Everyone likes a good ghost story. Well, maybe not everyone, but I know most people do. We have all, at one time or another, sat around the campfire or kept each other up until the wee hours of the morning, spinning a scary tale of haunted mansions or yarns about what lurks behind that locked door.
Ghost stories play on the basic fear of the unknown or the intangible.
They are scary because we can't explain them. Even if they are the spirits of the dead, we still don't know why they come back to haunt us, or how they are able to do so. There may not even be any real ghosts at all. The question of whether or not ghosts exist is the starting point for the film, Haunted . Aidan Quinn plays David Ash, a teacher of psychology in early twentieth-century England.