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According to a 2009 poll, more Americans believe in ghosts than don't. But what are ghosts exactly? If they do exist, what are they made of and why are they hanging around? In this classic episode airing for Halloween, Josh and Chuck explore both sides of the divide between belief and skepticism on the topic of ghosts and look at some pretty cool explanations for hauntings.

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if the essentials at the home Depot today to help you protect every moment. Hey everybody, a two year old PAL Josh, Ghoulish Clark and further week special Halloween edition of S? Why, as case selects chosen, are classic episode, how ghosts work which it turns out, we recorded in July weirdly enough, but it seems appropriate to really this Saturday. So I hope you you're and blue, welcome to step. You should now production of Iheart radios. How stuff works are even more from August on Josh Clark Tours chose, they reach a bright distribution, no juries over there for doing what thing around How will we
the horrific circumstances, lest you maybe July area three. I think that the deadline for submissions wasn't. Weird, that being that kind of Halloween mindset, while it's hot out but yeah, and I'm sure it was weird to ask the authors are not to ask but to have them get in that mindset delete bright, something creepy. We definitely didn't come, and yet you talk me out of that also known as the contest. The whole shall never happen again. Well, we also ended up with the one that we're going to read this year I think year, given it is a good one. You guys will have to see in a few more over talking about right so Chuck. I myself have never officially seen a ghost but I understand you have a good story. I do a remark about it and have set a long wait till we do. Our goes podcast well here we are pal,
Should I go now. Yeah, ok, I'm not saying this is a ghost. What I'm saying is one night. I saw something very, very, very strange that I cannot explain it ready filling she, the music, gruesome jerry that could possibly be done Sol Athens, Georgia College, I would say I don't remember the exact year, but it was probably one thousand nine hundred and ninety four ish okay, my best friend and I Brett has had gone out and we're going back home and driving through five points, You know the area, yes, so we're coming from, like let's say the direction of campus and in others through. If you take a certain road and five points that cuts you over to Alps, road, ok and people can be like pussy dog. You buy energy, just talking you and so this is one area where you go around a the road, curves ninety degrees and then about
say two hundred feet after that. There's a faraway stop sign, it's very neighbourhood area, I think that's like were re Gough used to live here. We Vince dealers over there, ok by me what you think So we go around this ninety degree curve and I'm looking in I'm through with radio or in my buddy bread starts like Canada, jokes like what is that but getting around, and up and in the middle of the intersection, and I swear people I'm not making this up and did not hallucinate it. This is God's honest there was a what looked like a hundred year old woman wearing a black robe with purple sash diagonal across her chest and she was standing in the middle. The intersection holding a bible like this kind of on her placed on our fingertips, as you would hold like, like a waiter, would hold the platter. Ok,
bout chess level and she was sort of looking in the other direction with Canada vacant. Look on her face like you have now. Is it just? She was completely vacant completely still didn't move an inch and wasn't like an hazy apparition I mean was Sol. and looked real, real, real cute, so freaky, Pull right up honour to you now take that left and we're both can a dreaming, but then, as we get closer like when you know what's going on here, but it all happened in like fifty second, since I was a lot of time to register in oh. What is this weird? We're getting around and we All right by her and take a less like you know, this is her report within feat of her and she's on my side at this point is returning right. Buyer. She doesn't blank doesn't move a muscle and we were going probably fifteen twenty miles an hour in this curve. He starts like he can't. You
Stick shift anymore to these freaking out. The cards like jerking sputtering pulls over probably fifty feet later. About turn around out the back window and there's nothing there. While I'm getting look till bumps, I now I can see you and to this day I have no idea what the heck it was. And it was either a cry the crazy old woman who is really fast, which is creepy and really fast or them believable, madam to so's, wax dummy I've ever seen, whose also really fast that someone ran and set out there in the agency and then ran and took it away. I am not offering any explanation, not sales. It goes, but I have no recollect explanation for what it could have been in. It was creepy, as weirdest thing. I've ever seen, and we both described it each other immediately like what did you see what Do you see that had gold leaf me, I can't say it was a bible cuz. I didn't see the cover, but you know that gold leaving around it looked like a bible till you, boss of the same thing.
