Ghost Tales of Shakespeare: Legends & Lore

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The discussion centers around a collection of ghost stories and paranormal experiences shared by participants, highlighting various locations and historical accounts. Notable mentions include ghostly sightings in Boise, where an early newspaper article described a haunted house, and tales from a haunted fire station in Fort Lauderdale. Participants recount personal experiences, such as a woman observing a window closing by itself and others discussing encounters with spirits in historic homes. The conversation also touches on the scientific exploration of paranormal phenomena, suggesting the need for rigorous research into ghost sightings and experiences. Additionally, some participants share anecdotes from family members about their own ghostly encounters, emphasizing the widespread nature of such stories. Overall, the thread serves as a compilation of ghost-related narratives and a call for further investigation into the paranormal.
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Ghosts in the machine

I once attended a lecture on imprinting how events can be 'superimposed' upon particular areas, especially emotionally charged ones, highly speculative but a very interesting explanation for ghosts; I think the sheer weight of anecdotal evidence for ghosts, and the fact that it appears to be a global phenomina, means there should be serious scientific research into this; in the UK where I live in Hampshire - Incidently them most haunted county in the most haunted country in the world- there are several societies set up to explore paranormal phenomina scientifically, unfortunately to prove anything in there field they need to be more rigorous than any scientist in more mainstream fields, but some very interesting and anaomalous results have been found. I once attended a lecture from a Cambridge fellow who was using a horse tranquiliser to simulate near death experience, his results indicated that we all experience these things near death and that you can even stimulate near death experiences in anyone: anyway back to ghosts, the ignorance and downright blinkered parts of the scientific coomunity need to get off there high horse and start acknowledging that something bizarre is going on, and that the evidence all be it non scientific is overwhelming, let's find out what if anything is behind Ghosts, ESP, or whatever before we dismiss it so arbitrarily, after all aren't we meant to be exploring the unknown, what makes QM any more credible than ghosts? :smile:
 
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Louis Cypher said:
I think the sheer weight of anecdotal evidence for ghosts, and the fact that it appears to be a global phenomina, means there should be serious scientific research into this

How would you propose this research be carried out?
 
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Ghosts most certainly are real, but they'll have to be scientifically explainable before any research will be done on them. Which is abit of a catch 22 to put it mildly.
 
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The way it is currently researched using infrared and conventional cameras, sophisticated sound recording devices, and electromagnetic detectors, simply place recording instruments in areas where sitings are frequent like the architypical 'haunted mansions' etc and see if any data is collected.

I've seen footage of what looks like a ghost walking slowly across a mansion houses grounds, caused quite a stir among the researchers at the time, shame it turned out to be a leaf blowing across the camera :smile:

Anyway we need some objective scientific research; in England the psyclical Research Centre do stirling work but there needs to be more. If we can proove ghosts as simple delusions or esp as bogus or anything for that matter it will give us an insight into the human mind, and hey who knows it might all be true? :smile:
 
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