ghosts

Our local skeptical group is thinking about planning a skeptical investigation of the Gettysburg battlefield. I'm looking for some ideas. Some of my personal hypotheses about the "haunted vibe" that goes on there are: People get creeped out because they KNOW so many people died there; thus...

Hi. A somewhat stupid question just came into my mind: Many people who try to rationally explain 'ghost' sightings say that most of them are due to misperception or hallucinations. Undoubtly there are many sightings who could be explained as misperceptions, but there are also many cases where...

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As a skeptical fan of ghost hunting, I sometimes ask myself what it would take for me to accept something as paranormal. I'm constantly amazed at the inane experiments that "paranormal investigators" or "ghost hunters" do to convince themselves that they have a ghost. Let me list a few off the...

Over at Sylvia Browne's website, Chris Dufresne wants "valid" images from people for his new book: From: http://www.sylviabrowne.com I'm curious to see the outcome of this.

I only just learned that the St. Louis Science Center conducts ghost hunts. http://www.slsctravel.com/ScienceAroundTown.html#haunted You can download the slideshow (pdf) and background info to get an idea of what this is. It is not a skeptical or scientific approach. You can also click to...

Vanity Fair/60 Minutes is conducting a poll on belief in the existence of Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, Loch Ness Monster and vampires. More here. Only 7% of all those polled think Bigfoot actually exists. Men believe it more than women, and those over 45 believe it more than younger. 33% believe...

The well-known "celebrity", Katie Price and her doltish hubby, cage fighter Alex Reid, are looking for ghosts tonight with Yvette Fielding on the UK ITV1 channel: http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=185&programmeId=125323510&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp...

Once and for all, the existence of ghosts is proven! Proven, I say! How can I be so sure? Well, my brother and his gf just bought a house. They learned that it previously belonged to two tattoo artists (who ran a business out of the house.) Two days ago, one of the cats kept staring at the...

Using myself and my father as an example we used to believe in ghosts. My father claimed our Welsh heritage made us believe in ghosts so we had no choice but to believe. He enjoyed talking about ghosts and his experiences with them. Disembodied voices and brief sightings. What I really...

I've just returned from my weekly sojourn at my local library, trouble is it could be my penultimate visit. I like to think that I'm a helpful chap and as such I often go out of my way to assist others less fortunate than myself, wether that be physically, financially or intellectually. As part...

http://montereycountyskeptics.blogspot.com/2010/06/dont-worry-ghosts-still-love-you-dear.html Do I sound a bit upset here? I'm so sick of those stupid "I found a penny that means my dead loved one is thinking of me" stories. This article was the last straw. Some days you start off you day...

Here's the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8706000/8706656.stm Here's the relevant part of the video: wv2iQV_JXis It's also worth noting that the video is sped-up about 4-5x the normal, as you can see from the bottom of the screen. To...

This is a spinoff of another thread concerning a picture of a "ghost". I realized that while no one responding in that thread really believed that a ghost had been seen, the responses centered around how the picture was probably faked. It got me thinking, what is proof of a ghost? What do...

There's an interesting article here about a man who spotted the, supposed, Wem ghost in a postcard from 1922. They look very similar to me.

Ghosts. What are they? Do they really exist or are they only figments of our imagination? If they do exist what do they want? Are they our friends? Our enemys? Do they even care about us? Why do we only see them from the corner of our eyes? Several years ago I said those words around a...

First up: Bakery whispers blamed on Chinese ghost http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3657619/Bakery-whispers-blamed-on-Chinese-ghost A couple of days later I stumble across: Ghostbusters to stake out old jail...

One night 40 years ago my parents were off with friends. Nothing was on TV and for some reason I had no friends over. I was bored. In the darkened living room I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked and saw a short, hairy, ugly little scowling man walking a few inches above the...

Watching Ghost Hunters and other ghost hunting programs one fact has always intrigued me. Batterys go dead and unopened packs of batteries arte found to be dead when opened. Supposedly this is because ghosts use this type of energy to exist. Ok would this be scientifically possible? Could a...

This thread is in response to a post in this thread. Thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own thread, so I made this post to share this fascinating little gadget with the rest of you:). Okay, so we all love hunting ghosts. Whether it's the ghost of your dead grandfather or the...

This story on OddStuff states that a man has taken a picture of what is, apparently, a ghost. Here are the pictures: Photoshop? Cloud? Something else?

I was watching a TV program called Paranormal something or the other and a so called expert said that since ghosts can walk through wall they could not be made of atoms. He said they would have to be made of neutrinos. Comments?

Dear JREF's, I need a bit of assistance, and knowing the intellectual prowess many of you posess, I think I can get it. I work in a medium sized hospital. The staff is almost all female (as am I) and quite 'religious' (as I am not). 'Religious' meaning very hard line Fundamentalist and...

Okay, fellow JREFers, help me out here. My friend Ryan took this photo of me a couple months ago: Now, forget the fact that I look like an idiot and look on the right hand side under the window. Am I the only person that sees something? Before you read the spoiler, please make sure to write...

Donna LaCroix is dishing out the dirt on her former employers, TAPS, Ghost Hunters, and Ghost Hunters International. She says that, while she didn't participate in staging evidence herself, she knew that some of the evidence was staged. In addition, she says that she, Brian Harnois, and Andy...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.200-where-do-ghosts-come-from.html?full=true Since when is the idea that magnets can do anything at all to the human body anything other than bs? Controversial my ass. :rolleyes: Happy Halloween, I guess.

I found this article on AOL. Which talks about this new movie "Paranormal Activity" being the new "Blair Witch Project". I say it could definitely be the next "Blair Witch", in that it will be laced with a lot of fiction and, with it's hype, could make a lot of money. I could be wrong. The...

The Sun, that UK newspaper that upholds the fine tradition of journalism (not) has an exclusive story, plus the actual video, of an apparent ghost that says "I'm Alive" over footage of an 8 week old baby. To me, it sounds like a bad voice over added in after the video was shot. Note that all...

I recently joined three somewhat reasonable friends for a trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to see the Paulding Light. This is a supposedly supernatural 'ghost light' that appears pretty repeatably from a viewing point at the end of a closed road near Paulding Michigan. We found it without...

I've been looking at the British Pathe archive online, and if anyone is still labouring under the misapprehension that irrationality is anything new in the modern era, take a look at these; Dowsing for a missing child - including the horrific claim by one dowser that he'd found the ashes of...