In a former post I talked
about how many Americans believe in ghosts. * What is interesting is that more
recent polls than the one I originally cited reflect that even more people in
America do indeed believe in the existence of ghosts. Of course there are still scientists and skeptics that refute this belief stating that it is
based in superstition. But regardless it
appears a large percentage of Americans form their own opinion when it
comes to this subject.
Here is a recent poll taken by
Huffington Post/YouGov that reflects that Americans strongly disagree with skeptics.
In this poll taken in
December of 2012 **, 45% of the adults surveyed stated they do believe in
ghosts. These people also stated that they believe ghosts do come back
depending upon the place and situation.
When asked if they believe in
life after death 64% stated, “Yes”.
When asked if they had ever
seen a ghost 59% stated they did not believe they had.
When asked if they believed
ghosts could harm humans 43% replied that they don’t think ghosts or spirits
can harm or interact with the living. ***
The results of this Huffington
Post poll are very similar to an CBS News poll that was taken in 2009. This
poll found that nearly half of all Americans say they believe in ghosts. Just
like the above poll these Americans went on to qualify their belief with the
statement “that the dead can return in certain places and situations”. This CBS
poll also revealed that 78% of Americans believe in an afterlife.
* In October of 1999 a Gallup Poll in America found that one out of three people surveyed said they believe in ghosts--this is three times as many as in the 1970's.
** The margin of error in this HuffPost/YouGov poll was 3.1 percentage points.
*** I gathered these
statistics from a recent article written by Lee Speigel on Huffington Post.
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