I don't know if that is addressed to me or not, but all I have presented is what I would regard as credible evidence, nothing more. In no way am I saying ghosts are proven, or even well evidenced. I am saying that due to credible sightings, I think that there is a probability there is something (not sure exactly what) that we call a ghost, that is not just a mind trick, trick of the light.
I've spent 39 years studying this subject. I have read every book on the subject, everything from egghead to regional true ghost stories. I still buy true ghost story books now and again. My interest was formed in my teenage years while I worked in a restaurant that -
seemed- to be haunted. I had a key to the place and I spent hours in this one location alone trying to figure it all out. I WAS a believer based on the things I saw and heard in the three years I worked there. As I became knowledgeable I was asked to investigate hauntings around town.
A few years later the US Army closed Fort Ord leaving 3,000 different buildings empty. I've been inside approximately 600 of them, but not in search of ghosts. My interest was the many murals left behind by the soldiers of the 7thID(L). Out of those 600 buildings I experienced unusual activity in 12. That's 2%. The great thing about an abandoned Army base is that many of the buildings are uniform and this allowed me make observations the few investigators could make. Why does one building creep me out while an identical building in worse shape feel comfortable. Most of the buildings experienced suicides during their 40 years and a few saw murders. All of them saw brutal assaults.
(Spooky, right? Completely comfortable building)
(Uniform)
Why does one building give off a creepy vibe while it's twin feel welcoming(or neutral)? Why would I see things in one but not the other?
This was the late 1990's through 2005, and the first real research into Infrasound was being published. This work gave me something solid to observe and it paid dividends. I found that the creepy buildings had fewer open doors on their second and third floors creating a resonating chamber effect. After I opened all of the doors on all three floors of the creepy building the feelings of dread vanished. I found the reverse to be true when I closed doors in the "happy" buildings.
And yes, this is subjective. It holds zero scientific value but I feel it is a reasonable explanation that is consistent with scientific research on infrasound.
I heard and saw a lot of things out there, and I have ghost stories up the yinyang from my explorations there, but I also followed up on these occurrences until I could explain most of them. And I finish with this point:
My investigations fall into two catagories; explained and yet to be explained. Like I said, I'd love to get my hands on that Nobel Prize money, I would love to see ghosts "proven" as something other than a trick of the mind. The fact is I have to play by the rules and that means that I have no evidence of ghosts. I do have evidence that supports the conclusions about infrasound's influence on the mind, and to me that's just as rewarding.
