A scientific approach to the paranormal | Carrie Poppy 

And the gas would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling gas company kids.

She's a real life scooby doo character

It's very simple. The dogs did not react = no ghost.

If ghosts are not real... then why is she dodging all the invisible stuff thrown at her?

"The day science begins to study non physical phenomenon, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries"- NIKOLA TESLA

This is very important. Strange things happen, and while some may ascribe them to the paranormal, that doesn't mean that people who do so should be ignored by science. Their claims should be investigated because there is often a very real, scientific answer. When we investigate, we can find new things, expand our knowledge, and even save lives. I'm still working on a write-up of my hypothesis on why some people see shadow people while ostensibly fully awake (which I'll be posting on my Insomnia Insanity blog soon), but that is a perfect example of a thing that many people experience that (I believe) has a perfectly logical answer. Yet scientists refuse to investigate because it sounds like paranormal quackery. When we close our minds, we are closing the door on important discoveries.

I'm so excited that Santa sent one of his friends to educate us on the paranormal.

"We don't believe in because of evidence, we believe because of lack of evidence." beautiful quote

Can we just commend how good the camera man is for once?

Ironically it was her initial belief in ghosts that prompted her to contact the group who advised her. Therefore her belief in ghosts is what actually saved her life!

Plot Twist: She's a ghost and spreading lies about ghost

This reminded me of years ago when I used to think there was a ghost in the house because strange things would happen that I couldn't explain at the time. One of those things was a window breaking from the inside when there was nobody in that room at the time. A few years later it happened again but this time I was literally inches away from the window and fortunately not hurt, although I had to carefully remove pieces of broken glass from my clothes and hair. This time Google had actually become useful so I googled windows breaking spontaneously and learned that this was actually due to the forces on the glass from the shape of the window and the temperature difference between the inside and the outside (it was the middle of winter and the window was next to the boiler). It was a relief to have a proper explanation that made sense and not attribute it to a ghost. Also, knowing what really caused the windows to break meant I could replace them with ones better suited to the conditions. I also found out that the other weird unexplained events were down to my husband moving my things and then lying that he'd never touched them. He came clean about it after I told him the real reason for the windows breaking when he knew that I no longer believed there was a ghost in the house.

If there's something strange in you neighborhood... who you gonna call? Science enthusiasts!

Back in the day, a good friend knew a girl living in her late grandmother's house who swore there was something breathing in the hall. She got more & more freaked out & even used a Folger's can as a chamber pot rather than leave her bedroom at night. My friend paid a visit and discovered that yes, there WAS something breathing in the hall. The house was (obviously) old and drafty; the hallway was papered w antique cheesecloth-backed wallpaper, which had loosened over time. Gust of wind= expanded wallpaper. Wind stops = :::sigh::: as the paper returns to the wall. Handful of nails + a hammer = no more ghosts.

Sage smudging when it was actually a gas leak, ouch.

