It's a ghoulish time this halloween, little children are all dressed up as super heros and princesses. Little adults are dressed up as bums and hookers. It's amazing how our hopes in life dive so very far in so little time.
And on TV there is a veritable avalanche of programs with people looking for ghosts and trying to get them on film or audio tape. These TV programs typically involve a group of people - some psychics, some TV show hosts, some skeptics - asking "If there's any ghost that wants to talk to us please let your presence be known." There is no real rationale behind why any ghost would want to respond to these odd people who are doing a one-time visit to disturb the dead. I'm sure they don't get any commercial funding in the afterlife for making appearances on TV programs. But it is nice to see the different castles and areas of the world, and it is fun to watch the people freak themselves out in dark, scary places.
The one thing I'm not so sure about is, do any of these ghosts understand current English? Have they been doing community-centre learning programs to learn modern English? I've just seen a TV program stalking a ghost from the 9th Century AD - a German ghost. All the people were speaking modern English. One of the psychics had a strong Scottish accent. Oddly enough, they didn't get any evidence of the ghost.
Are there many ghosts of babel fish - the ultimate universal translator that sticks in your ear and translates everything for you - and does each human ghost get one when they agree to haunt a place? If not... where do they learn their English so they can respond to the TV investigators?
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