Few times every week for me. I don't consider it supernatural in any way. I'm self-aware enough to realise it's merely the human body being incompetent.
+daniel hanson Sleep paralysis when you aren't expecting it is terrifying, but when you're expecting it, or more precisely doing it on purpose for lucid dreaming or whatever, it's actually pretty cool.
+Christian Gomez I tried that once, I tried going "deeper" all I could see and hear was white noise, like an old CRT-TV set to no channel with the volume turned to maximum. That is probably the most horrible episode I've had. I could do Lucid Dreaming as a child before my Sleep Paralysis set in, there was also very long cross-over period from "lucid" to being "played like a puppet". Damn shame...
I can't say ghosts don't exist, To many things have happened to me that I've witnessed can't be explained. What i mean are things like floating chairs, slamming doors and loud bangs which I've video taped to prove I'm not tripping. I've been psychologically evaluated several times to also prove I'm not skitzophrenic.
You mean things, YOU cannot explain. What is this monstrous arrogance in the comment section? Everyone assumes that their own failure means the failure of all humankind for ever.
+highdough I can't prove there are and you can't prove there aren't, so it's a maybe. Anything that can't be confirmed or denied through scientific evidence is a maybe. Everything that mankind has not discovered or THROUGHLY disproven is in a constant flux of both existence and nonexistence untill further notice. Just like Shrodinger's cat. Science! 😆
I feel like people who never experienced such activities always have something to explain "what it could be" rather just accepting the obvious. People who doesn't believe in paranormal has never had something happened to them dramatically. Once you have something happen to you? You will in no doubt believe it. 😑
"Your House isn't haunted" - Statement of Fact. ".....could be" - Not a Statement of Fact. You can't make a statement of fact and support it with a "could be" explanation, that's nonsensical. You support statements of fact with concrete evidence that can be tested to prove your theory not with a "....could be". This was all "I'm not really sure" answers.
Hauntings have nothing to do with how old the home is. Just because science can't see it under their microscope slide, doesn't mean it's not real. This is one topic you're either a believer, or not, with no room for grey room. Having been dead for two minutes, having a near death experience (which I can tell you, is NOT a result of lack of O2 to the brain), and living in two haunted homes, I know, for certain, they do exist. There's centuries of debate as to why this happens, but after much research, it seems spirits hang around for a few reason, and resist moving on to the next state of being aka "the light". Some people die so fast, they don't realize they're dead, some are so attached to a place, or a person, they simply cannot bare to be without it/them. Some are confused or afraid to move on, but what ever the reason, I know, with 100% certainty, they exist. How? We (my family) saw a book to levitate itself off the shelf, float across the room, and land softly beside me!!!
Most sightings and experiences can be explained through science (like probably 90%+ of them), but there are some cases. I know someone who felt like they were being grabbed, held down, and choked. They SAW an object that was out of place MOVE back to its place. This person is one of the most trusted people that I know and they even have things to back up their stories
People put off energy. That could be imprinted on a place or thing. So you could haunt a thing with your own negative energy or positive energy. I think I did this with a particularly bad relationship in my first house. It's just a feeling people say they get and I feel... could be my memory but not theirs.
Well since the ghost non existence is not supposed to be a lie of the governement or other " elite " to gain power i suppose it's explain the " non-conspisracy part "even though we ALL know that military are using ghost to kill people , possesse politique to order them around and ,most importantly , watch you when you are touching yourself .
Me and my friends lived in a haunted house. Objects moving around the house by itself, crazy voices etc. I'm an atheist myself but I can't explain what I observed.
If someone tells me they believe in the paranormal, I lose a lot of respect for them. It takes a certain level of ignorance, gullibility, and a lack of basic logical skills to completely ignore the most basic principles of science. The same goes for religion, or anything else that has never been proven or even evidenced despite millions of people over thousands of years attempting to do so.
It's a shame you look down on people with faith. I don't really believe in these things either but I'm a big enough person to accept others beliefs. I do believe I look down on intolerance. Ha.
Ghosts are a make believe way of trying to explain various aspects of an experience that you do a great job explaining rationally and naturally. That's all you actually need to say ghosts are not a plausible or even necessary explanation.
Steven Rosas please rephrase, i am not sure what you are asking or getting at... we are mortal biological organisms. there are no conscious entities that are not mortal biological organisms. no immaterial souls, ghosts, demons, etc -no spirit world, therefore no literal hauntings. the moment that ever changes i will eat humble pie (and of course it would be fascinating, world changing and mind blowing!). it won't though... this is just how reality is. there are several really good naturalistic explanations for why humans think they experience supernatural/paranormal phenomena.
I hate only one thing about Trace which every non - American person sometimes question. He clearly knows people from all around the world are watching this but he still refers to the audience like we are all American or just from the US. This is just rude. North America is not the center of the world. We all leave together on the planet Earth not on the planet America.
One day I was sleeping and I heard a noise so I grabbed my bug spray and lighter and started going to my kitchen. When I got in there I was the refrigerator door open and started seeing floating food I started spraying my bug spray flamethrower and found I it was just a spy with his invis watch
I have noticed after watching freaky RUclips videos late at night, I am way more jumpy and feel like I could totally get jump scares from absolutely nothing.
Akash Gaur our ancestors didn't have the privilege of technology or the kind of scientific knowledge and rational thinking we have today. They probably would be more confused than us because of the time.
I have Sleep Paralysis, haven't had an episode for years though. When it was at it's peak, I could "wake up" in to a nightmare, rise up out of bed, and going to the john, then "wake up" again. Everything in the room, slightly tilted - moved if you will - even the bed. This repeated itself THREE times, each time everything in the room getting more and more crooked. It was only then I realized it was sleep paralysis. I was, in fact, wide awake, but "trapped" in a hallucinatory nightmare. But I did what I always did/do when I get/got an episode. I start my way "out of it" by first moving my fingertips, then the hand, arm and POOF - released! However, lifting even the pinky is like trying to lift like a ton... The strain of trying to move is so mentally exhausting that if I didn't immediately go up, and out of bed, I would >instantly< fall asleep again, and once more fall in to a paralytic hallucination... :-/ So what I did was to get out of bed, walk to the sink to wash my face with cold water, shaking my head trying to get WIDE awake and only after a period of being clearly mentally "aware" could I risk falling asleep again. But, as some might suspect by now, I lost A LOT of quality sleep this way. Lucky me I was clear-headed enough not to attribute this... QUITE horrible experiences, to anything supernatural, not even the first time it happened when I was a kid. So if you think you are getting possessed by demons at night? Visited by aliens as you fall asleep? That's sleep paralysis for you. I once saw pink-skinned gorillas coming at me, screaming with open mouths, larger than my head, filled with teeth. So I can really see how it could be interpreted like something like that, depending on beliefs, local legends you fear or belive in, religion plays a huge role for those that get "possessed by demons" etc etc... But it hasn't happened for years now, and that is a good thing.
+Andreas Rohdin this is rather spot on to my own episodes though no pink gorillas, mostly slithering things and shadows, and hands lots of hands. Really didn't like when it happened in a row, it would be like I just got out of this come on body.... I liked to focus on turning my head, though the finger thing works too.
When I was a ghost-hunter, the first thing we always did was check around the house with an EM-detector. If the fields were strong enough in a certain part of the house (usually with old wiring), it was known as a "fear cage." We also used it to check for subtle magnetic fluctuations that weren't anywhere near electrical devices or wiring.
Not only does what you say appear to be sound, you're also so respectful of your audience. Regardless of whether people agree or disagree with you, your consideration for others really shows and it's greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I hear you, but I can't help but to think that things like this are killing our imagination. The same reason why we can't get anymore creative movies and keep getting reboots etc.
well, you can go into the UFO/Alien phenomenon. That's a lot more interesting than some stupid ghost stories. Besides science supports alien existence more than this ghost /haunting bullshit.
I like how the KTVN channel 2 Reno news went to debunk the Goldfield hotel. It was funny when they couldn't figure out how a brick and a 2x4 could fly that fast on a 3 axis rotation. Made my hair stand on my neck.
+Isai Mena Trace did say at the very end of the video that his house he grew up in was haunted by a lil boy w/ a red ball... just saying. I personally believe in ghosts, my house I grew up in too was haunted, but by a very young girl, who would run up and down the hallway.
RWF1984 In my experiences, it happened like it always did for only me, the same in front of anyone and everyone else who stood along side me... my own mother watched our front door jump up and down on its hinges while the Spirit ran up and down the near by hall... it freaked her the fuck out! but she was a believer for ever after that incident.
This makes perfect sense! As a kid I always had paranormal experiences. I was so scared I couldn't go downstairs alone. But as I got older the fear went away, along with those experiences.
Every ghost story or paranormal story is the product of folklore and has no existence outside of it. People believe in them because their critical thinking sucks, because they chose the wrong experts to believe in (quacks and not scientists), or because their brain is trying to make sense of unexplained stuff and they lack the tools necessary to put them on the right track. Just like ghost stories, science is a story fabricated by humans, but it's a clever story based on method. Ghosts stories are based on nothing and only believed by dumbasses. Trace did a horrible job with these episodes. He should have taken a look at the anthropology library instead of wasting his time with mold and magnetism. Not to mention he could have offered a primer on the scientific method, and the logical fallacies contained in many ghost stories. These episodes are a lost opportunity and show a big lack of depth.
no it isnt that simple. i was skeptical when a mentally ill neighbor told me stories of problems he was having with the typical red eyed boogieman that would appear in his gun closet upstairs to terrify him when he was alone at night. im a skeptic my whole family is. but i told this very brave but tortured victim if he needed help come get me and one night he did just that. confident in stride walking to his house i saw lights on upstairs and the silhouette visible because all the lights in his upstairs were left on.. what appeared to be a man standing in his upstairs bathroom walked past the window then came right up to it and looked down at us raising one hand. i thought nothing of it of course but my neighbor was breathing fast.. 'we gotta hurry' in a frenzy he barged in the front door and began questioning everyone in the house.. one other friend had come over to comfort the poor fellow and his grandma and grandpa were in the downstairs when he demanded to know who had been upstairs. no one he replied handing him the lone key. he handed the key to me and asked if i would unlock the door to the upstairs (the ONLY door to the upstairs) and walk up first to investigate. what i saw was so strange ive never explained it. not only was no one there by all accounts no one had been there for a VERY long time and the room felt vacant just cold. i could tell as they were saying this place had been locked all day. i checked every window bed nook cranny nothing. to this day it really is chilling to think what we BOTH witnessed and couldnt debunk. that was only my first encounter but honestly it was enough.
doubting my sanity/honesty maybe the only hope to explain it then? but in the case of this particular event we BOTH went off our meds? no. simply put you cannot disprove anything or prove anything in the realm of ghosts or spirits. phenomenons such as these reported by more than one person remain firmly unexplained to science. but thank you for reading my very true story. it wasnt my only paranormal experience either. had one just 3 years ago with another witness whos also a firm skeptic we BOTH saw lights appear and hover over our car on a power line right next to a graveyard we were passing that proceeded to the end of the wire BOUNCING off the telephone pole and zigzagging several times between graves. unexplained to this day and ball lightning cannot be the answer.
