This is very important. Strange things happen, and while some may ascribe them to the paranormal, that doesn't mean that people who do so should be ignored by science. Their claims should be investigated because there is often a very real, scientific answer. When we investigate, we can find new things, expand our knowledge, and even save lives. I'm still working on a write-up of my hypothesis on why some people see shadow people while ostensibly fully awake (which I'll be posting on my Insomnia Insanity blog soon), but that is a perfect example of a thing that many people experience that (I believe) has a perfectly logical answer. Yet scientists refuse to investigate because it sounds like paranormal quackery. When we close our minds, we are closing the door on important discoveries.
one day i was working out in the country, kneeling down and facing NW. All of a sudden, i had a feeling, stood up and spun around to the SE to see a bear standing up about 1/8 mile away looking at me. for a long time i didn't know what i'd "sensed" and my brain made up various strange explanations whenever i thought about it. watching a nature video one even, i realized that the bear had made a low noise which my brain had picked up but not sent back to me as something to hear. viola, science wins again
Jaimes I would argue that consciousness is real, so conscious perception is real, and part of objective reality, and therefore ALWAYS has an explanation.
*Troll confiável* I may well be wrong here, but I think the point he was making was about looking beyond the verifiable to move forward. We still don’t have proof for all our theories, (though we have very solid scientific reasons for theorising them.) Ghosts, maybe not so much. Scientists take their careers more seriously now than in the days of natural philosophers.
@@orthedraespiders9278 the problem is that science _cannot_ study the unverifiable It wouldn't be science We're trying this for a long time already and it simply does not work
*Troll confiável* Indeed. What I was trying to say (badly), was that verification follows the theory so we may be thinking ourselves into a loop by only daring to theorise what we are certain we are able to prove. But as you say no proof, no science. We can’t be throwing wild theories out there that don’t have some grounding in confirmed reality and laws that bind it or they’d just be fantasies. Unless there’s a whole part of reality that’s completely eluded us. In which case, it’s pretty useless to us right now.
This reminded me of years ago when I used to think there was a ghost in the house because strange things would happen that I couldn't explain at the time. One of those things was a window breaking from the inside when there was nobody in that room at the time. A few years later it happened again but this time I was literally inches away from the window and fortunately not hurt, although I had to carefully remove pieces of broken glass from my clothes and hair. This time Google had actually become useful so I googled windows breaking spontaneously and learned that this was actually due to the forces on the glass from the shape of the window and the temperature difference between the inside and the outside (it was the middle of winter and the window was next to the boiler). It was a relief to have a proper explanation that made sense and not attribute it to a ghost. Also, knowing what really caused the windows to break meant I could replace them with ones better suited to the conditions. I also found out that the other weird unexplained events were down to my husband moving my things and then lying that he'd never touched them. He came clean about it after I told him the real reason for the windows breaking when he knew that I no longer believed there was a ghost in the house.
Smart people always FIRST go through a checklist of rational, logical, possible explanations for how something unexpected or odd happens BEFORE assuming it's paranormal, or a ghost. Much of what happens in the natural world, is, on it's own, kind of miraculous really; and often we simply don't know enough to describe how an event happens w/ our current knowledge base and need to do a little fact finding as you did on the windows breaking. (which is fairly odd really. I have lived in some very old houses and never saw a window break like that). That said! When you REALLY encounter a real ghost and you spend the first few minutes racking your rational brain for every possible explanation and meanwhile the other 50% of you is freaking out because in your gut and mind you know what you saw and heard COUKLD NOT HAVE NORMALLY HAPPENED AT ALL...THEN...you will believe. Trust me. From the first minute of the video I started thinking w/ her symptoms that maybe she needed to see a DOCTOR not a psychic. But I have studied biology and a little medicine in college so there's that. But I also lived in a for real haunted house back in college a long time ago. Terrifying.
Ironically it was her initial belief in ghosts that prompted her to contact the group who advised her. Therefore her belief in ghosts is what actually saved her life!
Or...... If she hadn't put her symptoms down to ghosts, she would have gone to the doctor, the doctor would have wanted to rule out gas poisoning. Belief in paranornal was time consuming and visiting the forum was an extra step to the gas company.
We don't believe in because of evidence -> We have got the evidence which tells us that it's false, so we don't believe it. We believe in because of lack of evidence -> We don't have evidence to tell us that it's false, so we continue to believe in it.
There really is an astounding amount of evidence. People just think everything is fake thanks to the internet. I have a massive collection of pictures and videos on a CD around here before the days of photoshop and all that crap. Even sent them and my camera to the company to have them look over everything to explain the pics. All 3 shifts of Tech's and camera repair people couldnt explain one picture I had. They deemed them 100% real. No camera malfunctions of any type. Negatives(for u young ones negatives are how u prove legit or not) nothing explainable. The friends of mine that are skeptics tried telling me its a pin hole in the camera, faked in deveolping blah blah. Thats when i showed them the certfied letters from all the staff that all was well. Skeptics are really just closed minded people and cannot wrap their heads around it until it happens to them.
Back in the day, a good friend knew a girl living in her late grandmother's house who swore there was something breathing in the hall. She got more & more freaked out & even used a Folger's can as a chamber pot rather than leave her bedroom at night. My friend paid a visit and discovered that yes, there WAS something breathing in the hall. The house was (obviously) old and drafty; the hallway was papered w antique cheesecloth-backed wallpaper, which had loosened over time. Gust of wind= expanded wallpaper. Wind stops = :::sigh::: as the paper returns to the wall. Handful of nails + a hammer = no more ghosts.
I think the anecdote at the start was actually a decent rhetorical device because it sounded exactly like a "believer" but twisted to have a counterintuitive but reasonable explanation. It's more effective for making the point that science can explain the seemingly unknown than just simply stating it. Overall, the talk was a bit wayward but a fair point no doubt.
@@KennyRider137 unexplained cases are unexplained because people want to believe that they experienced something supernatural, and because they don't want to invest the time and maybe money to investigate
+Bernd Wolff recreate the Roger Patterson film of the alleged Bigfoot creature with all the anatomical detail. That is not a case of wanting to believe. It's a case of visual evidence that borders on completely unexplainable. It is an unexplainable case that is documented on film for all to see. It is ready and waiting for the scientists to explain any day now... still waiting. So, no, ten out of ten cases are not explainable.
So... there I was back in the mid nineties... taking a break from school... working as a rent-a-cop for a buck over min wage, when I was assigned to look after "a creepy old... decommissioned hospital... " the guard I was replacing (just one guard for the whole hospital and its 3 out buildings) told me "not much happens around here... but every now and then the "Elevators" will move up and down... stopping at floors... all by themselves." I was intrigued (but knew why this happened. ) I didn't say anything... I did my patrols, used the elevators to go up... and the stairs to come down... sure enough, every so often an elevator would "drop a floor... all by itself." (Insert "spooky sound effects here!") I was unfazed (didn't mention my subject of study was electrical engineering...) you see, the high voltage lines that power the elevator motor, first connect to a "power supply" board then the "motor control panel." On the power supply board are large capacitors, these capacitors are capable of storing a "large" charge for a period of time, as the capacitors "discharge," through the motor control circuit... the elevator will move down a floor... and open it's doors... (all by itself) the capacitors are now drained and the energy has dissipated. (For electrical safety... always drain off the capacitors by unplugging the power source then activating the load (switching it on and dissipating whatever current remains in the circuit) before working on the equipment... even a relatively small capacitor can store enough charge to kill a person.) Mystery solved...
I like this comments because it debunks while also having room for error and humility. my second favorite is the follow up comment because the words "my dude" and "capacitors storage" is the ghost. thank yall, love it
I used to be an engineer in my fathers capacitor factory, I and my father, an electrical engineer built many circuits and things including a television and a hovercraft from Heath-kits growing up. Capacitors are generally used to turn alternating current motors with a direct current charge upon circuit close activation thereby extending motor life while accelerating startup torque. They would not be discharging in an open circuit, unactivated by the relay array behind a control button panel. The kinetic energy of pushing a momentary switch, closing a relay circuit is required, thus activating the relay array, thus activating high voltage AC motors, which is the only place any high capacity capacitors are existent before the motors 3 leads are, on one side for clockwise rotation and a second capacitor on the other side of the 3 leads (live, live, and common ground), for counter-clockwise rotation. Your "power board" motif is pretty ridiculous considering all boards (integrated circuits) are essentially "powered". It only matters which levels of voltage, amperage and generally alternating and direct current, said boards are, most usually in order of DC, microamps, to AC, high voltage high amperage as in the needs of the kinetic energy required to elevate any 800 pound capacity lift or more within a structure. The only other capacitors are micro-ampule units within the relay arrays. A relay is a powered timed switch, much like an analog transistor. None of these circuits would discharge their capacitors whatsoever without the activation of firstly a momentary switch, a transistor (or microchip, depending on the age of the circuitry), then a relay and a motor and more relays and servos with sensor switches to end cycling thereby stopping on a particular floor and opening the doors. Bottom line dude, capacitors don't just discharge and turn motors man.
This reminds me of when my boss never never understood why i pushed the up button if we were going down even though theres only 12 floors and we were on the 11th
AAAnyway, I am watching this video and just shaking my head the whole time... Left, right, left, right, left... I feel you, Mr. random cameraman. Great talk btw.
This would be nice but lhey don't want to waste their time with idiots :( , either mental health issues or home is falling apart internally(use home contractor handy man to fix stuff which is expensive).
@Deal Negrasse Bison when people talk about a gas leak they mean fossil gas which is highly flammable (and that's the reason why it's used for cooking and heating). So yeah, people doing a sage smudging ritual to get rid of ghosts when they actually had a gas leak is very dangerous.
@@glam0r0us Many cultures have used smoke from burning herbs and plants to ceremonially cleanse a space. Some Native American groups use sage for this purpose.
I lived in a haunted house in the past. One night, my brother and i were watching tv downstairs in the living room, it was around 11 Pm when all of the sudden we heard a door upstairs open and heard footsteps of someone coming down the hall then walking down the stairs. We thought it was one of our parents coming down to tell us to go to bed but when the person arrived at the bottom of the stairs the footsteps stopped all of the sudden, we looked at each other like what is going on, we sat there looking at the living room door for like 30 seconds when we decided to go take a look. When we got there we saw that nobody was there, so we decided to go up the stairs and that's when we discovered our bedroom door wide open. We looked at each other like we knew what was going on but didn't want to say anything because we didn't want to believe it. The next day we went to see my parents to ask them if they woke up at that time of the night but they both said no, my brother had tears in his eyes and i was shaking in disbelief so my mom asked us what was going on so we told her what happened. What puzzled me is that when we told her about it she didn't look surprised at all or shocked like she knew something about it but din't want to tell us, she just looked at us and said to not worry about it. Twelve years latter when we were living now in another country, my mom told us that the house we lived in was actually haunted. She used to see the same old man in her dreams with bright eyes screaming at her to get out of his house, and when she was home alone she could hear doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps. One day she was in her bedroom and heard someone walking downstairs but my dad, my brother and i had just left the house for school, so she thought one of us came back because we forgot something so she came down and found nobody. My dad was aware of that problem and they decided to not tell us anything about it even if we were already aware that something wasn't right, until they find the funds to get out of there, we only stayed like 11 months in that house.. she sais she waited so long to tell us about it because that experience terrified her. I don't know about science, but all i know is that it tries to bring answers to every questions but saying that paranormal isn't real? Were my brother and i crazy? was my mom and dad crazy? Why did it just happened in that specific house, where it's previous owner and builder died in it? I'm sorry but she's wrong, whe don't even have answers to the bigest mysteries that whe know, our brain, our oceans, our forest, and so on, so science cannot explain everything, even paranormal. Why are every of thoses scientist afraid to go to amityville to that famous horror house? They know what they are going to find there that's why.
Please consider that you do not have an explanation for what you imagined; it is nothing more than your story. Informed people know numerous things about brains, oceans, and forests. That you believe scientists are afraid to enter some place does not make what you think is true.
i love the oh no ross and carrie podcast. they combine rational thought with respectful engagement with the human beings making wild claims, treating people with various unproven/unprovable beliefs as intellectual equals in a way that i don't see nearly often enough.
i''m a scientist and I can explain most paranormal experiences, but there are some cases that I cannot easily explain. I just say, "I don't know." Just because we can't explain something doesn't mean there is no answer. We just haven't reached that point of understanding or knowing yet.
She has a fun podcast called "Oh No Ross and Carrie". They investigate religions, paranormal, pseudoscience, ... IRL. They don't just read about it on the internet. They've actually joined churches for research.
Kyle Sfhandyman I used to do that in high school. I joined too many churches, too many different religions that I lost track of how many and which ones I have joined, and I did it all for personal research. It was fun. Helped me be more open-minded
She believes that science can logically explain the mysterious, but that also you can still be open minded about believes!! I wholeheartedly agree with her!!
Me reading the comment section... 99% of comments "Watch the video before commenting". 1% of the comments actually people who commented before watching the video.
I dunno about you, but if I was caught out leaving stupid comments before watching the video, I'd come back and delete them. Those that aren't deleted are much less likely to get thumbed up too, which means they fall to the bottom of this very long list of comments where very few people will ever see them.
Exactly. You can't formulate a valid argument if you watched two minutes and decided on what you thought. The way she starts is a bit misleading. If you're not going to finish the video, don't bother whining about it in the comments.
Jonny Pepperston, maybe a little furry mouse caused the gasleak, and the mouse was also watching her! I mean, her two symptoms (having chest pains and randomly feeling like you're being watched) really isn't enough to count towards "paranormal" experiences with ghosts or evil spirits anyway.
Okay I am a huuuge skeptic of the paranormal, and I am fully on board with what she's saying, but I really wish I had found a decent explanation for people feeling like they're being grabbed, pulled, pushed, tugged, etc. I was at a "haunted" prison once, and I brazenly strode into a dark room alone (being a huge skeptic), and proceeded to get pulled back by my collar by... something? For a split second. And I bolted out the room. I immediately turned around and went back in to see if there was a hook or something hanging from the ceiling (idk prisons are weird), and there was nothing in there. Does anybody know of why this kind of sensation might happen?
Was the shirt you were wearing or jacket even, did it have a loose thread? If it did you or someone else could’ve easily stepped on it depending on how long that thread was it could’ve also gotten stuck in a door or around something. Alternatively assuming you were there with friends, did any of them pat you on the back or touch you at all. If they believe and you don’t or possibly just for the fun of it it could have honestly been a prank by them. I.E tape some string or something small and unnoticeable onto your back and then yank it at some point to scare you. Was the abandoned prison lived it and I don’t mean by people. I mean like wild life. A sizable bug or bird or bat could have grabbed the back of your collar briefly, maybe you had a bug or something on you that they can eat. If your jackets long enough (like a trench coat) you could easily step on your own tail coats with the back of your heel. And not know because you can’t see. These are all I got. Also, while I don’t think this specific case was a hallucination. I would like to inform getting or feeling pulled or pushed in itself can still qualify as a hallucination. The brain is a bit too powerful for its own good and in many cases you can feel like something is happening or has happened and if you truly believe it the brain will have the body react accordingly. Examples of this is when someone has a dream that they are falling. When they hit the ground they’ll either wake up scared or their flailing will lead them to getting woken by someone else or falling off the bed. (Not always but about 60 40 Ps: It’s when someone gets a scar from a ghost that peaks my interest.
