Of course i give them some free advertizing and they repay me by having a show with hippies lobbying to make hallucenigenics legal.

Another reason there might be something to that pet's detecting ghosts thing: There have been a lot of "ghost noises" recorded that have been below human audible range. Animals have better hearing than humans so its very possible.

I don't think we really wanna know exactly how much life is out there besides us because it's probably very depressing. Comparing the scale of a person to this planet, this planet to the galaxy its in, the galaxy its in to the whole universe, thorw in the fact that some estimates have a 10 percent success rate of "liveable" planets out there and that theres several planets around every star and you really start to see things add up.