And that’s all that matters. You and your family know what you saw and experienced. I’ve seen things too that defy all logic and physics. It makes me chuckle hearing this guy explain away what he thinks about the paranormal.
I saw my mom came out from the bathroom then walked to next room, when I went to meet her, she was nowhere to be found. I asked all my family members, then they said that my mom left the house when I was leaving the house. And then I asked them again "did someone use the bathroom? because I saw a figure that looks like my mom just went out from the bathroom, then she turned the light off, then walked to next room". Then everybody 'again' said there was no one in there, and they didn't even look scared, or curious, or anything. Then I wait my mom till she comes back. And it wasn't a prank or anything. Because the woman that I saw was literally disappeared in the next room, and my mom clearly was leaving the house that time.
my parent's house is haunted. there was a suicide there back in the 70's, a man hung himself. I saw things move front of me, heard loud bangs on the walls and furniture while I was in the room (so as the others of my family), you can never feel alone there, you hear someone walking around at night all the time.. I used to be skeptic until I experienced these events myself, you cannot explain this with science, this must be some sort of energy or spirit stuck around after a traumatic death.
I was a skeptic all my life; I was also trained in the biological sciences and taught and did research in university; but when it happened to me, there really was no logical explanation; I thought I would die of fear that night
It happened to me too. This is a true story, I smoke, and my wife doesn't so I go outside one night, and I see this dark figure, hugging near a tree across the street from my house. It looks like someone spying on my neighbor's house, and I'm admittedly a little scared. A person all in black late at night peering around a tree. I backup placing myself closer to the entrance to my house and I call out to scare him away, but he doesn't even flinch. My wife hears me and steps outside to ask why I'm yelling so loud late at night. I point to the man across the street, and she gasps and runs inside to call the police. There is no doubt in my mind or my wife's' mind who is now yelling at me to get inside. I see this, and now my wife has seen this dark figure too, it's absolutely real, there's no convincing me it's not real. I ignore my wife's insistence that I get inside and let the police handle this. I start calling out a second and a third time, and I don't see any reaction, I begin to creep slowly towards the tree cautiously. I'm about 15 yards away, and I'm still convinced it's a person, but now I think maybe he's injured or he's unable to respond. I keep calling out, and I take a few steps closer, now I have my first doubts, but I'm confused. I get closer and closer, and now I realize what I see is a shadow cast from branches and leaves and a street light. You may have been as convinced as I was that what you saw was real, but you didn't find a natural explanation. Had I gone inside that night without investigating and you had suggested it was just a shadow, I would have looked at you like you were nuts. Please, a shadow? I think I can tell the difference between a man and a shadow. You might have seen something, possibly even a real ghost, but if you're a skeptical thinker, you have to conclude that you saw something you can't explain and stop there. You can't start building attributes to something you don't understand.
As I am falling asleep I often reach out for the small objects being handed to me despite the fact that I am totally alone. I sometimes write notes , numbers, random words on the pages of puzzles I am working. It is disappointing when I reach out for things that are being handed to me only to realize no one is handing me anything.
I had a friend that was psychic. I met her through a girlfriend, she was her roommate. I had only said hi to her once when I went over to pick up my girlfriend. That night I was talking to Kristy on the phone, and she's all Katie wants to do a psychic reading on you, I rolled my eyes thinking it was gonna be one of those stupid things from high school that tells you you're gay or something. She got on the phone without me saying anything started to tell me things about myself that I had never told anyone. She knew what I liked about Kristy down to the tiniest little quirks that I thought were cute. She also knew about my roommates and what I felt their personalities to be. She even drug up repressed memories that explained a lot about why I did certain things. This was all without asking anything of me. She mentioned that I was hard to read because my mind was closed off. I attributed that to the fact that my mom is very superstitious and growing up she'd constantly tell us to never let anyone hypnotize us, or don't play with ouija boards this type of thing was consistent, and random. Anyway she told me she felt this was a gift, but she typically kept it to herself because people would be afraid of her and call her a witch. I don't think any real psychic tries to make $$ off of it. They most likely keep it to themselves. I've had many experiences with things that go way beyond human understanding. Things that can't be explained. Things that some don't even want to know about.
Asakura Yoh Not possible. Like I said they some were things I'd never told anyone. Like I'd never mentioned to my girlfriend that I though her voice was cute. And she knew nothing about my roommates. Also there's the repressed memories she uncovered.
I think These were things I'd never told anyone. Then there were the repressed memories that she uncovered. I also didn't spend time with my girlfriend talking about my roommates. Believe me if it weren't for the information I hadn't told anyone I'd still be having issues believing what she told me.
Nerdiversal I've never met anyone like her again. I even made the stupid decision to go see some of those paid "psychics" and they were nothing like her.
I sometimes have sleep paralysis. When it happens, I'm slightly frightened at first. But then after it's gone, I recognize what it is and go back to sleep. I'm not so much afraid of it. I know my sleep rhythm is messed up, so I've gotten used to it.
The only time I don't like science is when they try to explain things they have no clue about, for instance: the paranormal. You're not there yet and you don't have the right tools to understand it. Period.
I agree many of the things you said, but my only opinion is just keep always an open mind and be curious (as any scientist) before being skeptical right away.
+Miguel Moran You should be skeptical right away, of any claim. This doesn't alter your open-mindedness in the slightest, you just reserve judgement until you have observed the available evidence before reaching a conclusion.
What is strange is when objects move by themselves in camera. I wonder what's the science behind that... sadly this video doesn't address it. I know doors move because of air, wind or simply gravity...but what about chairs moving or doors opening when they are completely shut. Could it be tiny earthquakes that cause vibration and thus movement?
being able to hear energy( a bit hard to explain that other than certain things emitting their own pitch, i hate crowds.) their are energies, and i find their most prominent in old copper wire houses, and i won't be alone in a house were i know shit goes down, because if they know you know, a form of contact will be tried. going back in the basement for your drink ain't worth that shit.
I have a friend who is a medium. A few years ago I was cleaning and found my dead grandmother's sweater. I hadn't washed it because I wanted it to still smell like her. Grief is weird. When I picked it up, I smelled it and realized her smell was gone. I immediately broke down and started crying. My friend called me in the middle of my breakdown and said "you need to wash that sweater. She won't stop telling me about the sweater." Can science explain how he knew I was crying about that at that moment, or how he knew I even had the sweater if my grandmother didn't tell him?
My mom's cat went outside one snowy night in December and never came back home. We didn't know what happened to her, I held on to the hope that she was at least alive and well, where ever she went. A few weeks later, my sister and I were sitting on the couch next to mom, watching TV. I look over at mom and suddenly she had scratch marks on her neck. They LOOKED like CAT scratches and they literally appeared for seemingly no reason at all. Mom didn't scratch herself, and she wasn't doing anything...just sitting there. There was no reason for her to suddenly have these animal like scratch marks on her neck. My sister saw them too, we both WATCHED them slowly fade in, and mom felt them soon after being alerted to them. I'm don't presume to know if it was the ghost of our cat coming back to haunt our mom, and that was the only thing that happened since then. It was just weird, it came out of no where for no reason and we weren't imagining it. Maybe there's some kind of reaction or biological function that causes cat scratch marks to appear on a person's neck out of no where, idk.
Thank you, Trace, for talking about the these kinds of topics. This information needs to be heard by every Human being. I'm so tired of the world being inundated with these silly beliefs that just won't die. It's seems that no amount of common sense and scientific proof will convince the masses of the absurdities of ghosts, religion and other woo-woo. But over time we can chip away at the credibility of such things.
Devin Tomko - The evidence doesn't provide me enough reason to think there's anything to the notion of a soul. I know it's a disheartening prospect. But it just doesn't make sense to believe things that don't hold up to scrutiny and honest investigation.
+Devin Tomko We dont. There are plenty of brain damage patients and recovering coma patients that show us that mental function corresponds to brain functions. The brain is actually pretty close to computer. Computers use very small switches called transistors to pass signals along. Depending on their configuration they can block signals, or pass signals. They can be hooked up to multiple other transistors - ultimately able to perform some really complicated stuff. The brain is even more complex than the computer. Brain cells can strengthen signals, block signals, invert signals - all things groups of transistors can do too. Braincells also react to hormones and change their function (medicine, drugs, caffeine, etc). Having low amounts of sugar or oxygen also changes its function. And brain cells connect to hundreds or even thousands of other brain cells. And it gets better - brain cells can rewire themselves to other cells, while the PC remains static. Ockham's razor: There is no need to assume more causes than is sufficient to give a proper explanation. There is no need for a mysterious soul, because we can link mental function to a physical organ - and the brain's wiring has sufficient complexity to cover something as complex as the human mind.
+HexerPsy I know, but how would you go about convincing others that souls don't exist? I mean, do you know how long it took for us to stop believing we were specially created by God?
The points that are touched on are good ones. Pretty common knowledge for anyone that's researched how to tell if something could be paranormal, but valid nonetheless. Those are the kind of examples though that are very easy to explain away with science/physics. The stuff that's really freaking is when objects/furniture starts flying across the room, damaged/disposed of items coming back, levitation (against their will), being scratched or struck by an "entity", doors/windows opening/closing before your eyes, etc. And it should go without saying that what I mentioned only becomes disturbing when you can't use science or physics to explain it. The one point of his that I kinda take issue with is his first comment about old houses that people perceive to be haunted. He says that there are many more old houses in Europe, for example, so theoretically almost every house should be haunted, assuming that old houses have the tendency to be haunted. People that believe in ghosts/spirits will tell you that it's the land and the events that's occurred on that land over time that dictates how likely someone is to experience paranormal activity. They also believe that spirits are around us all the time, no matter if you see evidence of their presence or not. They will tell you that they are there but with either not enough energy to manifest themselves, or maybe they just don't give a rat's ass about making people aware of their presence. They'll go on to say that if a person has desire to communicate with the spirits and actively attempts communication, the spirits are much more likely to try and interact.
