Ghost stories weren't popular until the Christmas Carol came out and now the are told everywhere and at anytime but the Christmas Carol was the most popular ghost story in the Victorian Era.
Ghost where someone's spirit coming back to haunt someone/something that they had a strong emotional connection to.
In the Victorian era everything they learned about ghost was usually taught in churches. h In the Victorian era they were taught that if you had a good soul you went straight to heaven and if you had a bad soul you were dammed to hell leaving no room for ghost/spirits to haunt the mortal world. Also they believed that a ghost was a disturbed soul and they could haunt anyone that they had a really …show more content…
It is the background for the obsession with ghost stories.”(http://www.bl.uk/) The readers can see from this that people in the victorian era had an obsession with ghost and ghost stories from this the even wrote a book which is the Christmas Carol. People were led to believe that the Victorian era was the golden age for ghost stories. At Christmas time in the Victorian Era all they mostly did was tell ghost storie and listen to ghost stories.They were Obsessed.
The Victorian era was the golden age for ghost and ghost stories. In this text it says “ Christmas Eve was traditionally the time to tell scary stories round the hearth. And 19th-century writers proved fearsomely adept” (http://www.rawstory.com/) this tells the reader that it was a tradistion to tell ghost storioes aroung christmas all aroung the earth. In the Victorian Era was when ghost stories became popular and still are to this day.They believed that ghost where souls that had been trapped in purgatory and they could not rest easily because of the sins they