Are you the 1/3 that believes in Ghost?
I can’t say I don’t.
WASHINGTON — It was bad enough when the TV and lightsinexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When herdaughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighborssaid children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.
Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp ofthe 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, accordingto a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That’sthe same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects –exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells orwitchcraft.
Forty-eight percent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.But nearly half of you knew we were about to tell you that, right?
Conrad, now 40, lived in Syracuse, Ind., when her family wasscared from the house they rented.
“It kind of creeped you out,” she recalled this week. “I neededto get us out.”
