That is just why, when they decide to appear--which is seldom--ghosts select stormy nights, when it thunders, lightens and blows; that's their scenery." "I am forced to admit that nothing could be more correct." "Wait a moment! There are instances when the bravest man feels a shudder run through his veins.

Even before I was suffering with this aneurism it has happened to me a dozen times, when I have seen the flash of sabres and heard the thunder of cannon around me.

It is true that since I have been subject to this aneurism I rush where the lightning flashes and the thunder growls.

Still there is the chance that these ghosts don't know this and believe that I can be frightened." "Whereas that is an impossibility, isn't it ?" asked Sir John.
"What will you! When, right or wrong, one feels that, far from dreading death, one has every reason to seek it, what should he fear?
But I repeat, these ghosts, who know so much, may not know that only ghosts know this; they know that the sense of fear increases or diminishes according to the seeing and hearing of exterior things.

Thus, for example, where do phantoms prefer to appear?
In dark places, cemeteries, old cloisters, ruins, subterranean passages, because the aspect of these localities predisposes the soul to fear.