I lived in a haunted house in the past. One night, my brother and i were watching tv downstairs in the living room, it was around 11 Pm when all of the sudden we heard a door upstairs open and heard footsteps of someone coming down the hall then walking down the stairs. We thought it was one of our parents coming down to tell us to go to bed but when the person arrived at the bottom of the stairs the footsteps stopped all of the sudden, we looked at each other like what is going on, we sat there looking at the living room door for like 30 seconds when we decided to go take a look. When we got there we saw that nobody was there, so we decided to go up the stairs and that's when we discovered our bedroom door wide open. We looked at each other like we knew what was going on but didn't want to say anything because we didn't want to believe it. The next day we went to see my parents to ask them if they woke up at that time of the night but they both said no, my brother had tears in his eyes and i was shaking in disbelief so my mom asked us what was going on so we told her what happened. What puzzled me is that when we told her about it she didn't look surprised at all or shocked like she knew something about it but din't want to tell us, she just looked at us and said to not worry about it. Twelve years latter when we were living now in another country, my mom told us that the house we lived in was actually haunted. She used to see the same old man in her dreams with bright eyes screaming at her to get out of his house, and when she was home alone she could hear doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps. One day she was in her bedroom and heard someone walking downstairs but my dad, my brother and i had just left the house for school, so she thought one of us came back because we forgot something so she came down and found nobody. My dad was aware of that problem and they decided to not tell us anything about it even if we were already aware that something wasn't right, until they find the funds to get out of there, we only stayed like 11 months in that house.. she sais she waited so long to tell us about it because that experience terrified her. I don't know about science, but all i know is that it tries to bring answers to every questions but saying that paranormal isn't real? Were my brother and i crazy? was my mom and dad crazy? Why did it just happened in that specific house, where it's previous owner and builder died in it? I'm sorry but she's wrong, whe don't even have answers to the bigest mysteries that whe know, our brain, our oceans, our forest, and so on, so science cannot explain everything, even paranormal. Why are every of thoses scientist afraid to go to amityville to that famous horror house? They know what they are going to find there that's why.

Maybe the ghost caused the gas leak

I think the anecdote at the start was actually a decent rhetorical device because it sounded exactly like a "believer" but twisted to have a counterintuitive but reasonable explanation. It's more effective for making the point that science can explain the seemingly unknown than just simply stating it. Overall, the talk was a bit wayward but a fair point no doubt.

What kind of psychopath just lets their dogs chew their feet?

WOWOWOW This woman is such a ball of boundless energy. She's definitely haunted by positive spirits!

So... there I was back in the mid nineties... taking a break from school... working as a rent-a-cop for a buck over min wage, when I was assigned to look after "a creepy old... decommissioned hospital... " the guard I was replacing (just one guard for the whole hospital and its 3 out buildings) told me "not much happens around here... but every now and then the "Elevators" will move up and down... stopping at floors... all by themselves." I was intrigued (but knew why this happened. ) I didn't say anything... I did my patrols, used the elevators to go up... and the stairs to come down... sure enough, every so often an elevator would "drop a floor... all by itself." (Insert "spooky sound effects here!") I was unfazed (didn't mention my subject of study was electrical engineering...) you see, the high voltage lines that power the elevator motor, first connect to a "power supply" board then the "motor control panel." On the power supply board are large capacitors, these capacitors are capable of storing a "large" charge for a period of time, as the capacitors "discharge," through the motor control circuit... the elevator will move down a floor... and open it's doors... (all by itself) the capacitors are now drained and the energy has dissipated. (For electrical safety... always drain off the capacitors by unplugging the power source then activating the load (switching it on and dissipating whatever current remains in the circuit) before working on the equipment... even a relatively small capacitor can store enough charge to kill a person.) Mystery solved...

I love this. A paranormal story might be bullshit, but it could also hint to something new to learn about the universe that we live in.

i love the oh no ross and carrie podcast. they combine rational thought with respectful engagement with the human beings making wild claims, treating people with various unproven/unprovable beliefs as intellectual equals in a way that i don't see nearly often enough.

She just proves ELVES are REAL.

This talk is actually pretty okay if you stick along long enough to see what she wants to say

Me reading the comment section... 99% of comments "Watch the video before commenting". 1% of the comments actually people who commented before watching the video.

_THIS_ is how to start a lecture. I wish everyone giving one would watch it. Most people begin by listing their credentials and accomplishments, and the places where they've traveled. And minutes later, after they're already lost their audience, they start with their story, or the topic of their discussion.

I once heard a noise and thought it was a dog. It wasn't a dog. See, dogs don't exist.

BEFORE YOU START COMMENTING NEGATIVELY ABOUT THE VIDEO, FINISH WATCHING IT.

Why she dressed like Buddy The Elf tho??

What about poltergeist phenomena? Would love some explanation for it

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, the podcast sounds amazing!!!

