I must admit that I used to be really skeptical about "bhoots, prets, kala jadoos" etc until some event happened more than 10 years ago. I think I was in the 6th grade. That year's Laxmi Pooja (even though we don't celebrate Tihar) is probably one of the darkest nights of my entire life. Our house got broken into with an acquaintance turning into the culprit. How did we find out about it? 

Someone had my dad, a neighbor and I go to a "bir heraune" pundit. I can't even describe how mindblowing the experience was, even though I was barely a kid then. What's more, it was performed on my palms as it had to be done on some bachelor's palm. Little by little, I could see the images of the thief, his wife (accomplice). They climbed through the neighbor's house, entered my parents bedroom, 'appeared' to be using some sort of drug that made them unconscious, stole things and I even saw them walk into their home. What's even more surprising is the fact that we'd gone to the pundit within a couple hours since we found out that we'd been stolen of jewellery, cash etc., basically meaning that I wasn't imagining things that others had speculated. 

When we had the cop go to the guy's place, the dumb idiot had my dad's slippers right outside his door. 

That was such an awful experience as it led to another bigger stealing that we had to go through within the next couple of years which used to make me wish I was a grown-up adult who could beat the crap out of those thieves. 

All in all, I don't think "Why are people so dumb?" an appropriate title that warranted positive remarks. It was pure foolishness and hypocritical on your part.