The tale of "The Haunting of Athenodorus" is one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, dating back to early Roman years of ancient Greece.

However, he noticed that in her surviving correspondence with art historian Bernard Berenson ... Gardner herself isn’t the only ghost present in “ghost story,” however.

Hearing a ghost story is all well and good – a bit of fun, and something most of us can hear without taking it too seriously. But there's something very different about hearing the direct experience ...