Hallucinations are commonplace.
Optical illusions are commonplace.
Human brains are prone to "see" faces, and people, and animals, when in fact there is no face, person or animal present.
If two people (or a thousand) report a ghost, hallucinations are a possible explanation; Optical illusion is a more likely explanation; And
pareidolia is an even more likely explanation still.
Frustrated with re-editing mistakes on a tiny small screen. I left some details out. The couple who experienced the encounter were so intrigued they mentioned it to the hotel manager in which he told them: other people have seen the same thing before.
In the absence of high quality and convincing evidence that a given report is not one of these three things, it might be reasonable to speculate about ghosts, but at best this is wild speculation.
Wild speculation is fun, but it's not rational, reasonable, or justifiable.
The appearance of the woman according to this gentleman, being a strong atheist against religion, often repeating the same "cruel god" and "magic" mantra lines as atheist do here, was quite sure of his mental analysis.
Life after death is less plausible than perpetual motion machines, or rocks that fall upwards. If ghosts are your go-to explanation for witness reports of people who are visible, but aren't really there, then you are a gullible fool.
Which puts you in good company, as very few (if any) humans are not gullible fools.
I didn't say this man or I believed the appearance of the woman was a '
wandering spirit'. Like
the conventional, conceptual view we see in movies where the ghost
is aware of you, interacting with humans, which is chillingly exciting in horror films etc..
The atheist gentleman saw the
image of a woman which was '
detailed and clear enough' that he was able to describe what she was wearing (although I can't remember now exactly what he described the ghost seemed to wear).
As I say, we believed there was a natural/scientific explanation. Even though by the atheists own description and wording... he said he saw a ghost.