The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

“Everyone said so.
I am far from claiming that what everyone says is necessarily true. People often make mistakes. As experience shows, these very “everyone” have so often been wrong and sometimes it took so long to understand the depth of their error that we should no longer trust this authority. Everyone can be right. “But that’s not the law,” as the ghost of Giles Skroggins says in the well-known ballad.
The terrible word “ghost” stirs memories in me…”