I think it is so unique how Houdini is always cited as a critic of mediums but don't always mention how desperately he wanted to believe in them. That's why he was so critical because it was important to him to find a real medium.
How you explain it is how I first heard it. That "pressure" to test and the want to believe was what lead me to study and want to find more in the esoteric in general. Sadly, much like Houdini I have yet to encounter a proof that would sway me.
I died for a few minutes once and found myself in a non=temporal visionary state where I saw infinite worlds with infinite versions of myself and was given a choice to continue into that infinity or to go back. I chose to come back. If ghosts exist in any way I think they are likely some kind of result of whatever that was. Even though my heart had stopped for minutes it felt like hours and I truly felt like I was in some other world viewing from outside space-time all these various possible worlds zoom past me and through me at the speed of light. Was quite the experience...
When I was a kid, I had a book called the Very Scary Almanac that contained facts and figures, like the most prolific serial killer, the number of times Dracula and Frankenstein have appeared in movies, etc. The book contained the very same Pliny the Younger ghost story in its pages as an example of one of the earliest of the form. I like the idea that I was reading about both the most morbid of topics, as well as ancient Greek philosophy, as an eight year old😂
I am Brazilian by birth ( living in the US for many years ) and my country in very spiritual based on the teachings of Alan Kardec and our most famous medium and even seen as a Saint , Chico Xavier . He wrote , inspired by his mentor , Emanuel , more than 500 books and was never found as a charlatan. Actually he was and is adored by helping thousands ( or even millions) of people . 🙏🏻🌹✨🙏🏻
•••Movie suggestions••• I am an art-house cinema geek, so this won't be the usual jump-scare sort of films, it's all older Japanese films, available on Criterion. ••• 1- Kwaidan 2- Onibaba 3- Empire of Passion (some explicit nudity) 4- Kuroneko ••• The Japanese ghost related traditions and folklore is absolutely fascinating I find. I hope these suggestions can please at least a few people on this community. 😊
While marching in the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village in NYC a few years ago, I took a series of photographs with my cell phone. Upon reviewing the photos, strange anomalies in the form of ghostly faces were plainly visible, a number of whom appeared to be leering. In two of the photos, the anomalies had completely taken over the images, entirely blotting out the costumed revelers that I had been attempting to photograph. There are things that happen that we cannot entirely explain, for sure.
The Egyptian one is similar to what are called bhuta in India, basically spirits who were not given proper burial rites. They also become very associated with the cremation grounds and in certain Tantras there are methods presented to control them
No bhutas are considered to be the spirits of the persons who died unnaturally or lived a sinful life, alongside those who didn't receive a proper funeral.
Interesting! I was just listening to the History of Persia podcast-and under the ancient Persian era around Darius the Great, a big hunk of modern India as well as Egypt were under their control back then, so there was bound to be some blending and mixing of cultures. Persia and India are incredibly important in history of all kinds, not just religious/spiritual.
This is a strangely relatable video. I have seen some weird stuff that I can't explain but I don't let it get to me. I never expected to encounter this topic here, but I'm glad that you covered it with such an unbiased approach. Japanese ghost stories sounds good, I have to see that. This channel has taught me much.
Good plan! We do not know what some of these things are, at all, so it’s best not to engage, let it terrify you, etc. Heck, I’d rather hang out with that ghost from the Ring than have Trump as President with his evil plan. 😂✌️
5:00 I've always had this question with regards to dragons. People will say dragons exist in many cultural stories, but are the various myths (in their original form) really that similar? People will then try to make all sorts of connections as reasons for why "dragons are everywhere." I've considered this especially for the broad categories of Eastern vs Western dragons. Is it possible that we've tried to connect them together for so long that we've tweaked them a bit in form to make them fit and all be dragons? I think that's the case. I do not believe multiple areas thought up dragons and that different things grouped with dragons are totally and utterly not similar.
Yes, that's a good point for that discussion as well. This is also one of the biggest criticisms against some forms of Perennialism and Jung, that it only works if we assume that possibly unconnected things are similar because they appear so on the surface, whereas they are often more culturally specific.
I think a lot of that weird categorising every legendary monster as a dragon, comes from those 90's kids books that described dragon taxonomy. I still find people declaring that wyverns don't have four legs, as if it were a fact, out in the wild even to this day.
