Ci's My Ghost Story On Camera is a nice program I like drowsing off to late at night, but the writer, director, and cameramen and women are so preoccupied with creating horror--even when it shouldn't be there--that I can't help but think that misunderstanding of spirits, rather than understanding of them, is being promoted. Perhaps it targets a gullible and unenlightened audience.

As for the rest of us, we must be informed that:

1. "Spirits" are often mere projections of the living.

2. No spirit can ever be entrapped in a physical locale as though in a repetitious tape loop. God and the angels won't allow it--it is an indication of spiritual neglect. Any "spirit" that keeps re-enacting scenes is a mere memory trace, or an emotional impression on ether. Memory traces do not and cannot interact with living beings, no more than a painting or photograph can interact with its viewers.

3. If spirits want to be photographed, they would appear clearly and distinctly--not as some dinky, blurry, vague spot in a dark corner in the background. A spirit that wants to be seen will hog the limelight and appear in the foreground.

4. It is disrespectful to attribute "ghosts" to previous owners or residents of a house, and their relatives. Their lives are no more tragic than their "ghost"-hunters'. We are equal in birth, we are equal in life, we are equal in death.

5. People who deliberately hunt for ghosts are not brave, courageous, heroic, and admirable. They are typically over-curious, want some thrill in their life, and, if you look closely enough, rude not only to spirits but to the living people who request their assistance.

6. Are not the lives of saints and martyrs, and are not "religious" apparitions and "miraculous" statues made of the same stuff, except that the writers', directors', and camera people's treatment of the material is different?

7. Learn reality from the American playwright Harold Pinter, who created horror out of the simplest relationships and things onstage, such as a steadily leaking roof.