It’s a little-known fact that the Bible tells three ghost stories, and two of them are about Jesus. It’s hard to say how common ghost stories were at the time of Jesus and earlier, but we have quite an ancient ghost story in 1 Samuel, and we have two ghost stories in the gospels. Let’s look at the ancient ghost story first, because it might possibly be related to one of the stories about Jesus. The Ghost of Samuel The first king of Israel was Saul, a very tall man who was chosen king by the prophet Samuel. The usual …