you exactly yeah purple sash black robe silver here that is one of the pernicious qualities of a ghost signing it frequently. People will see the same thing to different people, see the same thing here. which lends a tremendous amount of credence to something, because if one person to seize it, that's a hallucination exactly. You were clearly on something we were not, but that's what somebody could say sure both of you saw, even if you both work, on something that doesn't mean you're, going to see the exact same thing here, I wasn't like some big go sky had never had had look for them or sale. I believe and goes that would just at unaware boom there. It happened right exactly. You can also go a little further if you're a sceptic and say well, I mean Chuck and Brett Brett, just kind of were playing off one another's description,
and they came to some unconsciously came to an agreement of this. You guys compiled the story. He saw the same thing, the impossible. Who knows that? However, you approach that probably depends on whether you are part of the forty five percent and forty eight percent of Americans who don't believe Ngos or who doubly ghost. According to a two thousand and nine CBS News poll, I have never given it much thought it. But after that I was out of Stephanie MIKE well. If that was a ghost- and I just saw one NL? I would research a little bit, but this was long ago. before the internet was born in so I can anything and even what yesterday just to see if I can find out anything if there was some sightings or some already doing, killed there anything and nothing knack and funding so that this year, Rome, personal cost, maybe or just some creepy old woman who was still and not blinking as a car barrel towards her, but either way that is very unsettling either way, and that's a pretty good ghost story
The euro is not a mask. You know I can say that for sure, like we pulled up within feat of her, like I looked in her face and she ensued and move must move a muscle, mass scale it was the scary thing. It's ever happen to me and we told that story many many times over the years and everyone's ILO Greeley, and I say I swear. Why would it make this up now? So that's my ghost or does the gig ghost story you can reach us on Facebook, yeah it's time for message, break our Ai Weiwei, Jerry. It's not really envisage break what she let pretty quick, so we're talking goat yeah and, like I said forty, eight percent of Americans believing ghosts forty, percent out yet, and I think a lot of people aspire After reading this there's the whole You know, I really miss my deceased relative in
sciences, and I think those things the mine can play tricks on you. But in my case it was just like those of the ones run like what's goin on here right. You know: well, it's pretty much impossible to this, prove something it approves thing doesn't exist right, which is one reason why belief in ghosts continues on but there is also a lot of there's. Also a lot of factors in goes. The accumulated create this body of you, a ghost belief that what our goes ghostly, sightings, hauntings aberrations its sure that can overtime and taken on a life of their own- or, I should say, have been around for thousands and
thousands of years near and have not been dispelled by science right? So organ came approaches from like you know, here's what people believe go sir, and hear some scientific explanation for it, but throughout this you notice that at no point or we ever going to say conclusively so the proven that goes don't exist because it kind of can't write this. I d say that people are using the scientific method to study ghost sure, because some are am. I have is, after these people, most of all, yet so as hooker all right. Well, I just describe my encounter much like it said. Wasn't hazy or weird wells weird, it wasn't like a hazy apparition bright, but many times is an apparition, sometimes its lights. It seems hit every cent. Sometimes it's a smell like crazy pointed out in this article like the smell of disease relative favor?
