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Post # 11: Reflective Discussion Questions

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In the image, between the chair and a door, you can see a child's face. This is definitely another example of patternicity. If there are no children in your house, it is more likely that you are seeing a pattern in the shadows, than a ghost. This one is hard to see unless it is pointed out, therefore, I believe that the only explanation is patternicity.

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I chose to write about one of the stories in the article below. It is on the shorter side of the stories. it is called the unseen patient. The story is about two EMTs in the ambulance on an overnight shift. They were dozing off when one of them heard mumbling. He told his co-worker shhh because he was sleeping. The next thing they knew they heard a scream saying "am I dying?" and then oxygen tanks opening up. They woke up fairly quick and hopped out of the ambulance. When they checked the back no one was there. I believe this was the red flag of unexplained. I believe this because there is no real explanation for what they heard. There is so much going on that we cant tell whats real or not. They stated they were both sleeping prior, what if they were tired and hallucinated. Or were so sleepy and drowsy they thought they heard something they didn't. There is no way is proof of this or a scientific explanation.

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Eric Ogden for Reader's Digest According to a 2012 poll, nearly half-45 percent-of Americans believe in ghosts. Scientists have come up with many reasons for spirit sightings, ranging from the physical (low-frequency sounds, magnetic fields, thermal patterns) to the psychological (suggestibility, fear of mortality). But while ghosts can't be proved to exist, they cannot be resoundingly debunked, either. We've selected five of the Internet's most vivid firsthand experiences with the paranormal. Read them, and then ask yourself: Do you believe?
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Shannon Taggart for Reader's Digest

I've never lived in a haunted house, but my mother did as a teen. Other houses on her street had strange things going on too. A few homes away from her lived a man and his family. One night, one of his daughters went to bed with a bad headache. The next day, she was dead-she'd passed away from an aneurysm.

After the funeral, the family went away to get their minds off the tragedy, and the father asked my uncle-my mom's brother-to check on their pets. My mom and dad (they were dating then) went with my uncle; my mother had heard there was a grand piano and she wanted to play it, and my dad was studying to be a veterinarian.

After entering the house, my uncle and my father headed to the basement to see the animals, and my mother went to the piano on the ground floor. She was playing it when she felt something brush her ankles. She thought a cat must have left the basement and walked past her. She kept playing, and she felt it again. She looked under the piano and saw nothing. When she started again, she felt hands clasp her legs and grab them tightly. She dashed to the basement door, called my uncle and father, and waited for them. When they all walked outside, my uncle could tell my mom was rattled and asked what was wrong.

She told him what had happened, and he turned white. He told her the daughter who died used to play a game with her father. When he'd play the piano, she'd crawl underneath, grab his ankles, and push his feet up and down on the pedals. - Reddit.com contributor PatentedSpaceHook

The ambulance company that I used to work for had a "haunted" ambulance: rig 12. A lot of EMTs had stories about it, but I never put much stock in paranormal stuff. That is, until I had my own experience with rig 12.

My partner and I were working in a rural community at 3 a.m., and it was pitch-dark and completely quiet. We were both dozing; I was in the driver's seat, and she was in the passenger seat. I woke up to a muffled voice, and I thought my partner was talking. I told her I was trying to sleep and closed my eyes. I distinctly heard a male voice say, "Oh my God, am I dying?" followed by a few seconds of heavy breathing. My partner and I sat up straight and looked back into the patient compartment, where it sounded like the voice had come from.

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Things were quiet for a couple seconds; then we heard the click of an oxygen-bottle regulator and a hiss, as if it was leaking. I turned on the lights, and we ran out of the rig. I thought a transient might have climbed in while we were asleep, so we opened the rear doors. No one was there. I checked the oxygen bottles; neither was opened. We didn't sleep much after that. - Reddit.com contributor Zerbo

My neighbor Diane and I had a playful poltergeist for years, and we called it Billy. I'd come home and find something put in a weird place: milk in a cupboard, toilet paper in the fridge, laundry detergent in the bathtub. Diane once called to ask if Billy had been around, because she couldn't find a gallon of milk. We finally found it outside on her back steps. And sugar ... darn sugar! Every morning, my sugar bowl was empty.

