Are ghosts real or not? Do ghosts really exist? This is one of the most controversial mysterious questions in human history. Since ancient times, when people had awareness, they believed in ghosts. However, to this day scientists have still not found the answer to this mysterious supernatural phenomenon.
Popular belief: Are ghosts real?
A 2005 Gallup poll showed that 37% of Americans believe in haunted houses and about 1/3 of respondents believe in ghosts. Tens of thousands of people around the world currently have a hobby of ghost hunting, and according to statistics from researcher Sharon Hill of Doubtful Newsblog, there are about 2,000 groups of such amateur ghost hunters.
Ghosts have been a popular subject throughout the past millennium. They appear in countless works and art forms, from Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” to the Bible and even gave birth to the genre of folk ghost stories.
Ghosts are perhaps the most widespread belief in supernatural phenomena in the world. This popularity is due in part to the fact that belief in ghosts belongs to a large network of beliefs about the supernatural, including near-death experiences, afterlife and spirit communication.
The concept that the spirits of the dead still linger around the living has been around since ancient times, and it has brought comfort to many people. They believe that loved ones who have passed away are always watching over or by our side in times of danger. However, most people believe in ghosts due to their own experiences or they have “seen” or felt some unexplained existence.
The science and logic of ghosts
Personal experiences are one thing but scientific evidence is another matter. Part of the difficulty in investigating ghosts is that there is currently no universally accepted definition of what a ghost is.
Many people believe that ghosts are the souls of dead people who for some reason “lost” while on their way to the afterlife. Meanwhile, others assert that ghosts are telepathic entities that enter the world from our minds.
Some people have even created special classifications of different types of ghosts, such as goblins, hauntings, spirit masters, and dead people. Of course, it’s all artificial, like speculating on the different lineages of fairies and dragons. The number of types of ghosts depends on your wishes.
Scientists have pointed out many existing contradictions in concepts about ghosts. For example, are ghosts visible or invisible? According to those who believe in ghosts, they can move through any solid object without affecting it or can slam doors or throw objects across the room.
According to logic and dialectical materialism, things can only be this or that. If ghosts are human souls, why do they appear dressed and accompanied by supposedly inanimate objects such as hats, canes and costumes, not to mention the many reports of ships? ghosts, ghost cars and ghost wagons?
If ghosts are the souls of the unavenged dead, why are there unsolved murders when ghosts are said to be able to communicate through psychic means and thus be able to identify the perpetrator? kill yourself for the police. As such, any claim about ghosts raises logical grounds to doubt it.
Ghost hunters use a variety of creative and sometimes obscure methods, including psychic elements, to discover the presence of spirits. Almost all ghost hunters claim their actions are scientific and appear so because they use high-tech scientific equipment, such as Geiger radiation meters, electromagnetic field detectors ( EMF), ion detector, infrared camera and ultra-sensitive microphone. However, none of these devices have ever been proven to actually detect ghosts.
Others take the opposite approach, claiming that they cannot prove the existence of ghosts simply because we do not currently have the appropriate technology to search and probe the spiritual world. However, this is also not true: Either ghosts exist and appear in our ordinary physical world (and can therefore be detected and recorded in photos, films, videos and audio recordings). or not real. If ghosts exist and cannot be detected or recorded scientifically, then all the photos, videos, and audio recordings that claim to be evidence of ghosts are definitely not ghosts.
With so many conflicting theories, it is not surprising to learn that, despite the efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on television and elsewhere over the past several decades, there is no evidence Convincing evidence of ghosts was announced.
Why do many people still believe?
Despite countless contradictions, many people still believe in ghosts. A widely recognized view is that Albert Einstein proposed a scientific basis for the existence of ghosts: if energy cannot be created or destroyed but only transformed from one form to another, this What happens to our body’s energy when we die? Will they somehow turn into ghosts?
The above explanation seems to make sense, unless you understand basic physics. The answer is simple and ultimately not mysterious at all. After a person dies, the energy in his/her body follows the path of all other living beings’ energy transfer after death: into the environment. The energy is released as heat and converted into the organisms that eat us (such as wild animals if we are not buried or worms and bacteria if we are buried) as well as plants that absorb them. receive us. There is no “energy” in the body that survives the death of the “client” to be detected by common ghost hunting devices.
While most ghost hunters go on harmless and futile adventures, there’s still a darker side to it. While popular ghost hunting television shows air, police across the United States have seen a spike in the number of people arrested, injured and even killed in the process of searching for ghosts. In 2010, a man died while ghost hunting with a group of friends in the hope of seeing the ghost of a ship that crashed many years earlier. The ghost ship was nowhere to be seen, but a real ship appeared around the corner and crushed the unfortunate ghost hunter to death.
Evidence of ghosts is no different today than it was a year, a decade, and even a century ago. The failure of ghost hunters to find reliable evidence is said to be due to two reasons: First, because ghosts do not exist and reports of ghosts can be explained by psychology, paranoia. mistake, mistake or hoax. Second, ghosts do exist but ghost hunters are too incompetent.
After all, ghost hunting doesn’t involve searching for evidence (if that were the case, the search should have been ended a long time ago). Instead, this process is mainly about enjoying fun with friends, telling stories and being interested in mysterious but interesting, scary and a little scary but thrilling and engaging phenomena.
In addition, according to GS. Stephen Hupp, a common cause for belief in ghosts is pareidolia syndrome. This is a syndrome that causes people to tend to perceive (or impose) a valid explanation on an ambiguous image, causing it to become an object, a pattern, or carry a certain meaning.
A common example is when we see faces, or human figures appearing in the clouds, in bushes, or inside a dark house. Besides, belief in the spirit world can also be a response to psychological needs.
“This universe still has a lot of things we don’t understand, and some people may feel comfortable filling that gap with explanations about the supernatural world,” Professor. Stephen Hupp said.
“Supernatural explanations are often offered with confidence, even in the absence of actual evidence, and this confidence can give a false sense of reality.”
If ghosts were real and were some type of energy, or entity that was still unknown, then their existence (like all other scientific discoveries) would be discovered and discovered by scientists. verified through controlled experiments.
“The last thing you want to hear about ghosts is their existence according to someone’s story, but there is no scientific evidence,” Professor. Stephen Hupp concludes.
