It must do! Everyone knows cheese makes you have nightmares! It must have some kind of hitherto unknown da'ark energy in its membranous ectoplasm, or something.
Interesting. It's probably visiting you for a reason. The best thing to do would be to try and communicate with it and figure out why its visiting you. Let me know if you get anywhere from there.
Most ghost occurances fit into one of three areas. Psychological: If a person is conditioned to see strange things. (i.e. believes in ghosts, spirits, demons) or believes or participates in wicca, ouija etc. Then the first likely outcome is that it's all psychological. This doesn't necessarily mean it's a disorder, just an imagination at play. Physical: I could be a brother or friend playing a trick, or worse still if there is a "group" that you hang with that does "magic" and such. Such dodgy cult groups are really best avoided, just so you don't end up being a statistic on prime time TV. Sensationalism: I can't really go into details about how things are done(involves equipment), however it's possible for people to "sensationalise" such stories by manipulating events upon someone and then eventually getting them to come to them for help. Such occurances might be used in "televised" hauntings, although most of the time they just hire actors. (If this is the case, telling them "P**S OFF, I don't want to appear on your show." should suffice) In the most parts, hauntings are fraudulant, either the person suggesting they are haunted is lieing or they too have been lied to.
I think you're missing the larger picture here: whoever can banish the ghost effectively proves their world religion right. Assuming that the ghost is evil or what have you. Invite representatives from all the major world religions and have them draw straws to get first crack at displacing the spectre, then carry on until you have a winner. Geoff
Yeah, co-ed living can be murder. Well, not 'living' in your case. It could have been murder, though. Allow me to change out of my scarf and coat and into a Freudian slip. Geoff