Quote: "Ghosts happen to wear all black? (and wear gloves by the looks of it too) How convenient"
Ghosts aren't always white... Are they?
Quote: "You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what the eye and cannot see. Yes, certain cameras can pick up IR radiation. Certain cameras can pick up UV radiation. That's irrelevent. They're physical objects that work based on physical properties, by taking in physical energy in the form of light. If ghosts existed, they would be immaterial, and wouldn't possess physical properties, therefore a camera wouldn't pick them up."
OK, let me try that again...
Ectoplasm is a non-physical substance claimed to be produced by physical beings when in a state of trance. But cameras can pick it up. Why? Scientifically it has been proven ectoplasm has no physical properties, so why are cameras picking it up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoplasm_%28paranormal%29
http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/ghost8.html
Quote: "Funny how the first thing you thought when you saw the picture was "omg ghost!" I would have thought it was about a thousand different things that could have happened before I even remotely thought it was paranormal. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that I never would have given any credence to it being a ghost, if I was in your position."
There are two reasons for that. First reason is my grandmother. You could probably argue that she is just old and crazy, but let me tell you anyway. Back in 1970 there was a family that lived here. It was just a husband and wife, and they had one 5 year old child. One day the child went off just to play a bit outside, and he fell into a farming silo and died (Don't ask me how that worked, it's an old story). Anyway, my grandmother was here just 3 years ago, and she said she could here voices from a young child at night. She said the child is about 5-6 years old, but we did not have a child of that age in the house.
She also claims she saw a ghost at the end of her bed when she was 27 years old. It was late at night, and she had the urge to wake up. She did, and found a young lady hovering at the end of her bed. It just hovered there, looking at her, and after half a minute or so, it vanished.
Reason 2 are my experiments with the EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Feel free to try this at home too, it's very simple to set up. You get a cassette recorder, you
detach the microphone from the recorder, so it cannot pick up any physical tones. You then put in an
empty cassette, and record.
After recording the whole cassette, wind back and turn up your speakers to maximum output. Mostly, you will hear nothing. But I managed to pick up something that sounded like whispering, footsteps, and sighs.
If you don't pick up anything, it's best to go to a graveyard or a place where people have died.
Those are the 2 main reasons I believe in ghosts, and that is why I thought of a ghost first when I saw that picture. Maybe I'm wrong with that picture, but I am right with my EVP, and I don't think my grandmother is crazy.
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