When I had enough, I'd point to Diane's home and yell, "Go see Diane!" Within five minutes, I'd get a call from her, and she'd say "Thanks a lot," because he'd gone and pulled shenanigans at her place. This occurred for the entire two years we lived there. No one believed us-not even our husbands. My mother thought someone was stealing from us when we were sleeping or out of the house. My sister believed something was going on but didn't know what. I still can't explain any of it. - Reddit.com contributor abbys_alibi

It seems so clichéd to start by saying "I don't believe in ghosts, but ..." However, that's where I'm coming from. A few years ago, I moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Melbourne, Australia; it was my first time living on my own. The apartment block had been built in the 1930s. I'd been there for a few months when I came home from work one day and went into the bathroom. I saw something strange: The wooden board covering a hole in the ceiling that led to a small attic space lay broken in two pieces on the ground. I examined the broken pieces. The board was an inch thick, and it would have taken a Bruce Lee to break it. I thought the landlord had sent someone to work on the attic. I was frozen stiff with fear. I thought, Someone is up there for sure.

I e-mailed pictures to the landlord asking if anyone had been there (with an undertone of annoyance, since she hadn't warned me). Her reply read, "Please call me as soon as you are able to." I called, and she explained that her last two tenants had said the same thing happened. She promised to replace the board, and she did.

A month later, I woke up one night around 4 a.m. I had so many goose bumps, it felt like someone was rubbing his or her hands on me. Everything was silent, but then I heard this sound coming from above my bed. It was a dragging sound, like someone pulling a sack of potatoes. I was frozen stiff with fear. I thought, Someone is up there for sure. There is no way an animal could make that sound. After five minutes, I managed to work up the courage to turn on the light and walk to the bathroom. I was armed with a cricket bat.

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When I looked, I saw that the new board covering the hole was broken in two! I felt sick. The dragging sound had stopped. But I heard something else-whispering. The sound was clear and coming from the attic. It sounded like children's voices, and I could hear one sentence repeated over and over: "It's your turn ... It's your turn ..."

I switched on every light in the apartment to make things feel normal. It was 5 a.m. and dark outside. I watched TV to try to unwind. Then a fuse blew. My pet budgie, Dexter, whom I kept in the kitchen, usually never made a sound at night, but he started squawking like he was being strangled. I'd never heard him make those sorts of noises-he was screaming. I grabbed my car keys, ran out, sat in my car, and waited there until the sun came up.

When I saw people walking their dogs, this comforted me enough to go back in. The front door was open, but I thought I hadn't closed it when I'd run out. I went to the kitchen to check on Dexter, and he wasn't in his cage-I felt sick again. All my windows were closed, so I looked everywhere inside. When I walked to the bathroom, I heard splashing. Dexter was half drowned in the toilet! I took him out, washed him, and dried him. I was so confused. At 8 a.m., I called the landlord and gave her a watered-down version of the night. "Oh, wow, you heard the whispering too!" she said.

I stayed in that apartment for another 18 months. I heard the whispering on a few occasions, and twice the board covering the hole in the ceiling moved. Although I live elsewhere, the landlord recently called. She said that her new tenants had begged to speak with me about some of the stuff that's been going on there. Forget it-it's their problem now. -Reddit.com contributor Digsdaws

Fast-forward five years. My girlfriend came over to do homework. After she finished, she took a nap while she waited for her parents. When they arrived, I tried waking her up. She opened her eyes suddenly, looking up at a corner where the wall met the ceiling. She pointed there and went back to sleep. I shook her again. She came to full consciousness, and I explained what she'd done. She said, "Up on the wall, I saw a little boy with no eyes. He was there in a Spider-Man pose, staring at me." I freaked out and told her my story about the same kid.

Fast-forward another five years. I was with the same girlfriend, and we had a two-year-old. We were living in my parents' house, in my old room. My daughter started waking up at the same time every night, and she'd talk. After a while, I noticed she had almost the same conversation every night. I playfully asked her once whom she was talking to. She said, "It's a little boy. He's nice. He's lost and looking for his mommy." My daughter's nightly conversations continued until we got our own place later that year. -Reddit.com contributor kmendo4

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Eric Ogden for Reader's Digest According to a 2012 poll, nearly half-45 percent-of Americans believe in ghosts. Scientists have come up with many reasons for spirit sightings, ranging from the physical (low-frequency sounds, magnetic fields, thermal patterns) to the psychological (suggestibility, fear of mortality).

