Edinburgh, Scotland - PEOPLE are more likely to believe in ghosts and the paranormal than have faith in an organised religion, a new survey has found.
A research by the Scottish Paranormal organisation of amateur enthusiasts showed that more than two thirds of people surveyed said they believed in the existence of ghosts and supernatural spirits.
This compares to only 55 per cent of the 2000 people questioned who said they had faith in a religion and believed in a god.
On Friday, ghost hunters affiliated to Scottish Paranormal will be gathering in Edinburgh to determine where the city's most haunted areas are.
The team has already carried out investigations in Mary King's Close and the Edinburgh Vaults - two of the city's most notoriously haunted spots.
The Close was inhabited in the 16th and 17th centuries but was abandoned and sealed after an outbreak of plague, leading to chilling claims of paranormal sightings of former inhabitants.
Edinburgh medium Ewan Irvine, a member of the team, said: "It must always be the case that these areas are looked at in an unbiased way with both sceptics and believers coming together to look at these locations."