Skepticism is key to a good ghost story

“Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah”

— Dana Michelle Burnett

“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so…

— Hugh Lamb

I love a good ghost story, and I love to just get in there and really just find the truth behind these stories.

— Zak Bagans

“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

“Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.”

— John Connolly

“Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story—the soul gathers all…

— Halldór Laxness

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

— Michael Shermer

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

— Carl Sagan

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

— Bernard Haisch

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been…

— Anonymous

“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling you this!…

— Tyler Henry

“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.”

— Steve Madison

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

— H. L. Mencken