_THIS_ is how to start a lecture. I wish everyone giving one would watch it. Most people begin by listing their credentials and accomplishments, and the places where they've traveled. And minutes later, after they're already lost their audience, they start with their story, or the topic of their discussion.
This was a very good talk, thank you! I too once believed in some paranormal phenomenon. Only though vast amounts of information proving the very opposite did I see the general psychological and scientific patterns behind it all. Had I talked to myself as a teen, I could never have convinced myself in just one discussion that my views were not representing the situation realistically. Only through overwhelming and satisfactory evidence can we change big parts of ourselves fully. That is why respect is important in these conversations, if your goal is to convince the other person. However, if there is no will to establish a personal relation, I guess there is no need to be gentle. Then providing the evidence bluntly might be sufficient.
@epicbunty Jesus is a fact, in regards to the man living. There is historical data proving such. It is the religious aspect which would be the non fact and be the inner truth.
vvkingavv Of course Jesus is real. The Hispanics have been around for a very long time. Even the ancient Greeks knew Jesus was real because they would say, *"HEY ZEUS!" when they would want to talk to them.
I can feel you. There are times when our intuition or gut feeling can provide valuable insights that our rational minds might miss. Lucky you for having that open-minded friend.
Paulsicles From Rudolph the RRR right? OMG That is some serious funny! I kept thinking 'Why is she wearing an ancient Norweigan cobbler's outfit!' - and the elfs are cobblers! LOL It really is that exact one from the show too. LOL I miss everybody watching the same things during holiday, in UK and US, alike. Simpler times were far better times, full stop.
Carbon mon. detector wouldn't have helped, you need a natural gas detector. anyway i worked at a haunted mansion in Georgia, we always looked for the scientific reasons, but a bright blue glowing orb flying over our heads was a bit much
Kartos lemme introduce you to something in nature called the firefly who fell into a bucket of blue food coloring.... Or you were on LSD whichever seems more realistic
I work I the mines we work around CO all the time. I've never had a experience of the paranormal at work. I've had some I my own home with no gas at all. I believe there may be a scientific reason behind what I've experienced but until I can work it out ghosts are mad real
And then a debunker shows up and explains that it was a swarm of fireflies piggybacking on a hummingbird. The hummingbird is blue and that's why when the fireflies all simultaneously illuminate it creates the illusion of a blue orb. Then the debunker jumps up and down, claps wildly, and says, "Yes!! I debunked it!" Then she goes up on stage and proudly declares that science wins ten out of ten times. This is how debunkers work.
i think paranormal stuff is imagination. i stopped having paranormal encounters in my 150 y/o house right around the time i started questioning whether paranormal activity is a real thing
I'm a lover of science, but there are aspects of reality which we don't fully understand. I think there are some things that you will believe to be impossible, until the moment you experience them.
great video. i love her unbiased approach. yes spiritual ideas might not be true but until we prove that, there is always the possibility a spirit realm does exist.
I used to be a member of a paranormal investigation group in the early 2000s. I think she's right with a lot of what she says. These phenomena should be investigated scientifically and with a healthy skepticism, but in my experience there were about 10% of cases that we couldn't explain. Even in those cases we didn't necessarily use the word "ghost" to explain what was happening we would say that the phenomena appears to be "paranormal" (above the normal).
She is closed minded… she personally did not experience it.. so it doesn’t exist. Your statement is spot on… we investigate, debunk and explain away much of the noise… but not all of it.
29loot, that wasn't quite fair; Sara's position isn't that contradictory. Not every "haunting" can be explained by CO poisoning and the TED speaker herself is still holding some hope to find a spirit. Just like with Bigfoot, Nessy, alien abductions and God, people hold on to such ideas without solid evidence because some things are hard to explain and a lack of evidence isn't solid proof of non-existence. And it's fun or even inspiring to entertain such ideas, even if a bit foolish.
I wouldn’t put God in the same category as those others, because the others would still be part of contengent reality, whereas God would be categorically different from/apart from/independent of/unaffected by said reality. Of the aforementioned finite beings, I would say “aliens” would be the most plausible, insofar as there must be other advanced sapient life in the universe. That said, two points: I’ve yet to see any compelling evidence that “they” have visited us. And, of course, from their perspective, we would be the “aliens.”
mytmouse57, I get your point and pretty much agree with you on the aliens. As for God being independent and apart from reality, I know I'm misinterpreting your intent, but the words sound like an assertion that he's not real. As much as people try to prove God's existence or dismiss the need for evidence by simply claiming that he's the exception to every rule for evidence we can name, I have to say that I find even your intended argument pretty unsatisfactory. It comes down to a choice. Do I believe in the Ultimate Simultaneous Exception to Everything without any evidence or not? As for me, I find it a reasonable hypothesis that non-permanent matter came from something permanent because infinite causal regression of non-permanent matter SEEMS absurd, making an exception a reasonable possibility. Anything beyond that concerning the nature of God, however, is just a belief, severely lacking in evidence. As long as we are referring to an omniscient, omnipotent being who cares about us personally, or especially a personal savior from a specific book, I actually think categorizing him/her/it with Nessy is a bit generous of me.
Oh this is Carrie Poppy? She’s the co-host of Oh No, Ross and Carrie! It’s a podcast where they do investigations about fringe science and the paranormal. It’s very fun to listen to.
If Scooby Doo taught us anything, it's that the so-called ghosts would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky kids! Great job. I started listening to Carrie and Ross' podcast about a month ago, and I have really enjoyed catching up on old episodes.
That's why science is never ending. Search for the truth keeps going on. As long as such "ghosts" are not found to be an objective truth using scientific methods, it is not right to claim that ghosts do exist. The more the cause for these cases are found to be something else other than ghosts, the more it backs to the fact that ghosts aren't real. You are ignoring the fact that this video is just one of thousands of such cases for which ghosts have been practically ruled out to be the cause.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but you cannot argue with people who don't believe in ghosts. On the other hand, you cannot convince someone who has experienced the paranormal that they are not real. It's blatantly obvious that not everyone has the capability or gift to see ghosts.
Melancholic not being sarcastic just saying what I think- but ye I totally agree it’s one of those things that can’t be proven or disproven so there’s no point in people arguing over it In regards to the having the gift to see things like that I also agree- I went to my church when I was younger and the elders there said I had the spiritual gift of discernment Which basically meant I’m hypersensitive to the spiritual realm- if that even exists
@@melancholic8566 Best reply ever....For sure it is between those WHO HAVE experienced the ghost vs those HAVE NOT experienced. The HAVE NOT become scholars and scientists in front of WHO HAVE.........I have earned post graduation degree in Chemistry, Economics & Business and now studying engineering on my own. But i am included among WHO HAVE experienced the ghost without any doubt. Only few convinced. Its not a science but sight of something that we normally not see around us.
I also experienced what you may describe as paranormal. This word should be disinvented. Even the word science lost most of its true meaning since it's been misused so much. Paranormal is simply something that our senses cannot explain - or worse - give it the wrong explanation. So paranormal should really be replaced by something like 'I cannot explain it but there must be an explanation for it that I personally don't know about at the current time'. As for science, maybe we should rebrand it as pre-science. Way too much guesswork and silly analogies.
My family went through extreme poltergeist activity back in the 70's when we were living at 1723 Downing Street in Greensboro North Carolina. Our family was close and affectionate and was made up of my husband, myself, our son and daughter and our beloved family dog. The house in question was built in 1965 and we were the first family there but indeed, it was built over what had been a lake and there were underground springs and creeks all around us with moving water. I mention that as It is my understanding that this is commonly reported in many poltergeist cases. When I first moved in my kids were like 5 and 1 years old and I did have a few odd experiences like smelling perfume in the house that was odd smelling that nobody wore. There were also feelings of having something rapidly coming up behind one and feeling not so much as evil but high weirdness of something very old and completely non-human. The feeling of feeling one was being watched was a common experience. Not far away behind our house was a graveyard but we dismissed the idea of ghosts as not much happened for several years till my daughter and son grew up. Before the real explosion of poltergeist activity the woods behind our house and leading to the graveyard was a place my son and many of the kids enjoyed playing at. At the time, it was not seen odd as none of us thought in anyway that a graveyard could be a concern. When my daughter was about 16 and my son was about 12 we had a the first big amounts l of poltergeist activity in our home for several months. It started first with my daughter who had a seance with her friends for her 16 birthday. Soon after that she had objects fly off her walls and she would find at times at night having weird experiences like waking to find her hand being held by a small withered hand or hearing a loud bang on the wall. I experienced the most terrifying experience of being awakened at about 2am to my foot being shaken - I could feet the hands around my ankle and I remembered yelling out 'Jesus save me' and about two seconds later my husband sleeping beside me awoke as well. The light was flicked on and the room was empty. I was 100% sure I was not dreaming. The seance my daughter and her friends did was something she and her friends did on their own as a joke - it was not something that was routine or approved of in our home but soon after this the weirdness was manifest. Strong gust of wind would sometimes come from nowhere and blow through the house. Though experiences could happen anytime of day, I would say 90% of the time the activity happened at night from between Midnight and 3am. If I were to venture a guess, the entry point or portal was located in a closet space shared by my son's and sisters room as the doors of the closet would sometimes open on their own during manifestations in our home. It got to the point that my son would tie a belt around his closet door handles before going to bed at night - of course this didn't stop the trouble but it made him feel better that the closet door remained closed at night. The sound of heavy objects falling and breaking glass occurred in other rooms but when observed nothing was to be seen.However, the focus shifted from her very quickly to completely focus on my 12 year old son. It is hard to describe all the evens from slamming doors, sheets being yanked off beds, shaking beds , flickering lights and all of us being awakened at night by having a hand shake one awake or messing with ones feet or bed coverings. Even stranger was the experience my son had was after being awakened by a shaking bed he sat up and flicked on the light and then felt something invisible, big and heavy bound into the bed next to him that knocked him over and then was just as quickly gone. That incident was the one my son reported as most freaking him out was that experience. He described it like being on the bed and imagining if a huge obese invisible man were to jump into bed with you and then vanish - all happening in about 3 seconds. We were not alone in all of this -The family dog was pretty freaked out when this would happen and he would bark and growl at unseen presences but usually acted very afraid and was eager to be outside the house than inside it. Most of the poltergeist activities it seemed to happen during my sons REM sleep when his bed would shake so we think his unconscious was letting lose. Of course, many, perhaps half of the activity was not the 1am to 3am variety but would happen in the middle of the day as well. When the bed shaking occurred my husband and I would get up and go into his bedroom and see him asleep with the bed go back and forth. At first my husband and I took it to be completely demonic opened up by the silly teenage seance my daughter had engaged in but the psychological aspects could not be missed as well. My son was hyperactive and on Ritalin.The Ritalin helped him focus like a stimulate but it had a side effect of stunted growth to the degree he was behind normal physical growth and development by a full year. We thought perhaps the Ritalin might had been affecting his CNS but it appeared it was the bed moving him - not the other way around. In short, there was probably something in that house from the time we moved in but our son was clearly the battery that caused things to go crazy when he became of age. We had a Catholic priest come bless the home, this did work but it only knocked off the activity for about 10 days before it started up again. The priest was very enlightened and told us that though demons do sometimes wreck homes what we had was likely a poltergeist which is basically a demon 3rd class on assignment for a short trial period and could steal energy from anything from a fight in a home or pent up libido. The priest asked each of us if we had done anything like play with Tarot cards, used a Ouija Board, drug use, seances or any serious moral violations. I mentioned the seance my daughter and her friends had done and my son's horror comic collection. The priest nodded and smiled at my son and told him throw them in the trash which he did somewhat reluctantly. He advised my daughter no more seances and for all of us all to relax more, laugh more and pray more and make the 'the house light'. He told us poltergeist are affected by blessing but unless they are done weekly they will keep coming back so the best solutions lay with our family as he didn't have time to come by each week to bless the home. One funny bit of symbolism that I did not catch to many months later was the poltergeist at the first part of it's manifestation did so while we were eating dinner. We were all around the table and talking and laughing and my son had a tall glass of milk in front of him in a tall glass and it suddenly exploded. Nobody was hurt by the glass but the milk went straight up in a crazy manner all over the ceiling till it rained down on all of us. The symbolism of this pent up energy is kind of clear. It might be the case that the Ritalin that had stunted his growth might have built up huge levels of energy as my son told me years later he didn't get his first wet dream till he was 14 which bothered him as all his friends had gotten them by 13 years old . My husband had told him not to worry about it and nature had it's own time for him. Of course there is a problem with that theory as well as the poltergeist activity largely ended a full year or more before that so that one explanation is not complete. It is fascinating that strong emotions and libido can provide such huge stores of energy for poltergeist to pull from and one one learns to unplug them from their source they cannot manifest without a power source to tap. The key to killing the poltergeist was creating a happy relaxed home. After about 6 months it was pretty much over with. It was the most amazing and terrifying 6 months of our lives and a eye - opening awakening to the world of the paranormal. After all the years of thinking of this I can only conclude we had every thing and multiple causes to create a perfect poltergeist environment. Though it was not fun to go through, it was very interesting and to a degree, deepened all of our faith as we did conclude we were not dealing with PK but with intelligent beings with a twisted sense of humor. This became clear when the poltergeist in our home seemed to take a great deal of dislike for a blessed crucifix we kept in the hall and a picture of Jesus. These were often turned upside down or found laying on the floor knocked off which suggest this being had a strong dislike for these items. I am open to various ideas to explain what happened here. I would love this audience take on the poltergeist experience. Hope this has been of interest.
@@amonra9726 Very scared but I supposed we stayed as the priest told us if we didn't defeat defeat the poltergeist there during our trial there was a pretty good chance it would just follow us to the next residence. Once we knew the trial was of limited duration and all the poltergeist could really do was to try to scare us, it was pretty amazing how we learned to deal with it. And it turned out it did end for the most part with only 2 or three incidents after that for the next decade we were in that home.
@@joycekoch5746 to be honest i think that paranormal activities are only psycological. Are you still sure that none of these activities were somehow induced by your minds? Like you seeing you kid shaking and moving the bed and thinking it was the bed moving? Maybe you were projecting. I never had such experiences and i say this with all due respect to religion and these paranormal claims.
@@amonra9726 These things could be possibly explained by unusual CNS movement and psychological projections but that does not address gust of wind, door opening, the milk flying out of the glass to the ceiling and the invisible being encounter my son had had along with the pictures flying off the walls. Sure, I suppose any incident could be understood but collectively it paints a big picture that goes beyond a psychological even to a force acting on matter from the outside. I would note the family dog was quicker to pick up on things before an event than we were. My basic opinion was the sum total of many things built up together to bring about this experience.
