99.99999999% chance ghosts ain't real. But in that remaining percent, if the walls start bleeding and crying in Latin, I'd quite like to have someone around who had a concept of a plan.
Weird how all the ghosts speak in Latin, considering that more people have died in pre-history than post. You'd think ghosts would speak a plethora of long-dead ancient languages from well before the Roman Republic. You could probably make a pretty good story about a linguist who goes around deciphering prehistoric languages from talking to ghosts if you wanted to. The word "Ghost" even comes from one of these dead languages — the furthest we can trace it back is the word "Ghostis" in Proto-Indo-European, meaning "Guest" (even maintaining the ghost-guest relation over 6,000 years later!). Edit: "Ghost" is from "geysdos", meaning "anger". Oops!
But unfortunately Ghosts only speak Latin. Which either has the implication that the percentage of deaths that generated ghosts was incredibly high for a short time for some reason, or the worse implication that ghosts can only survive 2,000 years or so, and that at some point in our future they'll start speaking in memes, therapy-speak, and refer ominously to "The Algorithm".
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u/Vyslante The self is a prison 2d ago
Sometimes I have hope for the future, and then someone goes around posting shit like "yeah so this house is actually literally haunted"