She has a fun podcast called "Oh No Ross and Carrie". They investigate religions, paranormal, pseudoscience, ... IRL. They don't just read about it on the internet. They've actually joined churches for research.

I never knew carbon monoxide could spontaneously open cabinet doors and sling cups at your head.

i think paranormal stuff is imagination. i stopped having paranormal encounters in my 150 y/o house right around the time i started questioning whether paranormal activity is a real thing

I'm a lover of science, but there are aspects of reality which we don't fully understand. I think there are some things that you will believe to be impossible, until the moment you experience them.

She believes that science can logically explain the mysterious, but that also you can still be open minded about believes!! I wholeheartedly agree with her!!

Okay I am a huuuge skeptic of the paranormal, and I am fully on board with what she's saying, but I really wish I had found a decent explanation for people feeling like they're being grabbed, pulled, pushed, tugged, etc. I was at a "haunted" prison once, and I brazenly strode into a dark room alone (being a huge skeptic), and proceeded to get pulled back by my collar by... something? For a split second. And I bolted out the room. I immediately turned around and went back in to see if there was a hook or something hanging from the ceiling (idk prisons are weird), and there was nothing in there. Does anybody know of why this kind of sensation might happen?

10 out of 10??? Now I wont agree to that...

In my English class i had to choose a debate about whatever topic i wanted and then resume the video to my classmates, so i choose this video which sounds to my mind a debate in itself. I'm going to present it tomorrow and i'd like to thank you lady because i really enjoy your point of view about it all.

I love her message about how listening to people and challenging them are both parts of respecting people's beliefs. When she says 10/10 times science has saved the day, then she says there are mysteries, those do seem to be contradictory statements. I also think she's overextending herself when she says "mysteries are mysteries, not ghosts." Well, how would you possibly know that? If they're mysteries, you don't know.

Outer Truth: Facts Inner Truth: opinions

One thing you can definitely say, I love her energy. She seems like she would be a genuine pleasure to be around.

Occam's Razor. Either those spooky noises or apparitions you saw are actual ghosts, in which case you have to explain how they exist, where they came from, how their reality ties to our observable reality, and go all the way down to the most fundamental truths of an existence where ghosts and the supernatural are real. OR Your experiences can be explained with the very real and tangible reality that we know is there and actually observable. There's always, ALWAYS an explanation for everything. Just because you can't explain your supernatural experience, doesn't mean an explanation for it doesn't exist.

I love her exuberance and sincerity. Great talk! Loved it!

She looks exactly like Buddy the Elf.

I’m still convinced that there is real paranormal/supernatural things and entities- simply due to my own anecdotal experiences.

She was so lovely! I really appreciate it when people advocate for nuanced understandings of things like the difference between a historical fact and the impact that fact could have on a persons life. There is a difference and a connection between what actually happened and how those things impact a persons inner life or experience. ❤️👏🏻❤️👏🏻

This was a very good talk, thank you! I too once believed in some paranormal phenomenon. Only though vast amounts of information proving the very opposite did I see the general psychological and scientific patterns behind it all. Had I talked to myself as a teen, I could never have convinced myself in just one discussion that my views were not representing the situation realistically. Only through overwhelming and satisfactory evidence can we change big parts of ourselves fully. That is why respect is important in these conversations, if your goal is to convince the other person. However, if there is no will to establish a personal relation, I guess there is no need to be gentle. Then providing the evidence bluntly might be sufficient.

Who you going to call , gas busters!

Oh this is Carrie Poppy? She’s the co-host of Oh No, Ross and Carrie! It’s a podcast where they do investigations about fringe science and the paranormal. It’s very fun to listen to.

Her podcast is amazing

great video. i love her unbiased approach. yes spiritual ideas might not be true but until we prove that, there is always the possibility a spirit realm does exist.

i believe in what shes saying but i still believe in the paranormal

Okay so came here for the paranormal nerd and left giggling at the comments section. So many good comments.

Yeah but can she explain why she’s dressed like an Elf??

