In other words, good old fashioned paranoia. So those results seem to suggest that paranormal experiences happen mostly because people have been led to believe they might happen. Predictably, the half who thought they were visiting a haunted theater were more likely to report "more intense perceptual experiences," which is presumably science-speak for seeing or sensing the presence of something other-worldly. Half of the subjects were told the theater was haunted, and the other half were told that it was under construction. In 1997, researchers put 22 people into a creepy theater and told them to make observations. It makes so much sense, in fact, that we don’t really need a study to tell us it’s true, but alas, we got one anyway. If you’re a believer in the paranormal and someone tells you that the house or hotel or bookstore you’re about to enter is haunted, you’re more likely to have a paranormal experience (or at the very least some creepy feelings) when you walk into that place. Ghosts are down to the power of suggestion So skeptics rejoice and everyone else, feel free to read about all the dumb science of why people see ghosts with skepticism. And for every paranormal encounter that can be explained away by one of the items on this list, there’s probably another one that totally defies explanation. But that doesn’t mean you still can’t choose to believe. Well, we’re here to say that dang it, some of the scientific explanations for ghost encounters actually sound pretty convincing. It’s reflections and mold and infrasound and blah blah blah science science. But really, scientists, can’t you just leave ghosts alone already? Because believing in ghosts doesn’t hurt anyone, and in some cases it actually helps people, and also it’s fun.īut nooo, scientists can’t resist endlessly telling us how wrong we are about why people see ghosts. Dear scientists, we love learning about nanotechnology and flashlight fish and breakthroughs in medicine, because that stuff is fascinating and world-changing and it satisfies the human desire to better understand our world.
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