Feeling the need to cry when talking about ghosts, what's this about?

Knowing that there are people who are so ignorant that they seriously believe in ghosts makes me cry.

Maybe some people had experiences so scary that it brings them close to tears or makes them cry when they think about it. It’s not that hard to imagine.

What Rarebear said lol…..and LOL! @ the category ‘crying like a little bitch’.

I’ll take a shot in the dark and guess maybe it is because they are so overcome with emotion from their false experience, similar to waking up from nightmares or emotional dreams.

People believe in ghosts because they want to – often after a tragic loss. It isn’t hard to understand why they might become emotional when discussing it.

(Poltergeists are a lot more fun than ghosts – ghosts seem to lack a sense of humour.)

Perhaps it is the fact that in talking about these experiences with someone, a person expresses emotions surrounding something they’ve generally not shared with anyone before. Another person’s interest in his story affirms that story for the person, and as such affirms his belief in the supernatural. It is bound to be an emotional experience, even if he cannot pinpoint why. It’s similar to someone talking about a traumatic event that he’d never previously admitted he’d experienced.

@DarkScribe You might have a point. Paranormal activity study often points out that most encounters are from ghosts of people that we knew or loved, come to comfort and reassure, rather than to frighten. So maybe people just want to believe stuff like that and make it up for themselves as a way to ’‘meet’’ with their deceased loved ones.
That’s a far fetched theory obviously, but it might explain a lot of that emotional grief which gets translated into something else when, ironically, faced with inevitability.

Embarrassment.

Seeing ghosts -especially if they are family members—is probably a fairly intense experience. People cry in certain yoga postures. I don’t see why they wouldn’t cry in certain emotionally intense “postures.”

I may laugh, I may feel creeped out or even annoyed, but I don’t think I will cry. I think some people though may just be super sensitive about death in general.

People who believe in ghosts are already “on the edge”. Who knows what will set them off?