Love how open-minded this woman is - and respectful of other peoples thoughts and opinions!

so when my aunt levitated and was unresponsive we should have just checked for carbon monoxide in the air.

I've always been on the fence with this topic. There was a time where I lived in a house where it always felt off, as if someone were behind you at all times. One day my very skeptic friend and me were eating pizza and laughing on my table when we seen my trashcan get quite literally thrown across the kitchen. We were scared shitless since nobody else was there. We checked for fishing lines, string, or any sign of a prank. Nothing. Moved out and haven't felt that or experienced anything like that since.

Fantastic TED Talk!

the scientific approach to the paranormal is a combination of neuroscience and cognitive psychology -our brains evolved to be vulnerable to superstition because we interpret certain experiences in distorted ways. i predict we will one day understand a spectrum of brain/genetic typology that means a certain percentage of the population is more susceptible to being convinced that a paranormal interpretation of certain experiences is the correct one. there are obvious conditions on the far end that predispose us to this like schizophrenia, bipolar mania, and temporal lobe epilepsy -but i think there are much less pronounced predispositions that are much more common and are influenced by factors like critical thinking education, existential honesty, having been indoctrinated as a child, psychological fear of death, and emotional conviction regarding things like mind-body dualism, misguidedly projecting agency, and feeling that certain types of intuition are reliable perceptions of reality regardless of evidence. and of course things like certain electromagnetic fields, carbon monoxide poisoning, sleep deprivation, extreme stress, knowingly or unknowingly ingesting certain drugs are all have a powerful effect on perception.

She was excellent. She taught people a more compassionate way of disproving a mistaken perception by using the scientific method. Moreover, she was not afraid to laugh at herself. She, also, maintained her love of mysteries and a reasonable hope of discovering a paranormal phenomenon. BTW, there are valid and reliable studies strongly suggesting that indigenous people, in two specific Peruvian villages, communicate both verbally and with telepathy. Unfortunately, to protect individual privacy, the villages were not identified, but I know the researchers are serious academians and I hope to repeat their research study in the near future.

This is really good, love this.

"People refuse to give up the ghost." What you did there. I see it.

Carbon mon. detector wouldn't have helped, you need a natural gas detector. anyway i worked at a haunted mansion in Georgia, we always looked for the scientific reasons, but a bright blue glowing orb flying over our heads was a bit much

I used to be a member of a paranormal investigation group in the early 2000s. I think she's right with a lot of what she says. These phenomena should be investigated scientifically and with a healthy skepticism, but in my experience there were about 10% of cases that we couldn't explain. Even in those cases we didn't necessarily use the word "ghost" to explain what was happening we would say that the phenomena appears to be "paranormal" (above the normal).

One of the best TED talks I've ever listened to

Excellent detection. Well done.

If Scooby Doo taught us anything, it's that the so-called ghosts would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky kids! Great job. I started listening to Carrie and Ross' podcast about a month ago, and I have really enjoyed catching up on old episodes.

I would love having the "let's test it together" enthusiasm with someone who tells me about their paranormal event, but from my experience, suggesting something like that is inherently offensive because it questions the existence of ghosts in general. That belief is very strong for some people. Saying "Maybe that noise was a mouse in the walls" can be like saying "Maybe your beliefs aren't correct". It's usually a lose/lose situation. I can say nothing and let pseudoscience win the day, or say something that likely starts a fight and an awkward situation for other people around.