I had another video on pause on my divice and went to the other room. Suddenly I heard a familiar voice start talking in the other room... about ghosts. How very apt and spooky 👻🫣. Guess I'm watching this now. Don't mind if I do 😂.
Spiritualism, specially in its French variety (also known as "Kardecism") is still hugely popular in Brazil, where it is highly syncretized with Catholicism. Many popular soap operas and films have been produced based on Kardecist lore and so-called psychographic writing by a very popular medium, Chico Xavier. In Brazilian culture, revenant souls are called "almas penadas" (souls in pain is a possible translation) and a common way to get rid of one is to get a Mass said for them.
I honestly really love your videos and find them extremely helpful. I would like to request if possible kindly do more long in-depth series/videos on Eastern religions and traditions especially non Abrahamic.Please also cover eastern philosophers and mystics.Not just major tradition and religion like hindusim and Buddhism but also minor cultural and religious groups.
Ghosts have always fascinated me. I'm not necessarily superstitious, and I believe most proof is phoney. But at the same time I'm always on the lookout for experiences. I've had two in my life, and I'm not sure how real they were.
Hahaha, it was the Jinn episode that actually got me watching and subbing to this channel. Zero regrets, though I often wish that there was more info on other cultures on the ground beliefs (like Jinn) from the academic POV.
As usual, amazing video! Such an interresting topic. I would love to see a video about Brazilian african-derived religions such as Umbanda, Quimbanda and Candomblé. Spirits of ancestors are an integral part of this religions, such as the ´´Pretos Velhos´´ who are spirits of former enslaved people that come back to share their knologe and help with our problems .
I've always thought ghost stories can give something of a unique insight into a culture because their use in frightening kids into acting in certain ways makes them quickly become extremely localized to the specific needs of the storyteller. I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the La Llorona story is pervasive there, not only because of the strong influence of Mexican culture on the region, but because the whole city is criss crossed with arroyos built to drain water from the nearby mountains. Some rain at the crest can send a wall of water crashing down a totally empty arroyo at any second and every year there are kids who drown playing in them, so every parent tells their kids that La Llorona is commonly sighted specifically around their local drainage ditch to keep their kids away from it. My brother and I saw a kid almost get swept away in one of these ditches when I was young so my parents didn't need ghost stories to deter us from the arroyos, but my dad had his own version of the story intended to keep us from wandering around the lake where we went camping at night, that claimed that this was actually the lake where La Llorona drowned her kids, complete with the detail that the old monastery nearby was built specifically in response to all the spooky happenings around this lake after the drownings. You go to any random neighborhood where the La Llorona story is told and you will hear a slightly different version, depending on what the most dangerous local body of water is. Ghost stories are kind of unique in this way, being tailored specifically to whatever the local population is scared of in a way that makes them especially interesting windows into the specific anxieties of a region, people, or even just a single family.
I grew up experiencing paranormal and paradoxes most of my life. Explaining the context of my life tho is a mess and a half that normally gets misinterpreted....but I am always seeking answers and piecing together concepts on how the metaphysical all really works. If a single hyper-dimensional entity has the capability of phasing in and out of my reality and able to both warp the circumstances or perceptions of that reality...just imagine the ramifications of that form of manipulation on a global scale....We would literally be living in a massive petri dish where they could tamper the sample of life in which we are experiencing......but also I hard speculate in multiverse theory...could we be the ones phasing between parallel realities? Creating subtle mandela effects while entities going the opposite flow in time and space could be perceived differently? Even within the forms of matter? Could death be the horizon and not the end? Could there be different variants of reality in which we're constantly shifting between while the base matter remains within the cognitive system of each reality automated to the articulation of how being comes into those realities? Think about dreams....and memory....we always come to self realization in the middle of events a dream (or at least I do) and that's how I came into realization when I was a child...trailed off from elsewhere.....I don't believe I was "starting out" as a new being rather being acclimated to my current form of being...so in a sense reincarnation from either other realities or previously this one forwards or backwards in time...speaking of....if time is even linear (which I don't think it is as more anomalies occur in my life to make me question everything). Could life be just a macrocosm of dreams (life as a whole) filled with a microcosm of dreams (the dreams themselves within life)? I've definitely experienced some very vivid and archetypal and prominent dreams that have left huge impressions on my entire life, some of which have been tied to sleep paralysis and paranormal, but I often wonder if the dream realm is a separate place and time or a re-connection to past/future lives of an eternal presence? Either way, I refuse to believe it's all in my head. Whether it be the time dilation, witnessing ghosts and poltergeist activity with witnesses, sleep paralysis, seeing the space between space and hearing sounds between sounds, seeing a UFO one time....nothing is ever as it seems....because there's more beyond the enfolding of reality's seams...if I can only just see beyond and find the clarity to pass between these realms seamlessly can I find the meaning of it all (I'd say life but this goes beyond life). I also refuse to believe I have a materialist disorder like schizophrenia that's causing this. It's all caused from external sources unless the truth is solipsistic, where the external reality would then technically all be internal.
