Most of time... almost all the time. The sightings of ghosts are usually just the mental defense mechanisms. Their is a part of the mental process to make patterns fit into certain known shapes. It is a early human development situation when we lived on the plains and hunted with spears and evolved from the trees. It was extremely important to know that their was a dangerous animal. So often the mind is better prepared to imagine danger when it's not present rather than to not notice when their is danger.
Also your experiences sound odd and out of place for a haunting. Where did you live? did you live near a military base? radio station, electric power station? Often hauntings start with uneasy feelings in certain rooms. Then escalate to sounds, objects moving out of sight. Finally it moves to sighting and if hostile to attacks. What your describing sounds out of context. It's jumped right to a sighting then odd things on the radio. I'm not going to discount your experience, but there maybe a more reasonable explanation. Maybe you did experience a real paranormal incident, but without more information 3 instances with the experiences not shared by the rest of the family seems out of place for a haunting. Usually the whole family will share the experience while residing in the home.
As for believing in Ghosts. I suppose it would depend on the definition. I do believe in bioelectrical emotional imprinting onto objects. Including walls, furniture and memento items. As for human entities after death... I have my doubts about that.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