My family went through extreme poltergeist activity back in the 70's when we were living at 1723 Downing Street in Greensboro North Carolina. Our family was close and affectionate and was made up of my husband, myself, our son and daughter and our beloved family dog. The house in question was built in 1965 and we were the first family there but indeed, it was built over what had been a lake and there were underground springs and creeks all around us with moving water. I mention that as It is my understanding that this is commonly reported in many poltergeist cases. When I first moved in my kids were like 5 and 1 years old and I did have a few odd experiences like smelling perfume in the house that was odd smelling that nobody wore. There were also feelings of having something rapidly coming up behind one and feeling not so much as evil but high weirdness of something very old and completely non-human. The feeling of feeling one was being watched was a common experience. Not far away behind our house was a graveyard but we dismissed the idea of ghosts as not much happened for several years till my daughter and son grew up. Before the real explosion of poltergeist activity the woods behind our house and leading to the graveyard was a place my son and many of the kids enjoyed playing at. At the time, it was not seen odd as none of us thought in anyway that a graveyard could be a concern. When my daughter was about 16 and my son was about 12 we had a the first big amounts l of poltergeist activity in our home for several months. It started first with my daughter who had a seance with her friends for her 16 birthday. Soon after that she had objects fly off her walls and she would find at times at night having weird experiences like waking to find her hand being held by a small withered hand or hearing a loud bang on the wall. I experienced the most terrifying experience of being awakened at about 2am to my foot being shaken - I could feet the hands around my ankle and I remembered yelling out 'Jesus save me' and about two seconds later my husband sleeping beside me awoke as well. The light was flicked on and the room was empty. I was 100% sure I was not dreaming. The seance my daughter and her friends did was something she and her friends did on their own as a joke - it was not something that was routine or approved of in our home but soon after this the weirdness was manifest. Strong gust of wind would sometimes come from nowhere and blow through the house. Though experiences could happen anytime of day, I would say 90% of the time the activity happened at night from between Midnight and 3am. If I were to venture a guess, the entry point or portal was located in a closet space shared by my son's and sisters room as the doors of the closet would sometimes open on their own during manifestations in our home. It got to the point that my son would tie a belt around his closet door handles before going to bed at night - of course this didn't stop the trouble but it made him feel better that the closet door remained closed at night. The sound of heavy objects falling and breaking glass occurred in other rooms but when observed nothing was to be seen.However, the focus shifted from her very quickly to completely focus on my 12 year old son. It is hard to describe all the evens from slamming doors, sheets being yanked off beds, shaking beds , flickering lights and all of us being awakened at night by having a hand shake one awake or messing with ones feet or bed coverings. Even stranger was the experience my son had was after being awakened by a shaking bed he sat up and flicked on the light and then felt something invisible, big and heavy bound into the bed next to him that knocked him over and then was just as quickly gone. That incident was the one my son reported as most freaking him out was that experience. He described it like being on the bed and imagining if a huge obese invisible man were to jump into bed with you and then vanish - all happening in about 3 seconds. We were not alone in all of this -The family dog was pretty freaked out when this would happen and he would bark and growl at unseen presences but usually acted very afraid and was eager to be outside the house than inside it. Most of the poltergeist activities it seemed to happen during my sons REM sleep when his bed would shake so we think his unconscious was letting lose. Of course, many, perhaps half of the activity was not the 1am to 3am variety but would happen in the middle of the day as well. When the bed shaking occurred my husband and I would get up and go into his bedroom and see him asleep with the bed go back and forth. At first my husband and I took it to be completely demonic opened up by the silly teenage seance my daughter had engaged in but the psychological aspects could not be missed as well. My son was hyperactive and on Ritalin.The Ritalin helped him focus like a stimulate but it had a side effect of stunted growth to the degree he was behind normal physical growth and development by a full year. We thought perhaps the Ritalin might had been affecting his CNS but it appeared it was the bed moving him - not the other way around. In short, there was probably something in that house from the time we moved in but our son was clearly the battery that caused things to go crazy when he became of age. We had a Catholic priest come bless the home, this did work but it only knocked off the activity for about 10 days before it started up again. The priest was very enlightened and told us that though demons do sometimes wreck homes what we had was likely a poltergeist which is basically a demon 3rd class on assignment for a short trial period and could steal energy from anything from a fight in a home or pent up libido. The priest asked each of us if we had done anything like play with Tarot cards, used a Ouija Board, drug use, seances or any serious moral violations. I mentioned the seance my daughter and her friends had done and my son's horror comic collection. The priest nodded and smiled at my son and told him throw them in the trash which he did somewhat reluctantly. He advised my daughter no more seances and for all of us all to relax more, laugh more and pray more and make the 'the house light'. He told us poltergeist are affected by blessing but unless they are done weekly they will keep coming back so the best solutions lay with our family as he didn't have time to come by each week to bless the home. One funny bit of symbolism that I did not catch to many months later was the poltergeist at the first part of it's manifestation did so while we were eating dinner. We were all around the table and talking and laughing and my son had a tall glass of milk in front of him in a tall glass and it suddenly exploded. Nobody was hurt by the glass but the milk went straight up in a crazy manner all over the ceiling till it rained down on all of us. The symbolism of this pent up energy is kind of clear. It might be the case that the Ritalin that had stunted his growth might have built up huge levels of energy as my son told me years later he didn't get his first wet dream till he was 14 which bothered him as all his friends had gotten them by 13 years old . My husband had told him not to worry about it and nature had it's own time for him. Of course there is a problem with that theory as well as the poltergeist activity largely ended a full year or more before that so that one explanation is not complete. It is fascinating that strong emotions and libido can provide such huge stores of energy for poltergeist to pull from and one one learns to unplug them from their source they cannot manifest without a power source to tap. The key to killing the poltergeist was creating a happy relaxed home. After about 6 months it was pretty much over with. It was the most amazing and terrifying 6 months of our lives and a eye - opening awakening to the world of the paranormal. After all the years of thinking of this I can only conclude we had every thing and multiple causes to create a perfect poltergeist environment. Though it was not fun to go through, it was very interesting and to a degree, deepened all of our faith as we did conclude we were not dealing with PK but with intelligent beings with a twisted sense of humor. This became clear when the poltergeist in our home seemed to take a great deal of dislike for a blessed crucifix we kept in the hall and a picture of Jesus. These were often turned upside down or found laying on the floor knocked off which suggest this being had a strong dislike for these items. I am open to various ideas to explain what happened here. I would love this audience take on the poltergeist experience. Hope this has been of interest.