I absolutely love how Athenodores has the swagger to be like "Hold that thought, I'll be with you in a moment", while the ghost rattles its chains like "Let's go, I ain't got all night bro!"
Do ghosts, if they exist, have lifespans? In all the stories ghosts we encounter are relatively modern, from the 1800s at the farthest. Yet we never see ghost of a Gaelic tribesman, a pre-Columbian native American, or Egyptian peasant even though they existed far before us Anatomically modern humans have existed for 80 000 years. Out entire known history is just a tiny sliver of that time. If we assume that rate of ghosts occuring stays the same throughout the years, then over 99% of ghosts existing should be of paleolithic hunter gatherers. Yet we never see those?
Arabs believed that a person who's been killed, his soul shapes into a bird like figure and keeps hovering over his body and screaming "اسقوني" which means "give me water" or a more general meaning "give me that which satisfies my thirst" in this context it refers to the blood of that persons murderer, basically it keeps hovering over the dead body until revenge is taken, this form of the soul is called "هامة" "hamah"
Not watched all this yet and you might get onto it,but in Shakespeare's day I think ghosts were generally seen as spirits from Purgatory, I don't think those in Heaven or Hell would usually come back.
A strange example is in the Old Testament where a witch summons up the prophet Samuel's spirit from the Underworld, which seems to contradict some OT passages suggestive of there being no continued existence after death.
Ghosts are one of the most fascinating ways cultures express their collective fears, hopes, and unresolved questions about death. It's amazing how different societies interpret these supernatural beings - from vengeful spirits seeking justice to souls just trying to find peace. Ancient Egypt's focus on the *ka* and *ba* highlights how even thousands of years ago, people believed that death was complex and required respect, which is something we tend to gloss over in today's fast-paced world. Modern ghost culture, though more commercialized, still taps into deep, primal fears about what happens after we die. Maybe ghosts are how we keep the mystery alive.
Bishop William Montgomery Brown [in ghost form] has some interesting comments re: that of Spirit vs soul, and what being a ghost means re: his work as a Catholic Priest.... at this point in his existence. [Not your average 'evp'] Seek - and ye shall find, my friends. Happy Halloween!
While you quickly explained the Church's position on ghosts, I find it a bit underwhelming that you only glossed over the islamic world, and did not even mention anything about judaism (ancient and / or rabbinic). The fact that these traditions are so old and possibly going back to ancient Mesopotamia means that religious authorities probably had to deal with such stories.
The American Haunting uses these techniques to explain the pioneers and colonists witch hunt style issues withing history. Remembering what has happened during the change of freedom of worship and building of the United States.
Heck yeah, I love ghosts. On the trinity, I specificly remember a point in my childhood where almost all the adults arround me switched from saying "amd rhe holy ghost," at the bottom of the bottom when making the sign of the cross, to, "and the holy spirit." I really don't know if there was a concerted push in the American Roman church to switch from the Germanic ghost to the Romantic spirit in the 80s, or if it was local to my parosh, or if it's just my distorted memory and it has more to do with my parents just deciding to become more active in the church late in my childhood and I was merely noticing a cultural change from my initial non demonmennational loose America Christianity, to the liturgy of the Latin Church. Heh, it just sticks in my memory, the change of terms.
