Except for a small minority, most people are willing to accept that there are some things beyond our comprehension.

But is this acceptance born of fear or respect for those that have passed over?

Until there is ultimate proof of this particular phenomena, opinions will naturally be divided.

Psychics and Mediums generally believe that when we die, we pass onto another plane of existence.

Rather than looking skyward into heaven, they believe that spirit people live in a world not far away from our own.

Its often described as being of a different vibration to our world, existing all around us, yet just out of reach.

It is this closeness that allows our two worlds or existences to co-exist and which may help explain the phenomena..

If we pursue these thoughts, we begin to further understand how mediums are able to make contact with spirit people.

If the spirit world is close by, then all we need is the 'key' to communicate.

If a medium can attune to the higher vibrations of the spirit world, then contact becomes possible.

But because spirit people exist on a much higher vibration, they must also tune down to our level.

In effect, a joint effort is required for successful communication..

 "Can we see them?" -Or- Do I need to be Psychic:

If spirit people can tune their thoughts down to our level, then we must suppose that with more effort they can also produce an image of themselves.

If those in spirit are, as we understand them, made of energy and thought, then perhaps it becomes a little easier to suppose that they can manipulate this energy, by thought, to re-create the image of themselves we recognize.

Most mediums believe that a lot of effort or energy is required for this to take place.

This could help explain the accounts of passed relatives appearing to their loved ones when they are in danger, helping to prevent a tragedy.

The desire and urgency of the spirit person to get the warning across allows a visual representation to be seen.

Remembering that the physical body has ended we must also conclude this appearance is a manifestation of thought power.

Hauntings,Or is there another explanation:

This brings us to perhaps the most interesting part of the ghost subject, that of hauntings.

Once again adopting the view of our psychics and mediums, there is also a belief that buildings and places can be haunted not by the actual presence of a ghost but by the echo of it's past resident.

An imprint of that persons personality,which would explain why some places have an atmosphere.

But hauntings could of course be caused by an actual presence of a spirit.

It is also believed that some people who pass into the spirit domain are 'NOT' ready to accept the progression, and prefer to remain around the world they knew, or at least return to it from time to time.

Is this why, when aided by a medium, some hauntings stop?

The spirit person having been helped to move on and progress.

If the desire to stay around the things they knew in life is that great, it could be that our sightings of them are purely unintentional.