This post is for fun since our country is going down in flames I wanted to brighten the day a bit….and change the subject….at least for awhile.

There is a plethora of reality shows that have this person or that chasing down ghosts and haunting….so far I am told they have found nothing after 20+ years of looking….but the hunt goes on and the cash rolls in.

Awhile back I watched a show about a guy who when working in his lab started having what he thought was a haunting….being a scientist he started investigating and after awhile he narrowed down the ‘ghost’….it was the frequency that an old fan was emitting was interfering with his mind.

And now someone has discovered what he learned with his investigations….

Those creepy vibes you get in a creaky old house may have more to do with the boiler than with the beyond. A new study suggests low-frequency “infrasound” from aging pipes, boilers, and ventilation systems can quietly raise stress levels and sour your mood—even though undetectable by human ears, per the Guardian and Gizmodo. Researchers in Canada had 36 volunteers listen to either soothing instrumental tracks or horror-movie-style music, sometimes laced with inaudible infrasound (at or below 20 hertz in frequency) via hidden subwoofers.

Participants couldn’t tell when the infrasound was on, but when it was, they reported feeling more annoyed, saw the music as sadder, and showed higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, according to findings in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Study author Rodney Schmaltz says that for believers in ghosts, that vague bodily discomfort can become “proof” of a presence. “They attribute the feeling of irritation to a ghost rather than the old, low rumbling pipes in the basement,” the MacEwan University psychologist tells the Guardian. Infrasound also occurs near traffic and industrial machinery, Schmaltz says in a release, suggesting further study on the health effects of prolonged exposure

Let’s be honest all those reality TV shows are money makers not ghost finders….

Unfortunately, the vast majority of paranormal investigations have been of the pseudoscientific variety – based on incorrect, incomplete or misrepresented science, or invalid due to bias, manipulation, assumption or omission.

In these cases, the presented ‘evidence’ doesn’t satisfy scientific rigour, or can also be interpreted in ways that don’t require the paranormal. Other cases can be shown to be fraudulent. So, the conclusions (and methods) of such studies can be safely ignored from a strictly scientific perspective.

Of course, there are some cases of ‘hauntings’ for which there is evidence of some physical phenomena: magnetic, pressure or temperature variations, recorded images, video or audio, for example.

These phenomena don’t prove the existence of the supernatural though, as there’s no logical connection between the evidence and the conclusion. There may well be other, as yet unknown, phenomena that can explain the observations.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/can-science-explain-haunted-houses

If they want me to believe there are ghosts then someone needs to bring a dog (would be cheaper than the psuedoscientific crap they employ) since canine are very perceptive of the world around them I trust them to find these ‘ghosts’.

I hope I did not crap on anyone’s parade….but I will believe when I see one first hand and so far I am still waiting.

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