My take aways are that belief in ghosts aren't even consistent around the world. Some places see them as spirits of the dead, while other people consider them demons, some cultures have hundreds of ghosts, and others don't believe humans return to this world as ghosts. Ghost hunters never explain this because they usually come from the west which has a strong history of believing in ghosts. Also consider the belief that remembering your ancestors keeps them at peace- shouldn't we then see less reports of hauntings from these places? I have a feeling that paranormal activity correlates with belief in the paranormal. The leads me to my second take away: culture has a strong influence on what people believe about ghosts. The spiritualism movement already demonstrates this but so do movies and the internet. People end up believing it so much that they assert it as evidence for the supernatural. Why don't people find this odd how ghosts often just happen to act the same way they expect them to? It just doesn't add up. If it wasn't obvious, I am a skeptic, but I'm also a fantasy writer. My story has magic, ghosts, gods, and other supernatural creatures. Currently, I'm researching ghosts to decide what I want them to be like in my story. All I have in mind right now is that like many cultures, the people in my world give offerings to their dead relatives. In fact, respecting burial sites is an important value. There's still more I need to figure out. I might take inspiration from Chinese and Japanese beliefs and have it possible for spirits to become different types of ghosts.
Shit gets WILD! Never would've believed it had I not dug and dug, absolutely refusing to 'spit it out'... alotta liars out there though is the thing. Certainly easy to see why people think it's total bulls__t honestly. A very, very subtle & seamlessly integrated layer of reality...
I think it is so unique how Houdini is always cited as a critic of mediums but don't always mention how desperately he wanted to believe in them. That's why he was so critical because it was important to him to find a real medium.
Yeah the story of Houdini and mediums is horribly sad
@THICCTHICCTHICC it is. The one pretending to be his mother but spoke English, ugh I felt so bad for the him
How you explain it is how I first heard it. That "pressure" to test and the want to believe was what lead me to study and want to find more in the esoteric in general. Sadly, much like Houdini I have yet to encounter a proof that would sway me.
That thumbnail is gold (was gold when it had a dog)
As in golden retriever
Medieval wojak
Gold is thumbnail that
At least it's not nudity, looking at you mister Dr. Justin Sledge with his cereal bowl featuring a very naked Lilith!
crankin dat soulja boy
The best thumbnail so far 👌 for a ghost related video 😂😂
It took me about 10 minutes to figure out that you were saying "deceased person" and not "diseased person" 😅
Great video! Very spooky
Obvious name for the series of religious specters: Holy Ghosts!
Not bad!
😂
Well, some of them are not so holy ... maybe 'Wholly Ghosts!' ?
I died for a few minutes once and found myself in a non=temporal visionary state where I saw infinite worlds with infinite versions of myself and was given a choice to continue into that infinity or to go back. I chose to come back. If ghosts exist in any way I think they are likely some kind of result of whatever that was. Even though my heart had stopped for minutes it felt like hours and I truly felt like I was in some other world viewing from outside space-time all these various possible worlds zoom past me and through me at the speed of light. Was quite the experience...
Who gave you this choice? Did you see him/it?
Together with Justin Sledge and Angela Puca you are the perfect triptych for my misty autumn afternoon.
Hear hear!
When I was a kid, I had a book called the Very Scary Almanac that contained facts and figures, like the most prolific serial killer, the number of times Dracula and Frankenstein have appeared in movies, etc. The book contained the very same Pliny the Younger ghost story in its pages as an example of one of the earliest of the form. I like the idea that I was reading about both the most morbid of topics, as well as ancient Greek philosophy, as an eight year old😂
Sounds like a great book!
I am Brazilian by birth ( living in the US for many years ) and my country in very spiritual based on the teachings of Alan Kardec and our most famous medium and even seen as a Saint , Chico Xavier . He wrote , inspired by his mentor , Emanuel , more than 500 books and was never found as a charlatan. Actually he was and is adored by helping thousands ( or even millions) of people . 🙏🏻🌹✨🙏🏻
That thumbnail is so spooky Filip, was almost too scared to watch. Great content as always!
•••Movie suggestions•••
I am an art-house cinema geek, so this won't be the usual jump-scare sort of films, it's all older Japanese films, available on Criterion.
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1- Kwaidan
2- Onibaba
3- Empire of Passion (some explicit nudity)
4- Kuroneko
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The Japanese ghost related traditions and folklore is absolutely fascinating I find.
