Paranormal Activity

We constantly seek logical and reasonable answers to everything that happens around us. Starting from science we seek an explanation that can explain many phenomena of our lives through reason, feasible evidence and the use of our knowledge. It is not a simple process, yet humanity has managed to uncover truly amazing enigmas.

All paranormal activity has its explanation and reason. Now I will talk about some paranormal phenomena that have their logical explanation by scientific research and not so scientific.

According to a research, most people believe in haunted houses and ghosts. Behind every shadow, poltergeist, and disembodied voice, there is a perfectly rational explanation.

1. To begin with, in 1921, ophthalmologist William Wilmer published a bizarre paper in the American Journal of Ophthalmology which told the story of the “H” family and their haunted house. Their hell home was plagued with the sounds of slamming doors, moving furniture and footsteps in empty rooms.

One of the children felt something sitting on him while the other was attacked by a mysterious stranger. During the night, the woman of the house awoke to see a man and a woman standing at the foot of her bed, only to watch them vanish moments later.

As the hauntings continued, the family grew tired and depressed, and then their plants started to die. It was then they discovered the faulty furnace. The furnace was supposed to send its fumes up the chimney, but instead the gas was pouring into the house. It turns out the family was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is really hard to detect. It is dangerous because our red blood cells absorb CO much easier than they do oxygen, and this oxygen deprivation leads to symptoms such as weakness, nausea, confusion, and eventually death. But before you kick the bucket, you might experience hallucinations, just like the “H” family. Finally the mystery was solved, the house was not haunted.

2. Moreover, frightened witnesses all over the world have seen the shadow people. These dark beings are glimpsed out of the corner of the eye only to vanish when confronted. Many believe them to be demons, some think they are astral bodies, and some say they are time travelers. However, some researchers have a more shocking theory.

When Swiss scientists electrically stimulated an epileptic patient’s brain, things got really spooky. The patient reported a shadow person sitting behind her, copying her every move.

What happened was the scientists had stimulated the left temporoparietal junction, the part of the brain that defines the idea of self. Researchers are hoping this is the key to understanding why so many people, both schizophrenic and healthy, encounter shadow beings and other creatures.

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