Jake Sutton
Senior English Ms. Feliks 3-21-18 Ghosts: Fact or Fiction? I have seen Ghostbusters 1 and 2, and that Pillsbury Doughboy doesn’t look fake to me! Ghosts are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become to manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. There are many reasons to not believe in such a far fetched thing such as ghosts, but personal experience and facts say otherwise. First of all, let's think logically. We breath, we live, we are conscious of our decisions. Humans have feelings and we live to the age of around 90. Why in the world, after all that time of the earth, having consciousness and having feelings would we just lose it all after we die. Don’t you think we would go somewhere? Or would it just be a dark pit of nothingness. 90 years gone to waste and nothing after that? Would we be reborn? Would we ever have any recollection of what the hell happened in our past lifetime? Or would we live on in the same world, just an another form of our soul; otherwise known as ghosts. Ghosts have been portrayed to exist for many many years. Even some pieces of the Bible talk about ghost stories. And a recent poll in 2013 concluded that 43% of americans believe in ghosts, according to LiveScience.com. It seems like nowadays, if you ask anyone, they have some sort of spooky ghost story. They’ve become so common that it’s hard not to believe in them. It isn’t like Santa or the tooth fairy. Ghosts are said to be what we become in another dimension after our bodies expire in the present time. Ghosts, scary or not, make sense in the fact that it is what we become or what we are after death. Whatever your religion or beliefs are, it would only make sense that our inner thoughts and consciousness go somewhere after our physical form retires. Electromagnetic fields are something that can help a ghost communicate with our present living environment. Electromagnetic fields are scientifically proven and are actually a real thing. With enough of this energy, it could help a ghost go from one realm to another to help communicate with the living. A canadian neuroscientist, Michael Persinger did a study on this. Mentalfloss.com says, “Persinger has studied people in his lab wearing a so-called “God Helmet,” finding that certain patterns of weak magnetic fields over someone’s head for 15 to 30 minutes can create the perception that there’s an invisible presence in the room.” this goes to show that the electromagnetics can make it feel like there is someone with you. If a ghost were to understand this enough, and be able to harness this power, they could switch over to our realm and communicate with us; therefore we would be able to speak with, or even maybe see the outlines or orbs of the ghosts that connect with us. Infrasound also can be connected to the credibility of ghosts. Infrasound is sounds so low, that humans can’t hear it. Mentalfloss also says, “Scientists studying the effects of wind turbines and traffic noise near residences have found that low-frequency noise can cause disorientation, feelings of panic, changes in heart rate and blood pressure, and other effects that could easily be associated with being visited by a ghost.” Whenever you hear of ghost stories or actually experience one yourself, you seem to be able to ‘feel’ the presence of this anomaly or sense that there is someone else with you at the moment that a ghost would try to make contact with you. Maybe a sense of cold, or discomfort where you feel you are not alone, which you probably aren't. Another form a ghost might take is the form of an orb, although it’s not really a form they take at all. An orb is a ball of light or energy that we will usually see through flash photography or sometimes with our own eyes if it harnesses enough energy. What an orb is, is when a ghost tries to get enough energy to try to communicate with the living by taking energy away from you, or another objects, we will see them as flashes of lights. A ghost might not try to show up as an orb, but once it gets enough energy to manifest, it will just show up as a flash of light or a ball of light. Theshadowlands.com says, “One of the leading theories concerning what orbs are and the one that I lean towards the most is that they are not the spirit at all. The orb is the energy being transferred from a source (i.e. powerlines, heat energy, batteries, people, etc) to the spirit so they can manifest. This may not even be a conscious thing the spirit is doing, just a natural way they get their energy. This would explain why the orbs are round balls. According to the laws of Physics energy being transferring like that would assume is natural shape of a sphere. This theory can also be tied into the EMF readings we get during spirit activity.” So they take energy away from things with electricity or electric currents, which could even be a human being. This is why during most ghost hunts, the hunters feel drained of energy after contact with a spirit. Or why sometimes their tools like cameras and sensors lose connection during contact, because the ghost needs energy from a separate object to be able to make contact. Ghosts, whether you believe it or not, are a scientifically proven thing. In my opinion, it is where we stay or get stuck before we transfer to heaven or hell. Which is why we come into contact with good and bad ghosts. I'm sure a lot of people have weird stories that they cannot explain. Some may be explainable if you chose to push away the thought of you being visited by someone or something that has passed over to a different dimension, but others will chose to embrace it and accept the fact that our world is inhabited by those alive and dead. The choice is yours. But as they say in ghostbusters, don’t cross the streams. sources: Radford, Benjamin. "Are Ghost Real? - Evidence Has Not Materialized." Livescience.com, Benjamin Radford, 17 May 2017, www.livescience.com/ 26697-are-ghosts-real.html. Accessed 8 Apr. 2018. Juliano, Dave. "What Are Orbs?" ShadowLands.net, Dave Juliano, theshadowlands.net/ghost/orbs.htm. Accessed 8 Apr. 2018. Ferro, Shaunacy. "6 Scientific Explanations for Ghosts." Mentalfloss.com, 26 Oct. 2015, mentalfloss.com/article/70293/6-scientific-explanations-ghosts. Accessed 8 Apr. 2018.
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