I hope these suggestions can please at least a few people on this community. 😊
Perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon!
While marching in the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village in NYC a few years ago, I took a series of photographs with my cell phone. Upon reviewing the photos, strange anomalies in the form of ghostly faces were plainly visible, a number of whom appeared to be leering. In two of the photos, the anomalies had completely taken over the images, entirely blotting out the costumed revelers that I had been attempting to photograph. There are things that happen that we cannot entirely explain, for sure.
The Egyptian one is similar to what are called bhuta in India, basically spirits who were not given proper burial rites. They also become very associated with the cremation grounds and in certain Tantras there are methods presented to control them
No bhutas are considered to be the spirits of the persons who died unnaturally or lived a sinful life, alongside those who didn't receive a proper funeral.
Interesting! I was just listening to the History of Persia podcast-and under the ancient Persian era around Darius the Great, a big hunk of modern India as well as Egypt were under their control back then, so there was bound to be some blending and mixing of cultures.
Persia and India are incredibly important in history of all kinds, not just religious/spiritual.
This is a strangely relatable video. I have seen some weird stuff that I can't explain but I don't let it get to me. I never expected to encounter this topic here, but I'm glad that you covered it with such an unbiased approach.
Japanese ghost stories sounds good, I have to see that.
This channel has taught me much.
Good plan! We do not know what some of these things are, at all, so it’s best not to engage, let it terrify you, etc. Heck, I’d rather hang out with that ghost from the Ring than have Trump as President with his evil plan. 😂✌️
Japanese ghosts can be very different but in interesting ways.
Spooky-tube, I like it. I definitely tune in for this genre.
It's kinda cute how he struggles to say it
Absolutely adorable
It’s spooky how informative this is!
5:00 I've always had this question with regards to dragons. People will say dragons exist in many cultural stories, but are the various myths (in their original form) really that similar? People will then try to make all sorts of connections as reasons for why "dragons are everywhere." I've considered this especially for the broad categories of Eastern vs Western dragons.
Is it possible that we've tried to connect them together for so long that we've tweaked them a bit in form to make them fit and all be dragons? I think that's the case.
I do not believe multiple areas thought up dragons and that different things grouped with dragons are totally and utterly not similar.
Yes, that's a good point for that discussion as well. This is also one of the biggest criticisms against some forms of Perennialism and Jung, that it only works if we assume that possibly unconnected things are similar because they appear so on the surface, whereas they are often more culturally specific.
Nagas have existed in Hindu culture for thousands of years.
I think a lot of that weird categorising every legendary monster as a dragon, comes from those 90's kids books that described dragon taxonomy. I still find people declaring that wyverns don't have four legs, as if it were a fact, out in the wild even to this day.
Best ghost thumbnail 😍 can haunt me any time 🥹
Wasn't gonna click, but then I saw the channel it was from and changed my mind also I thought when you said deceased, I keep hearing "diseased"...
Thanks for your on going context, informative and entertaining.
I had another video on pause on my divice and went to the other room. Suddenly I heard a familiar voice start talking in the other room... about ghosts. How very apt and spooky 👻🫣. Guess I'm watching this now. Don't mind if I do 😂.
Currently reading Short Ghost Stories anthology and needed a scholar analysis.I throughly enjoyed your video 👻
Kassem G has my favorite video on ghost hunting
My favorite topic. Thanks Filip ❤
Amazing vid! Love the spooky vibes
Love this. I’m also curious about the creepy rituals and lore they referenced in the movie of midsommer.
I really appreciate all your work. Good video
Awesome presentation. keep up the Deconstructing
Hello, I thoroughly enjoyed this video ! Very informative and interesting.
Spiritualism, specially in its French variety (also known as "Kardecism") is still hugely popular in Brazil, where it is highly syncretized with Catholicism. Many popular soap operas and films have been produced based on Kardecist lore and so-called psychographic writing by a very popular medium, Chico Xavier. In Brazilian culture, revenant souls are called "almas penadas" (souls in pain is a possible translation) and a common way to get rid of one is to get a Mass said for them.
