(....the phenonema surrounding this subject.)
It's just the I-WANT-TO-BELIEVE factor. There's no spooky phenomena about this.
There's no objective evidence at all.
Just people telling what they want.
All we KNOW this far is we and EVERYTHING around us are probabilistic particles interacting through space and time.
Luckly these particles can form a lot of things but they have limitations too. Zeus and Jehovah, spirits and unicorns are very unlikely to exist outside our imagination.