In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what news does Horatio bring to Hamlet?

has not
spoken tosince they both left
Wittenberg for 's father's funeral. Horatio now approaches Hamlet,
along with
the two guards, Marcellus and Barnardo. They greet and Hamlet says they will not
soon
see a man like his father again. At this point, Horatio says he thinks
he
has seen the late king. Hamlet is amazed and asks him
about it.

Horatio tells the story of the guards seeing ,
explaining that they were frightened and
came to him in secrecy to inform him
of sighting:

they,
distilled

Almost to jelly with the act of fear,

Stand dumb and
speak not to him. This to me

In dreadful
secrecy impart they did

It is clear that the guards
need someone
closer to Prince Hamlet in social status to approach him about the ghost. It
would
be too easy for Hamlet to dismiss the guards as crazy or superstitious.
However, they know if
they can convince Horatio of the ghost's reality, his
words will carry weight with the
prince.

Horatio at
first doesn't believe the
guards, but when he sees the ghost himself, he is
more than willing to share this news with
Hamlet. This information greatly
interests Hamlet, who is determined to see the ghost
himself.