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Post # 8: VIDEO - Kitchen Ghost debunked

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In the video provided down below, we get to see the youtuber debunk the video of the kitchen ghost. The original video shows the person living in the house leaving and then about 40 minutes later all of the things start flying off of the shelves and opening and closing. The youtuber helps debunk this video by saying all of this is very possible with wires and editing. why was the footage cut instead of sped up? Why was there reflections changed and chairs missing? All of these questions are asked to see if this video really is the truth or not. I believe this correlates with patternicity. I believe that we are looking for patterns and things for our brains to make sense of it all. When we see all of the pots flying that is a clear thing happening but our brains look for an explanation. We look for shadows and reflections to make ourselves believe and even the slightest glare from the sun could convince our brains it is real.

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In this photo, there is spooky figure circled in the window. The back story is that the building is empty and when they went to investigate as to whether someone was in the building after they saw the picture, they could not find anyone. This could be patternicity, or the group could have overlooked a simple explanation because the idea was creepy and their first thought was that it could be a ghost. Therefore, they would confirm their bias if they found no one in the building, but there is a possibility that this was set up, or there was someone in the building who left before they saw the picture.

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Post # 6: WEBSITE - Why do people believe in ghosts?

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In this article, the author is talking about and asking the questions as to why people believe in ghosts. She goes over a couple scenarios that she has seen for herself. She tells us and shows us a photo that her friend showed her on her phone. It was a photo of a little boy holding leaves and looking at the ground and in the photo slightly to the left of the little boy was another lighter silhouette of the boy and his hands were in a different position. This picture was taken on the iPhone and everyone was amazed. The author herself also had a photo of her friend hugging her dog in her apartment. In the top left of this photo, there was a man, when in reality no one else was in the room but them. I feel like the red flag that supports all this is unexplained. We don't really know what these are for sure and we have no real explanation of what was going on. We only have our thoughts and feelings towards them.

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In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone. In the frame of what was otherwise supposed to be a picture of an empty prison cell was a blurry black-and-white image of a woman. The story, which was printed in the British tabloid the Daily Mail, featured on the Bay Area's local KRON4 TV station and mocked by SFist, isn't the first time the Daily Mail has claimed that strange images have come up on smart devices.

Normally, a paranormal story wouldn't catch my attention, but a few months before the story came out, a Spanish friend of mine named Laura showed me a weird image she found on her phone while I was traveling in Madrid. The photo, taken on her iPhone while on a trip to Ethiopia, shows a boy looking down at leaves he is holding in his hands. Seemingly superimposed onto the boy is another image of the boy, hands in a different position and eyes looking straight at the camera.

Laura was convinced she captured an image of a ghost.

Then a few weeks later I discovered an image of a man in the background of a photo I took with my own iPhone. The picture was taken in my apartment and the man, whom I can't identify, was not actually in the apartment at the time. I've been using the photo to scare my friends, and myself, ever since.

Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts, leading some scholars to conclude that we are witnessing a revival of paranormal beliefs in Western society. A Harris poll from last year found that 42 percent of Americans say they believe in ghosts. The percentage is similar in the United Kingdom, where 52 percent of respondents indicated that they believed in ghosts in a recent poll. Though it's tough to estimate how large the paranormal tourism industry is-tours of sites that are supposedly haunted (rather than staged haunted houses)-there are 10,000 haunted locations in the U.K. according to the country's tourist board, and sites like HauntedRooms.co.uk list dozens of allegedly haunted hotels where curious visitors can stay. In the U.S., residents of places like Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, pride themselves on their haunted heritage.

While the terms spirit and ghost are related and even interchangeable in some languages, the word ghost in English tends to refer to the soul or spirit of a deceased person that can appear to the living. In A Natural History of Ghosts, Roger Clarke discusses nine varieties of ghosts identified by Peter Underwood, who has studied ghost stories for decades. Underwood's classification of ghosts includes elementals, poltergeists, historical ghosts, mental imprint manifestations, death-survival ghosts, apparitions, time slips, ghosts of the living, and haunted inanimate objects.

It seems that belief in ghosts is even more widespread in much of Asia, where ghosts are characterized as neutral and can be appeased through rituals or angered if provoked (as opposed to our scarier depictions of ghosts in the West), according to Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies and director of the Penn Ghost Project at the University of Pennsylvania. "[Ghosts in Asia] can be asked for help in healing humans, winning the lottery and protecting one while traveling or while pregnant," he says. "Like American ghosts, they have an attachment to the human realm which keeps them haunting and helping humans."