@@joycekoch5746 did you become religious after these experiences? I like to think about the universe and spirituality, but i would consider myself as an open minded atheist. I never experienced poltergeist, but sometimes i feel like i am "possessed" by anger, i want to hurt myself etc i always linked that to my disfuncional family growing up and some other traumas, but a friend of mine, which is a convinced catholic says that prayer and baptism could help me. Do you think that some of these phenomena could manifest in mental and phisical ailments? The only weird and unexplained experience i had (and rarely still have) is before falling asleep (when i am stilll fully awake but relaxed) e feel like my body is made of rubber, and that i somehow expand in my own body. When i was a child, when having these feelings i would also see human like faces being distorted and twisted, like they were in front of my face. It only happened when i was in bed with my eyes closed. It felt like something was happening inside of me. Later on i forgot about these things and started numbing myself with marijuana, to help me fall asleep. Now that i don't smoke anymore i started feeling again this sensation of being made of rubber and my body expanding. It clearly sounds like it's some kind of internal hallucination, but i am curious what would you think being that you had all these weird experiences.
In my English class i had to choose a debate about whatever topic i wanted and then resume the video to my classmates, so i choose this video which sounds to my mind a debate in itself. I'm going to present it tomorrow and i'd like to thank you lady because i really enjoy your point of view about it all.
Occam's Razor. Either those spooky noises or apparitions you saw are actual ghosts, in which case you have to explain how they exist, where they came from, how their reality ties to our observable reality, and go all the way down to the most fundamental truths of an existence where ghosts and the supernatural are real. OR Your experiences can be explained with the very real and tangible reality that we know is there and actually observable. There's always, ALWAYS an explanation for everything. Just because you can't explain your supernatural experience, doesn't mean an explanation for it doesn't exist.
Please, please, please, do not equate carbon monoxide to a gas leak. While both can cause a lot of problems and ultimately death, they are very, very different. First off, although the gas that we generally use is, naturally, as odorless as carbon monoxide, we add something to it that has a very distinct smell, so that we detect a gas leak relatively early on, to warn us that it might not be the best idea to light a match at that particular point. Carbon monoxide does not have that same added smell. That's because, carbon monoxide does not enter your house through a pipe or cannister. Carbon monoxide forms when you burn something, but you lack sufficient oxygen to burn it properly. In that case, instead of forming carbon dioxide and watervapor (and, depending on the type of fuel, come other things, but, let us stick to normal gas), you are forming carbon monoxide and watervapor. Usually, you can already tell when looking at the flames. If burned properly, gas will burn blue (and that's only because of the added smell, normally, gas burns invisibly, all you see is the waves the heat forms in the air). If you see yellow flames, there is a problem, you don't have enough oxygen there and carbon monoxide is forming. Now, carbon monoxide does not explode, it is a by product of the burning process and cannot be used as fuel. If you had had a gas leak in the example that you gave, then that sage burning you did would probably have killed you instantly.
This is 100%not true. We Do not have a gas leak and have seen spirits in our house. It started when my son was about 3 and said that there was a man in his room.
I would love having the "let's test it together" enthusiasm with someone who tells me about their paranormal event, but from my experience, suggesting something like that is inherently offensive because it questions the existence of ghosts in general. That belief is very strong for some people. Saying "Maybe that noise was a mouse in the walls" can be like saying "Maybe your beliefs aren't correct". It's usually a lose/lose situation. I can say nothing and let pseudoscience win the day, or say something that likely starts a fight and an awkward situation for other people around.
I heard about this talk on her podcast. It was mentioned on an episode where they investigated a haunted house. They were able to replicate some of the reported occurrences, clearing up the mysteries. The person who requested it was relieved to learn his home wasn’t haunted. So, there’s that. In general they aren’t out to change the minds of the people and groups they investigate. It’s sort of an insiders view they’re getting. So, they generally play it cool and try to relate to people on their terms. Their interview with a flat Earth believer was quite interesting, for instance. I would have great difficulty not pointing out all the errors he was making. But, that allows for a more complete picture of what his thoughts on the matter were.
I cannot argue with her. I believe in the paranormal, and my experiences have been unpredictable and never consistent, except for maybe one. The one thing that has been consistent may not be paranormal, but it is strange. Throughout my life, certain street lights would go out when I got into a certain proximity of them, and then turn back on when I got out of range. Certain lights I could time perfectly when they were going to go out based on how close I got to it. I would snap, point at the light, and it would go out. I had to practice several times before I got it down, but it wasn't my snapping or pointing that made it go out, it was just my proximity to the light, I just put on a show for the cars waiting at the intersection hoping somebody would notice. They have since changed the lights over the years, and I don't walk or go out as much as I used to, so I haven't found another light as reliable, but if I come across one again I'll be sure to document it. The strangest of these events occurred one night when the lights went out down a street I was walking, two lights on my side of the road, and one on the other side. As I progressed down the road, the next lights went off, and the previous ones tuned back on; this created a sort of shadow following me, as if light refused to shine on me. It only happened once, on that road, and I have no explanation for it. There are other stories I could tell, that a skeptic/denier/non-believer could easily apply a belief to that would be explanation enough for them because it fits into their world view; but I am a skeptic/believer. I actually do question, and I am okay with leaving something an open mystery instead of trying to come up with an explanation that fits into our current understanding of the world. I have witnessed something that I still to this day cannot even come close to coming up with a logical explanation for; unlike the others that could potentially have a non-paranormal explanation. I too seek legitimate proof that is undeniable, but it is elusive, especially considering our lack of understanding of so many things. Being a denier is just as bad, if not worse than being a believer.
Dan Law I’ve had the same thing happen with street lights. Always wondered what it’s about. Maybe I just happen to be in the same spot frequently when the timers go on/off. It is weird, though 🤷🏻♀️
@@annasanders8401 Look into street light interference SLI or SLIders/sliders. In some cases it could be magical thinking and/or coincidence, which is why if one is so inclined should look at the matter scientifically. There is no way for me to know if random street lights (SLs) turn off (or in some cases on), in my close proximity more than it happens to others, but there have been situations where I could test a specific street light. The one I mentioned was a SL I passed by frequently at different times, and then I even changed my walking speed. Could some SLs be more sensitive than others, could emotion be a factor, is it something that happens to everyone when all the conditions are right, like a person who is under stress, duress, in deep thought, or active, in the presence of a weak SL, or other similar type of light? I don't know yet; but I do think it is worthy of exploration. What I wonder is what can be learned from such a phenomenon. Science has been learning about and discovering some things that sound crazy and out there, but there is still so much left undiscovered that could revolutionize the way we see the world.
She’s done hundreds of investigations at this point, and in every single one of them she and her partner have debunked any sort of mystical or spiritual phenomena, across a very broad spectrum of beliefs and practices. She’s referring to her own work; she’s not making a conclusive, sweeping claim about every mystical claim there is.
Either they are believers or they didn't watch the whole video like I almost didn't. She started out sounding really nutty on purpose, so I bet a lot of people turned it off before the switch in tone.
After seeing the first comment of "watch first" while only listening and browsing the comments after only watching the first minute... unclicked the dislike and finally added a like... Joseph nailed it.
Cause people don't like the Truth to their illusions they believe in :) TH-cam is great for clicbaiting dumb people $$$ for ghosts, paranormal videos and other stuff related to it. People better make money off it while people are still ignorant cause it won't last for ever, well maybe once 3rd world countries flood their dumb people onto the youtubes then having to wait til they evolve, my god..
Kami I did. I was talking about the general paranormal believers not this lady. I assumed that TED (even x) wasn't seriously talking about the paranormal before watching.
Kayla Goodwin nah I’m not saying I don’t respect her or her view, which I get it sounds like I don’t, but I believe there is a side to this topic that no one truly understands
Even as a Witch, I would just like to say, there is never one side to the story. You are an amazing person that has discovered your side of the story, one that saved your life, and in turn I'd just like to say that we should always be cautious, look to both sides for help, because in doing so we not only help ourselves, but possibly help others as well.
My sister forwarded me this video to watch because she is a firm non believer in ghosts, where as I’m more open minded! I’m not one of those crazy people who believes that everything you see or hear which is even slightly strange should be put down to a ghost. But I also believe that not absolutely everything can be explained in terms of science as we currently know it. I don’t really like the fact that she seems to mock a belief in ghosts at the end of this speech - her explanation about carbon dioxide poisoning, however, was interesting! Things like carbon monoxide poisoning, as well as things like sleep paralysis, would be good explanations to explain many ghost sittings and ‘ experiences’. I do agree that most things can be explained if you really look for it. But I also think that every now and then, things do happen which you simply can’t explain! Life isn’t black and white!
If you listen to her podcast (Oh No Ross And Carrie) there are several episodes where she takes an Ayahuasca tincture (which is 10 times more powerful) before recording
@@Dr.PicklePh.D. I can't believe that until I see/hear it. Do you have a link? 10 times more powerful is bs. A full ayahuasca experience is a full ayahuasca experience. It doesn't matter if you get there by a cup of tea or by a couple of drops of tincture.
@@RohrAtom I believe this is the one: ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2018/2/23/ross-and-carrie-find-their-rythmia-part-3-ayarossca-edition?rq=Find%20their%20rythmia although they do have around 14ish? I think? episodes visiting Rythmia and doing Ayahuasca. It's worth listening to all of em imo
I was a sceptic when she said 10 out of 10 times science wins as I know people who have seen and communicated with ghosts and there is paranormal activity in my home. Scientists won't be able to solve my situation. I live single in a two-bedroom home so someone isn't playing tricks on me. A large dresser/TV console in the living room had an empty drawer suddenly fully open after I returned from going to the garage. The drawer does not slide easily. Objects I recently handled or a day before are placed in a central area on the floor and always parallel or perpendicular to the floorboards. I placed a roma tomato in a carton on the kitchen counter, walked to my room and back to the kitchen and found the tomato and a pile of rubber bands placed on the floor far from the carton. I did a simulation and rolled the tomato off the counter and it plopped, split and didn't roll at all. A washed styrofoam meat tray was moved from behind the kitchen garbage can, placed on the floor perpendicular to the floorboards and some milk was splashed all over it. I noticed a small statue was missing from a bookshelf in my bedroom. The next day I found it on the bookshelf in the other bedroom. While I was watching a horror movie "Sommerfest", during a gruesome moment halfway in I looked up and saw that the statue was turned facing the wall and stopped watching the movie. I shut the gas off during all warm months, there is a carbon monoxide detector and the activity happened during these months so gas leaks are not a viable explanation.
Carbon monoxide is a bi-product of the incomplete combustion of gas, and is not the same thing as a gas leak. I would have thought that a genuinely scientific investigator would have nailed that detail.
if it went after the gas leak was fixed what other explaination is there? it was a gas spirit/ghost?? :D How would a scientist have done a better job at this? source was found that was the gas, the symptoms were the same, her symptoms went...
im not saying a scientist would have what i am saying is that there are tons of journalists out there who lie or are plain deluded like ones who are certain of things like flat earth aliens and ghosts when there is little to no proof
Okay, but its like that for people in all professions, there are plenty of scientists who are bad scientists or who dismiss things without any type of investigation. I've seen many scientists who have never taken anytime to study paranormal subjects not because they are not interested but because they don't 'believe' its like their almost scared or ashamed to study such a topic, which fair enough if you only want to train in one area but you can't have an opinion that carries any weight if you've not got the experience in the area. Dismissing something and drawing an analysis from nothing is anti science. There are three types of scientists, those who wait for evidence to fall into their lap out of the sky, those who just follow other peoples work and models and those who go looking for it and experiment, the latter are the ones who nearly always lead the way in science and technological advancement. Its quite shocking and disheartening that in science scientists who are really popular and supposedly great can dismiss subjects without having fully investigated them, usually making jokes and sarcastic comments about those that do.
She was so lovely! I really appreciate it when people advocate for nuanced understandings of things like the difference between a historical fact and the impact that fact could have on a persons life. There is a difference and a connection between what actually happened and how those things impact a persons inner life or experience. ❤️👏🏻❤️👏🏻
Everyone is focusing on the cultural and religious explanation for the paranormal by calling it a ghost or a demon or poltergeist. But imo we need real scientific data to try and understand the paranormal with (new) physics. But now I have the feeling that "science" is not taking it serious enough.
My entire family has collectively had experiences with a ghost we affectionately call Gregory. Nothing malicious, mainly hearing voices. Example while staring at my boyfriend I heard his voice call out babe but he didn't say anything and his mouth never moved. Everyone in my family and lots of visitors have experienced This. More specifically voices and phrases of things already said. Basically it mimics us. This has followed us when moving houses. I've had numerous amounts of other experiences, like At a friends house with seeing apperations and seeing things move On their own and demonic growls. My dog was super freaked out by that. And I'm not religious, I'm atheist. I like to think ghosts aren't real until someone reminda me I've had encounters. I'd love if someone could just explain everything I've experienced.
Set up an audio recorder and leave it running constantly. If something happens then check out the recorded audio. I don't buy the "ghosts from the grave" idea but certain "phenomena" appears to be genuine -- although rare.
Kris, just for fun (chuckling under my breath) ask Gregory next time you sense him near, out loud, "Has Jesus Christ came in the flesh?" And see if it responds. You have my info if it doesn't like the question.
Despite the fact that I am trained as a scientist, I think there are still a few things missing from these scientific tests of the paranormal. One of those items would be how the tests themselves are constructed. For example, for those who believe they have insight into the inner worlds of others, they should be tested on exactly that - their insight into the psychology of others, not be forced to predict a sequence of cards. We have to learn, as scientists, how to handle the subjective experiences of people without changing the context altogether. While I understand that the scientific method depends upon our ability to control variables and reproduce the results, we must not be afraid of lessons embedded in noise and subjectivity. So, I say, be immersed in the insanity! Experience the terror of experience! Gather information out of the sanitized confines of a lab! Then, you may do the complex work of knitting together the workings of it. This is the holistic approach - the systems approach to the scientific method. We must work in vivo, not in vitro. No more testing of variables in isolation! Let us simulate, play, and reenact. While this does not eliminate the fact that carbon monoxide was indeed the cause, the logic explaining a phenomenon (in general) can be much more complex then the presence of a hallucinogen. If we are to understand those things, we must be willing to seriously investigate an event and not dismiss it as quackery. Complex interactions of psychology and environment - something we still do not have a good handle on.
Yea i was a skeptic too, until me and my friend got haunted in our dorm toilet (the dorm is not frequently used and usually empty since its only used during practical training once a year) during my training (we are an oceanographer student), best and horrifying experience ive ever had lmao
I went through that phase. But I finally got over that. Now I walk in the paranormal daily. I don't feel the need to prove it to others though. Everyone thinks it's their's or someone else's job to PROVE to others it's one way or another. Like God doesn't exist because we can't offer a good enough argument that will be accepted by the receiver (who doesn't want to accept anything as evidence as their heart is set and so they are more apt to throw out what would otherwise be hard evidences) as proof of the other person's claim. Atheists don't get it. Whether I'm good enough to convince you has no bearing on the existence and Omnipotence/Omniscience/Omnipresence of God. He either EXISTS AND REIGNS as an outside truth or He doesn't. His existence has no actual IMPACT on His outer truth despite what unbelievers believe to be a lack of physical existence.
My favourite is when I described, my friends house to a t, right down to what type of carpet she had. I don’t even know where she lives. I’ve only seen her at this annual campground we go to. I dreamt it. I don’t even know her actual name. Another, is when I’ve seen things before they happen and I’ve learned to keep it to myself and say it after.
Fools just can't open their conscious wide enough that there are things that are not of this plane. They mock, like tell you to check your medication like you take meds for hallucinations. When you give accounts of things that science can't explain away, you challenge the troll skeptics INNER TRUTH and so they lash out in passive aggressive comments attacking your sanity or intellect. When all along you are fine and they do not know how to respond to the challenge.
