A new survey has revealed that 50 percent of Canadians believe in ghosts and spirits.
These findings came from PlayOJO, an online casino website, which carried out a survey of more than 1,400 Canadians.
According to the survey, only a third of Canadians were skeptical when it came to supernatural spirits and the remaining residents revealed they did not know if they existed (17 per cent).
The PlayOJO survey also discovered that women believe in ghosts more than men. Sixty percent of female respondents said they believed in spirits and ghosts while just forty percent of male respondents were believers.
If generations are anything to go by, Gen-Z are the biggest believers with 53 percent of those born between 1995-2002 believing in spirits and ghosts.
‘Boomers’ (those born between 1946 and 1964) were the most skeptical, meanwhile, 47 percent still stated that they believed in ghosts and spirits.
In the area of how Canadians experience ghosts, the biggest manifestations came in the form of items moving, noises heard, or spirits felt with no explanation, according to the survey.
13 percent of Canadians revealed they saw a ghost or poltergeist and one in 10 encountered manifestation of the living, which is seeing or hearing someone that is not actually in said location.
When it comes to how people stay safe from the spirit world, the most famous method is keeping the lights on. Around 20 percent of the believers said that they have used holy water or other religious imagery/symbols for prevention and around the same percentage also admitted to burning sage or lavender.
For those that want to see a ghost, a trip out west won’t be a bad idea.
54 percent of residents in Calgary admitted they believed in ghosts and spirits which was greater than any other major city in Canada.
Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal were the other major cities that also had half or more than half of their residents as believers.
Ottawa was the most skeptical city with 41 percent of residents believing the paranormal is real.
The survey of 1,417 Canadian respondents (all aged 21 or over) was carried out between October 16 and 18 by Prolific, an online research platform.
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