October is the season for spooks, spirits, and cemeteries as Halloween and Día de Muertos approach. While I’m not necessarily a fan of Halloween (because of the commercialization and inconvenience, mostly), and I respect another culture’s annual commemoration of the dearly departed, I figure this is the perfect time to address the supernatural—many folks find answers to the question “Are there such things as ghosts?” in church, but so many others get their theology from the media.
A few years ago, I happened across an episode of “The Demon Files” on tv. This ghost-busting ex-NYC ...