It's a story That gives an alternate answer to superstition And well monoxide poisoning is a threat and her contribution to spreading the message however small might help But yeah juvenile
Oh I've seen MANY Ted Talks that were less informative than that. It is very simple of understanding and is more "humor-oriented", not (really) _juvenile_, but something similar to it.
Jfc. Its a gas. It was 'leaking into her house' through whatever means. It was a gas leak. Just not from a natural gas line with a hole or faulty fitting.
@@metamorphicorder what gas line do you know of anywhere that "supplies" carbon monoxide. These nerds cant even imply themselves into believing the paranormal.
As to how it could be a leak. CO can build up underground and this can infiltrate into houses as the height of the gas level raises due to production from the source of the gas. For instance a house that is located in a depression from surrounding ground features such as hills mountains or valleys, could experience CO leaking into the house as the gas settles to lower elevations. As its a heavier than air gas, it will settle to the lowest point in a home and build up as well as being circulated by convection currents in the home. There are many other ways that CO can leak into a house. Homes with furnaces that have partially blocked and leaky exhaust systems will produce CO during a heating cycle. Due to leaky exhaust systems, the exhaust gasses can LEAK into the home. The more volatile and lighter gasses will dissipate but the CO and CO2 can build gradually over time. This is technically a 'gas leak', as its a gas and a leak. Technically, its an exhaust leak, or an exhaust gas leak. She probably chose to use the word gas leak because CO is also associated with the exhaust from automobiles and saying an exhaust leak might create distracting confusion among listeners. Its her house, how could an exhaust leak in her car cause a build up of CO in her HOUSE unless she was running her car in her attached garage with the door closed, like all the time? They would be trying to figure out completely irrelevant details instead of listening to the talk. While not CO, natural gas can also leak into a house and cause health issues and death, though less common due to the thiols they mix with it to render it detectable by human noses at very small concentrations. But gas leaks are understandable enough that using that as a convenient term will easily and effectively convey that a toxic gas was building up in her home causing her to be deluded. It would have been interesting to know exactly what was discovered to be the source of the CO in her home but her message didnt need it. There was a CO build up in her home. DELUSIONS are a symptom of protracted CO poisoning. She was delusional. She was having symptoms of delusions and had a CO check which came back not only positive but extremely high. Possibly fatally so. She solved the exposure issue and the delusions stopped. There were other aspects to her story, but not important to this discussion.
@@letstalk-misc3575 i see my friend the way she talks reflect how she is not exposed to the hard problems of science! She is too oblivious to reality. And how it's not a straight line....
Carrie: We should test paranormal claims with science, seeing if there is a scientific explanation People in the comments: No! That's a thing I'm sensitive about!
For real, though, y'all are having this reaction because you don't like that your belief is being challenged. As someone who used to believe in the paranormal, I get it. But the best way to respect yourself is to find all other explanations for your experiences. When I was younger I saw and heard things I believed were demons. I was terrified of my bedroom, and couldn't sleep in there for years. It wasn't just a small thing in the corner of my eye. I saw a full-on figure running from my closet to out of my line of sight. My parents would always feel angry in my room, which was also where our computer was since I was born after they had moved into the house. When we moved out, we discovered black mold, which we didn't know about the entire time we lived there. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized the black mold, my religious upbringing, and my father actively showing me ghost "documentaries" from birth all prepped me for hallucinations of the paranormal. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more health concerns than just the mold. That house was really not taken care of. I'm not saying there is no way that the paranormal could be true, but I also think that people are defensive of their paranormal experiences because we don't like feelings wrong or foolish. You're not a fool for believing in the paranormal, but you might be one if you can't even entertain the thought that there could be another explanation.
I've always been on the fence with this topic. There was a time where I lived in a house where it always felt off, as if someone were behind you at all times. One day my very skeptic friend and me were eating pizza and laughing on my table when we seen my trashcan get quite literally thrown across the kitchen. We were scared shitless since nobody else was there. We checked for fishing lines, string, or any sign of a prank. Nothing. Moved out and haven't felt that or experienced anything like that since.
It could be some kind of hallucination. Not saying your crazy, but the brain isn't perfect. I think it's similar to deja-vus also. Think of all the informations our brain process, then we dream, then we like imagining stuff etc it is really plausible that sometimes it can glitch and make you believe something that was not there. I think your experience could be some induced paraeidolia. Paraedolia is the tendency of our brain to ser faces or other human-like lineaments in random objects. We are "programmed" to communicate and depend for survival on other human beings, or recognize predators rapidly. Our brain just automatically sees faces, even when they are not there. I would also suppose you were stressed at the time or didn't have enough sleep, maybe you didn't eat properly, low blood sugar etc
@Baphomet the Sabbatic Goat To me, ghosts are not that. They're simply something in this world that cannot be explained with science. We don't know what it looks like, sounds like, or even if it exists. But sometimes things happen that science cannot grip onto. That is what a ghost is to me. All paranormal, unexplained occurrences of the sort.
@Baphomet the Sabbatic Goat Read the comment thoroughly before proceeding with a reply. I clearly stated that I didn't believe ghosts were human-like, or even souls. Merely the unexplained of this world, that science cannot prove 100% wrong.
I was in a cemetery at night and there was a faint sound of chains rattling. I put my ear to a mausoleum and the sound seemed to be coming from within. I went back during daylight and discovered the source of the sound: metal tags wired on to metal flower pots. The wind would blow and rattle the tags against the pots.
She needs to goto San Antonio TX and check the railroad out that the bus of children died on. Been there and there’s something mainstream people either aren’t looking into or know something and don’t elaborate on the science of this field - probably relates to the quantum realm IMHO
Okay, I watched before commenting. She claims to have looked into this scientifically, yet she makes no reference to ANY current theories on anything "paranormal" such as circumstantial evidence regarding poltergeist phenomena, ie the human subconsciousness. She fails to point out that her examples only refer to single person non-physical perceptions, what about several people witnessing something quite physical? Just saying, carbon monoxide does not throw your stuff around in front of everyone- don't think it's the anthropomorphic ghost myself, but something IS doing it. To say those who believe to have had experiences are not quite right in the head is quite arrogant and "scientistic" rather than scientific. Good, actual scientific reading on this includes Walter von Lukadu (German government paid scientist) and Eric Ouellet (ex army Canada). What she does with her talk is scaring those who have experienced to come forward to bring data to the scientific table, and to be labelled insane. Why this person got invited to speak escapes me. This is so daft compared to actual scientists talking about the subject, I can hardly believe it, what a throwback, what a pity.
Something I've been having is feeling light headed when I enter my room, I just feel super paranoid like someone is watching me. My dog hates going into my closet, objects have moved.. we have carbon monoxide alarms, never has one gone off for somethin' other than batteries. When I say my dog won't go in my closet, I mean she won't even go into it for a treat. I've heard a very short whistling sound when winds were not strong.. And I've heard knocking from the inside of my bathroom door, choking sounds from out of my vents when we first moved in, plus once when I felt I was not alone, I looked up and swear I saw something hide behind the bathroom door. ALSO, when I was about to record, my legit GUT FEELING stepped in and told me "no, that's a terrible idea.. go downstairs." Now listen. If you think you're being haunted, go to a therapist. Not because you're crazy. Not because you need help. But because you could have paranoia or a delusional disorder 😂 Delusional paranoia will cause you to see things that are not really there, they can also cause you to hear and feel things. When you have a delusion you cannot tell if they are real or not, so this is a possibility. Paranoia may or may not cause you to feel like someone is out for you, or you are not alone A PHOBIA may actually cause you to see things and feel things too! But unlike delusions, you're gonna be scared of it and assume more often, as that is what your phobia does. It makes you terrified. Or, remember this. Your eyes only see 5% of the world, so all paranormal activity is most of the time actually normal. Well, this fact can cause you to be more paranoid, as there could be someone leaning over your shoulder watching you read this right now. I believe in paranormal, not really *ghosts themself*, as the paranormal is actually stuff that you cannot explain, not only ghosts.
Jamie Weems only those open to the spirit world can see/feel. If you repress it you’ll never see anything, unless it’s something bad then it’ll present itself if u block them spiritually or not. They don’t give af
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This is very important. Strange things happen, and while some may ascribe them to the paranormal, that doesn't mean that people who do so should be ignored by science. Their claims should be investigated because there is often a very real, scientific answer. When we investigate, we can find new things, expand our knowledge, and even save lives.
I'm still working on a write-up of my hypothesis on why some people see shadow people while ostensibly fully awake (which I'll be posting on my Insomnia Insanity blog soon), but that is a perfect example of a thing that many people experience that (I believe) has a perfectly logical answer. Yet scientists refuse to investigate because it sounds like paranormal quackery. When we close our minds, we are closing the door on important discoveries.
one day i was working out in the country, kneeling down and facing NW. All of a sudden, i had a feeling, stood up and spun around to the SE to see a bear standing up about 1/8 mile away looking at me.
for a long time i didn't know what i'd "sensed" and my brain made up various strange explanations whenever i thought about it.
watching a nature video one even, i realized that the bear had made a low noise which my brain had picked up but not sent back to me as something to hear. viola, science wins again
Jaimes I would argue that consciousness is real, so conscious perception is real, and part of objective reality, and therefore ALWAYS has an explanation.
99% of it is hallucinating.
nathan whittaker do you have any evidence for that? Or are you just making a unfounded claim? Like a theist? Ideology goes both ways.
shadfurman if you're seeing things when you're awake that aren't there, it's a hallucination.
And the gas would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling gas company kids.
Jan L Lol
Damn you're good, lol.
Bahahahahahahahahahaha
Halfway through i conclude its a gas.
Oml imagine shes doing that sage ritual and kaboom!
Now that's funny Jan L, those darn meddling kids ruin everything..
It's very simple. The dogs did not react = no ghost.
Touche!
i thought the same. :D :D :D
also, ghost aren't real
@@jacobtheboy Happily, it does not harm you to believe that.
@@brianofphobos8862 okay
She's a real life scooby doo character
Nando N Yesssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
LOL
In the thumbnail I thought she looked like a Santa's helper from Elf
And you are Nando ?😜
Welma😂😂
"The day science begins to study non physical phenomenon, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries"- NIKOLA TESLA
Seems impossible
How can someone be sure of something if it can't be perceived?
*Troll confiável* I may well be wrong here, but I think the point he was making was about looking beyond the verifiable to move forward. We still don’t have proof for all our theories, (though we have very solid scientific reasons for theorising them.) Ghosts, maybe not so much. Scientists take their careers more seriously now than in the days of natural philosophers.
@@orthedraespiders9278 the problem is that science _cannot_ study the unverifiable
It wouldn't be science
We're trying this for a long time already and it simply does not work
*Troll confiável* Indeed. What I was trying to say (badly), was that verification follows the theory so we may be thinking ourselves into a loop by only daring to theorise what we are certain we are able to prove. But as you say no proof, no science. We can’t be throwing wild theories out there that don’t have some grounding in confirmed reality and laws that bind it or they’d just be fantasies. Unless there’s a whole part of reality that’s completely eluded us. In which case, it’s pretty useless to us right now.
You mean think in terms of energy.
Yeah it's right matter too is energy,and scientist are reasearching in this field.
This reminded me of years ago when I used to think there was a ghost in the house because strange things would happen that I couldn't explain at the time. One of those things was a window breaking from the inside when there was nobody in that room at the time. A few years later it happened again but this time I was literally inches away from the window and fortunately not hurt, although I had to carefully remove pieces of broken glass from my clothes and hair. This time Google had actually become useful so I googled windows breaking spontaneously and learned that this was actually due to the forces on the glass from the shape of the window and the temperature difference between the inside and the outside (it was the middle of winter and the window was next to the boiler). It was a relief to have a proper explanation that made sense and not attribute it to a ghost. Also, knowing what really caused the windows to break meant I could replace them with ones better suited to the conditions. I also found out that the other weird unexplained events were down to my husband moving my things and then lying that he'd never touched them. He came clean about it after I told him the real reason for the windows breaking when he knew that I no longer believed there was a ghost in the house.
Smart people always FIRST go through a checklist of rational, logical, possible explanations for how something unexpected or odd happens BEFORE assuming it's paranormal, or a ghost. Much of what happens in the natural world, is, on it's own, kind of miraculous really; and often we simply don't know enough to describe how an event happens w/ our current knowledge base and need to do a little fact finding as you did on the windows breaking. (which is fairly odd really. I have lived in some very old houses and never saw a window break like that). That said! When you REALLY encounter a real ghost and you spend the first few minutes racking your rational brain for every possible explanation and meanwhile the other 50% of you is freaking out because in your gut and mind you know what you saw and heard COUKLD NOT HAVE NORMALLY HAPPENED AT ALL...THEN...you will believe. Trust me. From the first minute of the video I started thinking w/ her symptoms that maybe she needed to see a DOCTOR not a psychic. But I have studied biology and a little medicine in college so there's that. But I also lived in a for real haunted house back in college a long time ago. Terrifying.
@@brianmucha6426 I am interested in your haunting story if you don't mind sharing?
Your husband is a jerk. For only admitting after you knew..
Your husband is a god
@@brianmucha6426 cmon spill the real tea!
Ironically it was her initial belief in ghosts that prompted her to contact the group who advised her. Therefore her belief in ghosts is what actually saved her life!
Crazy way to look at it....but your completely right....
She believed in ghosts because she felt that her house was haunted.
@@kyogosakai3575 Anxiety can cause chest pain.
psychiatrists are medical doctors.
Or...... If she hadn't put her symptoms down to ghosts, she would have gone to the doctor, the doctor would have wanted to rule out gas poisoning. Belief in paranornal was time consuming and visiting the forum was an extra step to the gas company.
Can we just commend how good the camera man is for once?
XD
"We don't believe in because of evidence, we believe because of lack of evidence."
beautiful quote
My brain . Exe has stopped working
We don't believe in because of evidence -> We have got the evidence which tells us that it's false, so we don't believe it.
We believe in because of lack of evidence -> We don't have evidence to tell us that it's false, so we continue to believe in it.
@@Kutsushita_yukino if your not joking at least say thanks
There really is an astounding amount of evidence. People just think everything is fake thanks to the internet. I have a massive collection of pictures and videos on a CD around here before the days of photoshop and all that crap. Even sent them and my camera to the company to have them look over everything to explain the pics. All 3 shifts of Tech's and camera repair people couldnt explain one picture I had. They deemed them 100% real. No camera malfunctions of any type.
Negatives(for u young ones negatives are how u prove legit or not) nothing explainable. The friends of mine that are skeptics tried telling me its a pin hole in the camera, faked in deveolping blah blah. Thats when i showed them the certfied letters from all the staff that all was well. Skeptics are really just closed minded people and cannot wrap their heads around it until it happens to them.
You can't argue against logic like that...
Back in the day, a good friend knew a girl living in her late grandmother's house who swore there was something breathing in the hall. She got more & more freaked out & even used a Folger's can as a chamber pot rather than leave her bedroom at night.
