C’mon Syd,
Just admit you are a materialist. Are you ashamed of it? Lots of people “claim” to be materialists.
On the contrary, I grew up in a home that was apparently haunted. We had ghosts and apparitions and poltergeists and demons and goblins and trolls and ghoulies and vampires and witches and warlocks and elves and dwarves and sprites and banshees and fairies and centaur's and gnomes and siren's and leprechauns!