I'm not a psychologist. But when you get a large group of people together in a place that has already been primed to be spooky, then the effect is enhanced by their being a collective.

I would assume any evidence they find cannot be used as proof of anything, given that their states of mind is suspect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29


Priming is like this, if I tell you that the following made up word is anaslex and not analsex you might read it analsex several times before you actually realize that the word is really anaslex.

Of course there are some of you out there who may only see one word, whether it's anaslex or analsex. What does that mean? The brain cannot be trusted.

http://doucheplates.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/anaslex.jpg

As always, for some reason all ghosts only show up at night, in spooky basements and the only way to film them is to use night vision.

Rubbish.

Sounds like a monkey.

Ugh thanks for that! What are you trying to do give me a heart attack? Damn it! Sorry I'm prone to always be startled by sudden loud noises.

If there's a chance at awesome here, it would have been some friends messing with them, and surprising em whilst in the basement. One can only hope though =)

The more someone proclaims a video to be 100% REAL, NOT FAKE, the less I am inclined to believe it, no matter the subject. It's like talking to a kid: the more he tries to convince you that he is telling the truth, the more you know he's lying.

The timing could have been a little better.

So an unexplained phenomenon is always a ghost, just as a UFO is always an alien's spaceship.

An Authority Weighs In

"Paranormal expert"
lol

This is just the typical photoshoppy loud noise scare video. Tripe.

Does anybody realise that the background story to this video was created for the setup so that the shock factor?

It's a shock video. A decent one.

I can appreciate it for what it is. Don't lose sleep over the undead.

I think the correct internet term is "Screamer".

The cameraperson doesn't drop/lower the camera to escape what, if real and truly perceived by them, could easily represent the fright they have ever experienced in their life. Instead, they keep filming. I can POSSIBLY accept that the camera, with its nightvision, offered the best visibility for the conditions.

But few people tend to think clearly/rationaly in situations of intense fear/panic, which I would think would be a strong enough argument for this being fake.

I've experienced a "haunted" building before. It was in the basement of one of the local Library branches. (I used to do IT work for the network of libraries, so I've been to more than 60 in the county). This happened in the daytime, I was downstairs in the basement checking a network connection on the router or something like that. I heard a distinct 2-person conversation coming from the next room, as well as some old music (1920s?). I assumed it was just other people who worked or volunteered there, so I went about my business. A few minutes later I went in to ask if they knew where a ladder was, but no one was there. Also no radios, record players, computers, etc (anything that can make noise) was in that room. There was only 1 staircase up, and I was between that room and the stairs, so I would have seen someone go up.

I consider myself a skeptic of most things, and was not primed in any way - it was only after the fact, when I told one of the branch workers, that they said "oh yeah that room is haunted", like it was common knowledge and no big deal. Apparently they had many people witness paranormal stuff.

Maybe voices from upstairs could have gone through the ductwork, but that doesn't explain the music.

On a side note, that branch had a statistically significant high rate of blue screens, on identical hardware/software configurations deployed to many other branches. That was eventually tracked down to poor electrical wiring at the site (it's an old building- historic landmark status). When we installed good surge protectors at every PC, instead of plugging into wall, the BSODs dropped down to normal rate... but I prefer to believe that ghosts cause blue screens

I read some shit a while back that said the reason we experience paranormal events in certain environs is because of resonance factors that resonate with the same frequency as our eyes thus creating peripheral visions.

Seem interesting as a theory.

When the cameraman was running away, he was filming ahead of him, other actors were in the shot. A guy literally fleeing from a ghost would not care if the other people were in the shot, and the camera would be pointed down as it is easier to run with the camera that way.

Oooh yea. The sense of fear is really palpable by the expression on the dude's face at :47. He looks like he could just burst into laughter at any minute.

Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

FAKE!!! The guy turns to run before the door slams open and the noise, he reacts before anything happens!

>> ^Farhad2000:

I read some shit a while back that said the reason we experience paranormal events in certain environs is because of resonance factors that resonate with the same frequency as our eyes thus creating peripheral visions.
Seem interesting as a theory.


That's not a theory. A theory has to contain an actual explanation of the cause of the phenomena. What you gave is pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.

Our eyes resonate? WTF does that even mean?

What that means is that neurons fire at a certain rate to transmit data, communicate, change state, whatever. The neruon paths fire in the tens of Hz or slower, so maybe the visual cortex or visual nerve cells have a certain frequency they fire at and if you in an environment with EM or visual stimuli that is at certain frequencies, it makes sense this could have impact on what you "see", much like modulating and to create FM communication. Though you might call it more of a pulse stream shift keying.


>> ^Drachen_Jager:

>> ^Farhad2000:
I read some shit a while back that said the reason we experience paranormal events in certain environs is because of resonance factors that resonate with the same frequency as our eyes thus creating peripheral visions.
Seem interesting as a theory.

That's not a theory. A theory has to contain an actual explanation of the cause of the phenomena. What you gave is pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
Our eyes resonate? WTF does that even mean?

Mm. Problem is that your explanation, if you can call it that, is only slightly more likely to be true than ghosts are. The hypothesis that people who claim to see ghosts are hallucinating, delusional, mistaken, prone to pareidolia, or simply lying, is far more likely than either "ghost" or "eye resonance".


>> ^joedirt:

What that means is that neurons fire at a certain rate to transmit data, communicate, change state, whatever. The neruon paths fire in the tens of Hz or slower, so maybe the visual cortex or visual nerve cells have a certain frequency they fire at and if you in an environment with EM or visual stimuli that is at certain frequencies, it makes sense this could have impact on what you "see", much like modulating and to create FM communication. Though you might call it more of a pulse stream shift keying.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^Farhad2000:
I read some shit a while back that said the reason we experience paranormal events in certain environs is because of resonance factors that resonate with the same frequency as our eyes thus creating peripheral visions.
Seem interesting as a theory.

That's not a theory. A theory has to contain an actual explanation of the cause of the phenomena. What you gave is pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
Our eyes resonate? WTF does that even mean?

Is the ghost the one with the glasses?