+IncognitoGuido Being knocked-out by a drug does not equate to sleep; your brain has to go through various sleep cycles to replenish and reuptake neurochemicals (especially serotonin). Alcohol can help by knocking you out, then later as it wears off your brain kicks into sleep mode while you're still unconscious... *however*, all the sedating effects work by acting on certain receptors throughout your body. When the booze wears off, this can cause a rebound effect because your body has flooded itself with endogenous chemicals opposite to the booze's effects in an effort to fight it. Then you can't sleep. Over the long-term, frequent consumption of alcohol (or any drug) gradually destroys the receptors it acts on (down-regulation) by over-stimulating them, causing an effect called "excitotoxicity". This causes a rise in tolerance (more needed to get the same effect) and disables your body's ability to naturally sedate or relax itself when it's time to sleep, as alcohol has been destroying the very receptors it relies on.
Durzo My post was meant to be cheeky, not serious... but thanks for the biology lesson. You sound like me when I'm drunk, turning simple statements into college courses.
IncognitoGuido Why thank you, I was a little drunk! Also, kinda like Mel Gibson, I'm only autistic when I'm drunk (and just hide it better when I'm not).
IncognitoGuido ....and I just realized from your avatar, also a metalhead (like me)! Oh good god, now that I embiggened it, you even look like my long-lost sister. Did we meet at a family reunion and forget because we were both drunk? I know from my avatar I look like a giant cosmic nebula-eye, but I promise - the resemblance is uncanny.
my parents are split up and my mum often has to go to china for work , while she is abroad I have to stay at my dads but every few days I have to return to my mums house to feed my cats. My mums place has a weird ambience and it is important to note that I live in London in an area with old Victorian houses , one night I had to go back to my mums to feed the cats , walking in the lights were off and all the doors were closed as per usual and as I went to feed the cats and change their litter I start to hear noises upstairs and get a chilling sensation down my back . I realise that I need to look for my school uniform and so I ignore it and start searching , as I walk through the hallway I look up the stairs and I notice the bathroom door is open and the light is on , in disbelief I walk up the stairs into the bathroom to see my school tie hanged up on the back of the door (where I left it) . I don't know if I believe in ghosts or spirits but it is also important to note that my mum is a "median" and my whole mums side of the family believe and deal with such things , me personally I have yet to decide but apart from that one unexplainable eary experience I don't think I do believe in anything for certain due to the lack of evidence around other peoples experiences
nobody can say 100% sure one way or other. there are plenty of fakes, assumptions and red herrings, but sensing murder, deb webber, and john edward seem fairly convincing. i keep an open mind on the issue.
+TechReflex Circles are real. But people make them. The tools used are mind numbingly simple: a rope a wooden plank a stick string They are a form of art, not magical.
+frosted1030 Yeeeeah, no. Not all Crop circles are fakes there are stories from hundreds of years ago about a "mowing devil" and it's really really hard to believe that a few people could use those simple tools to make REALLY REALLY elaborate "crop circles" (actually complex geometric patterns) with out leaving a noticeable trace or getting caught.
+frosted1030 Yeeeeah, no. Not all Crop circles are fakes there are stories from hundreds of years ago about a "mowing devil" and it's really really hard to believe that a few people could use those simple tools to make REALLY REALLY elaborate "crop circles" (actually complex geometric patterns) with out leaving a noticeable trace or getting caught.
+TechReflex i hope they do some valid research. I'm not scientist, but i joined a team on a trip to England to see them. It was amazing, to say the least. Some were so ridiculously big that i still can't comprehend it. The really freaky part was that none of the crops were broken, they were bent with heat and were still alive and growing. The sad thing is that some farmers did not appreciate the circles, but others had put up containers for us to donate to them so that it would cover the loss of crops. Whoever makes the circles, i'm a believer. There is definitely something more to them than some guys with planks and wires, they are most often geometrically perfect and with no broken crops. It's just so fascinating.
Don't forget, we still regard freud as the man who knew most about our minds... freud. 'scientists', I hate to break it to you, but ron l. hubbard would've been a better choice to model after. get back to the drawing board, in the meantime, your discoveries are just as much speculation as anything else
Fatty Blackman: Ghosts would have nothing to do with souls or an alleged life after death. Not unless the spirits of dead humans STAY on Earth. Currently there are about 7 billion humans alive on this planet and 100 BILLION dead human beings. If spirits exist, then the humans who are alive would be bumping into the ghosts every which way you would turn. Constantly. If on the other hand a soul does exist and at death that soul leaves this realm, spirits may exist, but not on Earth. Therefore, no ghosts.
I believe in ghosts because in actually saw one in my house. Many family members and a couple of friends have experienced ghostly activity in my house. This is true. I won't say it is "haunted" but is "visited" by ghosts. There are too many things for a rational explanation about my house. I never believed in ghosts until I saw one.
Well I like to believe that they do exist. If not horror movies will be useless to me. And because I grew up in a culture were we belief it's real. And if science really has proof that they don't exist. Well then we just have to take the truth and continue believing in them😂
Thats the beauty of science. There are always new discoveries to be made. But, like Trace is saying when it comes to the supernatural there are any number of alternate explanations that science can reproduce
I used to experience sleep paralysis very often.. It was terrifying, even had an evil vibe, but I never once thought it was "paranormal".I frankly don't know why some people jump straight to "magic impossible forces" before logic.
I know this is an old comment, but there are many houses around where I live in England that are older than 500 years, and some are nearly a millennia old (there are still castles left over from 1066). Just because America's culture doesn't even go back past the late 1700s doesn't mean stuff hasn't happened in the rest of the world.
When I was five or six, I was staying with my grandma watching TV with her while my parents were out. She was on her recliner chair and I was on the sofa. Next to us was the door to the garage. It was closed, and the garage was closed. Suddenly, while we're watching TV, the door flew open. There was no breeze. This had never happened before. There was no draft. We both were sitting down when it happened. Next, the TV suddenly went off, and the door closed by itself. The remote was on a side table. Neither of us were near it. Now, to this day, grandma insists there was once a ghost in her house. I don't know if it was a ghost that caused all that or if it was just a series of freak occurrences, but to this day, no one has been able to provide me a more reasonable explanation as to how a door can fly open on its own when there's no breeze or draft, the TV can suddenly turn off on its own and the door can close again by itself all in a matter of just a couple of minutes.
1) You're being quite rude. 2) Gravity? Really? I've been in a great many rooms in a great many houses, hotel rooms, apartments and offices, and I've not once seen gravity do anything like that to a door before. 3) Grandma and I were the only two in the house that day until about an hour or two later when my parents finally came to pick me up. Nobody came by, and even if they did, they wouldn't have gone through the garage. They'd come through the front door. 4) Why would a power outage only affect the TV? Nowhere else in the house did the power go off. It was just the TV. The lights were all working fine and everything. I may have been really little at the time, but I know what I saw. You can bash me and insult me all you like, but it happened.
I love how sceptics are so arrogant when it comes to the paranormal. They look down upon people who undergo such experiences, but then tables turn until real experiences happens to them. Just because people don't believe in the spiritual or supernatural, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I like that he says that he lived in a haunted house at the end. The most evidence I have seen regarding paranormal stuff would be Sequatch and ghosts. I watched some anthropologist talk about his discovery of an ape that lived a million years ago called giganto. when he was asked if this could be the the same species as Sasquatch, the guy reacted like he was insulted. The show Ghost Hunters has lots of evidence for ghosts.
The sleep paralysis is physical. What we do know is, negative weaknesses like getting ill allows negatiive energy to enter. Sometimes its just physical, but there are times the paranormal aspect accompanies it.
I have PhD and am well aware of scientific reasoning, you illustrated the concept of that well. I'm still trying to figure out some of the things I have witnessed personally. These weren't "fight or flight" prompted moments since the occurrence came from nowhere and surprised us all while simply talking in the house over the course of a few years. We have all moved away from the apts that freaked us out since but still talk about the strange voices, apparitions (I guess?), boot steps in the hall and objects moving that we all were witness to. I use trial and error reasoning every day and still can't come up with a great explanation for half the shit that went down in that old apt building. I'll just keep chalking it up to "who the fuck knows" for now. I'm not religious and I don't care about an afterlife, but that shit was odd. I think it would be cool one day to have a solid explanation for the things I've seen with my old roommates.
Clear, direct and brief logical responses to some commonly asked questions about the paranormal. Very well done, you've just acquired another subscriber.
ive had several instances that can not be explained away... foot steps being heard, lights coming on when no ones in the house, things moving, doors opening.. appliances with no power coming on.. .. yeah just because it cant be replicated in the labratory doesnt mean its false
With the psychic one, there is a show called "psych" (which is awesome a halriouse by the way) about a man named Shawn Spencer, who is hyper observant and has a photographic memory, who also had a dad who was a police officer and wanted him to be a detective. So the dad (Henry Spencer) spent Shawn's whole childhood training him in being hyper observant and rembering little details and in deductive reasoning so that he would be a good detective. As it turns out Shawn has no interest in being a cop or a dectective, but he does end up pretending to be psychic and working for the police department, he technically isn't a cop which means he doesn't have to follow the restrictions they do with makes him happy with the job. the show is about him, his friend Gus, and decetives Juliet and Carlton solving police cases. The point of me typing this though is that every time someone didn't believe he was psychic (pretty much everyone) he said would look them over and then predict something about them "saying he "read" them. (Seriously though go watch the show its absolutely awesome. Start with "Shawn and gus of the dead" or "65 million years off" though. The poilet isn't great.)
Yeah, me and all of my class mates saw the doppelganger of our teacher when she was on leave...we have also seen apparitions, Our maid was also haunted by her dead sister, at first we thought that we were just hearing random voices and noices in the house but the pieces fit together.
I've had a door slam right in my face in the middle of the night, only person awake in the house, no windows open and the heat/air conditioning was turned off. Yeah that sent a good shiver up my spine. I tried to explain it, find a non-paranormal explanation. My hypothesis was possibly a draft of air, even though there were no windows open, so I grabbed my leaf blower and tried closing my door with it. Even with a leaf blower pushing 120 mph air at the door it did not close the same way it did that night when it slammed in my face. Funny thing is, when it first happened 49% of my brain was going NOPE NOPE NOPE and the other 51% was just too curious and I opened the door hoping to see a ghost for myself.
I don't assume for things to be haunted right away but what would you think if you woke up with 6 scratch marks on your back? what if your door slammed shut? what if your dog doesn't go in your parents closet anymore ever since someone at the house at a certain time said that he saw the dishes being pushed off the counter top. "which happened more than once, but the first for him."