My friend paid a visit and discovered that yes, there WAS something breathing in the hall. The house was (obviously) old and drafty; the hallway was papered w antique cheesecloth-backed wallpaper, which had loosened over time. Gust of wind= expanded wallpaper. Wind stops = :::sigh::: as the paper returns to the wall.
Handful of nails + a hammer = no more ghosts.
Mom Cat22 sounds like she really hit the nail on the head with that solution! :D
Dat ghostie got nailed!
;) B)
Mom Cat22 😂😂😂😂👀😂🤣🤣
Mom Cat22 I think that’s called jumping to conclusions not paranormal
Ghosts aren't real lol.
I think the anecdote at the start was actually a decent rhetorical device because it sounded exactly like a "believer" but twisted to have a counterintuitive but reasonable explanation. It's more effective for making the point that science can explain the seemingly unknown than just simply stating it. Overall, the talk was a bit wayward but a fair point no doubt.
and the 10 out of 10 was a really good point made by her too.
+Florence00pi it's a loaded deck. Ten explainable cases out of ten explainable cases. They leave out the ten unexplainable cases.
@@KennyRider137 unexplained cases are unexplained because people want to believe that they experienced something supernatural, and because they don't want to invest the time and maybe money to investigate
in a way this really worries me about the safety of my family
+Bernd Wolff recreate the Roger Patterson film of the alleged Bigfoot creature with all the anatomical detail. That is not a case of wanting to believe. It's a case of visual evidence that borders on completely unexplainable. It is an unexplainable case that is documented on film for all to see. It is ready and waiting for the scientists to explain any day now... still waiting. So, no, ten out of ten cases are not explainable.
I'm so excited that Santa sent one of his friends to educate us on the paranormal.
I thought she dressed as a puritan under a witch trial
YOU FUCKIN TRIED ITTTT lolllll
Hilarious 😂
Top comment!
she is a modern day witch hunter @@sandman4evr
So... there I was back in the mid nineties... taking a break from school... working as a rent-a-cop for a buck over min wage, when I was assigned to look after "a creepy old... decommissioned hospital... " the guard I was replacing (just one guard for the whole hospital and its 3 out buildings) told me "not much happens around here... but every now and then the "Elevators" will move up and down... stopping at floors... all by themselves." I was intrigued (but knew why this happened. ) I didn't say anything... I did my patrols, used the elevators to go up... and the stairs to come down... sure enough, every so often an elevator would "drop a floor... all by itself." (Insert "spooky sound effects here!")
I was unfazed (didn't mention my subject of study was electrical engineering...) you see, the high voltage lines that power the elevator motor, first connect to a "power supply" board then the "motor control panel." On the power supply board are large capacitors, these capacitors are capable of storing a "large" charge for a period of time, as the capacitors "discharge," through the motor control circuit... the elevator will move down a floor... and open it's doors... (all by itself) the capacitors are now drained and the energy has dissipated. (For electrical safety... always drain off the capacitors by unplugging the power source then activating the load (switching it on and dissipating whatever current remains in the circuit) before working on the equipment... even a relatively small capacitor can store enough charge to kill a person.)
Mystery solved...
Nice my dude, very nice. But have you ever considered thinking about why capacitors stores the charge. Yes, the Ghost.
I like this comments because it debunks while also having room for error and humility. my second favorite is the follow up comment because the words "my dude" and "capacitors storage" is the ghost. thank yall, love it
I used to be an engineer in my fathers capacitor factory, I and my father, an electrical engineer built many circuits and things including a television and a hovercraft from Heath-kits growing up. Capacitors are generally used to turn alternating current motors with a direct current charge upon circuit close activation thereby extending motor life while accelerating startup torque. They would not be discharging in an open circuit, unactivated by the relay array behind a control button panel. The kinetic energy of pushing a momentary switch, closing a relay circuit is required, thus activating the relay array, thus activating high voltage AC motors, which is the only place any high capacity capacitors are existent before the motors 3 leads are, on one side for clockwise rotation and a second capacitor on the other side of the 3 leads (live, live, and common ground), for counter-clockwise rotation. Your "power board" motif is pretty ridiculous considering all boards (integrated circuits) are essentially "powered". It only matters which levels of voltage, amperage and generally alternating and direct current, said boards are, most usually in order of DC, microamps, to AC, high voltage high amperage as in the needs of the kinetic energy required to elevate any 800 pound capacity lift or more within a structure. The only other capacitors are micro-ampule units within the relay arrays. A relay is a powered timed switch, much like an analog transistor. None of these circuits would discharge their capacitors whatsoever without the activation of firstly a momentary switch, a transistor (or microchip, depending on the age of the circuitry), then a relay and a motor and more relays and servos with sensor switches to end cycling thereby stopping on a particular floor and opening the doors. Bottom line dude, capacitors don't just discharge and turn motors man.
I wouldn't have said anything either. But you just made my whole day. Hilarious.
This reminds me of when my boss never never understood why i pushed the up button if we were going down even though theres only 12 floors and we were on the 11th
I love this. A paranormal story might be bullshit, but it could also hint to something new to learn about the universe that we live in.
Can You name a time when that happened?
@@sallylauper8222
When the gas was measured.
WOWOWOW This woman is such a ball of boundless energy. She's definitely haunted by positive spirits!
She nervous for sure
Maybe she is just, like, a human?
LeetMasterAce that’s funny!😂
Normie
She's great! Check out her podcast "oh no Ross and carrie"
If there's something strange in you neighborhood... who you gonna call? Science enthusiasts!
AAAnyway, I am watching this video and just shaking my head the whole time...
Left, right, left, right, left...
I feel you, Mr. random cameraman. Great talk btw.
This would be nice but lhey don't want to waste their time with idiots :( , either mental health issues or home is falling apart internally(use home contractor handy man to fix stuff which is expensive).
Duh
911
She's a religion enthusiast.
Sage smudging when it was actually a gas leak, ouch.
Why sage?
@@glam0r0us to summon the fire elementals
@@davidnavratil5349 haha. Seriously?
@Deal Negrasse Bison when people talk about a gas leak they mean fossil gas which is highly flammable (and that's the reason why it's used for cooking and heating). So yeah, people doing a sage smudging ritual to get rid of ghosts when they actually had a gas leak is very dangerous.
@@glam0r0us Many cultures have used smoke from burning herbs and plants to ceremonially cleanse a space. Some Native American groups use sage for this purpose.
I lived in a haunted house in the past. One night, my brother and i were watching tv downstairs in the living room, it was around 11 Pm when all of the sudden we heard a door upstairs open and heard footsteps of someone coming down the hall then walking down the stairs. We thought it was one of our parents coming down to tell us to go to bed but when the person arrived at the bottom of the stairs the footsteps stopped all of the sudden, we looked at each other like what is going on, we sat there looking at the living room door for like 30 seconds when we decided to go take a look. When we got there we saw that nobody was there, so we decided to go up the stairs and that's when we discovered our bedroom door wide open. We looked at each other like we knew what was going on but didn't want to say anything because we didn't want to believe it. The next day we went to see my parents to ask them if they woke up at that time of the night but they both said no, my brother had tears in his eyes and i was shaking in disbelief so my mom asked us what was going on so we told her what happened. What puzzled me is that when we told her about it she didn't look surprised at all or shocked like she knew something about it but din't want to tell us, she just looked at us and said to not worry about it. Twelve years latter when we were living now in another country, my mom told us that the house we lived in was actually haunted. She used to see the same old man in her dreams with bright eyes screaming at her to get out of his house, and when she was home alone she could hear doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps. One day she was in her bedroom and heard someone walking downstairs but my dad, my brother and i had just left the house for school, so she thought one of us came back because we forgot something so she came down and found nobody. My dad was aware of that problem and they decided to not tell us anything about it even if we were already aware that something wasn't right, until they find the funds to get out of there, we only stayed like 11 months in that house.. she sais she waited so long to tell us about it because that experience terrified her. I don't know about science, but all i know is that it tries to bring answers to every questions but saying that paranormal isn't real? Were my brother and i crazy? was my mom and dad crazy? Why did it just happened in that specific house, where it's previous owner and builder died in it? I'm sorry but she's wrong, whe don't even have answers to the bigest mysteries that whe know, our brain, our oceans, our forest, and so on, so science cannot explain everything, even paranormal. Why are every of thoses scientist afraid to go to amityville to that famous horror house? They know what they are going to find there that's why.
Please consider that you do not have an explanation for what you imagined; it is nothing more than your story. Informed people know numerous things about brains, oceans, and forests.
That you believe scientists are afraid to enter some place does not make what you think is true.
This talk is actually pretty okay if you stick along long enough to see what she wants to say
You mean judge a video after watching it instead of judge it without watching it? What a crazy idea.
IMPOSSIBLE I MUST SHARE MY OPINION IMMEDIATELY
I don't blame people too much since the first 3 minutes goes at a rambling slow pace.
hearing people out is a skill quickly unlearned on the internet, as is stating your ideas apropriately
Quick, before someone else says the clever comment you've formulated!
i love the oh no ross and carrie podcast. they combine rational thought with respectful engagement with the human beings making wild claims, treating people with various unproven/unprovable beliefs as intellectual equals in a way that i don't see nearly often enough.
i''m a scientist and I can explain most paranormal experiences, but there are some cases that I cannot easily explain. I just say, "I don't know." Just because we can't explain something doesn't mean there is no answer. We just haven't reached that point of understanding or knowing yet.
Have you experienced anything. I didn’t believe at all until I had multiple experiences.
She has a fun podcast called "Oh No Ross and Carrie". They investigate religions, paranormal, pseudoscience, ... IRL. They don't just read about it on the internet. They've actually joined churches for research.
Kyle Sfhandyman You know you don't have to join a damn church to study religion right?
Celeste Kittie it makes for a better research to experience it firsthand
chumbrella Joining and attending are 2 different things.
I was about to ask for the name of her podcast, thanks! :)
Kyle Sfhandyman I used to do that in high school. I joined too many churches, too many different religions that I lost track of how many and which ones I have joined, and I did it all for personal research. It was fun. Helped me be more open-minded
She believes that science can logically explain the mysterious, but that also you can still be open minded about believes!! I wholeheartedly agree with her!!
What kind of psychopath just lets their dogs chew their feet?
STaSHZILLA i try to stop mine but sometimes she just goes AT her foot non stop lol.
Dogs do that i have a cat for a reason
@basil fawlty ikr thats why i love cats
I just assumed she meant her dogs were biting their nails
@@olerius1235cats aren't smarter... they're just more selfish. It's their nature.
Me reading the comment section... 99% of comments "Watch the video before commenting". 1% of the comments actually people who commented before watching the video.
So true!
Jason Jin it was likely reactionary. Maybe it was 75/25% and people retaliated against the 25%, low percentage, but pretty absurd error too.
I dunno about you, but if I was caught out leaving stupid comments before watching the video, I'd come back and delete them. Those that aren't deleted are much less likely to get thumbed up too, which means they fall to the bottom of this very long list of comments where very few people will ever see them.
2LegHumanist true and @Razerfan5 yesss!!
I'm at 6:44 and it's killing me not to comment.. but you know what.. i'm gonna wait
BEFORE YOU START COMMENTING NEGATIVELY ABOUT THE VIDEO, FINISH WATCHING IT.
gabriel nieto why? it is annoying to waste time
You two have diametrically opposed opinions... about CAPITALIZATION.
Why waste your time commenting your opinions, that no one cares about, if you didn't even watch the video?
Exactly. You can't formulate a valid argument if you watched two minutes and decided on what you thought. The way she starts is a bit misleading. If you're not going to finish the video, don't bother whining about it in the comments.
123axel123 Yup and I still have the same opinion of it as I had after the first two minutes. Sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover.
She just proves ELVES are REAL.
how?
Leslie Lizaga Cuz she looks like a damn elf.
@@jtaccounts mean
Emmy Jelly I don’t understand exactly where you getting lost at here?
Maybe the ghost caused the gas leak
Jonny Pepperston, maybe a little furry mouse caused the gasleak, and the mouse was also watching her! I mean, her two symptoms (having chest pains and randomly feeling like you're being watched) really isn't enough to count towards "paranormal" experiences with ghosts or evil spirits anyway.
It was the Llama...
#RESPECT
That's the spirit!
Hahaha
Okay I am a huuuge skeptic of the paranormal, and I am fully on board with what she's saying, but I really wish I had found a decent explanation for people feeling like they're being grabbed, pulled, pushed, tugged, etc. I was at a "haunted" prison once, and I brazenly strode into a dark room alone (being a huge skeptic), and proceeded to get pulled back by my collar by... something? For a split second. And I bolted out the room. I immediately turned around and went back in to see if there was a hook or something hanging from the ceiling (idk prisons are weird), and there was nothing in there. Does anybody know of why this kind of sensation might happen?
You probably got pulled by the collar by a rogue gas leak
@@Arc_Viper That’s what these ignorant scientists would have you believe 🤣
@@Arc_Viper this is one of my favorite TH-cam comments ever 🤣
Was the shirt you were wearing or jacket even, did it have a loose thread? If it did you or someone else could’ve easily stepped on it depending on how long that thread was it could’ve also gotten stuck in a door or around something. Alternatively assuming you were there with friends, did any of them pat you on the back or touch you at all. If they believe and you don’t or possibly just for the fun of it it could have honestly been a prank by them. I.E tape some string or something small and unnoticeable onto your back and then yank it at some point to scare you.
Was the abandoned prison lived it and I don’t mean by people. I mean like wild life. A sizable bug or bird or bat could have grabbed the back of your collar briefly, maybe you had a bug or something on you that they can eat.
If your jackets long enough (like a trench coat) you could easily step on your own tail coats with the back of your heel. And not know because you can’t see.
These are all I got.
Also, while I don’t think this specific case was a hallucination. I would like to inform getting or feeling pulled or pushed in itself can still qualify as a hallucination. The brain is a bit too powerful for its own good and in many cases you can feel like something is happening or has happened and if you truly believe it the brain will have the body react accordingly.
Examples of this is when someone has a dream that they are falling. When they hit the ground they’ll either wake up scared or their flailing will lead them to getting woken by someone else or falling off the bed.
(Not always but about 60 40
Ps: It’s when someone gets a scar from a ghost that peaks my interest.
@@lazyspade1559 Your explanation is so rational and I love how well you articulated your response. Good on you.
_THIS_ is how to start a lecture. I wish everyone giving one would watch it. Most people begin by listing their credentials and accomplishments, and the places where they've traveled. And minutes later, after they're already lost their audience, they start with their story, or the topic of their discussion.
This was a very good talk, thank you!
I too once believed in some paranormal phenomenon. Only though vast amounts of information proving the very opposite did I see the general psychological and scientific patterns behind it all. Had I talked to myself as a teen, I could never have convinced myself in just one discussion that my views were not representing the situation realistically. Only through overwhelming and satisfactory evidence can we change big parts of ourselves fully. That is why respect is important in these conversations, if your goal is to convince the other person. However, if there is no will to establish a personal relation, I guess there is no need to be gentle. Then providing the evidence bluntly might be sufficient.
Outer Truth: Facts
Inner Truth: opinions
Sonia Abraham Another way is,
Outer Truth: Objective
Inner Truth: Subjective
Both are correct. I just wanted to add another way of saying it. 👍
So jesus is a fact? not in my fact book
@epicbunty Jesus is a fact, in regards to the man living. There is historical data proving such. It is the religious aspect which would be the non fact and be the inner truth.
vvkingavv Of course Jesus is real. The Hispanics have been around for a very long time. Even the ancient Greeks knew Jesus was real because they would say, *"HEY ZEUS!" when they would want to talk to them.
