I've never been a big fan of ghost theories, but having been raised a christian, i do believe god will let certain people make contact with loved ones in strange ways. For instance, our (me and my familys) bizarre story is this. I had a great aunt that we called mee-maw (don't ask why, i have no idea) who was infamous for her problems with squirrels. they ate her plants, and she always hated the thought of setting traps that would kill them. She used to trap them, then set them free in woods a half hour or so away, til a nieghbor told her if she moved them more than a few miles from the trees they grew up in, they wouldn't be able to find food. In her crazy old lady ways, she somehow figured the best, most humane, thing to do would be to put out humanitarian traps, then put them in a garbage bag, and gas the squirrels with the tailpipe of her car. yeah... she was a bit off.

but anyway, it was a long standing joke with her about the squirrels. at my house, which i had lived in for twelve years, we had never seen a single squirrel, ever. my parents had been there 14. on the way home from mee maw's funeral, there was a single squirrel standing dead center of the driveway. it stood there until the car pulled up and stopped (b/c we couldn't get past the squirrel) waited a few moments, then took off up a tree in our front yard. The squirrel stayed there for a few weeks, then one day, we were all coming out of the house for some reason, and the squirrel was dead center of the driveway again. it stared at us, turned around, and ran off down the street. in the 8 years since, we've still never seen another squirrel.

So we always took it as God's little way of letting us know that she was aight.

And as far as ghosts, I live right outside of cold harbor battlefield in VA. burial grounds and battlefields everywhere. I camp routinely at Gettysburg, right off the battlefield, and I live in the area of several civil war cemetarys and makeshift hospitals. Still aint seen a ghost in 20 years, so i don't particularly buy the restless spirits argument.