In China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand, the seventh month of the lunar calendar (which falls in August this year) ushers in the Hungry Ghost Festival, when it is believed that ghosts of the deceased are temporarily released from the lower realm to visit the living. In Taiwan, some people believe that the presence of wandering ghosts during Ghost Month can cause accidents to the living. At least one study has shown that people avoid risky behaviors during this time, including those in bodies of water, reducing the number of deaths by drowning.

"Like in the West," McDaniel says, "people in Asia have kept their belief in ghosts despite the rise of science, skepticism, secularism, and public education. In places like Japan where secularism is very strong, the belief in ghosts is still high. Even hypermodern and liberal Scandinavia has a high percentage of people believing in ghosts."

It turns out that a significant number of people report having personally experienced paranormal activity. In a study published in 2011, 28.5 percent of undergraduate students surveyed at a southern university reported having had a paranormal experience. In a 2006 Reader's Digest poll, 20 percent of respondents (21 percent of women and 16 percent of men) reported that they had seen a ghost at some time in their lives.

But it's also true that if you already believe in ghosts, or are told a place is haunted, you are more likely to interpret events as paranormal. A 2002 study found that believers in ghosts were more likely than nonbelievers to report unusual phenomena while touring a site in Britain with a reputation for being haunted. Visitors who were told that there was a recent increase in unusual phenomena occurring at the site also reported a higher number of unusual experiences on the tour.

Another study demonstrated that hearing or reading about paranormal narratives, especially when the story came from a credible source, was enough to increase paranormal beliefs among participants. With the abundance of ghost-hunting shows in the U.S. and the UK, like Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures and Most Haunted, which is returning to screens this fall, it's probably not surprising that studies have also linked belief in ghosts with exposure to paranormal-related TV shows.

"What we have is people trying to make sense of something that, to them, seems inexplicable," says Christopher French, a professor of psychology and head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. "So you get the misinterpretation of noises or visual effects that do have a normal explanation, but not one that people can think of. People assume that if they cannot explain something in natural terms, then it must be something paranormal."

According to French, hallucinations are more common among the general population than most people realize, and are sometimes wrongly interpreted as ghosts. He points to sleep paralysis-a phenomenon that occurs when someone wakes up while still in the dream-inducing REM stage of sleep, in which your body is paralyzed-as one example. Studies have shown that around 30 to 40 percent of people have experienced sleep paralysis at least once in their lives, with about five percent of participants reporting visual and audio hallucinations, including the presence of monstrous figures, and difficulty breathing.

The experience has been interpreted as paranormal in several cultures. In a study done in Hong Kong, for example, 37 percent of students reported at least one instance of what they refer to as "ghost oppression." In Thailand, the term for sleep paralysis- phi um-translates to "ghost covered." In Newfoundland, Canada, it is known as a visit from the " Old Hag." The woman in Swiss artist Henry Fuseli's famous 18th century painting, " The Nightmare," is said by French and other researchers to be suffering an episode of sleep paralysis.

Michael Shermer, author of The Believing Brain, argues that we see causal, intentional relationships-even when they don't exist-because it is evolutionarily advantageous to do so and because humans have the tendency to look at patterns and see them as deliberate. In a column for Scientific American, Shermer writes, "We believe that these intentional agents control the world, sometimes invisibly from the top down (as opposed to bottom-up causal randomness). Together patternicity and agenticity form the cognitive basis of shamanism, paganism, animism, polytheism, monotheism, and all modes of Old and New Age spiritualisms."
"People assume that if they can't explain something in natural terms, then it must be something paranormal."
One example of this is our tendency to see faces in random images, a phenomenon called pareidolia. In a study conducted at the University of British Columbia, researchers Aiyana Willard and Ara Norenzayan found that participants with a higher tendency to anthropomorphize-meaning those that are more likely to assign human qualities to nonhuman things-were also more likely to have paranormal beliefs.

"There is also the emotional motivation for these beliefs," French says. "The vast majority of us don't like the idea of our own mortality. Even though we find the idea of ghosts and spirits scary, in a wider context, they provide evidence for the survival of the soul."

With that in mind, I reached out to Apple Inc. for a comment on the images at the start of this article. A representative for the company was kind enough to check out the images, but didn't have a comment for the story. And though a few independent analysts had a good look at the photos and suggested that Laura's could be something related to high-dynamic range photography, no one was able to come up with a definitive explanation for the man in my apartment.

Maybe more images like mine will surface and someone will come up with a technical explanation for these spectral iPhone photos.