Sleep paralysis is awful, I had it a couple of times; and both times I was having a night terror, was running from enemy fire and could remember my arms and legs moving while I dreamt. All of a sudden, I couldn't move for a few minutes...or that's what it felt like.
Is there anyway when your doing your radio show you could show us some visuals? It would make it like 110% better. I love all the information but my eyeballs need something new to look at.
The ergot mold was at high level in Salem Massachusetts during the 'witch' era, Having taken LSD myself I can see why people thought other people were punting spells on them.
about 15 years ago my dog and I were prospecting near Death Valley. We were in the middle of nowhere. We ended up spending the night at Charles Manson's old hideout, Barker Ranch. I was armed and my dog was a large rottweiler. I was aware of the creepy factor but did it anyway. At zero dark thirty me and the pooch awoke to a something that sounded like somebody violently shaking a set of keys about ten feet away. Troll the rottweiler howled and charged the sound as i grabbed my flashlight and weapon. The noise stopped as soon as Troll barked. Dead silence. We investigated the area. Nada. A bit unsettled, we dozed back off only to an encore. Same result. This happened three times. The third time we just sat in the dark waiting. This time the noise was right next to my head. Almost had a stroke but quickly got my light on. On the floor was a mouse and a large circada bug. The mouse was trying to drag him to his dinner table and the bug didn't want to go. The circada was LOUD. I was sure Marley's ghost was shaking his chains
One time, I was super tired, I stayed up for 2 days playing games. later that day, I decided to sleep, but I was awake at the same time. I was conscious and my body couldn't move. It was a terrifying experience because I didn't know what was going on, but at the same time it was pretty cool to experience it.
My job is haunted, I have had my knee smashed into a desk in front of me when something hit me from behind and no one and nothing was there, I got smacked in the back of the neck by something that wasn't there when going to the bathroom the same night, also people have seen clouds of blackish grey smoke following me and other officers across the dorms in certain places.
Lue Liv FairyBreeder Mistwalker my case is having a clock randomly fall off the wall. and then I put another clock up there the next day, and a few hours later, that clock also fell . and these clocks were at the 7 foot high mark on an overhead wall. the second clock was put at a slightly different spot but on the same wall. the first clock had been in that spot for months or years. the second barely a day.
I'm not sure that my experience can be considered paranormal. I'm not even sure if I can consider it related to what some would refer to as "ghostly". Before I continue, I am neither obsessed in the paranormal, ghost hunting, belief in the supernatural, haunted houses, etc... I'm just trying to see if others have experienced what I have and see if perhaps I can find some idea as to why I've experienced these things. What I've experienced were simply events I've observed from the time I was 6 until now (32). In addition, not all the events were experienced when I was alone and were not limited to one location. I spent much of my life traveling to various countries around the world since I was young and have observed on multiple occasions, similar occurrences in various homes throughout my life. My first encounter occurred was when I was 6. This happened while parents were getting ready to leave on a date, leaving my sister and I with a baby sitter. As we waited for her to arrive, I remember being bored so I grabbed my Nerf gun and made an attempt to shoot a light switch to turn on the light to the front door way for the baby sitter. I made about 3 attempts however, none of the foam balls came close to hitting the switch to the on position. Then oddly, on my 4th attempt, I ended up missing completely yet for some reason, the light switch turned itself on. I remember standing there trying to figure out how this happened before running to my mom to explain what happened, only to be brushed off as just my imagination. It didn't end there. As soon as the baby sitter arrived, my parents ended up leaving and I vividly remember her, my sister and I watching Jeopardy in the living room when suddenly, the volume on the TV increasing louder and louder. The sitter got up from the couch to grab the remote to lower volume. A few seconds later, the volume increased again, and got to the point where she was going back and forth with the TV a couple times, lowering the volume only to have it raise again before she told my sister and I that we should probably turn it off. It got to her so much that when my parents arrived later that evening, she was afraid to walk home alone and so my mom went ahead and walked with her. Similar incidents like this occurred later throughout my life. It always had to do with a physical object moving or being manipulated in some way around me and never about actually seeing ghosts, physical manifestations of passed humans or anything of the sort. They have always just objects around me moving at the most random times when I'd least expect it. Again, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't get that feeling of dread or fear before they witness a ghostly haunting. I can be doing the most mundane thing and still have random things occur. I want to believe that there is much more going on than simply saying its a "paranormal occurrence". Every time something weird like this has happened to me, I've never just freaked out and automatically assumed it to be caused by a ghost. I have always tried my best to evaluate the situation and try to understand what may have caused the event to occur -- and then when I can come to no conclusion, freak out just a little. Haha. Jokes aside, if anyone has experienced anything like what was mentioned, please let me know! I'd love to share experiences or at least try to narrow down the reasons why these things have and still continue to happen around me.
all of my family claim being haunted in our house.. except me, because I dont believe that thing anymore, just kick out that ghost from your brain.. and you will have nice comfort sleep every single night of your life
I've had SP three times in my life, trying to fall back asleep after waking up (falling asleep in the same position to attempt to get the same dream) all three times was shadowy critters, two times it was baseball sized spiders, and one time while I was attempting to fall asleep while looking at a nest outside my window when I woke up I was looking at my ceiling and there was a wasps nest above me and I couldn't move for a split second that felt way longer, I was trying so hard to flail around to try to get the blanket over me as there were bees in my room(allergic) but the whole time I couldn't move I had my jaw clenched pretty tight and when I finally realized it was an hallucination I realized I was biting down on my tongue trying to scream but coulndn't. Don't know if that is actually SP but it sure sounds like it
Typically I don't believe in anything paranormal, but the weirdest thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I didn't have to go to work are pretty much anything one day so I slept in. About 20 minutes after I woke up is was laying in bed trying to get enough energy to go make some coffee. I was laying on my side when all of a sudden, it sounded like a young girl sneezed behind me. I still don't know what to think of that.
Only a few times a year random weird stuff happens in my apartment. Once my bathroom window which was shut closed and locked from the inside flew open and all my stuff on the window sill almost fell down into the toilet while I was in bed half awake. At another time I was in my kitchen and heard noise from my bedroom. When I went back random things were re-arranged but not in a messy way, just re-located. I've thought that maybe ghosts are drawn to me since my childhood simply cause I have no other explanation for these kinds of stuff. But what do I know.
To see if these ghost hunters are fake, just tell them to investigate a house that isn't allegedly haunted, but tell them that it is.
Haha, fantastic idea! I hate watching the shows with ghost hunters because they are usually horrible actors. They overhype everything lol.
"Omg, what was that?!"
most ghost hunters dont go into a house to prove its haunted, they go into to prove its not and are pleasantly surprised when it is.
And then go to a house known to be haunted by yourself, and try to experience it first hand.
Ghosts are real @@ethanwagner6418
I brought my mother in law to live in my house and all demons. ghosts and spectres run out of the house.
+joseluisnewyork lol good for u
joseluisnewyork lol
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joseluisnewyork hahahahahhha
Lmao.
You know what REALLY haunted?
RUclips comments section...
They haunt my dreams.
You're haunting my dreams because I see your comments every day.
I dream of haunted comments
+Pikapetey It's nice to know my work doesn't go unnoticed. :P
I see your comment everywhere and i thought "lets watch this" well.. It's proven you are everywhere 😂
Sleep Paralysis is bloody terrifying.
+daniel hanson i've never experienced that (glad i don't) but yh when i hear or see that people go through that frequently, i find it pretty weird.
Few times every week for me. I don't consider it supernatural in any way. I'm self-aware enough to realise it's merely the human body being incompetent.
+daniel hanson Sleep paralysis when you aren't expecting it is terrifying, but when you're expecting it, or more precisely doing it on purpose for lucid dreaming or whatever, it's actually pretty cool.
+Christian Gomez I tried that once, I tried going "deeper" all I could see and hear was white noise, like an old CRT-TV set to no channel with the volume turned to maximum.
That is probably the most horrible episode I've had. I could do Lucid Dreaming as a child before my Sleep Paralysis set in, there was also very long cross-over period from "lucid" to being "played like a puppet".
Damn shame...
I remember i had sleep paralysis while i was on a school bus! Scariest shit ever !
Goats don't exist
True
That's right
+Randomstuffs261 Hey there Cap'n.
YOURsexDOCTOR Sup Doc
+einalwaysthere OH NOES
I can't say ghosts don't exist, To many things have happened to me that I've witnessed can't be explained. What i mean are things like floating chairs, slamming doors and loud bangs which I've video taped to prove I'm not tripping. I've been psychologically evaluated several times to also prove I'm not skitzophrenic.
+dean khan upload it
+dean khan I demand you upload the videos! I want to believe!
+dean khan check your house for mold
You mean things, YOU cannot explain. What is this monstrous arrogance in the comment section?
Everyone assumes that their own failure means the failure of all humankind for ever.
dean khan hahahah floating chairs ? 😂 hahahahahahh what's next? A floating fridge? A breakdancing broom?
this guy's hairline is deteriorating faster than my social life
W
Slow clap slow clap
+Joymar Cruz Faster than nothing, isn't actually fast at all.
+Joymar Cruz I bet he still looks better than you.
+SatanistSin OMG THIS GUY WAS JUST SET ON FIRE & SENT TO SPACE
I don't care what science has to say, mashing the A Button *does* help you catch Pokemon.
Actually, [insert personal anecdote here that person uses as an excuse for believing in ghosts], so I know there are ghosts.
Can you definitively proove that there aren't? 😎
God Bear NO! So that's proof there are!
I can't prove there aren't mermaids either, so there must be mermaids, too!
+highdough Most of the ocean is still unexplored. 😆
God Bear Well there's your proof!
+highdough I can't prove there are and you can't prove there aren't, so it's a maybe. Anything that can't be confirmed or denied through scientific evidence is a maybe. Everything that mankind has not discovered or THROUGHLY disproven is in a constant flux of both existence and nonexistence untill further notice. Just like Shrodinger's cat. Science! 😆
I feel like people who never experienced such activities always have something to explain "what it could be" rather just accepting the obvious. People who doesn't believe in paranormal has never had something happened to them dramatically. Once you have something happen to you? You will in no doubt believe it. 😑
My house is haunted by Hank hill
is he trying to sell you propane and propane accessories? xD
what's he doing there.... some kind of women's work?
+EDSBREAD BWAAAAAHHH
Say What?
+EDSBREAD bwahhh
"Your House isn't haunted" - Statement of Fact. ".....could be" - Not a Statement of Fact. You can't make a statement of fact and support it with a "could be" explanation, that's nonsensical. You support statements of fact with concrete evidence that can be tested to prove your theory not with a "....could be". This was all "I'm not really sure" answers.