meal being cooked in the other room right stuff like that for the smell the deceased relative dismount, something like writing, but it was just. girl and allow right, exactly can be a song, can be flickering lights can be orbs and a picture will talk about that or a ghost in a picture like there's plenty of them. Say I got here, you gotta, Google is pretty funny. Look at those yeah there's some that are like this one style quite explain to my full satisfaction, yes, and if you look up fame, goes pictures, there's a handful that have made the rounds over the years that are pretty good night, the Lady of Brown Hall. I believe that the girl with the fire no that's a good one that real good one. There's a woman descending, a staircase like a ghostly vow, yea woman, very famous, Freddy, in the World WAR, two what war one pilot dies? I killed her mechanic, I'm sorry he was killed in an issue
up in a group photo two days later here now as explained as a double exposure, which I mean just the coincidence behind it is in and of itself stag. Yeah? If that is the explanation for, of course, it also could be a hoax, but it's a pretty girl and Freddy Jackson is my favorite one. I think my favorite is the old west. Did you see that one? It's like boot healers? Then it was a ninety. Ninety six, I think in this guy dressed up like a cowboy and you know, had his picture maiden but with his friend and then in the back ground. You see this guy, who he I did like kind of picking up, maybe behind a tombstone yeah this in the brush and supposedly these things are verified by photo experts and in stuff, is having been untouched yeah. So his Photoshop is making it way easier to screw with photography, but it's also fairly easy to detect too. If you really dig into the individual pixels,
say: well, this is obviously to, and especially these old photos when their examining negatives, it's not that those weren't photoshopped right could be light playing tricks. But when you see a girl standing by the rail of you know what the fire behind her that one was exe and as the girl in the fire here those explain is a just a sheer chance? Mixture of smoke and law right and then are numb programming like us being hard wired to pick faces out anything. I don't know man, they look pretty much like a calamity, definitely does in a year and then, of course, there is the funny things like the three men in a baby ghost we say, cut out of dead dancin or the wizard of OZ like hanging munchkin, which was a bird. All though I have to say, since you bring one of the greatest shore you know of short or fiction. Of course there is one of the greatest dumb,
on the very red was called the hanging. Man of OZ because, like his is only just a few years old, but it's a good little short. Story well, yeah. I remember one year this guy who like gets, can it caught up in like looking for it? It's good good, whore fiction. This does Anthea do with goes, but supposedly there's a murder captured on Google Earth. Have you seen making the round. No, it's a aerial shot, obviously of a dock somewhere in Europe by the water, and it looks like a guys like drag a dead body and a big pool of blood or the water, but they are, I think they ve debunk, that it was a dog who had shaken off and gotten the ground wet in people verify later, like those made, my dog and yes, tat S in question, for he thought was right.
I suppose in our facebook law by I mean you bring up a yet? That's that's a really good. Like you see what you want exactly here, but again we say you can't really prove that go stoning says so people are like prove it right does improve anything right. You know. If you can prove that a photograph has been faked, then you proven it's been faked, but you can't, look at me, like I'm sure it's a fake right that doesn't muster Chuck. I have a question by your underwear: does it feel like you're sitting in having clouds? no. It does all that I'm guessing you're wearing me on these. Aren't you jerk? That's all
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on the other side of the planet. Here at the moment, they died, like the relative wakes up the next day, to find out that the person died it fifty nine ray I'm when they just saw them sitting in the room. At the same time their systems observed there I mean to say: hey Bolivia, see here in fifteen years right or their coming to you say, you're about to die. That's another There were long standing where did India or thereby to say like it's Ninety, ninety nine so your Yahoo stock now would be a good girl. You know there's a lot of stuff you can. You can say that people have attributed to go straight in why they're here there is also that horrible experience as their last moments, yeah than they are at the point where they died. Two young or
maybe have just come back to their favorite place. Enliven earthbound. Spirits, I think, is what paranormal investigators call those situations yeah like their stuck here. It's like you know, get off my chest, in a situation regarding a place may be theirs. Not one but two ghost women at the hotel, the dog are not all in San Diego, very famous late, nineteenth century built hotel resort and both of them took their own lives at the hotel. Where found out. They were pregnant on a wedlock, or one was Mary, but her husband had left her and so there in two different rooms still, but that's an example of a goes Yang tied to a place yet, and we have an article on the site about haunted hotels that a lot of hotels and all around the world, but especially in places like New Orleans in like old, spooky spanish. I guess the core noticed