Or maybe, it's just a ghost.

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In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone. In the frame of what was otherwise supposed to be a picture of an empty prison cell was a blurry black-and-white image of a woman.

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Post # 5: VIDEO - Chilling moment 'ghost' haunts school in Ireland

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If you scroll down to the video in this link you will find another CCTV capturing some spooky things happening in an empty school hallway. We see chairs being lifted, sliding across the floor, a bag being thrown off a shelf and a poster being torn from a wall. I am not sure of the backstory behind the school haunting, but if you were to watch this video without any idea as to how these events occurred, someone could simply say that it is ghosts or because the events are unexplained, find a simple explanation for them, which would be that the school is haunted by a ghost. There could be some trickery at play in this video.

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"He started appearing in dreams, but I think he's crossed over into the real world now"
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Adam Ellis from New York claims the spectre of a dead baby has plagued his flat for months.

Thousands are now tuning in to Adam's social media posts, with many convinced the demonic baby has sinister motives.

And Adam's most recent posts have fuelled speculation even further, with him claiming to have captured the paranormal being on camera.

He wrote: "He started appearing in dreams, but I think he's crossed over into the real world now.

"For a while he just stared at me, but then he got out of the chair and started shambling toward the bed.

"I couldn't move because I was paralysed.

"Right before he reached my bed, I woke up screaming.

"I had another dream a few nights later, where I was in a library and a girl came up to me and said, 'You've seen Dear David, haven't you?'"

Adam also reports that a number of objects have fallen off his shelves and thar "David" has followed him despite moving to a flat upstairs.

But by far his most terrifying was the night David lumbered towards him, with Adam taking pictures of the baby with a misshaped skull.

Experts are yet to clarify if Adam's pictures are genuine.

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Man haunted by killer ghost baby reveals evidence - and it's TERRIFYING

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"He started appearing in dreams, but I think he's crossed over into the real world now" Adam Ellis Adam Ellis from New York claims the spectre of a dead baby has plagued his flat for months. Thousands are now tuning in to Adam's social media posts, with many convinced the demonic baby has sinister motives.

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In this image, we see a supposed spirit in the bottom right corner of the window. Due to our natural instinct to find patterns in things, this could be caused by patternicity. There could also be the explanation of the photo being staged; without critically thinking that there could be a motive behind the image, someone could just blindly believe that it is simply a ghost and there is no other explanation.

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This article talks about how ghosts are real because people have had personal experiences with them. They state that you cannot know that they are real unless you have had a personal experience of a ghost. I understand this to a certain extent, "to see is to believe" for a lot of people, but whether you believe that you have experienced a ghost does not mean that you have actually experienced a ghost. This would be based on perception, as to whether you think that you have seen a ghost. Also, in the case that was stated in an article, a girl thought that her grandfather was contacting her in her sleep, but this could be because she was emotionally attached to this idea that her dead grandfather was still around. Unfortunately, sometimes people confuse their experiences with their bias and what they would like to believe.

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There's one certainty in life, we are all going to die one day. So what happens to all of us after this life? The theories are endless. From a simple answer such as: we are going to disappear and the existence is ceased, to more elaborated answers: heaven or life continues in other forms. If we want to know if ghosts are real, we need to establish a first parameter, that there must be life after this life, otherwise we would not have any possibility of contacting people that have already died. So there's some sort of a continuation of life.

Conscientiology and Projectiology, sciences proposed by Brazilian researcher Waldo Vieira, offers the analysis of our current life via a multidimensional view, where us as human beings can interact with other dimensions when we have paranormal phenomena such as out-of-body experiences or astral travel, or clairvoyance. So one way of actually have direct contact with people that have already passed away is via psychic abilities.

Some people state that they have seeing relatives, friends, people, that already passed away. These encounters are characterized by:

Simply seeing someone

Seeing and listening a message that they have to say

Seeing and talking to them

Seeing a scene from the current moment of their existence after life

Lucid dreams with relative

As you can see from above, you might find different interactions, but in any of these interactions one thing is certain, the person that saw this friend or relative, is sure of that occurrence. There's no doubt, and please do not try to convince them otherwise, they will not like it!

Once teaching a class in Miami, I met a girl that arrived in her first lecture, and she called my attention since she looked extremely suspicious about me and what I was saying. At the end of the lecture, she came to me and said: Do you know why I am here?

