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

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.

(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?

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 ...