one of those there's one and I believe, Colorado overlook the other one, As for the overlooker, no, no it's it's just like a penal like regular cool hotel, but it has a cost. dream running through the lobby, us yet, which is cool in and of itself. And I dont remember where I saw this, but is I got some tv show where this it's like? A super haunted hotel, supposedly sea. Like the ghost waiter, I don't. I don't remember for the rest, the river he had his pants rolled up and here the clubs hid, awesome those are the best, the most open and I'm sorry me another mediums out there, who you know if you saw the movie ghosts, would be Goldberg, obviously theres many times hucksters trying to take advantage of people saying that can contact people put you in touch with your relatives, it a past yeah, but I'm sure there
very their lot, a medium to really believe what they're doing is for yeah and what's what kind of ironic is theirs is really great article, but it's a little quick editorial actually from LOS Angeles times. Two dozen six called is science afraid of ghosts, threw him by Deborah bloom right and she basically points out that, like we were used, have psychical research societies, William James right effectively, the founder of psychology. investigated the paranormal as well and conducted like extensive, real scientific experiment. and along the way debunked a lotta medium. When was this like the nineteenth century, the victorian era? Ok and so part of this investigation into the paranormal was not just it wasn't just to prove that ghosts existed,
just to understand the paranormal on its own terms and along the way say, this person is a fraud. This persons, a huckster gray, is echo plasmas cheese cloth that they had liked, stuffed in their cheek in and that was part of it and over time I think science is kind of thrown out the whole thing, the baby with the bathwater near and now it's just up to ten of the more mean spirited section of the sceptical world to just go after him, debunk there's nobody looking Frere, there are very few people looking to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts. It's more dislike this photographers faked right in only yeah and on photographs. I guess we should talk about orbs, very famously or show up in pictures and some people you know say that that is a very specific part of the journey
The ghost is when they are in orb? I have or picture which all post on Facebook Emily believes it is her grandfather we he had just passed away and the photograph issues the biggest lower had ever known and we had just finished are in our backyard and our house that we bought soda, been like six or eight months in our dogs couldn't go back there so we finally let them back there and I had a camera I gotta. Take pictures of this may start playing around like crazy and in one of the pictures there's an orb boom right there above the dogs playing in Emily's. Like that's, Charlie, that's my grandfather, I thought so he's coming to visit, so I didn't debunk that, but supposedly sceptics will say that could be a camera flash
reflecting off, thus particles right? I use no flesh o water spots on the camera, lens boundary, defects in digital camera, sensors and cast. It could be that all those in new camera- and it's never done that- sets or add printing errors. It was not printed or developed while so who knows understand, The great orb photo that all post my dogs playing a you, raise a really good question. I, like I mean, what's the with the value of de that I don't know, photo it made I feel myself and still does so. Why am I what is the value and the? I guess we'll cover it later, but their sister that that question keeps coming to me throughout the region certain us. Yes, like it's already anybody right so chuck. I guess the group a really good question it for him. Talk about how ghost work is, what would ghost be made of likely said? The victorians believe that there are made of echo plasma
today. If you talk to a someone who believes in ghosts, unlike researchers, ghosts and in like that's part of their world, Brett they'd, prevailing idea is that they are made of energy of somehow a camera which love thermodynamic state, that energy cannot be created nor destroyed right to transfer states. The idea that would be a pretty good understanding of what go, sir, if they are real. So a life force that had passed from alive person is a different kind of energy. Exactly sure mid experience it. What is the star wars? That is how they expire the force her. The mid experience- I don't remember it was very disappointing. It sounds really familiar is it from then the newer three yea out how they explained? Basically, they explain what the force was in IRAN. I want to go into that. I gotcha. I remember that there are other thing: Caesar that if they are some sort of energy, the
