Do we have souls?

[Starboard Tack]

119. "It's been drummed into you since birth."

Speak for yourself. You have no idea what has or has not been drummed into me since birth. You try to explain the non-existence of things you don't understand, which is just as hard.
A ghost, in my experience, is the manifestation of the soul in the form of ectoplasm. I have only seen this phenomenon once and I believe it was the ghost of a man visiting the place of his upcoming demise. I had a friend who claimed to have seen this ghost on three consecutive nights. My friends and I laughed at him, as none of us believed such nonsense. He invited us to accompany him to the same spot where he claimed to have previously seen the ghost, always between midnight and 2.00am. It was a clear summer's night. No mist. No clouds. Four of us hid behind a hedge about 100 feet away from the spot. After waiting for almost an hour, this man sized shape of dense white vapor emerged from a solid earthen bank at the side of a country road. Slowly it moved to the center of the road, crouched and appeared to be clawing at the road surface. The road made a sharp bend at this spot. We watched for about ten to fifteen minutes as it continued to repeat this clawing at the surface. My friend got up and slowly approached. When he got to about ten feet from it, the shape scurried back to the same place from where it had emerged. We all walked over and examined the road surface and the bank, which was about ten feet high. There was no sign. No trace of anything. WTF was it we all wondered. The following day, a road construction worker took a short cut on this road, driving a backhoe. At the exact same spot, the backhoe overturned and the driver was crushed to death. The conclusion we came to was that he was visiting the place of his death in his sleep. This was reinforced by the fact that it never appeared again after that night. That's my only ghost story. So, I have no personal experience of ghosts appearing after death, but I have known a few who claim to have had such experiences.