When you have an experience where someone says, "Oh, I'm seeing a very spooky movie-like ghost" So that brings us back to this quarantine thing. I haven't heard anyone say that they've experienced something paranormal, but lots of people saying that since they've been locked in lockdown, they're having a lot of So [is] a lot of this in the imagination, do you think? I saw a spike like this before, right at the Y2K in Times of stress really do something to human psychology, and so you see people having deeper, stranger dreams.
You have people reporting a higher amount of ghosts in their house or haunted houses. I have even had an increase in UFO reports since the quarantine. And that might just be because people, you know, go outside and look up at the sky and have time to reflect. It doesn't mean so much that they're going crazy, but perhaps they're just becoming a little more introverted and perhaps getting to know themselves a little better. I would. I think that our world is so strange, you should have as many weird experiences as possible.
I also think that once you open yourself up to a weird experience, you start to have more of them. The majority of cases that I've ever investigated, people don't get hurt.
It's not scary. It's startling, but it's not scary. If someone does get hurt, it's because they are startled and fall off of a ladder or run down the steps and trip on their own feet. But I think that if ghosts are here, they're a part of our environment and we should get to know them.
Make triple sure that you aren't actually dealing with a vermin infestation, carbon monoxide leak, faulty plumbing, or some other normal explanation before going too far down the paranormal rabbit hole. That said, if you're convinced you've got a spirit on your hands, your next step should be to record it.
Leave a camcorder running overnight or take a voice memo on your phone around the time you normally hear the spooky sound in question. You can play it back to your roommates or neighbors to see if they heard it, too, or even send the recording to any investigators you decide to consult. If you're really lucky — or, depending what kind of spirit you're dealing with, unlucky — you'll pick up even more sounds on tape. And then there's the influence of the paranormal industry.
The books, the television shows, the psychic hotlines all have a vested interest in getting the public to believe this stuff. Wiseman: No, I tend to be a tad skeptical. I've worked in the field for about 20 years and I've never seen anything that convinces me that any of this stuff is true.
What I have seen is that people have weird experiences, whether with Ouija boards or ghosts or a psychic, that tell us about their brains, their behavior and their beliefs. LiveScience: What does the belief in the paranormal tell us about our own psychology? Wiseman: I think each one tells us something a little bit different. If you take sleep paralysis, that notion of waking up completely immobile, seeing a figure at the foot of your bed and you're convince that this evil spirit or demonic force is holding you down, that actually tells you a lot about the psychology of sleep.
When we sleep, we're paralyzed so we don't act out our dreams, and that dream experience can come over into waking along with that paralysis. LiveScience: What, to you, is the most interesting or strange paranormal belief?
Wiseman: I suppose ghosts, or the notion that people see something out of the corner of their eye, particularly if they're in a "haunted" location. It's the power of suggestion, as well as fear.
When we become afraid, blood flows from the fingertips from the major muscles of the body as you get ready to run or fight, and that can make you cold.
LiveScience: You've done some ghost-debunking investigations. What did you find? Wiseman: These were investigations carried out at Hampton Court Palace, a royal palace south of London, and up in Edinburgh in Scotland, supposedly one of the most haunted places in the U. We took people into buildings and asked them what locations seemed haunted. But in many cases, science can explain what might seem like a message from beyond.
Here are five scientific explanations for encounters with the supernatural. Just below the range of human hearing, infrasound can cause some strange sensations.
In one account from , engineer Vic Tandy of Coventry University spent a night in a lab believed to be haunted. He and his colleagues experienced anxiety and distress, felt cold shivers down their spines, and Tandy even reported seeing a dark blob out of the corner of his eye.
Electromagnetic field EMF meters are commonly used to identify electrical problems.
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