"The dream of Prof. Hilprecht, Babylonian scholar who vainly tried to decipher two small pieces of agate, is more complicated and belongs to clairvoyant order. {Working on decrees in dream state is a necessity for success. I have won cars, and had many answers to my decrees when they are right for good of all. The car was a demonstration for others who I told I would win in a nationwide raffle for a whole month before it happened.} As reported in 'Proceedings' of Society for Psychical Research (August 1900) he went to sleep tired out in vain speculation and dreamed of a tall, thin priest of old pre-Christian Nippur who led him to treasure-chamber of temple and went with him into a small low-ceiled room without windows in which there was a large wooden chest, while scraps of agate and lapis-lazuli lay scattered on floor.

Here he addressed him as follows: 'The two fragments which you have published separately belong together, and their history is as follows: King Kruigalzu (c.1300 BC.) once sent to temple of Bel, among other articles of agate and lapis-lazuli {Modern and ancient esoteric stone from which blue scarabs or beetles make great symbolic ritual and talismanic pieces.}, an inscribed votive cylinder of agate. Then we priests suddenly received command to make for statue of god Nidib a pair of ear rings of agate. We were in great dismay, since there was no agate as raw material at hand. In order for us to execute command there was nothing for us to do but cut votive cylinder into three parts, thus making three rings, each of which contained a portion of original inscription. The first two served as ear rings for statue of god; two fragments which have given you so much trouble are portions of them. If you will put two of them together you will have a confirmation of my words.'

The continuation of story is given by Mrs. Hilprecht who testified to having seen Prof. Hilprecht jump out of bed, rush into study and cry out: 'It is so, it is so.'

There are many authenticated cases of strange bits of information obtained in dreams. Professor William James was very deeply impressed by Enfield case in which discovery of body of a drowned woman was affected through a dream of Mrs. Titus of Lebanon, a stranger to scene.

Prof. Charles Richet mentioned following instance of dream cognition: 'I saw Stella on 2nd of December during day, and on leaving I said 'I am going to give a lecture on snake poison.' She at once replied: 'I dreamt last night of snakes, or rather of eels.' Then, without of course giving any reason {This story seems to be ESP.}, I asked her to tell me her dream, and her exact words were: 'It was about eels more than snakes, two eels, for I could see their white shining bellies and their sticky skin; and I said to myself I do not like these creatures, but it pains me when they are hurt.' This dream was strangely conformable to what I had done day before December 1. On that day I had, for first time in twenty years, experimented with eels. Desiring to draw from them a little blood, I had put them on table and their white, shining, irridescent, viscous bellies had particularly struck me.'

Over years I have come up with some answers after using theories developed by scientists many years ago. Discovering these answers has made me more aware of what ghosts are and where they may have come from. Although I don’t have “real” or “true” answers, this is not because information is incorrect, it is because there are no experts in paranormal field. This includes me. I am not an expert, however, I have done as much research, if not more, than some of paranormal investigators working today. After working on research, performing investigations and reaching a conclusion, I can bring you some honest answers to what we believe ghosts are and where they come from.

Probably since beginning of time, ghosts have been subjects of many conversations. Sometimes these conversations were done in a hush-hush manner because of stigma associated with talking about this subject. Many had to talk behind closed doors and make sure that it was only with people they trusted. Nevertheless, talk of ghosts continued and has evolved into a trendy, get-a-thrill hobby.

So, exactly what is a ghost? Where does a ghost come from? Why are they here? Let me see if I can make some sense out of something we don’t understand. What is a ghost? It is thought that ghosts are people. They were once people who lived and breathed much like you and me and then for various reasons, they died. It could be a father, mother, brother, sister….well, you get point. It could be anyone. Using mechanics of physics we understand that people prior to being born, start as energy. When we are born, we are given a “shell” or a body to live in although energy is still within us. Some people or religions consider this a soul. When body has finally become worn out due to years of use or, if something has happened that we die earlier than our years, body dies and remaining energy removes itself from body.