Hauntings have nothing to do with how old the home is. Just because science can't see it under their microscope slide, doesn't mean it's not real. This is one topic you're either a believer, or not, with no room for grey room. Having been dead for two minutes, having a near death experience (which I can tell you, is NOT a result of lack of O2 to the brain), and living in two haunted homes, I know, for certain, they do exist. There's centuries of debate as to why this happens, but after much research, it seems spirits hang around for a few reason, and resist moving on to the next state of being aka "the light". Some people die so fast, they don't realize they're dead, some are so attached to a place, or a person, they simply cannot bare to be without it/them. Some are confused or afraid to move on, but what ever the reason, I know, with 100% certainty, they exist. How? We (my family) saw a book to levitate itself off the shelf, float across the room, and land softly beside me!!!
Maybe they are what Christians call demons, Muslims call them Jinn. I heard they live on earth too just like humans.
Most sightings and experiences can be explained through science (like probably 90%+ of them), but there are some cases. I know someone who felt like they were being grabbed, held down, and choked. They SAW an object that was out of place MOVE back to its place. This person is one of the most trusted people that I know and they even have things to back up their stories
I believe that.
I had several paranormal things, but after doing necessary research, I found it easier to debunk them all.
People put off energy. That could be imprinted on a place or thing. So you could haunt a thing with your own negative energy or positive energy. I think I did this with a particularly bad relationship in my first house. It's just a feeling people say they get and I feel... could be my memory but not theirs.
You don't know what energy is. So stop using that word to sell your nonsense.
Zed Fifth what the fuck are you talking about?
Ghosts are non-conspiracy theorists' favorite conspiracy.
That statement made no sense
Well since the ghost non existence is not supposed to be a lie of the governement or other " elite " to gain power i suppose it's explain the " non-conspisracy part "even though we ALL know that military are using ghost to kill people , possesse politique to order them around and ,most importantly , watch you when you are touching yourself .
This really made me less scared to be alone. Thanks! 😊
Me and my friends lived in a haunted house. Objects moving around the house by itself, crazy voices etc. I'm an atheist myself but I can't explain what I observed.
If someone tells me they believe in the paranormal, I lose a lot of respect for them. It takes a certain level of ignorance, gullibility, and a lack of basic logical skills to completely ignore the most basic principles of science. The same goes for religion, or anything else that has never been proven or even evidenced despite millions of people over thousands of years attempting to do so.
It's a shame you look down on people with faith. I don't really believe in these things either but I'm a big enough person to accept others beliefs. I do believe I look down on intolerance. Ha.
Hahaha, that was fun to read. Your arrogance will make a fool out of you one day.
I promise.
You speak the tongue of an ignorant mortal
Ghosts are a make believe way of trying to explain various aspects of an experience that you do a great job explaining rationally and naturally. That's all you actually need to say ghosts are not a plausible or even necessary explanation.
+Julian Walker I dont know if explaining things as you're imagining things is correct. Ultimatley everything can be explained that way. Right?
Steven Rosas please rephrase, i am not sure what you are asking or getting at...
we are mortal biological organisms. there are no conscious entities that are not mortal biological organisms. no immaterial souls, ghosts, demons, etc -no spirit world, therefore no literal hauntings.
the moment that ever changes i will eat humble pie (and of course it would be fascinating, world changing and mind blowing!). it won't though... this is just how reality is.
there are several really good naturalistic explanations for why humans think they experience supernatural/paranormal phenomena.
Everyone time someone says "science can't explain this" you can almost always place "yet" at the end.
I hate only one thing about Trace which every non - American person sometimes question. He clearly knows people from all around the world are watching this but he still refers to the audience like we are all American or just from the US. This is just rude. North America is not the center of the world. We all leave together on the planet Earth not on the planet America.
😂😂😂😂😂
What's so funny?
You're just butthurt because you don't live in the superpower country ;)
I am kinda butthurt because they get more nice stuff but that's not the issue here.
+Eric Champlin lol, nice bait m8.
Ghosts are real! At my house, which is on old civil war battleground, I see soldiers
One day I was sleeping and I heard a noise so I grabbed my bug spray and lighter and started going to my kitchen. When I got in there I was the refrigerator door open and started seeing floating food I started spraying my bug spray flamethrower and found I it was just a spy with his invis watch
*slow clap*
Kevin hart voice**
Sit the fuck down.!!
I have noticed after watching freaky RUclips videos late at night, I am way more jumpy and feel like I could totally get jump scares from absolutely nothing.
Ok why our ancestors described ghosts when there were no technological advancements
Akash Gaur our ancestors didn't have the privilege of technology or the kind of scientific knowledge and rational thinking we have today. They probably would be more confused than us because of the time.
I have Sleep Paralysis, haven't had an episode for years though.
When it was at it's peak, I could "wake up" in to a nightmare, rise up out of bed, and going to the john, then "wake up" again. Everything in the room, slightly tilted - moved if you will - even the bed.
This repeated itself THREE times, each time everything in the room getting more and more crooked. It was only then I realized it was sleep paralysis.
I was, in fact, wide awake, but "trapped" in a hallucinatory nightmare. But I did what I always did/do when I get/got an episode. I start my way "out of it" by first moving my fingertips, then the hand, arm and POOF - released!
However, lifting even the pinky is like trying to lift like a ton... The strain of trying to move is so mentally exhausting that if I didn't immediately go up, and out of bed, I would >instantly< fall asleep again, and once more fall in to a paralytic hallucination... :-/
So what I did was to get out of bed, walk to the sink to wash my face with cold water, shaking my head trying to get WIDE awake and only after a period of being clearly mentally "aware" could I risk falling asleep again.
But, as some might suspect by now, I lost A LOT of quality sleep this way.
Lucky me I was clear-headed enough not to attribute this... QUITE horrible experiences, to anything supernatural, not even the first time it happened when I was a kid.
So if you think you are getting possessed by demons at night? Visited by aliens as you fall asleep? That's sleep paralysis for you. I once saw pink-skinned gorillas coming at me, screaming with open mouths, larger than my head, filled with teeth.
So I can really see how it could be interpreted like something like that, depending on beliefs, local legends you fear or belive in, religion plays a huge role for those that get "possessed by demons" etc etc...
But it hasn't happened for years now, and that is a good thing.
+Andreas Rohdin this is rather spot on to my own episodes though no pink gorillas, mostly slithering things and shadows, and hands lots of hands. Really didn't like when it happened in a row, it would be like I just got out of this come on body.... I liked to focus on turning my head, though the finger thing works too.
I am sorry but explain objects be thrown across house when sitting on a counter. No alright thank you. I will stick to my belief spirits exist.
When I was a ghost-hunter, the first thing we always did was check around the house with an EM-detector. If the fields were strong enough in a certain part of the house (usually with old wiring), it was known as a "fear cage." We also used it to check for subtle magnetic fluctuations that weren't anywhere near electrical devices or wiring.
Any haunted houses for sale? I'll buy it for a cheap price!
Not only does what you say appear to be sound, you're also so respectful of your audience. Regardless of whether people agree or disagree with you, your consideration for others really shows and it's greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I hear you, but I can't help but to think that things like this are killing our imagination. The same reason why we can't get anymore creative movies and keep getting reboots etc.
YES!!
well, you can go into the UFO/Alien phenomenon. That's a lot more interesting than some stupid ghost stories. Besides science supports alien existence more than this ghost /haunting bullshit.
it's time to lick it
it's time to lick the goat, mom
+Tre G. Wtf... lol
I like how the KTVN channel 2 Reno news went to debunk the Goldfield hotel. It was funny when they couldn't figure out how a brick and a 2x4 could fly that fast on a 3 axis rotation. Made my hair stand on my neck.
People always try to disprove something they haven't experienced.
Exactly lol
Thank you!!!! Ugh hate people like this!😑
Lunari Lu Right lol scientist are always trying to bash their nonsense experiments down someones throat when you clearly don't understand it yourself
+Isai Mena Trace did say at the very end of the video that his house he grew up in was haunted by a lil boy w/ a red ball... just saying. I personally believe in ghosts, my house I grew up in too was haunted, but by a very young girl, who would run up and down the hallway.
RWF1984 In my experiences, it happened like it always did for only me, the same in front of anyone and everyone else who stood along side me... my own mother watched our front door jump up and down on its hinges while the Spirit ran up and down the near by hall... it freaked her the fuck out! but she was a believer for ever after that incident.
This makes perfect sense! As a kid I always had paranormal experiences. I was so scared I couldn't go downstairs alone. But as I got older the fear went away, along with those experiences.
Every ghost story or paranormal story is the product of folklore and has no existence outside of it. People believe in them because their critical thinking sucks, because they chose the wrong experts to believe in (quacks and not scientists), or because their brain is trying to make sense of unexplained stuff and they lack the tools necessary to put them on the right track. Just like ghost stories, science is a story fabricated by humans, but it's a clever story based on method. Ghosts stories are based on nothing and only believed by dumbasses.
Trace did a horrible job with these episodes. He should have taken a look at the anthropology library instead of wasting his time with mold and magnetism. Not to mention he could have offered a primer on the scientific method, and the logical fallacies contained in many ghost stories. These episodes are a lost opportunity and show a big lack of depth.
You speak the tongue of an ingorant mortal
It’s unbelievable how ignorant people can be these days
no it isnt that simple. i was skeptical when a mentally ill neighbor told me stories of problems he was having with the typical red eyed boogieman that would appear in his gun closet upstairs to terrify him when he was alone at night. im a skeptic my whole family is. but i told this very brave but tortured victim if he needed help come get me and one night he did just that. confident in stride walking to his house i saw lights on upstairs and the silhouette visible because all the lights in his upstairs were left on.. what appeared to be a man standing in his upstairs bathroom walked past the window then came right up to it and looked down at us raising one hand. i thought nothing of it of course but my neighbor was breathing fast.. 'we gotta hurry' in a frenzy he barged in the front door and began questioning everyone in the house.. one other friend had come over to comfort the poor fellow and his grandma and grandpa were in the downstairs when he demanded to know who had been upstairs. no one he replied handing him the lone key. he handed the key to me and asked if i would unlock the door to the upstairs (the ONLY door to the upstairs) and walk up first to investigate. what i saw was so strange ive never explained it. not only was no one there by all accounts no one had been there for a VERY long time and the room felt vacant just cold. i could tell as they were saying this place had been locked all day. i checked every window bed nook cranny nothing. to this day it really is chilling to think what we BOTH witnessed and couldnt debunk. that was only my first encounter but honestly it was enough.
