For paranormal researcher and ghost tour information Alison Oborn, all of it goes again to the darkish.
"The age-old concern of the darkish is deep in all of us," she informed 9.com.au.
"All of us have that deep-down curiosity in what occurs after demise."
Oborn based and runs Adelaide's Haunted Horizons, which provides ghost and "darkish historical past" excursions across the South Australian capital.
She's been a mystical researcher since 1988, the identical 12 months she moved to Australia together with her husband, however her personal acquaintance with hauntings goes again a lot additional.
Oborn stated she lived in a haunted home rising up in England - not some grand gothic mansion, however "your on a regular basis terrace home".
"It terrified us," she stated.
"I used to be nonetheless sleeping with the lights on till met my husband in my mid-20s."
Oborn admitted that these childhood experiences meant she was a "moth to the flame" when she began to undertake paranormal analysis as an grownup.
"I used to be at all times completely happy to maintain a rational head," she stated.
"I used to be on the lookout for a rational clarification for what occurred, however - have not discovered it but."
What she did discover was a ardour and a profession, one which she stated is nothing like the way it's portrayed in movies or on "ghost hunter" TV reveals.
"Wherever you go there's folks, you may discover hauntings," she stated.
However the observe of declaring one constructing or one other "essentially the most haunted" is mostly simply "good advertising".
"If one thing is haunted, it is haunted," she stated.
"Saying one thing's extra haunted than someplace else - how do you quantify that?"
And whereas her youthful concern has "principally" transmuted into pleasure, that "age-old" concern can nonetheless rear up
She stated she had simply returned from a visit to the US with a pal, the place that they had rented some famously haunted locations to spend a while there.
"There have been positively moments there, after we had been back-to-back, after we had been holding on to one another," she stated.
"That concern of the darkish, it is simply constructed into folks."
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Her line of labor and her discipline of analysis being what they're, Oborn naturally has a familiarity with skeptics - and it is an angle she encourages, noting she's been on the lookout for an "clarification" for ghosts for 30 years or extra.
However on the spot dismissal, she stated, is much less simple to justify.
"I am in these locations seven days every week, mainly," she stated.
"In case you're there on daily basis, and there is exercise to be seen, you may see it."
A ghost tour information since 2004, she stated all method of individuals got here alongside, and there was "no rhyme or cause" to who - if anyone - would find yourself having a mystical encounter.
"We used to take bets, wanting round on the group," she stated.
"We have seen skeptics spend the tour attempting to justify or work out why one thing has occurred to them, however they nonetheless depart not figuring out."
After which, she stated, the "screaming younger women" who might sound primed for the paranormal, might go a whole tour with out bumping into one thing at nighttime.
"Science is dependent upon an experiment being repeatable," Oborn stated.
"The paranormal is just not repeatable. Consider me, I have been attempting for 30 years."
Ghost tales return to the start of humanity, she stated, when folks would sit round campfires and inform tales at nighttime.
They span cultures, have outlasted civilisations, and discover new varieties in all ages.
In a scientific age, of quantum physics discovering new methods to know the universe, Oborn stated it is at all times potential an elusive clarification for hauntings will probably be discovered.
"However do we actually need science to clarify all of it? Do not we love the thriller, just a little bit?" she stated.
"There's positively one thing happening."