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Scott
storyteller
Username: Scott
Post Number: 62
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 1:54 am: |     |
quote:MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -- Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.
Feel a Ghost?
Anyone got any more info on infrasound? This sounds like a plausable explanation to some claims of *feeling* a ghost or presence around.
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Roon
bear cub
Username: Roon
Post Number: 8
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 3:03 am: | |
I don't know anything about it, but I followed your link and read that article- it would certainly explain why people would feel certain places were haunted! If a place emitted infrasound regularly (for whatever reason) enough people would get the willies or have enough other odd sensations to give the place a reputation.
Very interesting! 
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance~ Sam Brown |
Rhi
storyteller
Username: Rhi
Post Number: 44
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 4:40 am: | |
Hmm, well, I'm not sure about this. Of course, I see that it is a plausible explanation. But I've also had experiences that seem outside the realm.
I was once having a severe panic attack while thinking about starting at a new school, laying on my bedroom floor, and asking my deceased grandfather for comfort, among other entities (angels, dead family members, God, etc), and I felt arms wrap around me in a hug (going through the floor in the back of me) and flet an in rushing of love.
Of course, it could have been something my mind came up with to help me. It could have been something else (an uncle insists it was the devil ), but it was a distincty feeling. I do believe it was different than the feeling referred to in the article, though.
Mostly Harmless |
Sweetsunray
bear cub
Username: Sweetsunray
Post Number: 15
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 1:36 pm: | |
Rhi, I don't think the article refers to these kind of experiences as you desribed... I think the mind is the cause of such ... And I don't think badly of the mind for doing that. I think the mind great to solve anxiety so quick and effectively in this way. |
Calcite
bear cub
Username: Calcite
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 10:21 pm: | |
I have experianced something simmilar to what rhi experianced but it was under differnet cercumstances and happend reguarly over a certain time period . I don't think it was the mind playing tricks on me because sometimes it happened without actual reason as in my state of mind at the time . Eg i was meditating just feeling calm and felt the physical sensations of contact . I won't say what they were but it was most definatly not the time for that as i was prepareing for martial arts training .
As for the ghosts theory that sounds very plausable for most occurences . |
Scott
storyteller
Username: Scott
Post Number: 228
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 8:51 pm: | |
Ok I give up, I am such an idiot - ghosts must be real - here is a picture of one, taken in a castle no less.
Palace ghost caught on video
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 456
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 9:02 pm: | |
Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors.
Why does this remind me of Johanna Spyri's Heidi?
(I mean the part when she was in Frankfurt suffering from homesickness and sleepwalked and opened the house doors every night...  )
semi-professional floccinaucinihilipilificatrix |
Don
storyteller
Username: Don
Post Number: 222
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 9:04 pm: | |
Hmmm, a corporeal ghost that needs to open doors -
Casper the friendly ghost goes straight through bricks and mortar!
Don
take what you want and pay for it |
Cavebear
storyteller
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 488
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 10:10 pm: | |
Perhaps the ghost is leaving the door open for the benefit of a more corporeal acquaintance. Or maybe for the pizza deliverer.
A pawn in the hand is worth a knight on the run. |
Scott
storyteller
Username: Scott
Post Number: 230
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 2:35 am: | |
Cavebear,
Do I perhaps detect a hint of sarcasm or even worse disbelief? Heaven forbid! Touché! Same goes for you Don! Casper! We are trying to have a serious discussion here about ghost with pictures and everything!
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Cavebear
storyteller
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 495
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 2:49 am: | |
The Spirits forfend I should be sarcastic; pizza delivery is a very serious thing. I had in mind that even ghosts needed healthy food according to their less than material tastes. The toppings might be unusual, though...
Sight of bat, noise of owl, smell of nitrogen, taste of distilled water, shades of gray, no-sodium salt, non-tomato sauce, no-fat cheese, and definitely no garlic (so as not to offend the vampiric acquaintances).
A pawn in the hand is worth a knight on the run. |
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