Bob Spence You're off your meds kid
doubting my sanity/honesty maybe the only hope to explain it then? but in the case of this particular event we BOTH went off our meds? no. simply put you cannot disprove anything or prove anything in the realm of ghosts or spirits. phenomenons such as these reported by more than one person remain firmly unexplained to science. but thank you for reading my very true story. it wasnt my only paranormal experience either. had one just 3 years ago with another witness whos also a firm skeptic we BOTH saw lights appear and hover over our car on a power line right next to a graveyard we were passing that proceeded to the end of the wire BOUNCING off the telephone pole and zigzagging several times between graves. unexplained to this day and ball lightning cannot be the answer.
I lived in a haunted house and all of my family saw or heard something in that house. I believe in hauntings.
Jake
Same here and I have proof
And that’s all that matters. You and your family know what you saw and experienced. I’ve seen things too that defy all logic and physics. It makes me chuckle hearing this guy explain away what he thinks about the paranormal.
How do you have proof do you have videos, pls reply
I saw my mom came out from the bathroom then walked to next room, when I went to meet her, she was nowhere to be found. I asked all my family members, then they said that my mom left the house when I was leaving the house. And then I asked them again "did someone use the bathroom? because I saw a figure that looks like my mom just went out from the bathroom, then she turned the light off, then walked to next room". Then everybody 'again' said there was no one in there, and they didn't even look scared, or curious, or anything. Then I wait my mom till she comes back. And it wasn't a prank or anything. Because the woman that I saw was literally disappeared in the next room, and my mom clearly was leaving the house that time.
So my brain is playing tricks on me when the door opens by itself😂
Door was already opened it's just your brain playing tricks 😂😂😂
Vibrations can do that.
my parent's house is haunted. there was a suicide there back in the 70's, a man hung himself. I saw things move front of me, heard loud bangs on the walls and furniture while I was in the room (so as the others of my family), you can never feel alone there, you hear someone walking around at night all the time.. I used to be skeptic until I experienced these events myself, you cannot explain this with science, this must be some sort of energy or spirit stuck around after a traumatic death.
Trace, can you explain how jet fuel can't melt steel beams
Ghosts brought down WTC7
temperature.
there. I saved RUclips another useless video.
+Gabe A check out the Conspiracy series... specifically part 3. :D
Watch his conspiracy theory videos.
+Gabe A he believes the official story, apparently knowledge does not equal intelligence. i looked to him for answers once too.
I was a skeptic all my life; I was also trained in the biological sciences and taught and did research in university; but when it happened to me, there really was no logical explanation; I thought I would die of fear that night
It happened to me too. This is a true story, I smoke, and my wife doesn't so I go outside one night, and I see this dark figure, hugging near a tree across the street from my house. It looks like someone spying on my neighbor's house, and I'm admittedly a little scared. A person all in black late at night peering around a tree. I backup placing myself closer to the entrance to my house and I call out to scare him away, but he doesn't even flinch. My wife hears me and steps outside to ask why I'm yelling so loud late at night. I point to the man across the street, and she gasps and runs inside to call the police. There is no doubt in my mind or my wife's' mind who is now yelling at me to get inside. I see this, and now my wife has seen this dark figure too, it's absolutely real, there's no convincing me it's not real. I ignore my wife's insistence that I get inside and let the police handle this. I start calling out a second and a third time, and I don't see any reaction, I begin to creep slowly towards the tree cautiously. I'm about 15 yards away, and I'm still convinced it's a person, but now I think maybe he's injured or he's unable to respond. I keep calling out, and I take a few steps closer, now I have my first doubts, but I'm confused. I get closer and closer, and now I realize what I see is a shadow cast from branches and leaves and a street light. You may have been as convinced as I was that what you saw was real, but you didn't find a natural explanation. Had I gone inside that night without investigating and you had suggested it was just a shadow, I would have looked at you like you were nuts. Please, a shadow? I think I can tell the difference between a man and a shadow. You might have seen something, possibly even a real ghost, but if you're a skeptical thinker, you have to conclude that you saw something you can't explain and stop there. You can't start building attributes to something you don't understand.
Psychics are stupid...
As I am falling asleep I often reach out for the small objects being handed to me despite the fact that I am totally alone. I sometimes write notes , numbers, random words on the pages of puzzles I am working. It is disappointing when
I reach out for things that are being handed to me only to realize no one is handing me anything.
I had a friend that was psychic. I met her through a girlfriend, she was her roommate. I had only said hi to her once when I went over to pick up my girlfriend. That night I was talking to Kristy on the phone, and she's all Katie wants to do a psychic reading on you, I rolled my eyes thinking it was gonna be one of those stupid things from high school that tells you you're gay or something. She got on the phone without me saying anything started to tell me things about myself that I had never told anyone. She knew what I liked about Kristy down to the tiniest little quirks that I thought were cute. She also knew about my roommates and what I felt their personalities to be. She even drug up repressed memories that explained a lot about why I did certain things. This was all without asking anything of me. She mentioned that I was hard to read because my mind was closed off. I attributed that to the fact that my mom is very superstitious and growing up she'd constantly tell us to never let anyone hypnotize us, or don't play with ouija boards this type of thing was consistent, and random. Anyway she told me she felt this was a gift, but she typically kept it to herself because people would be afraid of her and call her a witch. I don't think any real psychic tries to make $$ off of it. They most likely keep it to themselves. I've had many experiences with things that go way beyond human understanding. Things that can't be explained. Things that some don't even want to know about.
what if the girl was told something about you from your girlfriend without your knowing?
Asakura Yoh Not possible. Like I said they some were things I'd never told anyone. Like I'd never mentioned to my girlfriend that I though her voice was cute. And she knew nothing about my roommates. Also there's the repressed memories she uncovered.
I think These were things I'd never told anyone. Then there were the repressed memories that she uncovered. I also didn't spend time with my girlfriend talking about my roommates. Believe me if it weren't for the information I hadn't told anyone I'd still be having issues believing what she told me.
cool shit dude I've never met a phsycic (?) but I've always wanted to
Nerdiversal I've never met anyone like her again. I even made the stupid decision to go see some of those paid "psychics" and they were nothing like her.
I sometimes have sleep paralysis. When it happens, I'm slightly frightened at first. But then after it's gone, I recognize what it is and go back to sleep. I'm not so much afraid of it. I know my sleep rhythm is messed up, so I've gotten used to it.
The only time I don't like science is when they try to explain things they have no clue about, for instance: the paranormal.
You're not there yet and you don't have the right tools to understand it. Period.
#sciencegetoveryourself
What? Every investigation begins somewhere.
What? Every investigation begins somewhere.
neither do you shutup
+Sheldon Cooper Thats how and why science starts numb nuts.
I agree many of the things you said, but my only opinion is just keep always an open mind and be curious (as any scientist) before being skeptical right away.
+Miguel Moran You should be skeptical right away, of any claim. This doesn't alter your open-mindedness in the slightest, you just reserve judgement until you have observed the available evidence before reaching a conclusion.
What is strange is when objects move by themselves in camera. I wonder what's the science behind that... sadly this video doesn't address it.
I know doors move because of air, wind or simply gravity...but what about chairs moving or doors opening when they are completely shut. Could it be tiny earthquakes that cause vibration and thus movement?
I use to hear something kick my door at a certain time everyday
@@triniblunt9482 infrasound or electromagnetic field could be causing that
String.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 sure but when the door is completely shut that is more difficult
@@PedroAntonioLea-PlazaPuig that's was me... Sleep tight 😁
being able to hear energy( a bit hard to explain that other than certain things emitting their own pitch, i hate crowds.) their are energies, and i find their most prominent in old copper wire houses, and i won't be alone in a house were i know shit goes down, because if they know you know, a form of contact will be tried. going back in the basement for your drink ain't worth that shit.
I have a friend who is a medium. A few years ago I was cleaning and found my dead grandmother's sweater. I hadn't washed it because I wanted it to still smell like her. Grief is weird. When I picked it up, I smelled it and realized her smell was gone. I immediately broke down and started crying. My friend called me in the middle of my breakdown and said "you need to wash that sweater. She won't stop telling me about the sweater." Can science explain how he knew I was crying about that at that moment, or how he knew I even had the sweater if my grandmother didn't tell him?
Kat Sweaters honestly. The modern scientific community is becoming so annoying.
He's stalking you 😨
My mom's cat went outside one snowy night in December and never came back home. We didn't know what happened to her, I held on to the hope that she was at least alive and well, where ever she went.
A few weeks later, my sister and I were sitting on the couch next to mom, watching TV. I look over at mom and suddenly she had scratch marks on her neck. They LOOKED like CAT scratches and they literally appeared for seemingly no reason at all. Mom didn't scratch herself, and she wasn't doing anything...just sitting there. There was no reason for her to suddenly have these animal like scratch marks on her neck. My sister saw them too, we both WATCHED them slowly fade in, and mom felt them soon after being alerted to them.
I'm don't presume to know if it was the ghost of our cat coming back to haunt our mom, and that was the only thing that happened since then. It was just weird, it came out of no where for no reason and we weren't imagining it. Maybe there's some kind of reaction or biological function that causes cat scratch marks to appear on a person's neck out of no where, idk.
Thank you, Trace, for talking about the these kinds of topics. This information needs to be heard by every Human being. I'm so tired of the world being inundated with these silly beliefs that just won't die. It's seems that no amount of common sense and scientific proof will convince the masses of the absurdities of ghosts, religion and other woo-woo. But over time we can chip away at the credibility of such things.
Wait, a question for you: Do you believe in the idea that people have souls?
Devin Tomko - The evidence doesn't provide me enough reason to think there's anything to the notion of a soul. I know it's a disheartening prospect. But it just doesn't make sense to believe things that don't hold up to scrutiny and honest investigation.
+Wood 'n' Stuff w/ Steve French I agree with you, but do you think that others would?
+Devin Tomko We dont. There are plenty of brain damage patients and recovering coma patients that show us that mental function corresponds to brain functions.
The brain is actually pretty close to computer. Computers use very small switches called transistors to pass signals along. Depending on their configuration they can block signals, or pass signals. They can be hooked up to multiple other transistors - ultimately able to perform some really complicated stuff.
The brain is even more complex than the computer. Brain cells can strengthen signals, block signals, invert signals - all things groups of transistors can do too. Braincells also react to hormones and change their function (medicine, drugs, caffeine, etc). Having low amounts of sugar or oxygen also changes its function. And brain cells connect to hundreds or even thousands of other brain cells. And it gets better - brain cells can rewire themselves to other cells, while the PC remains static.
Ockham's razor: There is no need to assume more causes than is sufficient to give a proper explanation.
