people that use to be there, and maybe we sense them sometimes.

I like this but I wonder if the door might lead to something evil

Grow up and all the little spirits will poof and fly away. They are whatever you make of them. So make them little nothings and they will turn into something logic. Oh my god they hate logic

Who? are you saying ghosts hate logic?

sapphire and steel ghost soldier

i'd call that lucky

Oh yes. Cause they are what you make of them. They only there cause some people created them with mind. And like everything in nature they are fighting for survival. They exist and yet they dont. Put it this way.. One guy saw an old ghost lady walk up the stairs. Well would she have been there if there was noone to look at her? Now if she was only there cause the man was there.....what does that mean? She and that man are connected. And she will be what that man believes. Reality is a butch to understand

Its like Einstein not believing in quantum physics. He said that he would like to believe the moon is there even if his not looking at it. Well a ghost is a bit different from the moon. Ghost really isn't anywhere until you see one who in my believe would not have been there to begin with. Its there cause there's someone to stare at it and make the mind start motoring hnmmmm is that a ghost. Everything is made of atoms. Which is 99.9 percent empty ear. So just think how many atoms you are made of. So a ghost seem to be nothing more than emty atoms that is so almost out of existence that it needs something or maybe someone to just observe it for it to actually somehow exist. And the mind should be protected from such things that are looking for some sort of existence. In your mind

Einstein proved that all energy of the universe is constant and that it can neither be created nor destroyed... So what happens to that energy when we die? If it cannot be destroyed, it must then, according to Dr.Einstein, be transfered into another form of energy. What is that new energy?... Could we call that new creation a ghost?

Your right he did say that however a new energy in not so sure only higher energy. If Albert Einstein was actually correct then that energy which is you will have to go to a place that can hold its voltage. It simply just can't go lower. And a ghost whatever it might be doesn't even seem to hold the voltage of energy of a cat or dog. Rather a mouse or a rat if it is even that high I doubt it really. This will then fit in with most spiritual teachings of reincarnation. Whatever the case might be don't worry about returning as a ghost. Your voltage is simply just too high. It can go from a lower state to a higher but it simply just can't go lower. It needs atoms to hold it. So the voltage will if you believe in this theory go where it can actually be Carried. I know this sounds crazy but maybe just maybe we will all one day be a bright star in the night sky

How'd you come to all these conclusions then?