It's still popular in the UK too
I honestly really love your videos and find them extremely helpful. I would like to request if possible kindly do more long in-depth series/videos on Eastern religions and traditions especially non Abrahamic.Please also cover eastern philosophers and mystics.Not just major tradition and religion like hindusim and Buddhism but also minor cultural and religious groups.
He has done a number of videos on this region. But yes!
OMG, your thumbnail is Priceless!!! ☀️
Great video, it's fascinating how humans have developed multiple cultures and stories around ghosts across time and space
WE LOVE YOU LET’S TALK RELIGION 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
That thumbnail ghost the cutest in existence.
Ghosts have always fascinated me. I'm not necessarily superstitious, and I believe most proof is phoney. But at the same time I'm always on the lookout for experiences. I've had two in my life, and I'm not sure how real they were.
Same! I had one spooky experience (I was even with someone else who saw it too!) but I don't know what to make of it
Hahaha, it was the Jinn episode that actually got me watching and subbing to this channel. Zero regrets, though I often wish that there was more info on other cultures on the ground beliefs (like Jinn) from the academic POV.
As usual, amazing video! Such an interresting topic. I would love to see a video about Brazilian african-derived religions such as Umbanda, Quimbanda and Candomblé. Spirits of ancestors are an integral part of this religions, such as the ´´Pretos Velhos´´ who are spirits of former enslaved people that come back to share their knologe and help with our problems .
Ghost Brothers was SO GOOFY but I loved it. Constant laughs, if you're looking for something ghost related that'll have you rolling look it up
Yep, that was my fave, hands down.
I've always thought ghost stories can give something of a unique insight into a culture because their use in frightening kids into acting in certain ways makes them quickly become extremely localized to the specific needs of the storyteller. I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the La Llorona story is pervasive there, not only because of the strong influence of Mexican culture on the region, but because the whole city is criss crossed with arroyos built to drain water from the nearby mountains. Some rain at the crest can send a wall of water crashing down a totally empty arroyo at any second and every year there are kids who drown playing in them, so every parent tells their kids that La Llorona is commonly sighted specifically around their local drainage ditch to keep their kids away from it. My brother and I saw a kid almost get swept away in one of these ditches when I was young so my parents didn't need ghost stories to deter us from the arroyos, but my dad had his own version of the story intended to keep us from wandering around the lake where we went camping at night, that claimed that this was actually the lake where La Llorona drowned her kids, complete with the detail that the old monastery nearby was built specifically in response to all the spooky happenings around this lake after the drownings. You go to any random neighborhood where the La Llorona story is told and you will hear a slightly different version, depending on what the most dangerous local body of water is. Ghost stories are kind of unique in this way, being tailored specifically to whatever the local population is scared of in a way that makes them especially interesting windows into the specific anxieties of a region, people, or even just a single family.
As always worth watching and learning from this channel. Happy Halloween and Day of the Dead on first of November. Always watch Dr Sledge also.
I grew up experiencing paranormal and paradoxes most of my life. Explaining the context of my life tho is a mess and a half that normally gets misinterpreted....but I am always seeking answers and piecing together concepts on how the metaphysical all really works.
If a single hyper-dimensional entity has the capability of phasing in and out of my reality and able to both warp the circumstances or perceptions of that reality...just imagine the ramifications of that form of manipulation on a global scale....We would literally be living in a massive petri dish where they could tamper the sample of life in which we are experiencing......but also I hard speculate in multiverse theory...could we be the ones phasing between parallel realities? Creating subtle mandela effects while entities going the opposite flow in time and space could be perceived differently? Even within the forms of matter? Could death be the horizon and not the end? Could there be different variants of reality in which we're constantly shifting between while the base matter remains within the cognitive system of each reality automated to the articulation of how being comes into those realities?
Think about dreams....and memory....we always come to self realization in the middle of events a dream (or at least I do) and that's how I came into realization when I was a child...trailed off from elsewhere.....I don't believe I was "starting out" as a new being rather being acclimated to my current form of being...so in a sense reincarnation from either other realities or previously this one forwards or backwards in time...speaking of....if time is even linear (which I don't think it is as more anomalies occur in my life to make me question everything). Could life be just a macrocosm of dreams (life as a whole) filled with a microcosm of dreams (the dreams themselves within life)? I've definitely experienced some very vivid and archetypal and prominent dreams that have left huge impressions on my entire life, some of which have been tied to sleep paralysis and paranormal, but I often wonder if the dream realm is a separate place and time or a re-connection to past/future lives of an eternal presence?
