Why people think they see ghosts?

If you believe the dead can come back to haunt the living, you're not alone. According to one survey, 45% of Americans believe in ghosts and 28% claim to have actually seen a ghost. They appear in our films, I see dead people. books and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony music videos. As far back as we can trace human life, there is evidence that almost every culture has expressed curiosity about what comes next. Many people believe in them, but is there any evidence that ghosts exist?

I went to Buffalo, New York to speak with Joe Nickell, a paranormal investigator who has been trying to answer this question for nearly 50 years. I am the world's only full-time, paid, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. I try to explain the case, not to refute it, not to delay it. Explain it. Nickell is a true renaissance man, drawing on a wide range of disciplines in his cases. I mean, sometimes I used language analysis, blood analysis, psychological insight. Almost anything could be used if it will shed light on a particular case. So in his half-century of research, did he find anything in hundreds of cases to make him believe in ghosts? I just never found any case that I thought was evidence of a ghost, nor do I know of. No ghosts or apparitions have been confirmed by science. Part of what makes research difficult is how people have defined "ghosts." Books flying off the shelf? Orbit in pictures? Mysterious footsteps in the attic? Will Patrick Swayze help you magically throw a vase? Definitely a ghost. All possible evidence of the existence of ghosts consists of ambiguous photos, videos.

The next day, his HDTV literally starts rocking violently from side to side on its own. and from initial reports, even if it is daytime, there is an eerie feeling that someone is there. which are fun and scary, but not exactly scientific evidence. Ghost hunters often use gadgets like EMF meters, tools that measure electromagnetic fields that ghosts can supposedly manipulate. But no one has been able to explain exactly what the connection is, and most scientists are quite skeptical about it. So there may be no empirical scientific evidence that ghosts exist, but that doesn't really mean you're crazy if you think you're seeing ghosts.

One of them is infrasound, a sound that falls below the audible frequency of 20 Hz. Infrared sound can be produced by many things, including certain machines such as motors or fans. Researchers have hypothesized that exposure to infrasound can cause depression, chills and the feeling of someone close to you. The sound can even cause visual hallucinations. At 18 Hz, it resonates with the structure of the human eyeball. And when you have a sound that resonates with a material, it causes the material to vibrate at that frequency. And when that happens to you, your eyes start to see things that aren't really there. Swiss researchers have also managed to simulate a ghost in the laboratory.

They made a robot that imitates the movement of the subject's arm with a mechanical arm that touches your back, but with a slight delay. If you delay the movement, it creates an unmistakable sense of ghostly presence in the room. This time it really felt like I was playing with someone. This means that it was not me who pushed me on the back, but as if I was playing with an animal, a monkey, who pushed me on the back, etc. While most ghost sightings can't be chalked up to a robot stabbing you in the back, this experiment highlights how manipulating certain parts of the brain can create what researcher Olaf Blanke calls an easily misinterpreted ghostly presence.

Sometimes even just a person's state of consciousness can sense or see a presence. We can actually get people to see ghosts, and they usually evoke dreams that occur in the twilight between fully asleep and fully awake. Such waking dreams can also be called sleep paralysis, which about 8% of people experience at some point in their lives. You feel awake but unable to move your body and are often accompanied by scary visions such as shadows, people or even monsters that would be easy to catch if you didn't know what was going on. get confused when you see a ghost.

Another possible explanation for seeing ghosts is grief. One study found that up to 60% of grieving people claim to see or hear their deceased loved ones. In his book on hallucinations, neurologist Oliver Sacks said that seeing the face of a deceased loved one can actually help you deal with your grief. Such a hallucination is not frightening; it is often very comforting. It seems to be part of the grieving process. There is a sudden gap in life and this helps it recover.

There is no doubt that most of the paranormal contributes to something very positive. There are some exceptions, but they all relate to our hopes and fears. We hope ghosts exist because then we don't really die. Our loved ones are not far from us; they are real and alive. I remember when my grandmother died and how much I didn't want that to happen. But the idea of ​​ghosting, the idea that we just get out of our bodies and carry on, is powerful.

With nothing to say, I wish I could have said this one thing to my mother. Or I'd like my father to know that I wasn't really mad at him then. So ghosts may not exist, but that doesn't mean you can't see them.

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