Ghost towns are abandoned settlements that once thrived, often due to economic or environmental changes. Alan Vernon / Getty ...

(gentle music) - Dad. I saw a movie at Tommy's house yesterday with ghosts in it. I know cartoons aren't real, but this one had real humans in it. And the ghosts seem real too. Are ghosts real?

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This Christmas, I’m feeling particularly fortunate to have a ghost of my own, albeit one less chain-encumbered and more benign than Marley.

He termed such freeloaders “ghost engineers.” After Denisov-Blanch’s post was viewed nearly 4 million times, some self-professed ghost engineers contacted him. In messages that ranged from ...