Restless Souls for Entertainments

In a little while I'm going to see a program called "Ghost Nation". It's not the first time and neither the last, although I'm not a 100% believer in ghosts and "The Super-Natural". Why do I see such a program, is it the need of some sort of scary kick? No, it's more like a persistent "maybe" that leads to a "?". And, of course, that feeling may be translated into what's known as curiosity .... As it is, there are loads of events of all sorts that would need some explaining as well as a validation, but most of them don't concern all living creatures, animals as well as humans, the same way: None of us are living forever which opens up to a lot of questions. 

The Egyptian Queen Tiye

Like everyone of her culture and historical time period she had her ideas of life and death. To many age old people, Egyptians as well as others, death seemed to be the most important one of the two stages: To be dead without withering away and disappear took hard work and many preparations. Strangely enough, I've seen pictures of many Egyptian mummies, but I've never heard of any dead persons turning into ghosts. Why not? Didn't they share our, more or less, common belief that that might be the ultimate fate of ordinary people dying ordinary deaths? 

As to me, who don't really believe in ghosts, but who am curious, this is the cutest image, I can think of: A ghost-baby feeling forlorn and very, very unhappy finding solace in the arms of a human who cares and who wants to comfort the little one. That's how I would like to feel that those "ghost hunters" react to what they themselves proclaim to be "dead people", but that's not what they do. Actually, they sort of use these allegedly dead, but restless souls for entertainment, and that I don't like  ....