The Role Of Ghosts In The Victorian Era

Ghosts in the Victorian Era were fiction but that’s not what everybody thought. The people would curl up by the fire and tell you a ghost story. But don't be alarmed by the creak of the floorboards, or the murmurs in the basement. The people in the Victorian Era told a lot of ghost stories around Christmas. They were fictional stories but were ghosts really just made up? Some believed ghosts were real and others didn’t, but how would we know if ghosts are real or not? The Victorian views on ghosts and supernatural were very popular but especially around Christmas, that's all people talked about. Ghosts were believed by some people because they thought the ghosts would snatch their blankets off of them at night and scratch their arms.

The ghosts in the Victorian Era were popular, but mostly in the Christmas time because people would like to sit by the fire and tell spooky stories about ghosts. In the article “This Is Horror” it says, “The Victorians, at Christmas or otherwise, were apparently
In the article “James Randi Educational foundation” is says “No ghost has ever been confirmed caught and/or examined by anyone or anything. Therefore, we can’t determine its actual characteristics with any amount of certainty,” (Ghosts FAQ, facts). This shows that even though people would say ghosts snached there blankets off or they scratched their arms in there sleep how do you actually know it was a ghost? There is no evidence that the ghosts ever touched you, you could've just rolled over and scratched your arm on something and when you woke up and saw it you thought it was a ghost. Ghosts are believed by some people and those are the people that probably think a ghost is trying to hurt them but the people who don’t believe are the ones who think it is just a scratch they got at work or