1 in 6: Americans who believe they have seen, heard or felt a spirit

3,500 B.C.: Earliest recorded belief in ghosts, traced to Egyptian manuscripts

70,000: Number of times the ghost of Anne Boleyn has been sighted since her execution in 1536 at the Tower of London

1953: Year a British law that could send a person to jail for a year for conjuring a spirit or ghost was repealed

150: Years ago that ghost- hunting began in Europe

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