Please, please, please, do not equate carbon monoxide to a gas leak. While both can cause a lot of problems and ultimately death, they are very, very different. First off, although the gas that we generally use is, naturally, as odorless as carbon monoxide, we add something to it that has a very distinct smell, so that we detect a gas leak relatively early on, to warn us that it might not be the best idea to light a match at that particular point. Carbon monoxide does not have that same added smell. That's because, carbon monoxide does not enter your house through a pipe or cannister. Carbon monoxide forms when you burn something, but you lack sufficient oxygen to burn it properly. In that case, instead of forming carbon dioxide and watervapor (and, depending on the type of fuel, come other things, but, let us stick to normal gas), you are forming carbon monoxide and watervapor. Usually, you can already tell when looking at the flames. If burned properly, gas will burn blue (and that's only because of the added smell, normally, gas burns invisibly, all you see is the waves the heat forms in the air). If you see yellow flames, there is a problem, you don't have enough oxygen there and carbon monoxide is forming. Now, carbon monoxide does not explode, it is a by product of the burning process and cannot be used as fuel. If you had had a gas leak in the example that you gave, then that sage burning you did would probably have killed you instantly.

Love their podcast “Oh No”. Finally, respectful and rational skeptics of the occult

Misunderstanding natural phenomena (mistaking them for supernatural ones) does not disprove the existence of supernatural phenomena.

I want to hear her talking after her firsrt ayahuasca experience.

Can you do a talk on Near Death Experiences? I need the explanation for those via science.

I just love Ted talks .......... they're always have been good

Nice. I dont know why so many dislikes

Very good video. I’m going to check out her podcast!