they could also be some form of matter right. So Maybe they're made of some sort of quantum particles are an arrangement of quantum particles right, which I find kind of an interesting explanation because think about it. Ghosts kin are their frequently said to be able to travel through solid matter. yeah! Well, if you go under the quantum level, you start looking Adam transistors theirs. problem in early transistor development in that an individual electrons can pass right through the wall. The transistor is called quantum tunnel. but an dumb they had to figure out how to use crystals to kind of blockchain electrons and make them flow. The way you want it rather than just be like I'm over here now, so some people say well. Maybe these are some sort of quantum particles are an arrangement of quantum particles that were able to perceive somehow right and then the question I would have, as is there a consistent stood explanation on why some people might become a go
and some others not in the answer is no or are they everywhere and some you just have a stronger energy force or something you knows yeah because I mean if if people tend to pay Steve ghosts more than others and that typically from studies has been shown to be people who believe in ghosts right tend to see them hereafter report hauntings Why, when they seem all time like why? Wouldn't so, there would indicate that there is something about an individual person that would make them becoming goes some. the questions. Well, the whole unfinished business like died, two young thing at my head around that, like an energy force that was so strong that has now gone, Sir still could be around I'm trying to decide what part I lion do, I believe in ghosts. I think so. So there's a dude name, Richard Wiseman of a University of Hertfordshire, yeah
and he's got a lot of research and Gb Great Britain, and he he has found some pretty consistent results that people have generally reported the same things in the same places. Even if they didn't know there was any ghost activity there, even if they did or didn't believe. Actually they did believe. They're more, like you said, more apt to see a ghost right, but his each had consistent result of specific places yeah, I mean high key applied the scientific method of researching ghosts in here. He documented what what parts, What areas in a reportedly Honan place, sightings were most frequently reported near basically found that, like you you can map out areas were sightings were right. Ok, so that step one and then step to we had people whose who encounter ghost describe their experiences, any kind of compiled,
the data right, then he went back to see what other commonalities. There were four an area yet like physical conditions, there. Yes, I cow cold as it is it, made when we measure the light. Let me measure the magnetic field right. More found no interesting Lee was that there were specific areas where people who had no understanding of the history, the place they were saying never had heard that the area was haunted had reported something. So there was something through a specific area being quote on it right and people who do not necessarily believing go. Sir, didn't know that. This force behind it had reported not only that they had seen inciting or something in this building, but in this specific area, this building Thea. What does that mean? It's a consistent study,
right. So in Wiseman is a part of this kind of long, but very small, small EU, sparsely populated tradition of like paranormal researchers like legitimate once you get into that man when I was a kid I used to to go to Duke in study, paranormal or or parapsychology. There are really yet they had a pair of psychology department. Awesome is led by gaining Joseph Rhine, whose another like legitimate, hired a pair of psychological researcher- ah you could have gotten a tv show on science, it's you see I used to have one from Methinks sixty nine seventy. Is dukes around her. Now they shut it down and I think the mid aid but it was around from like the fifties, are smart up to the eighties and it was well respected, will James was another researcher.
Of the nineties, James Huron and Rennie lanes are still doing research in writing. Books Harry prices, a very famous one offered him yeah. He was famous for investigating boiled rectory, which is possibly the most haunted place in England. There really and then now If you want to get a degree in psychology you can go to the- American University or then go to university of ember does is to place, as far as I know in the western world, where you can get a Paris ecology degree. I can see that the great Britain's has a lot of ghostly activity in paranormal. Investigate yes and their intuit over there in Edinburgh supposed to be the most haunted city in all of Europe yeah a bunch of dissatisfied, scotsmen roaming, the bog right. We ve calculated outright yeah. I feel it related out, like we ve got the item b it when we all understand
because I think we really said anything that people are like. Oh yeah, I didn't realize of sweat. It goes to write. What I found interesting is that there are some really good explanations for ghostly activity. We sometimes Stacy points out. I mean they're, so many explanations that such a wide range from this person is separated something right missy with that specifically we're? Starting now understand that donations are way more common than anybody has admitted for a very long time, because we are afraid of being put away. Her or label is crazy. people hallucinate more than we generally understand they do and specifically grief is supposed to be able to check. Hallucinations primarily well, should explain visitation relative shortly after they die totally yeah. We talked about sleep paralysis, but Well, that's an explanation that you hear a lot about someone