There is no need for a mysterious soul, because we can link mental function to a physical organ - and the brain's wiring has sufficient complexity to cover something as complex as the human mind.
+HexerPsy I know, but how would you go about convincing others that souls don't exist? I mean, do you know how long it took for us to stop believing we were specially created by God?
The points that are touched on are good ones. Pretty common knowledge for anyone that's researched how to tell if something could be paranormal, but valid nonetheless. Those are the kind of examples though that are very easy to explain away with science/physics. The stuff that's really freaking is when objects/furniture starts flying across the room, damaged/disposed of items coming back, levitation (against their will), being scratched or struck by an "entity", doors/windows opening/closing before your eyes, etc. And it should go without saying that what I mentioned only becomes disturbing when you can't use science or physics to explain it.
The one point of his that I kinda take issue with is his first comment about old houses that people perceive to be haunted. He says that there are many more old houses in Europe, for example, so theoretically almost every house should be haunted, assuming that old houses have the tendency to be haunted. People that believe in ghosts/spirits will tell you that it's the land and the events that's occurred on that land over time that dictates how likely someone is to experience paranormal activity. They also believe that spirits are around us all the time, no matter if you see evidence of their presence or not. They will tell you that they are there but with either not enough energy to manifest themselves, or maybe they just don't give a rat's ass about making people aware of their presence. They'll go on to say that if a person has desire to communicate with the spirits and actively attempts communication, the spirits are much more likely to try and interact.
So how does this explain moving objects
Yea, especially when the door opened and closed by itself with no breeze.
Alcohol causing sleep deprivation? Shit, I've never heard of that. Being drunk usually equates to "lights out" much earlier than normal.
+IncognitoGuido Being knocked-out by a drug does not equate to sleep; your brain has to go through various sleep cycles to replenish and reuptake neurochemicals (especially serotonin).
Alcohol can help by knocking you out, then later as it wears off your brain kicks into sleep mode while you're still unconscious... *however*, all the sedating effects work by acting on certain receptors throughout your body. When the booze wears off, this can cause a rebound effect because your body has flooded itself with endogenous chemicals opposite to the booze's effects in an effort to fight it. Then you can't sleep.
Over the long-term, frequent consumption of alcohol (or any drug) gradually destroys the receptors it acts on (down-regulation) by over-stimulating them, causing an effect called "excitotoxicity". This causes a rise in tolerance (more needed to get the same effect) and disables your body's ability to naturally sedate or relax itself when it's time to sleep, as alcohol has been destroying the very receptors it relies on.
Durzo
My post was meant to be cheeky, not serious... but thanks for the biology lesson. You sound like me when I'm drunk, turning simple statements into college courses.
IncognitoGuido Why thank you, I was a little drunk! Also, kinda like Mel Gibson, I'm only autistic when I'm drunk (and just hide it better when I'm not).
Durzo
I'm either super logical or mach twelve retarded when I'm drunk.
IncognitoGuido ....and I just realized from your avatar, also a metalhead (like me)!
Oh good god, now that I embiggened it, you even look like my long-lost sister. Did we meet at a family reunion and forget because we were both drunk? I know from my avatar I look like a giant cosmic nebula-eye, but I promise - the resemblance is uncanny.
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN CLAW MARKS ON MY FUCKING LEGS. FUCK THE NOISE, KNOCKS, SIGHTINGS. FUCK THAT, CLAW MARKS ON MY LEGS!
According to my research it may be a demon
grace comer I'm a man of science myself, but the shit i've seen leaves me with no conclusion
+TOPxCOMMENT maybe your dog tried to jump you when you were sleeping? Just a suggestion...
+Fairy liquid bleach no pets
+Fairy liquid bleach and I woke up immediately and saw no one; it hurt, so it wasn't no cat from outside or I would've seen it
I think a Ronald Ulysses Swanson quote is apt for this, "your house isn't haunted, you're lonely"
Of course it's not ghosts... it's Bruce Willis.
NarratingFox or Nicholas cage
my parents are split up and my mum often has to go to china for work , while she is abroad I have to stay at my dads but every few days I have to return to my mums house to feed my cats. My mums place has a weird ambience and it is important to note that I live in London in an area with old Victorian houses , one night I had to go back to my mums to feed the cats , walking in the lights were off and all the doors were closed as per usual and as I went to feed the cats and change their litter I start to hear noises upstairs and get a chilling sensation down my back . I realise that I need to look for my school uniform and so I ignore it and start searching , as I walk through the hallway I look up the stairs and I notice the bathroom door is open and the light is on , in disbelief I walk up the stairs into the bathroom to see my school tie hanged up on the back of the door (where I left it) . I don't know if I believe in ghosts or spirits but it is also important to note that my mum is a "median" and my whole mums side of the family believe and deal with such things , me personally I have yet to decide but apart from that one unexplainable eary experience I don't think I do believe in anything for certain due to the lack of evidence around other peoples experiences
Nicht von dieser Welt why you being rude 😂
Come to my house and watch stuff fly around and see what you think causes that shit.
1ShayDawn lol are you serious?
nobody can say 100% sure one way or other. there are plenty of fakes, assumptions and red herrings, but sensing murder, deb webber, and john edward seem fairly convincing. i keep an open mind on the issue.
Please make a video on crop circles, it's tough to find definitive research on it. And people will still be interested even though (if) it's fake.
+TechReflex Circles are real. But people make them. The tools used are mind numbingly simple:
a rope
a wooden plank
a stick
string
They are a form of art, not magical.
+frosted1030 and a waste of food
+frosted1030 Yeeeeah, no. Not all Crop circles are fakes there are stories from hundreds of years ago about a "mowing devil" and it's really really hard to believe that a few people could use those simple tools to make REALLY REALLY elaborate "crop circles" (actually complex geometric patterns) with out leaving a noticeable trace or getting caught.
+frosted1030 Yeeeeah, no. Not all Crop circles are fakes there are stories from hundreds of years ago about a "mowing devil" and it's really really hard to believe that a few people could use those simple tools to make REALLY REALLY elaborate "crop circles" (actually complex geometric patterns) with out leaving a noticeable trace or getting caught.
+TechReflex i hope they do some valid research. I'm not scientist, but i joined a team on a trip to England to see them. It was amazing, to say the least. Some were so ridiculously big that i still can't comprehend it. The really freaky part was that none of the crops were broken, they were bent with heat and were still alive and growing. The sad thing is that some farmers did not appreciate the circles, but others had put up containers for us to donate to them so that it would cover the loss of crops. Whoever makes the circles, i'm a believer. There is definitely something more to them than some guys with planks and wires, they are most often geometrically perfect and with no broken crops. It's just so fascinating.
Don't forget, we still regard freud as the man who knew most about our minds... freud. 'scientists', I hate to break it to you, but ron l. hubbard would've been a better choice to model after. get back to the drawing board, in the meantime, your discoveries are just as much speculation as anything else
if ghosts and souls dont exist then what do we experience after we die? A void full of nothingnes??? I highly doubt that
welp, only one way to find out!
I was shot 5 times and died and that's exactly what happened, my body went cold and started to shut down then..boom black nothingness.
Martin Louis The King Jr haha youre such a funny guy
Even the bible shows that there's no life after death(I'm not religious).
Fatty Blackman: Ghosts would have nothing to do with souls or an alleged life after death. Not unless the spirits of dead humans STAY on Earth.
Currently there are about 7 billion humans alive on this planet and 100 BILLION dead human beings.
If spirits exist, then the humans who are alive would be bumping into the ghosts every which way you would turn. Constantly.
If on the other hand a soul does exist and at death that soul leaves this realm, spirits may exist, but not on Earth. Therefore, no ghosts.
I believe in ghosts because in actually saw one in my house. Many family members and a couple of friends have experienced ghostly activity in my house. This is true. I won't say it is "haunted" but is "visited" by ghosts. There are too many things for a rational explanation about my house. I never believed in ghosts until I saw one.
But science can't explain everything yet...
But ghosts still aren't real
Well I like to believe that they do exist. If not horror movies will be useless to me. And because I grew up in a culture were we belief it's real. And if science really has proof that they don't exist. Well then we just have to take the truth and continue believing in them😂
Just because scientific discoveries haven't been made doesn't mean you should conjure up some false beings to explain reality.
+Servals Who knows Servals...who knows...
BTW do you believe in dimensions/ multi universals ?
Thats the beauty of science. There are always new discoveries to be made. But, like Trace is saying when it comes to the supernatural there are any number of alternate explanations that science can reproduce
I used to experience sleep paralysis very often.. It was terrifying, even had an evil vibe, but I never once thought it was "paranormal".I frankly don't know why some people jump straight to "magic impossible forces" before logic.
European houses are thousands of years old????
Dude what is this guy even saying XD?
I know this is an old comment, but there are many houses around where I live in England that are older than 500 years, and some are nearly a millennia old (there are still castles left over from 1066).
Just because America's culture doesn't even go back past the late 1700s doesn't mean stuff hasn't happened in the rest of the world.
When I was five or six, I was staying with my grandma watching TV with her while my parents were out. She was on her recliner chair and I was on the sofa. Next to us was the door to the garage. It was closed, and the garage was closed. Suddenly, while we're watching TV, the door flew open. There was no breeze. This had never happened before. There was no draft. We both were sitting down when it happened. Next, the TV suddenly went off, and the door closed by itself. The remote was on a side table. Neither of us were near it. Now, to this day, grandma insists there was once a ghost in her house. I don't know if it was a ghost that caused all that or if it was just a series of freak occurrences, but to this day, no one has been able to provide me a more reasonable explanation as to how a door can fly open on its own when there's no breeze or draft, the TV can suddenly turn off on its own and the door can close again by itself all in a matter of just a couple of minutes.
1) You're being quite rude. 2) Gravity? Really? I've been in a great many rooms in a great many houses, hotel rooms, apartments and offices, and I've not once seen gravity do anything like that to a door before. 3) Grandma and I were the only two in the house that day until about an hour or two later when my parents finally came to pick me up. Nobody came by, and even if they did, they wouldn't have gone through the garage. They'd come through the front door. 4) Why would a power outage only affect the TV? Nowhere else in the house did the power go off. It was just the TV. The lights were all working fine and everything. I may have been really little at the time, but I know what I saw. You can bash me and insult me all you like, but it happened.
God is real, and God is mold. All hail the Great Mold God. 0_o
I love how sceptics are so arrogant when it comes to the paranormal. They look down upon people who undergo such experiences, but then tables turn until real experiences happens to them. Just because people don't believe in the spiritual or supernatural, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
You gotta love science ❤ I wish this was in Arabic a lot of Arabs are superstitious
+Jumanah Sa Yes they are. Why don't you save a copy of this and add Arabic subtitles?