My favourite is when I described, my friends house to a t, right down to what type of carpet she had. I don’t even know where she lives. I’ve only seen her at this annual campground we go to. I dreamt it. I don’t even know her actual name. Another, is when I’ve seen things before they happen and I’ve learned to keep it to myself and say it after.

My mind is so open my brain leaks out my ear

She’s very respectful towards ‘believers’ and good on her for helping educate people. Politely proving that paranormal ‘events’ can in fact be explained by logic and reason is much more effective then just bashing on people that believe in ghosts and ghouls. To be honest I couldn’t do what she does because I just get too pissed off listening to people speak of paranormal beliefs as though they have any place in reality.

I wish more videos like this would pop up on people's feeds, especially if they've watched paranormal stories a lot!

but her ending is great and aligns you to really have a real experience and not only that help the world change for the better , i applaud her

The unbelievable part of your story isn't the ghost, it is that your psychiatrist didn't prescribe any medication. That is astonishing!

I feel this on a spiritual level. Respect goes such a long way.

I LOVE her enthusiasm! 😍👍

I cannot argue with her. I believe in the paranormal, and my experiences have been unpredictable and never consistent, except for maybe one. The one thing that has been consistent may not be paranormal, but it is strange. Throughout my life, certain street lights would go out when I got into a certain proximity of them, and then turn back on when I got out of range. Certain lights I could time perfectly when they were going to go out based on how close I got to it. I would snap, point at the light, and it would go out. I had to practice several times before I got it down, but it wasn't my snapping or pointing that made it go out, it was just my proximity to the light, I just put on a show for the cars waiting at the intersection hoping somebody would notice. They have since changed the lights over the years, and I don't walk or go out as much as I used to, so I haven't found another light as reliable, but if I come across one again I'll be sure to document it. The strangest of these events occurred one night when the lights went out down a street I was walking, two lights on my side of the road, and one on the other side. As I progressed down the road, the next lights went off, and the previous ones tuned back on; this created a sort of shadow following me, as if light refused to shine on me. It only happened once, on that road, and I have no explanation for it. There are other stories I could tell, that a skeptic/denier/non-believer could easily apply a belief to that would be explanation enough for them because it fits into their world view; but I am a skeptic/believer. I actually do question, and I am okay with leaving something an open mystery instead of trying to come up with an explanation that fits into our current understanding of the world. I have witnessed something that I still to this day cannot even come close to coming up with a logical explanation for; unlike the others that could potentially have a non-paranormal explanation. I too seek legitimate proof that is undeniable, but it is elusive, especially considering our lack of understanding of so many things. Being a denier is just as bad, if not worse than being a believer.

If you know you're going to hate the talk and comment about it without even watching the video, then why bothering clicking in?

I got so excited at first because her experience is my experience. I moved twice and still struggle with it. My chest and stomach have the pressure feeling and it's even in my legs at times. Unexplained events happen to me even after moving. It's not always fucking gas.

When I was about eight we lived in the middle of the country, my sister and I were in the middle of nowhere by our house with no one around when we both heard a little girl laugh right by us

Yeah, that's why I feel like there is a ghost around my house in hot summers and when the air is humid.

I was in a cemetery at night and there was a faint sound of chains rattling. I put my ear to a mausoleum and the sound seemed to be coming from within. I went back during daylight and discovered the source of the sound: metal tags wired on to metal flower pots. The wind would blow and rattle the tags against the pots.

Hahahah the skeptic ghost hunters are basically the scooby gang. Also this is extremely clever

this was Great!

Watching this video in the dark is spooking me out. Anyone else?

because journalists are the best people to talk with about science

I adore Carrie's podcast "Oh no Ross and Carrie!"

♟ wow, I was like 15 years old after passing my Softmore year living in Florida by the time this was uploaded! ♟

would like her to tell me about my experiences, The anguish I felt about my perfectly healthy father about indigestion / When I got to the hospita; he was dead. They brought him back but the amazing story he told is for another time . How do you examine that scientifically?