lying in bed. They can't move and they are hallucinating spirits and things right. They think they're awake but they're, not right yeah and you're incapable moving. Yet there is also the hypnotic gagging trance, which comes at the onset of sleep and as yet a sort of trance that, supposedly you can hallucinating on the other that happen before. Like him, I wake my sleep that it is here something oh yeah, Asher Nita and then sometimes it's just you know the the window shut itself, because it was loose in the wind, blew it or the door shut, because There was a draft or it's cold in here, because you know there's a draft. Alzheimer's is literally an explanation right, a fiscal explanation for what happened so you you hit upon one of the hallmarks of haunting activity is a change in temperature and unexplained change in temperature in a haunted room. Yes, when a ghost is present
and, like you said it's often like a chimney year, drafty window or something like that. But people who investigate this kind of thing also often splain that phenomenon by a lack of humanity right. lower humanity can make a room feel colder right. What about an area of a room? Now I don't know minute I'd like that's, that's really good question dude. How can in area of a room, be number colder. If there is a draft of its not a draft is just like a static area in a room. It's called near it if there is to say a decreasing humidity. What causes the decrease in humanity that makes it for we'll right and they have found that areas that are supposedly haunted. Why should say Richard Wiseman found right in one place that was supposedly haunted. Attended to be less humid than other areas, so that would explain that the cold chill
How is one area just a of a room less human than another yeah, I'm curious about what kind of temperature drop people have seen like how drastic it's been. I couldn't find any like reputable. Information on that. Like in the movies, you walk the coroner in you can see your breath all the sudden, her hat and your freezing early, this extensive area that poor kid, but also I wondered- if it's not even necessarily a real change in temperature of supposedly ghost hunters can measure chain. In temperature in a room and re means the ghost is present or if it's just a sincere, of a chill running through your body, and he is not actually all its logical, yeah, you're, not you're central nervous system, the edge schedule bumps earlier Rina. You did What about the electrical fields? That's a very common thing, for a paranormal investigator to measure magnetic,
yield and electrical fields in an area they will say that this is kind of proof that there is some sort of presence there, because the you know the ghostbusters a meter is going crazy right exactly what they call that. Can we remember that. I can remember, even though one that there again held up to a year at its core gaining control over that yeah, sorry guys Sometimes these fields can cause wacky things happening with the brain. Can cause hallucinations can cause a daisy or other neurological, symptoms and they're saying that might play into it. The fact that you think you have seen a ghost right there, their say investigators are saying yes, there actually is something different here with the the areas electrical feel right, electromagnetic fields or something going on here, but as possible, a that's was making you think. There's a ghost here rather than there is a ghost here in its affecting
field, gets hit near angular gyros that, part of the brain that evidently, if its stimulated, you can get the sense. someone's behind you mimicking your movements as pretty creepy, We were all familiar with the Trans, cranial magnetic stimulation area, the thinking cap, those cool episode, and when you apply a magnetic pulse to different parts of the brain Things happen, unwelcome is definitely hallucinations and then another example of the magnetic field messing with us. I guess is that a lot of them haunting activities reported at night supposedly right now Scary right. Exactly let us not that's number one death for number, two, the magnetic sphere in other. The part of the earth's atmosphere that protects us from the charge die on the solar wind right. The way that the earth is arranged to the sun, the parliament,
Darkness has a larger part of the magnetic fear surrounding it again or work toward the sea. So that might explain it. Then right so looks like a spider it does. But there's a lot more magnetic field cavity going on in the darker side of earth so bright night, though it could be a stretch yeah, I think my fate Explanation that I had not about is in for sound. I think that's pretty cool this to me is it. yeah. It's some low frequency, sound waves that you cannot hear you know naked ear. You won't notice it, but it can cause your eyes to vibrate and cause you to see. Things can cause a sense of dread and cracked. Actually one of our favorite websites did it tested a concert in they will they they reported on. Ok, there's a yellow. They don't do test. That's right. They report on tat the others, a great cracked article They are talking about in the fifties
