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This could be as much psychological as real; but maybe many "ghosts" are:
We had a cat die of cancer, an old calico. It was my wife's cat but I liked her a lot, and she grew to like me. My wife was sick, so I did much of the nursing of the cat for the last month or so and grew very close to her, and her to me. I knew she was dying, and gave her lots of quality time.
She finally gives up the ghost. A couple of weeks later, I'm waking up in the morning and I hear the cat yowling and running back and forth along the bed on my wife's side, as was her custom when she wanted to be fed. I raised up on my elbows, and there she was -- but young again, and very slightly transparent. At that point a voice popped into my head -- my wife's voice, although she was sound asleep beside me. The voice said, very clearly, "She came back because she loves us." I felt a real moment of peace at that point. Then the cat was gone, although I liked to think that I could feel her presence around for a few months afterward.
It might be psychology; might be the half-awake dream state in action. Might be a combination of both. Might have been a ghost. Who knows?
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