That's true but they don't know it's ghosts or a demon in the beginning, and they're still wandering around the forest with flashlights and no weapons. If you hear a woman screaming "get away from me, don't touch me", and then sounds like she's getting beat on, are you just going to walk up and assume you can do anything when it is pitch black and you have nothing but a handheld flashlight? You don't know who it is, you don't know if they have a weapon, you don't know if there are multiples of them.
You see a shadow in the woods, what stupid idea is going through your head that it is likely a harmless little thing when the most likely thing it is going to be is a bear, a cougar, a wolf (or more likely a wolf pack), a coyote (or coyote pack), or something along the likes of that? You don't immediately go to "oo it must be a harmless rabbit in the middle of the night crashing through the trees and bushes like a gorilla". You also don't immediately say "It must be some ghost screwing with me", you assume the more likely, that it is people, or that it is animals.
For that matter, you don't go running around in the middle of the woods at night with nothing but handheld kitchen sized flashlights when you hear something like that. You can't see the ground so you could easily step in a snake hole or tangle your legs in roots and trunks you can't see with just a flashlight. You could be seriously injured with no one around to help you.
If you are surrounded by forest/woods in the middle of the night, you stay your ass inside, or you take a big ass gun with you large enough to take out a brown bear or you could be dead.
Ghosts and whatever you deal with later when you realize it isn't a real living creature that is going to rip your head off, or gut you with their claws.
I grew up in a small town of only 6000 people. You have to be careful. Most animals won't come in to town during the daylight, but nighttime can be a little more dangerous, especially if you're a farmer or rancher surrounded by nothing but trees, fields, and animals. Hell, there were packs of coyotes in the river bottom. It was fine to go down there during the day so long as you weren't stupid enough to go off by yourself, but you never ever went down there at night. A pack of those things can kill you easily though they tend to be afraid if there is more than one person.
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