Ganem VLAD is mere Vita gavroche. Now Politics engineer noticed that, like one of his lab assistance, Is bleeding from an ear and The two to this aim for sound things like seventeen nineteen, her And you can't hear it like you don't realize hearing sound but you're reacting to it. Like you said it causes all sorts of lake, weird psychological effects like a sense of dread right since that there's somebody else near you all a classic telltale signs of haunting there so much so that they ve traced literal like a hauntings back to in for sound, yet the ghost in the machine is an article by victorian Tony since then the same, and was gone and there they traced back to a fan and then they modified the fans. Housing the sound went away and the supposed hunting runaway right exactly
isn't that, where the like, surely you ve been in a room before that you just had to turn around and run out of, because you just knew that there's somebody else in there with you. You have. I have plenty times Sworder at. I think it is I've been in like Savannah near in on the ghost tour, like I'm highly suggestible, I gotta say, but isn't it strange to think that a sound that you can't hear it was responsible for producing that fella Gore, our brains are dead malleable daylight, just a sound- we came here, but the vibrations we can still sent somehow are having an effect. Our brain him, scaring us making us turn around and run out of here and potentially twitching your eye and causing hallucinations right. So this sound has been shown NASA showed that that in infrastructure and at that frequency can make your eye vibrate. Imperceptibly, yes, but then something
as to your vision like see the rim of your glasses or something right appeared, your brain confuses and thinks that that's moving, so it looks like there's a little dark figure, moving out of the corner of your I read in for sound, can actually caused Visual n, while not auditory hallucinates like logical. Yes, like logical effects and visual, whose nation so end, the creation whistle of dread. Yeah, that's a spooky yeah, I'm gonna, get it in profound, shirking its player on the officer there may already be Doin here. While I don't you think, said what the guy did, though, at the concert Debbie? No, he played. Did he played under the concert. Ia and people were friggin out yeah. I think, like a quarter of the people at the counter report reported field like horrible dread in, like some easier, Mozilla is a doktor John Show as the first awful thing I can think of Doktor John China near,
like you see I can play to pianos at once. The yeah he's it needs a legend. What am I talking about? You're thinking of maybe doktor hook in the medicine show no doctor. mental, a strengthening of the worst band. I could think of and that's the person that came to my mind. That's who you thought of analytical back is out there yet It was a nickel back, show their look. We can fix this netting. So what else I think the lasting Tracy has here is that the national Science board is actually come out, and said that, if you believe paranormal. It can be dangerous because that means you have reduced critical thinking skills and you can't make great data decisions right. He's gonna mean The earth me because, on the other end of the spectrum, you can definitely make the case that just poo out of hand as non existent anything that science can explain near
This shows a distinct lack of critical thinking and near even more dangerously lack of imagination and their irks meeting I will end here. I enjoyed that you sent me the sceptics, o Brien Dunning, theirs his article in a kind of appreciated his approach with this. What liar you know Maybe that means there's other cool way, is to explain these things right, like dont Poohpooh at me, open your mind to other interesting phenomena that can be explained what he was saying. Don't just assume that a few just stop at it was a ghost year. For I wasn't. Then you are in your pursuing silly. You just do not pursuing any longer one way or another year, and yet you your kind of shutting down these avenues. That could be really interesting. I opening appreciated. I appreciated his approach to cause is a huge sceptic, but he's not He didn't take like a James Randi, ask Glee
delight and destroying the illusions of idiots in a yet. I think that's his deal period is people were. I think he gets accused of that oftentimes. As you know, a fun killer and he's like him, that's not what I'm trying to do here, trying to apply research in a real science. Two things I think he likes killing funny little, but maybe over zealous ghosts done for now, if you, if you want to learn more about, go sin read a ghost story. First, first hand account of a ghost story from Tracy. Whilst you can type ghosts in the search bar, how stuff works that com? It will bring up this article and, I said, has to work so it's time message break up. You can help decide. The outcome of this election. You can do it by getting
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