Either way, I refuse to believe it's all in my head. Whether it be the time dilation, witnessing ghosts and poltergeist activity with witnesses, sleep paralysis, seeing the space between space and hearing sounds between sounds, seeing a UFO one time....nothing is ever as it seems....because there's more beyond the enfolding of reality's seams...if I can only just see beyond and find the clarity to pass between these realms seamlessly can I find the meaning of it all (I'd say life but this goes beyond life). I also refuse to believe I have a materialist disorder like schizophrenia that's causing this. It's all caused from external sources unless the truth is solipsistic, where the external reality would then technically all be internal.
I absolutely love how Athenodores has the swagger to be like "Hold that thought, I'll be with you in a moment", while the ghost rattles its chains like "Let's go, I ain't got all night bro!"
The Spooky Truth 🤷🏻♀️😁💯
33:30 It sounds like you’re trying to back out of Religiontube Goes Ghosthunting :( lol
Great video! I really want to do a hungry ghost festival now
I'm glad for your videos .. god made you for me , Thanks Felix !
I really love Shocktober on your channel, even though I do not really celebrate Haloween
Nice, complete video! Thumbnail helped me convince a friend that it wasn't "spooky"
12:00 I once played the ghost of Odysseus' father in a children's community theater play lol
Do ghosts, if they exist, have lifespans? In all the stories ghosts we encounter are relatively modern, from the 1800s at the farthest. Yet we never see ghost of a Gaelic tribesman, a pre-Columbian native American, or Egyptian peasant even though they existed far before us
Anatomically modern humans have existed for 80 000 years. Out entire known history is just a tiny sliver of that time. If we assume that rate of ghosts occuring stays the same throughout the years, then over 99% of ghosts existing should be of paleolithic hunter gatherers. Yet we never see those?
There was a famous sighting of a whole troop of ghostly Roman soldiers in York in around the 1960s, which was founded by the Romans
Arabs believed that a person who's been killed, his soul shapes into a bird like figure and keeps hovering over his body and screaming "اسقوني" which means "give me water" or a more general meaning "give me that which satisfies my thirst" in this context it refers to the blood of that persons murderer, basically it keeps hovering over the dead body until revenge is taken, this form of the soul is called "هامة" "hamah"
32:41 Ah! Houdini! Love him! He broke up a lot of awful scammers abusing folks in mourning.❤
Me: Listening to this before bed is a BRILLIANT idea!
Narrator: It was not a brilliant idea.
Spooky season!
"Egyptians believed that the most important thing you could do in your life was die"
Thank you!
Not watched all this yet and you might get onto it,but in Shakespeare's day I think ghosts were generally seen as spirits from Purgatory, I don't think those in Heaven or Hell would usually come back.
👻 From me and the ghost that is supposed to haunt my building according to several tenants, thank you!
A strange example is in the Old Testament where a witch summons up the prophet Samuel's spirit from the Underworld, which seems to contradict some OT passages suggestive of there being no continued existence after death.
What is the image at 22:30? The image choices are incredibly good on this channel, but this one especially!
I confused this with a internet historian video lol, still watched 😅
" Ghosts.
**GhoOoooOooOosTsss**
What *is* ghosts..?
Is **this** ghosts?.."
Haha, Filip (Lets talk religion) Ain't the same my man!
Ghosts are one of the most fascinating ways cultures express their collective fears, hopes, and unresolved questions about death. It's amazing how different societies interpret these supernatural beings - from vengeful spirits seeking justice to souls just trying to find peace. Ancient Egypt's focus on the *ka* and *ba* highlights how even thousands of years ago, people believed that death was complex and required respect, which is something we tend to gloss over in today's fast-paced world. Modern ghost culture, though more commercialized, still taps into deep, primal fears about what happens after we die. Maybe ghosts are how we keep the mystery alive.
Well @esoterica should for sure call his eso-scare-ica
I was asking my friend a couple days ago about ghost history and what religions or cultures had them
I love it!
Ka is a wheel. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Ghost seem pretty quaint anymore
@31:33 Toasts to the toe knuckle synovial fluid
No subsaharan african ghosts? Don't know why I was expecting to hear about one of those in this video. But the video was sufficiently researched.
