Magical Realist:
I'd say the same, except when they claim to have experienced incredible events which for other reasons are unlikely to be true.
The paranormal is only incredible if it never happens. The fact that it does happen and quite often makes it quite credible.
I think you'll find that in reality there are very few obnoxious nuts obsessed with proving everything they hear. Apart from anything else, that would require way too much effort.
It would be. It would also be a sign of serious mental illness, this demanding of evidence for everything.
I think if you pick 100 random people off the street, only a small minority will claim that they have ever personally seen a ghost.
"Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults (18%) say they’ve seen or been in the presence of a ghost, according to a
2009 Pew Research Center survey. An even greater share – 29% – say they have felt in touch with someone who has already died."===
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/30/18-of-americans-say-theyve-seen-a-ghost/
Similarly, reports of alien encounters these days tend to include descriptions of gray-headed bald aliens with big black eyes. Does that mean all these people are seeing these aliens? Or could it be that people are indoctrinated to report grey aliens with big black eyes? Or even to see grey aliens with big black eyes under the right circumstances (e.g. a particular mental problem).
Perhaps they are. It's certainly not something any normal person would routinely hallucinate on an ongoing basis.
Dead people who continue to live on, who are partly transparent, who can walk through walls, who can appear and disappear, etc.? Not that extraordinary? Really?
No more astounding than electrons that can be in two places at once and pass thru barriers. It just depends on how open you are to reality being more than you can understand.
No. I'll bet you didn't even spot the "obvious" changes of clothes in the video I posted above, until you were told about them.
I was being distracted by the card trick and the camera zooms. That says nothing about people hallucinating ghosts.
That is a trap. You see what you expect to see. If you think you're going to see ghosts, probably you'll see ghosts.
Many people do not expect to see a ghost. Many people who have seen them did not even believe in them until they saw them. And even people who believe in them don't WANT to see them. It's a jolting experience. Nobody wants that.
That would be a mistake. Autobiographies are often self-serving, and the memories that people have are subjective and often unreliable.
There are tons of events and experiences the autobiographer will know over the biographer. It doesn't mean they made them up. It just means they were there when the biographer wasn't.
Sure. It's an interesting study into human psychology, mass delusion and the like.
It's an experience that needs explaining. Hallucinations doesn't do that.
You seem to be claiming that people never hallucinate anything. Is that what you think?
Right..I'm claiming normal people who not on drugs or who don't have a brain disorder don't hallucinate things. I never have and I believe in ghosts. It takes a malfunctioning brain to hallucinate.
So you're among the vast majority of people who have never seen a ghost. Hmm...
I've never met a giant squid either. Lot's of things I haven't met. Does that mean they aren't real?
No. It means that people like to club together with like-minded people, and just about any excuse will do. Very little of this "scientific measuring" you mention is actually reliable. Noneof it convincingly shows what it is claimed it shows.
You've probably never observed a paranormal investigation in progress ever have you? I've observed hundreds of them, and they are very critical and exact in their usage of infrared cameras, digital recorders, motion sensors, and temperature readers. The results they obtain are real and abundant.
I agree that it is not all hallucinations. It's just not supernatural beings. Probably mostly raccoons.
Sometimes. But not always..
And "eyewitnesses" of ghosts, of course, are never distracted, but are always perfect observers who never make mistakes or see things that aren't really there, or don't see things that are there.
It's hard to mistake a person in period dress that is transparent and then disappears. What could possibly be misperceived here?
That's true universally, is it? Nobody has ever faked a ghost. Well, thanks for letting us know, Magical Realist.
It would be very hard to fake a ghost. It would require alot of light projecting and audio and people behind the scenes. This equipment would be very obvious on any haunted location. Most haunted locations are empty houses or buildings. They are checked for other people before the investigation begins. So pranks are always ruled out.
