Ghost...

What do we know about ghost? What do we not know about ghost? Many people have many different beliefs about ghost. However the most obvious category is those who believe in ghost and those who don't. In Europe, ghost - or spirit or apparition - is thought to be the energy, soul or personality of a person who has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence and the next. Mostly people believe the these spirits do not know they are dead and some they have died under traumatic, unusual or highly emotional circumstances.

There are many kinds of beliefs in this world about the types of ghosts. In Chinese belief, besides reincarnation, a ghost can also become immortal and become demigod, or it can go to hell and suffer till externalities, or it can die again and become "ghost of ghost". 

In India, The Indian Mumiai (pronounced moo-mee-eye) is like a poltergeist, a ghost who throws things around and attacks people. They especially like to make trouble for people who are lazy or criminal. The believe also there is a ghost which be friendly that guarding village to against evil spirits called Bugaboo. 

In Japan, there are two most ghost that japanese believe known as Umi Bozu and Shojo. The Umi Bozu is a huge sea ghost who haunts Japanese sailors. It is bald and has enormous, terrifying eyes. Meanwhile the Shojo, is a sea ghost that have bright red hair and love drinking and parties. In fact they can be lured from their usual pastime of dancing on waves by offering them sake (strong rice wine).

In Malaysia, there is a common belief among Malaysians in the existence of certain categories of ghosts such as, poltergeists, vampires and spirits that bring ill fortune and disease. Another belief is that ghosts or spirits often reside in animals, trees, rocks, empty dwellings, swamps and rivers. A popular Malaysian ghosts and spirits:

Hantu Raya - ghost that acts as a double for a black magic practitioner.

Pocong - ghost jumping around wrapped in a white shroud.

Hantu Jepun - World War II Japanese ghosts. They wear WWII army attire and carry samurai swords. Most are headless.

Orang Minyak - the "Oily Man". Loves to rape virgin.

Hantu Penanggal - heads and intestines flying without a body. Loves to suck the blood of a newborn child.

Harimau Jadian - huge tiger ghosts.

Bunian - good ghosts or jinns living in the jungle. They like helping humans.

Hantu Kum Kum - a female ghost carrying a tombstone as a baby asking for milk.

However as a muslim, it is clear guidance from Quran and the Sunnah, there is absolutely no such thing as ghosts! The only beings whom Allah has created who have the choice to do good and evil as he wills are the human beings and the jinns according to Allah Says in the Holy Quran in surah al-Dhariyat verse 56 that means : " And I did not create the jinn and minkind expect to workship Me."  In Ghosts are nothing but the imaginations, whims, conjectures and guess-works of the ignorant people. In the end, despite our cultural beliefs in the supernatural, I suppose that stories of spirits, huntings and ghostly attacks on people, whilst may be real, have not and cannot be verified by any objective measurable standards.