I Think I Saw A Ghost

I am inclined to believe that ghosts are the disembodied souls of deceased persons suspended within the physical plane.

Ghosts will often linger in a place that ties into their life story, entangled within an emotional and sentimental knot. Some souls after having gone through a sudden or traumatic death will not even realize they have died, or can't accept it.

“The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.”
– Terence McKenna

Oftentimes ghosts are so attached to the material world, devoted to their sensual fixations and lust to grasp at their infatuations. They are simply too hung up on the things they cherished or sorrowed over that they will not move on.

After death the soul will have a much more subtle body, very difficult to see with flesh and blood eyes. Human eyes can only perceive a small sliver of all the electromagnetic octaves theoretically possible.

I had an experience once wherein I was outside one night, thinking to myself and glancing up at the night sky; and I saw a glowing shape hover over me, like a spectral cloud of some kind. It rippled and twisted in the air no more than twenty feet above me.

This luminous form seemed to be wreathed in silk that billowed like a cloak. After a few moments it morphed into an oblique triangle and angled toward the houses, accelerating across the rooftops and out of sight.

I don't know what it was. But it reminded me of the classic white bed sheet ghost.

Did I see a real ghost? Did someone in the area perhaps pass on and I had witnessed this person's gliding passage?

What do you believe?