Class 9/22

Well, what is a ghost? are they devils and demons left here to haunt us? Are they simply unclean spirits or souls of the dead? I agree with the latter identity. I haven't really given much thought to ghosts, but I do strongly believe that there are spirits/ghosts wandering around down here on earth. We can't see them, and because they don't have physical bodies they can't touch or move anything. In a funeral sermon, the Prophet Joseph Smith declared that the spirits of righteous people who have died 'are not far from us, and know and understand our thoughts, feelings, and motions, and are often pained therewith' (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 326).