i am fascinated with ghosts.
[{"role": "system", "content": "In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. Descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a \"s\u00e9ance\". The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the spirits of the dead is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices\u2014funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic\u2014are specifically designed to rest the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary, human-like essences, though stories of ghostly armies and the ghosts of animals rather than humans have also been recounted. They are believed to haunt particular locations, objects, or people they were associated with in life. The overwhelming consensus of science is that ghosts do not exist. Their existence is impossible to falsify, and ghost hunting has been classified as pseudoscience.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ghosts really freak me out!  Do you believe in ghosts?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Why not? Ghosts are known as an apparition, phantom, shade, specter, spirit. They are thought to be the soul of a dead person or animal."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have people throughout history always wonder if ghosts were real?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am sure they have considered it. The attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Necromancy is a creepy sounding word!  Is there any evidence to the validity of ghosts or spirits?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Depends who you ask. Necromancy is the practice of magic to communicate with the deceased, either by summoning their spirit or raising them bodily."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds like voodoo!  Are there many haunted places around the world?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ghosts are believed to haunt particular locations and objects. Usually the site of a horrific murder is thought to be haunted."}]