EpicBunty Jesus the historical figure is truth, Jesus as the holy spirit is opinion
I can feel you. There are times when our intuition or gut feeling can provide valuable insights that our rational minds might miss. Lucky you for having that open-minded friend.
Why she dressed like Buddy The Elf tho??
I was wondering if anyone else noticed!
Paulsicles From Rudolph the RRR right? OMG That is some serious funny! I kept thinking 'Why is she wearing an ancient Norweigan cobbler's outfit!' - and the elfs are cobblers! LOL It really is that exact one from the show too. LOL I miss everybody watching the same things during holiday, in UK and US, alike. Simpler times were far better times, full stop.
I don't know who that is, but looking at the thumbnail I thought she was in an elf costume. LoL!!
Seriously the first thing I thought. Really hard to take seriously now. More cute girls with wack clothes on. Guess I should be used to this.
Paulsicles HAHA! That is EXACTLY my first thought when I laid eyes on her the first time! So glad I was not the only one. Lol!
Carbon mon. detector wouldn't have helped, you need a natural gas detector.
anyway i worked at a haunted mansion in Georgia, we always looked for the scientific reasons, but a bright blue glowing orb flying over our heads was a bit much
Kartos lemme introduce you to something in nature called the firefly who fell into a bucket of blue food coloring.... Or you were on LSD whichever seems more realistic
I work I the mines we work around CO all the time. I've never had a experience of the paranormal at work. I've had some I my own home with no gas at all. I believe there may be a scientific reason behind what I've experienced but until I can work it out ghosts are mad real
And then a debunker shows up and explains that it was a swarm of fireflies piggybacking on a hummingbird. The hummingbird is blue and that's why when the fireflies all simultaneously illuminate it creates the illusion of a blue orb. Then the debunker jumps up and down, claps wildly, and says, "Yes!! I debunked it!" Then she goes up on stage and proudly declares that science wins ten out of ten times. This is how debunkers work.
Kartos
@@tacitus539 ?
i think paranormal stuff is imagination. i stopped having paranormal encounters in my 150 y/o house right around the time i started questioning whether paranormal activity is a real thing
I never knew carbon monoxide could spontaneously open cabinet doors and sling cups at your head.
That might be an earthquake.
@@austenhead5303 cabinet doors can open when temperatures rise or fall or due to humidity ..
Did you try turning it on and off again
I could show her a couple of evp clips I recorded and let her have a real paranormal experience
Do the cabinet doors open with a whoosh sound?
I love her exuberance and sincerity. Great talk! Loved it!
I'm a lover of science, but there are aspects of reality which we don't fully understand. I think there are some things that you will believe to be impossible, until the moment you experience them.
great video. i love her unbiased approach. yes spiritual ideas might not be true but until we prove that, there is always the possibility a spirit realm does exist.
I used to be a member of a paranormal investigation group in the early 2000s. I think she's right with a lot of what she says. These phenomena should be investigated scientifically and with a healthy skepticism, but in my experience there were about 10% of cases that we couldn't explain. Even in those cases we didn't necessarily use the word "ghost" to explain what was happening we would say that the phenomena appears to be "paranormal" (above the normal).
Like what? Do you have an example?
She is closed minded… she personally did not experience it.. so it doesn’t exist.
Your statement is spot on… we investigate, debunk and explain away much of the noise… but not all of it.
I thought this was a Ted talk. When I saw the "X" I knew the story would be insane. Nailed it. The 'X' stands for insane. These talks are psychotic.
Agreed, I was a ross and carrie fan too, this is just too much. Come on drink the cool aid. ITs all explainable 100% of the time dont you know.
Love how open-minded this woman is - and respectful of other peoples thoughts and opinions!
i believe in what shes saying but i still believe in the paranormal
Sara Kayali yeah I don't believe in dragons but I also believe in dragons.
29loot, that wasn't quite fair; Sara's position isn't that contradictory. Not every "haunting" can be explained by CO poisoning and the TED speaker herself is still holding some hope to find a spirit. Just like with Bigfoot, Nessy, alien abductions and God, people hold on to such ideas without solid evidence because some things are hard to explain and a lack of evidence isn't solid proof of non-existence. And it's fun or even inspiring to entertain such ideas, even if a bit foolish.
Yeah
I wouldn’t put God in the same category as those others, because the others would still be part of contengent reality, whereas God would be categorically different from/apart from/independent of/unaffected by said reality.
Of the aforementioned finite beings, I would say “aliens” would be the most plausible, insofar as there must be other advanced sapient life in the universe. That said, two points: I’ve yet to see any compelling evidence that “they” have visited us. And, of course, from their perspective, we would be the “aliens.”
mytmouse57, I get your point and pretty much agree with you on the aliens.
As for God being independent and apart from reality, I know I'm misinterpreting your intent, but the words sound like an assertion that he's not real.
As much as people try to prove God's existence or dismiss the need for evidence by simply claiming that he's the exception to every rule for evidence we can name, I have to say that I find even your intended argument pretty unsatisfactory. It comes down to a choice. Do I believe in the Ultimate Simultaneous Exception to Everything without any evidence or not?
As for me, I find it a reasonable hypothesis that non-permanent matter came from something permanent because infinite causal regression of non-permanent matter SEEMS absurd, making an exception a reasonable possibility. Anything beyond that concerning the nature of God, however, is just a belief, severely lacking in evidence.
As long as we are referring to an omniscient, omnipotent being who cares about us personally, or especially a personal savior from a specific book, I actually think categorizing him/her/it with Nessy is a bit generous of me.
Oh this is Carrie Poppy? She’s the co-host of Oh No, Ross and Carrie! It’s a podcast where they do investigations about fringe science and the paranormal. It’s very fun to listen to.
If Scooby Doo taught us anything, it's that the so-called ghosts would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky kids! Great job. I started listening to Carrie and Ross' podcast about a month ago, and I have really enjoyed catching up on old episodes.
She looks exactly like Buddy the Elf.
Jessica Bush I came here to say the same thing! Hahahahaha 😂
I was looking for someone else who thought that XD
She looks like Buddy the Elf's wife after Buddy was married at the end of the movie. XD
I once heard a noise and thought it was a dog.
It wasn't a dog.
See, dogs don't exist.
Neither do caterpillars
I mean we lizard people should really stop spreading this stuff
That's why science is never ending. Search for the truth keeps going on. As long as such "ghosts" are not found to be an objective truth using scientific methods, it is not right to claim that ghosts do exist. The more the cause for these cases are found to be something else other than ghosts, the more it backs to the fact that ghosts aren't real.
You are ignoring the fact that this video is just one of thousands of such cases for which ghosts have been practically ruled out to be the cause.
@@nyadambagra2178 Fascinating insight. And I thought I was merely pointing out one very bad line of reasoning. Unwittingly, I was doing so much more.
That's a very good argument. Bravo.
I’m still convinced that there is real paranormal/supernatural things and entities- simply due to my own anecdotal experiences.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but you cannot argue with people who don't believe in ghosts. On the other hand, you cannot convince someone who has experienced the paranormal that they are not real.
It's blatantly obvious that not everyone has the capability or gift to see ghosts.
Melancholic not being sarcastic just saying what I think- but ye I totally agree it’s one of those things that can’t be proven or disproven so there’s no point in people arguing over it
In regards to the having the gift to see things like that I also agree- I went to my church when I was younger and the elders there said I had the spiritual gift of discernment
Which basically meant I’m hypersensitive to the spiritual realm- if that even exists
@@melancholic8566 Best reply ever....For sure it is between those WHO HAVE experienced the ghost vs those HAVE NOT experienced. The HAVE NOT become scholars and scientists in front of WHO HAVE.........I have earned post graduation degree in Chemistry, Economics & Business and now studying engineering on my own. But i am included among WHO HAVE experienced the ghost without any doubt. Only few convinced. Its not a science but sight of something that we normally not see around us.
I also experienced what you may describe as paranormal. This word should be disinvented. Even the word science lost most of its true meaning since it's been misused so much. Paranormal is simply something that our senses cannot explain - or worse - give it the wrong explanation. So paranormal should really be replaced by something like 'I cannot explain it but there must be an explanation for it that I personally don't know about at the current time'. As for science, maybe we should rebrand it as pre-science. Way too much guesswork and silly analogies.
Are you able to prove it though?
My family went through extreme poltergeist activity back in the 70's
when we were living at 1723 Downing Street in Greensboro North Carolina.
Our family was close and affectionate and was made up of my husband, myself, our
son and daughter and our beloved family dog.
The house in question was built in 1965 and we
were the first family there but indeed, it was built over what had been a
lake and there were underground springs and creeks all around us with
moving water. I mention that as It is my understanding that this is commonly reported in
many poltergeist cases. When I first moved in my kids were like 5 and 1
years old and I did have a few odd experiences like smelling perfume in
the house that was odd smelling that nobody wore. There were also
feelings of having something rapidly coming up behind one and feeling
not so much as evil but high weirdness of something very old and
completely non-human. The feeling of feeling one was being watched was a
common experience. Not far away behind our house was a graveyard but we
dismissed the idea of ghosts as not much happened for several years
till my daughter and son grew up. Before the real explosion of
poltergeist activity the woods behind our house and leading to the
graveyard was a place my son and many of the kids enjoyed playing at. At
the time, it was not seen odd as none of us thought in anyway that a
graveyard could be a concern. When my daughter was about 16 and my son
was about 12 we had a the first big amounts l of poltergeist activity in
our home for several months. It started first with my daughter who had a
seance with her friends for her 16 birthday. Soon after that she had
objects fly off her walls and she would find at times at night having
weird experiences like waking to find her hand being held by a small
withered hand or hearing a loud bang on the wall. I experienced the most terrifying
experience of being awakened at about 2am to my foot being shaken - I could feet the hands around my ankle
and I remembered yelling out 'Jesus save me' and about two seconds later my husband sleeping beside
me awoke as well. The light was flicked on and the room was empty. I was 100% sure
I was not dreaming.
The seance my daughter and her friends did was
something she and her friends did on their own as a joke - it was not
something that was routine or approved of in our home but soon after
this the weirdness was manifest. Strong gust of wind would sometimes
come from nowhere and blow through the house.
Though experiences could happen anytime of day, I would say 90% of the
time the activity happened at night from between Midnight and 3am. If I
were to venture a guess, the entry point or portal was located in a
closet space shared by my son's and sisters room as the doors of the
closet would sometimes open on their own during manifestations in our
home. It got to the point that my son would tie a belt around his closet
door handles before going to bed at night - of course this didn't stop
the trouble but it made him feel better that the closet door remained
closed at night.
The sound of heavy objects falling and breaking glass occurred in other
rooms but when observed nothing was to be seen.However, the focus
shifted from her very quickly to completely focus on my 12 year old son.
It is hard to describe all the evens from slamming doors, sheets being
yanked off beds, shaking beds , flickering lights and all of us being
awakened at night by having a hand shake one awake or messing with ones
feet or bed coverings. Even stranger was the experience my son had was
after being awakened by a shaking bed he sat up and flicked on the light
and then felt something invisible, big and heavy bound into the bed next
to him that knocked him over and then was just as quickly gone. That incident was the one my son
reported as most freaking him out was that experience. He described it like being on the bed and imagining if a huge obese invisible man
were to jump into bed with you and then vanish - all happening in about 3 seconds.
We were not alone in all of this -The family dog was pretty freaked out when
this would happen and he would bark and growl at unseen presences but
usually acted very afraid and was eager to be outside the house than
inside it. Most of the poltergeist activities it seemed to happen during
my sons REM sleep when his bed would shake so we think his unconscious
was letting lose. Of course, many, perhaps half of the activity was not
the 1am to 3am variety but would happen in the middle of the day as
well. When the bed shaking occurred my husband and I would get up and go
into his bedroom and see him asleep with the bed go back and forth. At
first my husband and I took it to be completely demonic opened up by the
silly teenage seance my daughter had engaged in but the psychological
aspects could not be missed as well. My son was hyperactive and on
Ritalin.The Ritalin helped him focus like a stimulate but it had a side
effect of stunted growth to the degree he was behind normal physical
growth and development by a full year. We thought perhaps the Ritalin
might had been affecting his CNS but it appeared it was the bed moving
him - not the other way around. In short, there was probably something
in that house from the time we moved in but our son was clearly the
battery that caused things to go crazy when he became of age.
We had a Catholic priest come bless the home, this did work
but it only knocked off the activity for about 10 days before it started
up again. The priest was very enlightened and told us that though demons do
sometimes wreck homes what we had was likely a poltergeist which is basically a demon 3rd class
on assignment for a short trial period and could steal energy from anything from a fight in a home
or pent up libido. The priest asked each of us if we had done anything like play with Tarot cards,
used a Ouija Board, drug use, seances or any serious moral violations. I mentioned the seance
my daughter and her friends had done and my son's horror comic collection. The priest nodded and smiled
at my son and told him throw them in the trash which he did somewhat reluctantly. He advised my daughter no more
seances and for all of us all to relax more, laugh more and pray more
and make the 'the house light'. He told us poltergeist are affected by blessing but unless
they are done weekly they will keep coming back so the best solutions lay with our family
as he didn't have time to come by each week to bless the home.
One funny bit of symbolism that I did not catch to many
months later was the poltergeist at the first part of it's manifestation
did so while we were eating dinner. We were all around the table and
talking and laughing and my son had a tall glass of milk in front of him
in a tall glass and it suddenly exploded. Nobody was hurt by the glass
but the milk went straight up in a crazy manner all over the ceiling
till it rained down on all of us. The symbolism of this pent up energy
is kind of clear. It might be the case that the Ritalin that had stunted his growth
might have built up huge levels of energy as my son told me years later he
didn't get his first wet dream till he was 14 which bothered him as all his friends had gotten them
by 13 years old . My husband had told him not to worry about it
and nature had it's own time for him. Of course there is a problem with that theory as well as the poltergeist activity largely
ended a full year or more before that so that one explanation is not complete.
It is fascinating that strong emotions and libido can
provide such huge stores of energy for poltergeist to pull from and one
one learns to unplug them from their source they cannot manifest without
a power source to tap. The key to killing the poltergeist was creating a
happy relaxed home. After about 6 months it was pretty much over with.
It was the most amazing and terrifying 6 months of our lives and a eye -
opening awakening to the world of the paranormal. After all the years
of thinking of this I can only conclude we had every thing and multiple
causes to create a perfect poltergeist environment. Though it was not
fun to go through, it was very interesting and to a degree, deepened all
of our faith as we did conclude we were not dealing with PK but with
intelligent beings with a twisted sense of humor. This became clear when
the poltergeist in our home seemed to take a great deal of dislike for a
blessed crucifix we kept in the hall and a picture of Jesus. These were
often turned upside down or found laying on the floor knocked off which
suggest this being had a strong dislike for these items.
I am open to various ideas
to explain what happened here.
I would love this audience take on the poltergeist experience.
Hope this has been of interest.
Wasn't you scared? I would've moved from that house immediately.
