Psychologist, magician, and author of The Luck Factor and Quirkology
We have just launched two online experiments looking at the psychology of
ghosts. In the first study we are inviting people to come online and give their
opinion about the photographic evidence for ghosts. We have posted some
interesting ‘ghost’ photographs on:
http://scienceofghosts.wordpress.com
Please feel free to visit the site and let us know what you think.
Also, there is a quick survey into ghostly experiences, and further details
about a special one day event on the science and history of Hauntings, at:
http://www.scienceofghosts.com/
Both studies have received lots of media attention, including pieces in The
Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and The Scotsman.
Best wishes
Richard
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WoW! Finally – i always wanted to know the science and truth begind ghosts. Thanks Phillis if you had anything to do with this.
GREAT now that i have seen all them pictures so scared now cus am in house alone.
no one ever answers the phone when you need them.
though very intervesting.
OMG I am just reading Quirkology! Did you read my mind?
@ tash
i doubt anyone will find the “truth” about ghosts per se- that i think is an impossibility.
They remind me of the photos I take with my phone when I am drunk. There are tons of ghosts and other things I don’t remember.
Only watched the first 3 and those def. dont seem genuine. Pictures are nowadays not the most trustworthy proof ofcourse.
In the past they have been busy with influencing, adding pictures to film from their mind. Transferring pictures/images from their own mind to film. Has never been proven ofcourse. This just made me think of that. I always wonder why those ghosts if those are genuine only pop up on a few people’s pictures. The fact that people see/hear things that other can’t hear or see is known, but we sort of can explain it, it comes from the brain. Ghosts on film though .. can not be explained (right now) that way. Even if it can be done, I myself hope most people will never ever be capeable to control this skill. It will be causing so many trouble. We’re not ready for it for sure.
Ghosts materializing on film but not being seen quite often by the people who were there … in a way I can see a scientific explanation for this, energy .. too slow or too fast for us to be seen with our own human eyes.
Another explanation is that someone else stood there not too long ago and the energy pattern/shade is still there. Like as in the research experiment mentioned somewhere else on this blog with dna. But why with so less people you would wonder immediately.
I see stuff as well, can feel them at times as if they are real (which is a bit tricky believe me, good that it does not happen that often, as I can really not see/feel/hear the difference with normal things we all can hear/see/feel. And I dont feel different in those moments all the time neither. So you can imagine how tricky this can get if it would happen too often. I would have to check with other people all the time, loosing track of what is the real world and what is the other world. Not scary, but not my cup for sure. Prefer my independency. I’ll leave it to this, as this blog is not for this type of comments, and it will go way too much off topic.
I prefer to keep my interest in this area, but will not let it take over my reasoning in ths area either. I dont really have a choice in this.
It is a bit easy to say that all pictures are fake, although I feel like that most of the time. I know why we all want/need to see/experience it for ourselves before we can believe. With or without science.With or without Brown. With or without Wiseman. Etc. etc.
@ Ken – yes! Is that ok?
Checked them all, all fake if you ask me. More fake it can’t get, and also, some people really want to see something more in those pictures we all get now and then with our camera’s. And with photo-editting software being all over the place … however can you trust people … even experts sometimes have trouble checking a picture.
The vacuum cleaner ghost … where????? I did not even see a thing that resembled a ghost on it ….. and that’s only one in which I could not even see something that resembled a ghostly appearance .. saw a lot of those created by internal problems of the camera .. also those pics on which another picture is in it … we had those in the past now and then with analog camera’s .. we recognized the misplaced person in the picture therefore we knew it was not a ghost and we easily traced them back to the other picture .. that kinda stuff.
I dislike dishonest people in this area. Those who are only there to boost their own fun, not getting the point.