It's true, the existence of "ghosts" seems to be one of the toughest things
to prove. However, I've seen evidence and read anecdotal accounts that are
pretty convincing, especially if you include first-hand accounts of
apparently reliable witnesses regarding visitation after a death, that
they
had no normal way of knowing about. I have heard one of these stories
firsthand, told to me by a very, very unlikely person, a tough old WWII
vet
who talked to me about his service on an aircraft carrier for a half an
hour
before deciding I was trustworthy enough to share his ghost story with. He
had been sitting on the back ****ch of his house at night, overlooking a
field, when he saw his mother's ghost in the field. Afterwards, he learned
his mother had died at that time.
The photographs pur****ting to be ghosts are mostly orbs or mists. They
don't
seem to be photographic anomalies, entirely, like light bouncing in the
camera lens or flare, dust on the lens, etc. What's more interesting from
a
logical and psychological standpoint, is that if people are going to
deliberately fake a ghost photograph, they will probably opt for something
more dramatic, like a double-exposure (with the advent of Photoshop, any
effect is possible). Instead, mostly all we see is orbs and mists, orbs
and
mists--why be so boring if you're faking the results?
I personally have seen one of these "mist" photographs, taken a few days
after a young man had died, of his young niece, just a toddler, standing
on
his grave with her arms outstretched looking upwards, and there is clearly
a
mist around her, and it was mid-day and not misty. As is typical, it was
not
seen when the photo was taken.
I think one has to look at one's definition of proof, and one's
interpretation of the data. If one has an inner conflict around the issue
of
belief, then one will never be fully satisfied. Even if a full-bodied
apparition manifested before you, two or three days later, after sharing
the
experience with several skeptics who minimalized the experience, you might
be proclaiming, along with Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," "A bit of
undigested beef!"
Not that one should go to the opposite extreme and believe everything.
What
I'm suggesting is that if you have done 20+ years of research, either you
have been much less lucky than other researchers, or there is something
amiss with your criteria and mode of interpreting.
I would just add that "proof" is not a black or white thing. It admits of
degrees. That photograph I saw with the mist rising around the grave,
cannot
be *reasonably* explained within the normal limits of our physical world.
Sure, there are mists; and sure, there are artifacts that occur in the
photographic process. I can't rule out either explanation 100%; but mists
do
not generally appear in mid-day on a bright day in one specific location
(unless there were a steam vent there, which, being a gravesite,
presumably
there was not). I suppose the ground could have been warmer in a
freshly-dug
grave, enough to create a visible mist...? But I've never read or heard of
such a thing. I don't think it was a cold day--this was, I think, April in
Atlanta. "Mist-like" artifacts did not appear on any of the other photos
on
that roll of film so far as I know. So both those explanations are out to
a
degree of reasonableness. If one, however, has a "belief issue," then they
would not be out, because one's very standard of reasonablness has become
distorted.
Steve S.
"Kiann" <kiann.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Scientific Proof of Ghosts
>
> Greetings
>
> I am in search of scientific evidence. After 20+ years of research, I
am
at
> a standstill. I have no evidence and no occurance that can't be
otherwised
> explained within the normal limits of our physical world.
>
> If you have evidence and are willing to contribute, please email me. I
will,
> with your permission and giving full credit to you, include your
information
> on my site and use it to assist with further research.
>
> Thank you.
>
> K. Ann
> http://www.itsmysiteicandowhatiwant.com/metaphysicalproof.htm
>
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