@@amonra9726 Very scared but I supposed we stayed as the priest told us if we didn't defeat defeat the poltergeist there during our trial there was a pretty good chance it would just follow us to the next residence. Once we knew the trial was of limited duration and all the poltergeist could really do was to try to scare us, it was pretty amazing how we learned to deal with it. And it turned out it did end for the most part with only 2 or three incidents after that for the next decade we were in that home.
@@joycekoch5746 to be honest i think that paranormal activities are only psycological. Are you still sure that none of these activities were somehow induced by your minds? Like you seeing you kid shaking and moving the bed and thinking it was the bed moving? Maybe you were projecting.
I never had such experiences and i say this with all due respect to religion and these paranormal claims.
@@amonra9726 These things could be possibly explained by unusual CNS movement and psychological projections but that does not address gust of wind, door opening, the milk flying out of the glass to the ceiling and the invisible being encounter my son had had along with the pictures flying off the walls. Sure, I suppose any incident could be understood but collectively it paints a big picture that goes beyond a psychological even to a force acting on matter from the outside.
I would note the family dog was quicker to pick up on things before an event than we were. My basic opinion was the sum total of many things built up together to bring about this experience.
@@joycekoch5746 did you become religious after these experiences? I like to think about the universe and spirituality, but i would consider myself as an open minded atheist. I never experienced poltergeist, but sometimes i feel like i am "possessed" by anger, i want to hurt myself etc i always linked that to my disfuncional family growing up and some other traumas, but a friend of mine, which is a convinced catholic says that prayer and baptism could help me.
Do you think that some of these phenomena could manifest in mental and phisical ailments? The only weird and unexplained experience i had (and rarely still have) is before falling asleep (when i am stilll fully awake but relaxed) e feel like my body is made of rubber, and that i somehow expand in my own body. When i was a child, when having these feelings i would also see human like faces being distorted and twisted, like they were in front of my face. It only happened when i was in bed with my eyes closed. It felt like something was happening inside of me. Later on i forgot about these things and started numbing myself with marijuana, to help me fall asleep. Now that i don't smoke anymore i started feeling again this sensation of being made of rubber and my body expanding. It clearly sounds like it's some kind of internal hallucination, but i am curious what would you think being that you had all these weird experiences.
In my English class i had to choose a debate about whatever topic i wanted and then resume the video to my classmates, so i choose this video which sounds to my mind a debate in itself. I'm going to present it tomorrow and i'd like to thank you lady because i really enjoy your point of view about it all.
Occam's Razor.
Either those spooky noises or apparitions you saw are actual ghosts, in which case you have to explain how they exist, where they came from, how their reality ties to our observable reality, and go all the way down to the most fundamental truths of an existence where ghosts and the supernatural are real.
OR
Your experiences can be explained with the very real and tangible reality that we know is there and actually observable.
There's always, ALWAYS an explanation for everything. Just because you can't explain your supernatural experience, doesn't mean an explanation for it doesn't exist.
Please, please, please, do not equate carbon monoxide to a gas leak. While both can cause a lot of problems and ultimately death, they are very, very different. First off, although the gas that we generally use is, naturally, as odorless as carbon monoxide, we add something to it that has a very distinct smell, so that we detect a gas leak relatively early on, to warn us that it might not be the best idea to light a match at that particular point. Carbon monoxide does not have that same added smell. That's because, carbon monoxide does not enter your house through a pipe or cannister. Carbon monoxide forms when you burn something, but you lack sufficient oxygen to burn it properly. In that case, instead of forming carbon dioxide and watervapor (and, depending on the type of fuel, come other things, but, let us stick to normal gas), you are forming carbon monoxide and watervapor. Usually, you can already tell when looking at the flames. If burned properly, gas will burn blue (and that's only because of the added smell, normally, gas burns invisibly, all you see is the waves the heat forms in the air). If you see yellow flames, there is a problem, you don't have enough oxygen there and carbon monoxide is forming. Now, carbon monoxide does not explode, it is a by product of the burning process and cannot be used as fuel. If you had had a gas leak in the example that you gave, then that sage burning you did would probably have killed you instantly.
One of the best TED talks I've ever listened to
If u think this was good u are stupid
@@pavlekovacevic1676 Yea I am, you're so right.
Love their podcast “Oh No”. Finally, respectful and rational skeptics of the occult
The unbelievable part of your story isn't the ghost, it is that your psychiatrist didn't prescribe any medication. That is astonishing!
This is 100%not true. We Do not have a gas leak and have seen spirits in our house. It started when my son was about 3 and said that there was a man in his room.
I would love having the "let's test it together" enthusiasm with someone who tells me about their paranormal event, but from my experience, suggesting something like that is inherently offensive because it questions the existence of ghosts in general. That belief is very strong for some people.
Saying "Maybe that noise was a mouse in the walls" can be like saying "Maybe your beliefs aren't correct". It's usually a lose/lose situation. I can say nothing and let pseudoscience win the day, or say something that likely starts a fight and an awkward situation for other people around.
Brad Heinle sounds like discussing politics these days haha
I heard about this talk on her podcast. It was mentioned on an episode where they investigated a haunted house. They were able to replicate some of the reported occurrences, clearing up the mysteries. The person who requested it was relieved to learn his home wasn’t haunted. So, there’s that.
In general they aren’t out to change the minds of the people and groups they investigate. It’s sort of an insiders view they’re getting. So, they generally play it cool and try to relate to people on their terms.
Their interview with a flat Earth believer was quite interesting, for instance. I would have great difficulty not pointing out all the errors he was making. But, that allows for a more complete picture of what his thoughts on the matter were.
I just love Ted talks .......... they're always have been good
not.....really ..
No not even close dumbass!!!
Except that model that claimed being pretty isn't everything.
"They're always have been good"
One thing you can definitely say, I love her energy. She seems like she would be a genuine pleasure to be around.
I cannot argue with her. I believe in the paranormal, and my experiences have been unpredictable and never consistent, except for maybe one.
The one thing that has been consistent may not be paranormal, but it is strange. Throughout my life, certain street lights would go out when I got into a certain proximity of them, and then turn back on when I got out of range. Certain lights I could time perfectly when they were going to go out based on how close I got to it. I would snap, point at the light, and it would go out. I had to practice several times before I got it down, but it wasn't my snapping or pointing that made it go out, it was just my proximity to the light, I just put on a show for the cars waiting at the intersection hoping somebody would notice. They have since changed the lights over the years, and I don't walk or go out as much as I used to, so I haven't found another light as reliable, but if I come across one again I'll be sure to document it. The strangest of these events occurred one night when the lights went out down a street I was walking, two lights on my side of the road, and one on the other side. As I progressed down the road, the next lights went off, and the previous ones tuned back on; this created a sort of shadow following me, as if light refused to shine on me. It only happened once, on that road, and I have no explanation for it.
There are other stories I could tell, that a skeptic/denier/non-believer could easily apply a belief to that would be explanation enough for them because it fits into their world view; but I am a skeptic/believer. I actually do question, and I am okay with leaving something an open mystery instead of trying to come up with an explanation that fits into our current understanding of the world. I have witnessed something that I still to this day cannot even come close to coming up with a logical explanation for; unlike the others that could potentially have a non-paranormal explanation.
I too seek legitimate proof that is undeniable, but it is elusive, especially considering our lack of understanding of so many things. Being a denier is just as bad, if not worse than being a believer.
Dan Law I’ve had the same thing happen with street lights. Always wondered what it’s about. Maybe I just happen to be in the same spot frequently when the timers go on/off. It is weird, though 🤷🏻♀️
@@annasanders8401 Look into street light interference SLI or SLIders/sliders.
In some cases it could be magical thinking and/or coincidence, which is why if one is so inclined should look at the matter scientifically. There is no way for me to know if random street lights (SLs) turn off (or in some cases on), in my close proximity more than it happens to others, but there have been situations where I could test a specific street light. The one I mentioned was a SL I passed by frequently at different times, and then I even changed my walking speed. Could some SLs be more sensitive than others, could emotion be a factor, is it something that happens to everyone when all the conditions are right, like a person who is under stress, duress, in deep thought, or active, in the presence of a weak SL, or other similar type of light? I don't know yet; but I do think it is worthy of exploration.
What I wonder is what can be learned from such a phenomenon. Science has been learning about and discovering some things that sound crazy and out there, but there is still so much left undiscovered that could revolutionize the way we see the world.
Okay so came here for the paranormal nerd and left giggling at the comments section. So many good comments.
10 out of 10???
Now I wont agree to that...
i think it would be 9/10
And why is that? Has something paranormal happened to you or someone close?
She's speaking from her experience and investigations. From those experiences it's 10/10.
She’s done hundreds of investigations at this point, and in every single one of them she and her partner have debunked any sort of mystical or spiritual phenomena, across a very broad spectrum of beliefs and practices. She’s referring to her own work; she’s not making a conclusive, sweeping claim about every mystical claim there is.
Ok illiterate
Nice. I dont know why so many dislikes
Either they are believers or they didn't watch the whole video like I almost didn't. She started out sounding really nutty on purpose, so I bet a lot of people turned it off before the switch in tone.
Take a look at the last 20 disliked videos and see if there's a common theme among the presenters.
frogboy7000 How can you see the last 20 disliked videos?
After seeing the first comment of "watch first" while only listening and browsing the comments after only watching the first minute... unclicked the dislike and finally added a like...
Joseph nailed it.
Cause people don't like the Truth to their illusions they believe in :) TH-cam is great for clicbaiting dumb people $$$ for ghosts, paranormal videos and other stuff related to it. People better make money off it while people are still ignorant cause it won't last for ever, well maybe once 3rd world countries flood their dumb people onto the youtubes then having to wait til they evolve, my god..
My mind is so open my brain leaks out my ear
lol
xDD
Watch the video.
Kami I did. I was talking about the general paranormal believers not this lady. I assumed that TED (even x) wasn't seriously talking about the paranormal before watching.
your brain leaks out of your ear? well I bet that only took a second!..... :P
She had my respect and attention till she said 10/10 science wins.
You should have kept watching. She gets to that.
name a time it didn't
Oh, you lost respect for her when she said logic wins over mindless faith?
Hi, you must be Wayne Kerr.
Christian Hawthorne there are lots of things science can’t explain in today’s world, YET. I believe the supernatural to be one of those things.
Kayla Goodwin nah I’m not saying I don’t respect her or her view, which I get it sounds like I don’t, but I believe there is a side to this topic that no one truly understands
Even as a Witch, I would just like to say, there is never one side to the story. You are an amazing person that has discovered your side of the story, one that saved your life, and in turn I'd just like to say that we should always be cautious, look to both sides for help, because in doing so we not only help ourselves, but possibly help others as well.
"People refuse to give up the ghost."
What you did there. I see it.
My sister forwarded me this video to watch because she is a firm non believer in ghosts, where as I’m more open minded! I’m not one of those crazy people who believes that everything you see or hear which is even slightly strange should be put down to a ghost. But I also believe that not absolutely everything can be explained in terms of science as we currently know it. I don’t really like the fact that she seems to mock a belief in ghosts at the end of this speech - her explanation about carbon dioxide poisoning, however, was interesting! Things like carbon monoxide poisoning, as well as things like sleep paralysis, would be good explanations to explain many ghost sittings and ‘ experiences’. I do agree that most things can be explained if you really look for it. But I also think that every now and then, things do happen which you simply can’t explain! Life isn’t black and white!
I want to hear her talking after her firsrt ayahuasca experience.
If you listen to her podcast (Oh No Ross And Carrie) there are several episodes where she takes an Ayahuasca tincture (which is 10 times more powerful) before recording
@@Dr.PicklePh.D. I can't believe that until I see/hear it. Do you have a link? 10 times more powerful is bs. A full ayahuasca experience is a full ayahuasca experience. It doesn't matter if you get there by a cup of tea or by a couple of drops of tincture.
@@RohrAtom I believe this is the one: ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2018/2/23/ross-and-carrie-find-their-rythmia-part-3-ayarossca-edition?rq=Find%20their%20rythmia
although they do have around 14ish? I think? episodes visiting Rythmia and doing Ayahuasca. It's worth listening to all of em imo
I don't know if those things visibke after DMT are some type of alternative reality or Just brain produced IT but IT definietly its interesting
Who you going to call , gas busters!
I’m not afraid of no gas leak
😮 shook. I usually hate puns
I was searching for this comment
Gaseous activities😗
I was a sceptic when she said 10 out of 10 times science wins as I know people who have seen and communicated with ghosts and there is paranormal activity in my home. Scientists won't be able to solve my situation. I live single in a two-bedroom home so someone isn't playing tricks on me. A large dresser/TV console in the living room had an empty drawer suddenly fully open after I returned from going to the garage. The drawer does not slide easily. Objects I recently handled or a day before are placed in a central area on the floor and always parallel or perpendicular to the floorboards. I placed a roma tomato in a carton on the kitchen counter, walked to my room and back to the kitchen and found the tomato and a pile of rubber bands placed on the floor far from the carton. I did a simulation and rolled the tomato off the counter and it plopped, split and didn't roll at all. A washed styrofoam meat tray was moved from behind the kitchen garbage can, placed on the floor perpendicular to the floorboards and some milk was splashed all over it. I noticed a small statue was missing from a bookshelf in my bedroom. The next day I found it on the bookshelf in the other bedroom. While I was watching a horror movie "Sommerfest", during a gruesome moment halfway in I looked up and saw that the statue was turned facing the wall and stopped watching the movie. I shut the gas off during all warm months, there is a carbon monoxide detector and the activity happened during these months so gas leaks are not a viable explanation.
Yeah but can she explain why she’s dressed like an Elf??
Nah look isnt everything 👍
Cause she felt like it, does there need to be more reason than that ?
It’s almost Christmas!!
@@rees454 Yes. Why didn't ANYONE tell her that outfit should not even be worn as holiday joke.
Peter Pan collars are
so 20th century!
I adore Carrie's podcast "Oh no Ross and Carrie!"
Carbon monoxide is a bi-product of the incomplete combustion of gas, and is not the same thing as a gas leak. I would have thought that a genuinely scientific investigator would have nailed that detail.
Yes!
because journalists are the best people to talk with about science
its not ad hominem its relevant as journalists aren't scientists if you think that's ad hominem then you dont know what it means
if it went after the gas leak was fixed what other explaination is there? it was a gas spirit/ghost?? :D
How would a scientist have done a better job at this? source was found that was the gas, the symptoms were the same, her symptoms went...
im not saying a scientist would have what i am saying is that there are tons of journalists out there who lie or are plain deluded like ones who are certain of things like flat earth aliens and ghosts when there is little to no proof
Okay, but its like that for people in all professions, there are plenty of scientists who are bad scientists or who dismiss things without any type of investigation. I've seen many scientists who have never taken anytime to study paranormal subjects not because they are not interested but because they don't 'believe' its like their almost scared or ashamed to study such a topic, which fair enough if you only want to train in one area but you can't have an opinion that carries any weight if you've not got the experience in the area. Dismissing something and drawing an analysis from nothing is anti science. There are three types of scientists, those who wait for evidence to fall into their lap out of the sky, those who just follow other peoples work and models and those who go looking for it and experiment, the latter are the ones who nearly always lead the way in science and technological advancement.
