People love a good ghost story, especially ones that pack revelations from beyond the grave. Call me pessimistic, but I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that most people don't plan on changing their lives for the better and want to believe that somehow their deaths will culminate in a magic reconciliation, unveiling all of life's mysteries and connecting all their vain pursuits with some magical, meaning.

All rights are wronged because their physical frames ceased to exist and now they can release their shallow trappings of humanity instead of actively struggling to make sense of them while they're alive.

Personally I think death should scare us into realizing that the only time we have on this world is what we're given, so we need to make the most of it while we've got it.

That's not to say there aren't documented beyond-the-grave phenomena that defy explanation. A huge part of my life has been dedicated to the study of the paranormal, and I've managed to capture voices of people who aren't there, at least not in a physical sense. Is it a ghost? Trapped "energy"? Reverberations throughout time? Who knows.

Well, some folks believe they've captured an eerie electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) while watching footage of Queen Elizabeth's funeral.