It isn't a personality trait solely associated with with Arabs (cough cough 4/10 Americans believe in creationism)
I like that he says that he lived in a haunted house at the end. The most evidence I have seen regarding paranormal stuff would be Sequatch and ghosts. I watched some anthropologist talk about his discovery of an ape that lived a million years ago called giganto. when he was asked if this could be the the same species as Sasquatch, the guy reacted like he was insulted. The show Ghost Hunters has lots of evidence for ghosts.
BOIIIIIIII EXPLAIN THE CONJUORING AND ANNABELLE.
+mineraftable Thats exactly what I was thinking...
+mineraftable
[ www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiction ]
That's easy: they're works of fiction.
+Lowraith lol
+Hulloian Katian ikr
The sleep paralysis is physical. What we do know is, negative weaknesses like getting ill allows negatiive energy to enter. Sometimes its just physical, but there are times the paranormal aspect accompanies it.
I have PhD and am well aware of scientific reasoning, you illustrated the concept of that well. I'm still trying to figure out some of the things I have witnessed personally. These weren't "fight or flight" prompted moments since the occurrence came from nowhere and surprised us all while simply talking in the house over the course of a few years. We have all moved away from the apts that freaked us out since but still talk about the strange voices, apparitions (I guess?), boot steps in the hall and objects moving that we all were witness to. I use trial and error reasoning every day and still can't come up with a great explanation for half the shit that went down in that old apt building. I'll just keep chalking it up to "who the fuck knows" for now. I'm not religious and I don't care about an afterlife, but that shit was odd. I think it would be cool one day to have a solid explanation for the things I've seen with my old roommates.
Clear, direct and brief logical responses to some commonly asked questions about the paranormal. Very well done, you've just acquired another subscriber.
ive had several instances that can not be explained away... foot steps being heard, lights coming on when no ones in the house, things moving, doors opening.. appliances with no power coming on.. .. yeah just because it cant be replicated in the labratory doesnt mean its false
The mold section of this is in the wrong spot. You talked about it under the ghost hunting area.
With the psychic one, there is a show called "psych" (which is awesome a halriouse by the way) about a man named Shawn Spencer, who is hyper observant and has a photographic memory, who also had a dad who was a police officer and wanted him to be a detective. So the dad (Henry Spencer) spent Shawn's whole childhood training him in being hyper observant and rembering little details and in deductive reasoning so that he would be a good detective. As it turns out Shawn has no interest in being a cop or a dectective, but he does end up pretending to be psychic and working for the police department, he technically isn't a cop which means he doesn't have to follow the restrictions they do with makes him happy with the job. the show is about him, his friend Gus, and decetives Juliet and Carlton solving police cases. The point of me typing this though is that every time someone didn't believe he was psychic (pretty much everyone) he said would look them over and then predict something about them "saying he "read" them. (Seriously though go watch the show its absolutely awesome. Start with "Shawn and gus of the dead" or "65 million years off" though. The poilet isn't great.)
Yeah, me and all of my class mates saw the doppelganger of our teacher when she was on leave...we have also seen apparitions, Our maid was also haunted by her dead sister, at first we thought that we were just hearing random voices and noices in the house but the pieces fit together.
I've had a door slam right in my face in the middle of the night, only person awake in the house, no windows open and the heat/air conditioning was turned off. Yeah that sent a good shiver up my spine. I tried to explain it, find a non-paranormal explanation. My hypothesis was possibly a draft of air, even though there were no windows open, so I grabbed my leaf blower and tried closing my door with it. Even with a leaf blower pushing 120 mph air at the door it did not close the same way it did that night when it slammed in my face.
Funny thing is, when it first happened 49% of my brain was going NOPE NOPE NOPE and the other 51% was just too curious and I opened the door hoping to see a ghost for myself.
I don't assume for things to be haunted right away but what would you think if you woke up with 6 scratch marks on your back? what if your door slammed shut? what if your dog doesn't go in your parents closet anymore ever since someone at the house at a certain time said that he saw the dishes being pushed off the counter top. "which happened more than once, but the first for him."
Sleep paralysis is awful, I had it a couple of times; and both times I was having a night terror, was running from enemy fire and could remember my arms and legs moving while I dreamt. All of a sudden, I couldn't move for a few minutes...or that's what it felt like.
Is there anyway when your doing your radio show you could show us some visuals? It would make it like 110% better. I love all the information but my eyeballs need something new to look at.
The ergot mold was at high level in Salem Massachusetts during the 'witch' era, Having taken LSD myself I can see why people thought other people were punting spells on them.
When I hear people say. Oh my house is haunted. I feel like vomiting. Only because its completely bullcrap.
about 15 years ago my dog and I were prospecting near Death Valley. We were in the middle of nowhere. We ended up spending the night at Charles Manson's old hideout, Barker Ranch. I was armed and my dog was a large rottweiler. I was aware of the creepy factor but did it anyway. At zero dark thirty me and the pooch awoke to a something that sounded like somebody violently shaking a set of keys about ten feet away. Troll the rottweiler howled and charged the sound as i grabbed my flashlight and weapon. The noise stopped as soon as Troll barked. Dead silence. We investigated the area. Nada. A bit unsettled, we dozed back off only to an encore. Same result. This happened three times. The third time we just sat in the dark waiting. This time the noise was right next to my head. Almost had a stroke but quickly got my light on. On the floor was a mouse and a large circada bug. The mouse was trying to drag him to his dinner table and the bug didn't want to go. The circada was LOUD. I was sure Marley's ghost was shaking his chains
Im always looking behind myself to see if im safe.
One time, I was super tired, I stayed up for 2 days playing games. later that day, I decided to sleep, but I was awake at the same time. I was conscious and my body couldn't move. It was a terrifying experience because I didn't know what was going on, but at the same time it was pretty cool to experience it.
My job is haunted, I have had my knee smashed into a desk in front of me when something hit me from behind and no one and nothing was there, I got smacked in the back of the neck by something that wasn't there when going to the bathroom the same night, also people have seen clouds of blackish grey smoke following me and other officers across the dorms in certain places.
Lue Liv FairyBreeder Mistwalker my case is having a clock randomly fall off the wall. and then I put another clock up there the next day, and a few hours later, that clock also fell .
and these clocks were at the 7 foot high mark on an overhead wall. the second clock was put at a slightly different spot but on the same wall. the first clock had been in that spot for months or years. the second barely a day.
I'm not sure that my experience can be considered paranormal. I'm not even sure if I can consider it related to what some would refer to as "ghostly". Before I continue, I am neither obsessed in the paranormal, ghost hunting, belief in the supernatural, haunted houses, etc... I'm just trying to see if others have experienced what I have and see if perhaps I can find some idea as to why I've experienced these things. What I've experienced were simply events I've observed from the time I was 6 until now (32). In addition, not all the events were experienced when I was alone and were not limited to one location. I spent much of my life traveling to various countries around the world since I was young and have observed on multiple occasions, similar occurrences in various homes throughout my life.
My first encounter occurred was when I was 6. This happened while parents were getting ready to leave on a date, leaving my sister and I with a baby sitter. As we waited for her to arrive, I remember being bored so I grabbed my Nerf gun and made an attempt to shoot a light switch to turn on the light to the front door way for the baby sitter. I made about 3 attempts however, none of the foam balls came close to hitting the switch to the on position. Then oddly, on my 4th attempt, I ended up missing completely yet for some reason, the light switch turned itself on. I remember standing there trying to figure out how this happened before running to my mom to explain what happened, only to be brushed off as just my imagination. It didn't end there.
As soon as the baby sitter arrived, my parents ended up leaving and I vividly remember her, my sister and I watching Jeopardy in the living room when suddenly, the volume on the TV increasing louder and louder. The sitter got up from the couch to grab the remote to lower volume. A few seconds later, the volume increased again, and got to the point where she was going back and forth with the TV a couple times, lowering the volume only to have it raise again before she told my sister and I that we should probably turn it off. It got to her so much that when my parents arrived later that evening, she was afraid to walk home alone and so my mom went ahead and walked with her.
Similar incidents like this occurred later throughout my life. It always had to do with a physical object moving or being manipulated in some way around me and never about actually seeing ghosts, physical manifestations of passed humans or anything of the sort. They have always just objects around me moving at the most random times when I'd least expect it.
Again, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't get that feeling of dread or fear before they witness a ghostly haunting. I can be doing the most mundane thing and still have random things occur. I want to believe that there is much more going on than simply saying its a "paranormal occurrence". Every time something weird like this has happened to me, I've never just freaked out and automatically assumed it to be caused by a ghost. I have always tried my best to evaluate the situation and try to understand what may have caused the event to occur -- and then when I can come to no conclusion, freak out just a little. Haha.
Jokes aside, if anyone has experienced anything like what was mentioned, please let me know! I'd love to share experiences or at least try to narrow down the reasons why these things have and still continue to happen around me.
all of my family claim being haunted in our house.. except me, because I dont believe that thing anymore, just kick out that ghost from your brain.. and you will have nice comfort sleep every single night of your life
I've had SP three times in my life, trying to fall back asleep after waking up (falling asleep in the same position to attempt to get the same dream) all three times was shadowy critters, two times it was baseball sized spiders, and one time while I was attempting to fall asleep while looking at a nest outside my window when I woke up I was looking at my ceiling and there was a wasps nest above me and I couldn't move for a split second that felt way longer, I was trying so hard to flail around to try to get the blanket over me as there were bees in my room(allergic) but the whole time I couldn't move I had my jaw clenched pretty tight and when I finally realized it was an hallucination I realized I was biting down on my tongue trying to scream but coulndn't. Don't know if that is actually SP but it sure sounds like it
Typically I don't believe in anything paranormal, but the weirdest thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I didn't have to go to work are pretty much anything one day so I slept in. About 20 minutes after I woke up is was laying in bed trying to get enough energy to go make some coffee. I was laying on my side when all of a sudden, it sounded like a young girl sneezed behind me. I still don't know what to think of that.
Only a few times a year random weird stuff happens in my apartment. Once my bathroom window which was shut closed and locked from the inside flew open and all my stuff on the window sill almost fell down into the toilet while I was in bed half awake. At another time I was in my kitchen and heard noise from my bedroom. When I went back random things were re-arranged but not in a messy way, just re-located. I've thought that maybe ghosts are drawn to me since my childhood simply cause I have no other explanation for these kinds of stuff. But what do I know.
"former magician and now-psychologist" sounds like a really awesome bio.