Its quite shocking and disheartening that in science scientists who are really popular and supposedly great can dismiss subjects without having fully investigated them, usually making jokes and sarcastic comments about those that do.
+Jonas Sousa i did but when first reading this i didnt i was thinking about taking it down but my point still stands
She was so lovely! I really appreciate it when people advocate for nuanced understandings of things like the difference between a historical fact and the impact that fact could have on a persons life. There is a difference and a connection between what actually happened and how those things impact a persons inner life or experience. ❤️👏🏻❤️👏🏻
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Everyone is focusing on the cultural and religious explanation for the paranormal by calling it a ghost or a demon or poltergeist. But imo we need real scientific data to try and understand the paranormal with (new) physics. But now I have the feeling that "science" is not taking it serious enough.
My entire family has collectively had experiences with a ghost we affectionately call Gregory. Nothing malicious, mainly hearing voices. Example while staring at my boyfriend I heard his voice call out babe but he didn't say anything and his mouth never moved. Everyone in my family and lots of visitors have experienced This. More specifically voices and phrases of things already said. Basically it mimics us. This has followed us when moving houses.
I've had numerous amounts of other experiences, like At a friends house with seeing apperations and seeing things move On their own and demonic growls. My dog was super freaked out by that.
And I'm not religious, I'm atheist. I like to think ghosts aren't real until someone reminda me I've had encounters. I'd love if someone could just explain everything I've experienced.
How has the "ghost" behavior been as of late?
Set up an audio recorder and leave it running constantly. If something happens then check out the recorded audio. I don't buy the "ghosts from the grave" idea but certain "phenomena" appears to be genuine -- although rare.
Yep you've no proof?... Strange that...
Kris, just for fun (chuckling under my breath) ask Gregory next time you sense him near, out loud, "Has Jesus Christ came in the flesh?" And see if it responds. You have my info if it doesn't like the question.
@@craigtmonaghan2009 and? Any video or audio would be considered fake anyways
I got my Christmas wish! A science peddling elf girl come to educate the world on why her experiences outweigh someone else's. Thank you Santa!
Despite the fact that I am trained as a scientist, I think there are still a few things missing from these scientific tests of the paranormal. One of those items would be how the tests themselves are constructed. For example, for those who believe they have insight into the inner worlds of others, they should be tested on exactly that - their insight into the psychology of others, not be forced to predict a sequence of cards. We have to learn, as scientists, how to handle the subjective experiences of people without changing the context altogether. While I understand that the scientific method depends upon our ability to control variables and reproduce the results, we must not be afraid of lessons embedded in noise and subjectivity. So, I say, be immersed in the insanity! Experience the terror of experience! Gather information out of the sanitized confines of a lab! Then, you may do the complex work of knitting together the workings of it. This is the holistic approach - the systems approach to the scientific method. We must work in vivo, not in vitro. No more testing of variables in isolation! Let us simulate, play, and reenact.
While this does not eliminate the fact that carbon monoxide was indeed the cause, the logic explaining a phenomenon (in general) can be much more complex then the presence of a hallucinogen. If we are to understand those things, we must be willing to seriously investigate an event and not dismiss it as quackery. Complex interactions of psychology and environment - something we still do not have a good handle on.
One of the biggest problems isn’t the search for an answer, it’s figuring out the right questions to ask
I thought like this woman for 39 years. Up until I had my first of multiple experiences.
She didn't say that ghosts don't exist. She says that based on her experiences and investigations with others there isn't evidence for them yet.
Yea i was a skeptic too, until me and my friend got haunted in our dorm toilet (the dorm is not frequently used and usually empty since its only used during practical training once a year) during my training (we are an oceanographer student), best and horrifying experience ive ever had lmao
I believe in Neville Goddard and that reality becomes what you make of it. So there is nothing to be afraid of
@@artupage oOoOO, the toilet.... The toilet was vvhaunted by a ghoooooOost, oOoOoooooo
@@artupage What happened? What are the details because if it is just flyshing on its own you might want to check for leaks or get a plumber.
I went from laughing at ghost hunters to feeling sorry for them. Great vid Thxs!!
I went through that phase. But I finally got over that. Now I walk in the paranormal daily. I don't feel the need to prove it to others though. Everyone thinks it's their's or someone else's job to PROVE to others it's one way or another. Like God doesn't exist because we can't offer a good enough argument that will be accepted by the receiver (who doesn't want to accept anything as evidence as their heart is set and so they are more apt to throw out what would otherwise be hard evidences) as proof of the other person's claim.
Atheists don't get it. Whether I'm good enough to convince you has no bearing on the existence and Omnipotence/Omniscience/Omnipresence of God. He either EXISTS AND REIGNS as an outside truth or He doesn't. His existence has no actual IMPACT on His outer truth despite what unbelievers believe to be a lack of physical existence.
My favourite is when I described, my friends house to a t, right down to what type of carpet she had.
I don’t even know where she lives.
I’ve only seen her at this annual campground we go to.
I dreamt it.
I don’t even know her actual name.
Another, is when I’ve seen things before they happen and I’ve learned to keep it to myself and say it after.
That last sentence, the next time that happens write it down put it in an envelope seal it and give it to a friend.
so when my aunt levitated and was unresponsive we should have just checked for carbon monoxide in the air.
No, you should have documented it with your smartphone.
thetruthrover 🤫 people don’t actually have them on hand. Conveniently 🙄
Ive seen things that this doesn't explain.
No just checked your medication 🙄
Fools just can't open their conscious wide enough that there are things that are not of this plane. They mock, like tell you to check your medication like you take meds for hallucinations.
When you give accounts of things that science can't explain away, you challenge the troll skeptics INNER TRUTH and so they lash out in passive aggressive comments attacking your sanity or intellect. When all along you are fine and they do not know how to respond to the challenge.
Yes, I watched the whole video. This is definitely the least informative and most juvenile Ted Talk guest I've seen to date.
Truth
It's a story
That gives an alternate answer to superstition
And well monoxide poisoning is a threat and her contribution to spreading the message however small might help
But yeah juvenile
Oh I've seen MANY Ted Talks that were less informative than that. It is very simple of understanding and is more "humor-oriented", not (really) _juvenile_, but something similar to it.
Her podcast is amazing
Ummm. Carbon monoxide comes from burning hydro carbons. Like having an exhaust leak in your car or your space heater. Not from a gas leak.
Jfc. Its a gas. It was 'leaking into her house' through whatever means. It was a gas leak. Just not from a natural gas line with a hole or faulty fitting.
@@metamorphicorder what gas line do you know of anywhere that "supplies" carbon monoxide. These nerds cant even imply themselves into believing the paranormal.
@@kregmaffews i didnt say that it came in through a line. I specifically said that it didnt come in through a line.
@@metamorphicorder she also didnt say anything about a space heater..
As to how it could be a leak.
CO can build up underground and this can infiltrate into houses as the height of the gas level raises due to production from the source of the gas. For instance a house that is located in a depression from surrounding ground features such as hills mountains or valleys, could experience CO leaking into the house as the gas settles to lower elevations. As its a heavier than air gas, it will settle to the lowest point in a home and build up as well as being circulated by convection currents in the home. There are many other ways that CO can leak into a house. Homes with furnaces that have partially blocked and leaky exhaust systems will produce CO during a heating cycle. Due to leaky exhaust systems, the exhaust gasses can LEAK into the home. The more volatile and lighter gasses will dissipate but the CO and CO2 can build gradually over time. This is technically a 'gas leak', as its a gas and a leak.
Technically, its an exhaust leak, or an exhaust gas leak.
She probably chose to use the word gas leak because CO is also associated with the exhaust from automobiles and saying an exhaust leak might create distracting confusion among listeners.
Its her house, how could an exhaust leak in her car cause a build up of CO in her HOUSE unless she was running her car in her attached garage with the door closed, like all the time? They would be trying to figure out completely irrelevant details instead of listening to the talk.
While not CO, natural gas can also leak into a house and cause health issues and death, though less common due to the thiols they mix with it to render it detectable by human noses at very small concentrations.
But gas leaks are understandable enough that using that as a convenient term will easily and effectively convey that a toxic gas was building up in her home causing her to be deluded. It would have been interesting to know exactly what was discovered to be the source of the CO in her home but her message didnt need it. There was a CO build up in her home. DELUSIONS are a symptom of protracted CO poisoning. She was delusional. She was having symptoms of delusions and had a CO check which came back not only positive but extremely high. Possibly fatally so. She solved the exposure issue and the delusions stopped.
There were other aspects to her story, but not important to this discussion.
Hahahah the skeptic ghost hunters are basically the scooby gang. Also this is extremely clever
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, the podcast sounds amazing!!!
I wish I can hear a talk of this fine lady in 7 years!
What?
@@letstalk-misc3575 what what?
@@johnzen3176 I don't get it
@@letstalk-misc3575 i see my friend the way she talks reflect how she is not exposed to the hard problems of science! She is too oblivious to reality.
And how it's not a straight line....
@@johnzen3176 So you disagree with her ? I'm confused
Carrie: We should test paranormal claims with science, seeing if there is a scientific explanation
People in the comments: No! That's a thing I'm sensitive about!
For real, though, y'all are having this reaction because you don't like that your belief is being challenged. As someone who used to believe in the paranormal, I get it. But the best way to respect yourself is to find all other explanations for your experiences.
When I was younger I saw and heard things I believed were demons. I was terrified of my bedroom, and couldn't sleep in there for years. It wasn't just a small thing in the corner of my eye. I saw a full-on figure running from my closet to out of my line of sight. My parents would always feel angry in my room, which was also where our computer was since I was born after they had moved into the house.
When we moved out, we discovered black mold, which we didn't know about the entire time we lived there. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized the black mold, my religious upbringing, and my father actively showing me ghost "documentaries" from birth all prepped me for hallucinations of the paranormal. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more health concerns than just the mold. That house was really not taken care of.
I'm not saying there is no way that the paranormal could be true, but I also think that people are defensive of their paranormal experiences because we don't like feelings wrong or foolish. You're not a fool for believing in the paranormal, but you might be one if you can't even entertain the thought that there could be another explanation.
I've always been on the fence with this topic. There was a time where I lived in a house where it always felt off, as if someone were behind you at all times. One day my very skeptic friend and me were eating pizza and laughing on my table when we seen my trashcan get quite literally thrown across the kitchen. We were scared shitless since nobody else was there. We checked for fishing lines, string, or any sign of a prank. Nothing. Moved out and haven't felt that or experienced anything like that since.
I was outside in the fresh air when I first seen a ghost. It wasn’t auditory
It could be some kind of hallucination. Not saying your crazy, but the brain isn't perfect. I think it's similar to deja-vus also. Think of all the informations our brain process, then we dream, then we like imagining stuff etc it is really plausible that sometimes it can glitch and make you believe something that was not there.
I think your experience could be some induced paraeidolia. Paraedolia is the tendency of our brain to ser faces or other human-like lineaments in random objects. We are "programmed" to communicate and depend for survival on other human beings, or recognize predators rapidly. Our brain just automatically sees faces, even when they are not there.
I would also suppose you were stressed at the time or didn't have enough sleep, maybe you didn't eat properly, low blood sugar etc
I have seen many ghost in my life !!! Outside and inside!!! And yes our house had carbon monoxide sensor in the house !!!
@Baphomet the Sabbatic Goat To me, ghosts are not that. They're simply something in this world that cannot be explained with science. We don't know what it looks like, sounds like, or even if it exists. But sometimes things happen that science cannot grip onto. That is what a ghost is to me. All paranormal, unexplained occurrences of the sort.
@Baphomet the Sabbatic Goat Read the comment thoroughly before proceeding with a reply. I clearly stated that I didn't believe ghosts were human-like, or even souls. Merely the unexplained of this world, that science cannot prove 100% wrong.
I was in a cemetery at night and there was a faint sound of chains rattling. I put my ear to a mausoleum and the sound seemed to be coming from within. I went back during daylight and discovered the source of the sound: metal tags wired on to metal flower pots. The wind would blow and rattle the tags against the pots.
She needs to goto San Antonio TX and check the railroad out that the bus of children died on.
Been there and there’s something mainstream people either aren’t looking into or know something and don’t elaborate on the science of this field - probably relates to the quantum realm IMHO
I leave my body when I'm asleep so I can move things around and knock on the walls it's awesome
You should sign up for the challenge to prove your abilities. It would be cool. You could even win prize money.
Okay, I watched before commenting.
She claims to have looked into this scientifically, yet she makes no reference to ANY current theories on anything "paranormal" such as circumstantial evidence regarding poltergeist phenomena, ie the human subconsciousness.
She fails to point out that her examples only refer to single person non-physical perceptions, what about several people witnessing something quite physical?
Just saying, carbon monoxide does not throw your stuff around in front of everyone- don't think it's the anthropomorphic ghost myself, but something IS doing it.
To say those who believe to have had experiences are not quite right in the head is quite arrogant and "scientistic" rather than scientific.
Good, actual scientific reading on this includes Walter von Lukadu (German government paid scientist) and Eric Ouellet (ex army Canada).
What she does with her talk is scaring those who have experienced to come forward to bring data to the scientific table, and to be labelled insane.
Why this person got invited to speak escapes me.
This is so daft compared to actual scientists talking about the subject, I can hardly believe it, what a throwback, what a pity.
Something I've been having is feeling light headed when I enter my room, I just feel super paranoid like someone is watching me. My dog hates going into my closet, objects have moved.. we have carbon monoxide alarms, never has one gone off for somethin' other than batteries.
When I say my dog won't go in my closet, I mean she won't even go into it for a treat. I've heard a very short whistling sound when winds were not strong..
And
I've heard knocking from the inside of my bathroom door, choking sounds from out of my vents when we first moved in, plus once when I felt I was not alone, I looked up and swear I saw something hide behind the bathroom door. ALSO, when I was about to record, my legit GUT FEELING stepped in and told me "no, that's a terrible idea.. go downstairs."
Now listen.
If you think you're being haunted, go to a therapist. Not because you're crazy. Not because you need help. But because you could have paranoia or a delusional disorder 😂
Delusional paranoia will cause you to see things that are not really there, they can also cause you to hear and feel things. When you have a delusion you cannot tell if they are real or not, so this is a possibility.
Paranoia may or may not cause you to feel like someone is out for you, or you are not alone
A PHOBIA may actually cause you to see things and feel things too! But unlike delusions, you're gonna be scared of it and assume more often, as that is what your phobia does. It makes you terrified.
Or, remember this.
Your eyes only see 5% of the world, so all paranormal activity is most of the time actually normal. Well, this fact can cause you to be more paranoid, as there could be someone leaning over your shoulder watching you read this right now.
I believe in paranormal, not really *ghosts themself*, as the paranormal is actually stuff that you cannot explain, not only ghosts.
Carbon Monoxide not dioxide
@@sethk1698 oh yeah, i usually mess that up.
She has obviously never had a "real" paranormal experience.
Niether has anyone else.
@@gracefulsledge2857 Thats the definition of Narcissist
Jamie Weems only those open to the spirit world can see/feel. If you repress it you’ll never see anything, unless it’s something bad then it’ll present itself if u block them spiritually or not. They don’t give af
@@GrayTheMartian yeesh
@@GrayTheMartian Well that's pretty convenient, isn't it.