That thumbnail almost gave me a heart attack, man. Very irresponsible of you to be posting such spookiness.
Name suggestion: The Ghosts of God. Would also make a pretty good band name, lol
The name for this series should be the Weird Season.
hey filip when are you gonna do a new q&a livestream?
I was looking forward for a mention of Zhong Kui, daoist deity that exorcises ghosts and controlls 80,000 demons
Filiiiipppp 👻👻👻 ❤❤
I'm watching this in a house where I've had a couple of paranormal experiences...
Not the smartest thing lmao
My kids are going to see that thumbnail and watch this 😂
Now you gotta do goblins
Clicked solely for the thumbnail.
Great video. But why the video of the wolf/dog?
He sounds like Pelie from Midsummar 🖤
I liked the previous thumbnail more 😅🤣🤣
SpookyTube
"What's Under the Bed? With Filip Holm" 🤔🤷♂️
"Witches & Ouijas" ? 😆
Bishop William Montgomery Brown [in ghost form] has some interesting comments re: that of Spirit vs soul, and what being a ghost means re: his work as a Catholic Priest....
at this point in his existence. [Not your average 'evp']
Seek - and ye shall find, my friends.
Happy Halloween!
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While you quickly explained the Church's position on ghosts, I find it a bit underwhelming that you only glossed over the islamic world, and did not even mention anything about judaism (ancient and / or rabbinic). The fact that these traditions are so old and possibly going back to ancient Mesopotamia means that religious authorities probably had to deal with such stories.
The American Haunting uses these techniques to explain the pioneers and colonists witch hunt style issues withing history. Remembering what has happened during the change of freedom of worship and building of the United States.
Please make a video on satan and witches
Heck yeah, I love ghosts. On the trinity, I specificly remember a point in my childhood where almost all the adults arround me switched from saying "amd rhe holy ghost," at the bottom of the bottom when making the sign of the cross, to, "and the holy spirit." I really don't know if there was a concerted push in the American Roman church to switch from the Germanic ghost to the Romantic spirit in the 80s, or if it was local to my parosh, or if it's just my distorted memory and it has more to do with my parents just deciding to become more active in the church late in my childhood and I was merely noticing a cultural change from my initial non demonmennational loose America Christianity, to the liturgy of the Latin Church. Heh, it just sticks in my memory, the change of terms.
My take aways are that belief in ghosts aren't even consistent around the world. Some places see them as spirits of the dead, while other people consider them demons, some cultures have hundreds of ghosts, and others don't believe humans return to this world as ghosts. Ghost hunters never explain this because they usually come from the west which has a strong history of believing in ghosts. Also consider the belief that remembering your ancestors keeps them at peace- shouldn't we then see less reports of hauntings from these places? I have a feeling that paranormal activity correlates with belief in the paranormal.
The leads me to my second take away: culture has a strong influence on what people believe about ghosts. The spiritualism movement already demonstrates this but so do movies and the internet. People end up believing it so much that they assert it as evidence for the supernatural. Why don't people find this odd how ghosts often just happen to act the same way they expect them to? It just doesn't add up.
If it wasn't obvious, I am a skeptic, but I'm also a fantasy writer. My story has magic, ghosts, gods, and other supernatural creatures. Currently, I'm researching ghosts to decide what I want them to be like in my story. All I have in mind right now is that like many cultures, the people in my world give offerings to their dead relatives. In fact, respecting burial sites is an important value. There's still more I need to figure out. I might take inspiration from Chinese and Japanese beliefs and have it possible for spirits to become different types of ghosts.
A video about Ahmadiyya please?
I like Spooky Tube
Clearly the best working title is BooTube
if you have ghosts, you have everything
Shit gets WILD! Never would've believed it had I not dug and dug, absolutely refusing to 'spit it out'... alotta liars out there though is the thing. Certainly easy to see why people think it's total bulls__t honestly. A very, very subtle & seamlessly integrated layer of reality...
I think ghost stories are more universal than any established theologies 😂 ghosts are seemingly everywhere
GIVE US BACK THE OLD THUMBNAIL
No the thumbnail old thumbnail of spooky dog has been replaced