Scientists discuss what ghosts might be made of

Why not? Are ghosts afraid of controlled experiments and/or scientists?

They probably don't like to be treated like circus animals. If I was a ghost I wouldn't waste my energies proving my existence to those who would continue doubting me regardless. That's what po's me about some paranormal investigators. They don't treat these beings with respect. If we can even call them beings. Maybe they are ectoplasmic shells or residuals trapped inside the electromagnetic grid of matter.
 
You don't think Ghost Hunting TV is fake :confused:
Do you believe in TV wrestling as well?
It's an entertainment.
If nothing happens, they haven't got a show.
 
If I was a ghost I wouldn't waste my energies proving my existence to those who would continue doubting me regardless.

That is the kind of mind set that makes me prejudiced against ghosts. OK, I'll admit it I am an apparitional bigot. I hate the translucent bastards. I am a member of the Boo Boo Klan. You just can't trust em I tell ya. Sneaking around at night popping up here and the then vanishing. Hey I have known a few good ones but in general they are just no good.

They probably don't like to be treated like circus animals.

I guess there are no circus performers human or otherwise that have become ghosts or else we would have our proof by now! Gee wheez, how unfortunate

Sometimes your posts appear to be written by a cirucs performer - specifically the kind that have a big red nose, baggy clothes and drive teeny tiny cars...;)
 
That is the kind of mind set that makes me prejudiced against ghosts. OK, I'll admit it I am an apparitional bigot. I hate the translucent bastards. I am a member of the Boo Boo Klan. You just can't trust em I tell ya. Sneaking around at night popping up here and the then vanishing. Hey I have known a few good ones but in general they are just no good.



I guess there are no circus performers human or otherwise that have become ghosts or else we would have our proof by now! Gee wheez, how unfortunate

Sometimes your posts appear to be written by a cirucs performer - specifically the kind that have a big red nose, baggy clothes and drive teeny tiny cars...;)

There's only one poster in this thread trying to act like a clown right now. And it ain't me.
 
You don't think Ghost Hunting TV is fake :confused:
Do you believe in TV wrestling as well?
It's an entertainment.
If nothing happens, they haven't got a show.

Do you have some proof it's fake? If it were that would be highly unethical. The news media would be all over it. So far not a word.
 
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No, people are pretty good at deceiving themselves. No conspiracy or hoax needed. That is one of the many amazing features of being human.

I can see how that could be the case with paredoilia (sp?). IOW, where reflections or shadows or mists are mistaken for faces or human shapes. But the nature of the evidence defies that. The really good evidence is of quite unmistakeable phenomena. Now either these are real or they are hoaxed. But once again, why hoax something your spending all your time trying to understand? Examples below:

Some of these I don't get. But most of them are quite striking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXVQlg22dc
 
There's only one poster in this thread trying to act like a clown right now. And it ain't me.

Bzzzzzzzzt wrong answer, yet again. Let us not forget that you are the young fellow who will believe anything (as long as it is not believable)....:confused:
 
Bzzzzzzzzt wrong answer, yet again. Let us not forget that you are the young fellow who will believe anything (as long as it is not believable)....:confused:

List of things I don't believe:

Astrology
Faith healing
Exorcism
Creationism
Hollow earth theory
Unicorns
Mermaids
Vampires
Werewolves
Positivism
Materialism
Solpsism
That OJ was innocent
Anti vaccinists
Anti Fluoridists
Corporate capitalism
Manifest Destiny
Religion...
Santa Claus, easter bunny, tooth fairy, sand man, etc.
Perpetual motion machines
Trickle down economics
Tachyons
Phlogistons
Fascism
American exceptionalism
Moral relativism
Past life regression..ETC.

This list goes on and on.
 
I can see how that could be the case with paredoilia (sp?). IOW, where reflections or shadows or mists are mistaken for faces or human shapes. But the nature of the evidence defies that. The really good evidence is of quite unmistakeable phenomena. Now either these are real or they are hoaxed. But once again, why hoax something your spending all your time trying to understand? Examples below:

Some of these I don't get. But most of them are quite striking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXVQlg22dc

There are a million reasons for visual anomalies. Our eyes are far from perfect. It's still not evidence for ghosts.
 
There are a million reasons for visual anomalies. Our eyes are far from perfect. It's still not evidence for ghosts.

Then what WOULD be evidence for ghosts? As usual the skeptic just raises the bar on what counts as evidence in order to continue denying the existence of evidence.
 
Then what WOULD be evidence for ghosts? As usual the skeptic just raises the bar on what counts as evidence in order to continue denying the existence of evidence.
I'm not saying there isn't evidence, just that there isn't valid evidence. I would like a ghost to tell us something we could not have known unless the ghost were real. No bars were raised. It's up to those making the proposal to provide conclusive evidence.
 
I would like a ghost to tell us something we could not have known unless the ghost were real

Wow..That's a real doozy. I've never even heard of anything like that before. So what would you like the ghost to say to prove it isn't being an imposter of a ghost? lol!
 
Wow..That's a real doozy. I've never even heard of anything like that before. So what would you like the ghost to say to prove it isn't being an imposter of a ghost? lol!
Where their body is, if it's a secret. Perhaps who killed them, if it's a murder. Where treasure is buried. It's the same standard for near death experiences. The premise is that ghosts are dead people. So prove it's a dead person by identifying something only that dead person would know.
 
Where their body is, if it's a secret. Perhaps who killed them, if it's a murder. Where treasure is buried. It's the same standard for near death experiences. The premise is that ghosts are dead people. So prove it's a dead person by identifying something only that dead person would know.

What if it's a very forgetful ghost? It's certainly not a given that all information from this life carries over into the afterlife. Besides, why wouldn't a transparent figure just talking to you be evidence for a ghost? Do you often see transparent figures in everyday life?
 
What if it's a very forgetful ghost? It's certainly not a given that all information from this life carries over into the afterlife. Besides, why wouldn't a transparent figure just talking to you be evidence for a ghost? Do you often see transparent figures in everyday life?
Anecdotal evidence isn't good enough. Transparent apparitions show up at rock concerts these days.
 
Anecdotal evidence isn't good enough. Transparent apparitions show up at rock concerts these days.

Projected holograms don't show up in deserted buildings or cemetaries at 3 AM out in the country where nobody is around. You seriously would suspect hidden technological wizardry in such places before taking an apparition to be a ghost? No wonder ghosts never appear to skeptics. Much:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUY1CG2DVs
 
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Projected holograms don't show up in deserted buildings or cemetaries at 3 AM out in the country where nobody is around. You seriously would suspect hidden technological wizardry in such places before taking an apparition to be a ghost? No wonder ghosts never appear to skeptics. Much:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUY1CG2DVs
You have to be kidding me. You mean there is no other possible explanation for a video of blankets getting pulled off a bed than dead people coming back to some semi-form of life? Frankly, I didn't see an apparition either. Don't be such a child.
 
You have to be kidding me. You mean there is no other possible explanation for a video of blankets getting pulled off a bed than dead people coming back to some semi-form of life? Frankly, I didn't see an apparition either. Don't be such a child.

Yeah...must've been a pesky hologram or somethin..lol!
 
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