Ghosts are in the news. Apparently, Swiss scientists have shown that they exist only in our heads. This applies to all paranormal activities involving presences, phantoms, specters, spooks, apparitions, spirits, and the like. So, all these are nothing but figments of human imagination. Wow! Now I feel deeply thankful to the Swiss scientists. I would hope that they would continue with their research of all things that are only in our heads. By and by, they will show that gods are of the same ilk. And so is the soul. Not to mention heaven and hell or reincarnation. In the end, the Swiss scientists will show that humans are too intelligent by half, whence all of these concoctions in our heads. Would that we have stayed closer to our ancestors, the merry primates. They are not as bright as we are, but they are free from all the useless crap that ricochets through our heads.

Addendum (November 2, 2015)

I like the cheerfulness of this piece, but I wonder about its merry conclusion. Are the primates truly free from all the useless crap that ricochets through our heads? The chimpanzees, our closest relatives, cannot possibly be that lucky. Too close for comfort, they. Going down the evolutionary line, the incidence of presences, phantoms, specters, spooks, apparitions, spirits, and the like is most likely declining with less intelligent primates, but intelligence we are saddled with could not have appeared out of nowhere. In other words, would that primates, too, have stayed closer to their own ancestors. And so on, all the way down the evolutionary tree to, say, merry plants. No brains, no ghosts to worry about, either.