And she started saying: I am here because I saw the ghost of my grandfather, and he was there in my bedroom, and asking me to find out for information on out of body experience. But she complemented: the most interesting thing is that he woke me up during the night by holding my arm the way that he always did, so that's why I am here.

This girl was one of the examples that I have met, where by people that did not believe in any non-physical realities started studying because they have personal experiences, and beyond that, experiences that they are certain that it really happened.

There are several cases in history of people that have seeing ghosts, from presidents, famous actors, to personal friends. But there's also a fearful group of emotions, maybe because of some literature or movies, most of the time when people talk about ghosts this subject is avoided because of the uncertainty related to this topic. Are these people good or bad, why they are here, what they want, so there are many questions, but not that many answers.

In conscientiology, the most important thing is that we all should have personal experiences in order to understand, and at the end to believe or not. Without the personal experiences it is very difficult to find out if ghosts exist or not, if life after life exists or not, if bioenergies are real or not. The challenge that we all have is to be able to experience all these realities and have personal analysis and conclusions.

Personal psychic experiences are developed by a series of techniques, exercises and studies. So it starts thru knowledge until we are able to apply the information into practice. Exercises with bioenergies are the quickest ways for any of us to develop clairvoyance and to be able to see non-physical realities such as ghosts.

So finally, are ghosts real? Based on conscientiology principles the answer is yes, and the consciousness survives death and life continues after this dimension.

But something proposed in conscientiology is to change the name from ghost to extraphysical consciousness, this way the heaviness from previous understandings, of the word ghost is substitute for something much simpler, meaning, when we die we continue existing and the only difference from this life that we will no longer have the physical body, but our lucidity, memory, knowledge, experiences go with us, so that's why we recognize each other when we have a contact with people that have already passed away.

So we are the future ghosts of this planet, or better, non-physical consciousness!

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There's one certainty in life, we are all going to die one day. So what happens to all of us after this life? The theories are endless.

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This video shows a CCTV camera catching a phone being thrown off its hook in a restaurant-inn. Though the phone is shown in many angles, and the way the phone flies off the hook is very strange, there could be a logical explanation for this. The phone may not have been placed properly, and eventually fell, or there's a possibility that the phone was rigged in order to play a joke, or for more publicity to the inn. The video could call for confirmation bias, as the inn is known to be one of the most haunted inns in the country. It could also fall under the unexplained, as conclusions could be made simply because of the lack of an answer.

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Video footage starts with a barmaid called April filmed cleaning up after closing time.

Then, while she washes some beer trays, a wall phone behind her falls off its stand, leaving her apparently scared.

Paranormal investigators who viewed the footage have been able to come up with no rational explanation for the spooky incident.

The historic smuggler's inn, on Bodmin Moor, rose to fame from being the setting of Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name and it is said to be one of the most haunted inns in the country.

Investigators have been studying the location ever since the happening on October 23 and have now released the footage, Dailystar.co.uk reports.

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Previous managers of Jamaica Inn have heard conversations uttered in a foreign tongue. Some have suggested this 'foreign' language could in fact be old Cornish.

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Colin Symonds, from the Jamaica Inn Ghost Hunting Investigation group, said: "We've had a poltergeist at Jamaica Inn.

"It picked up and dropped the wall phone in one room and no one was there.

"We caught it on HD camera, the CCTV is crystal clear.

"April has stated that ten minutes before the incident, a colleague had texted her mobile, which was on the worktop, by the bar phone, to ask if there were any customers left in the bar.

"April had confirmed she was alone and on the footage, you see her look up from cleaning the drip trays, as she thought she had heard the entrance door to the bar open.

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"Then the phone receiver drops and she gives a nervous laugh, as there have been multiple strange things happen to her and staff, when working in that area, especially when locking up.

"April then texted Ben the night manager, asking him to check the CCTV."

Mr Symonds said several other people had investigated the incident, including an electrician who said there was no way the phone could have fallen by itself.

Jamaica Inn is reportedly so haunted it allows ghost hunters and members of the public to carry out weekend and late night ghost investigations or stay overs.

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PROOF OF AFTERLIFE? 'Ghost' filmed flinging phone in UK's most haunted pub

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CCTV in Britain's most haunted pub has captured what paranormal investigators claim is a ghost flinging a telephone off its hook. The recording in the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall shows, from a number of angles, the landline receiver suddenly flying off the pub's telephone.

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Post # 1: Ghosts in Paranormal and Pseudoscience

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By Tatiana Sorella & Alexandra Spataro