People see what they want to see. For instance does anyone remember the face on Mars? I remember people went ape-shit over this. Turns out it was just an optical illusion. Huh imagine that.
Also I can’t remeber who said this but its stuck with me for quite some time now; it went something like this: Humans are arogant in the fact that we try to explain things we have no explanation for. Remeber, just becuase you can’t explain something logicaly doesn’t mean its supernatural phenomina.
Just found this article, in which an attempt at a scientific look at the phenomenon was undertaken.
Dunno what this answers (if anything), but there you go.
Rest assured that no one will bother to bother to read the link, just as no one bothers to read the thread. -See the third reply here for the same article, as well a companion piece.
The best explanation i heard was that “ghosts” were just simply a glitch in the Matrix.
A nekkid Henry the 8th??
SCCCAAAAARRRYYY!:eek:
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*Originally posted by ianzin *
** Conversely, the hypothesis that the ghost exists in the mind, and is a mental construct rather than a visual perception, is much more well supported by evidence and entirely consistent with all of the above findings. **
I couldn’t agree more. But I take issue with your distinction. We are never able to apprehend the world directly. By the time we become cognizant of a visual perception it is equally nothing more than a mental construct.
**I think it makes sense to say that ‘ghosts’ are in the mind. They are an expression or symptom of an emotional response to a place or an event, or a projection of an emotional or mental state. It’s a perfectly real experience, and can be important to the person perceiving the ghost. But not a perception of an external thing, like seeing a wall. **
And how can you be so sure that the wall is external? What if:
“There is no spoon?”
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*Originally posted by frithrah *
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You took the red and blue pills, didn’t you?
This is always my favorite. Like when the historicly-impaired person says they see the ghost of a Civil War soldier on the Revolutionary War battlefield.
The intelligence said that Iraq didn’t have any WMDs either.
It’s not the CIA’s fault if George W. Bush ignored them and lied to the world.
I had a Ghostley experience once, I saw one in New York in 1977. it looked like this .
It was during a performance of “Annie”. 
(Miss Hannigan)
But seriously though, Here’s a nice entry in The Sceptic’s Dictionary .
Within 500 responses on a standarized test I scored last week, 9% of 11th graders asked to compare two civil war pictures, clearly labeled as such, asserted that bombs, tanks and missles were used to cause the destuction of buildings as seen in the second picture. Ignorance of history and geography, though “provable” have little to do with this topic, or am I wrong? If they do have tenious bearing on the question at hand, then we’d have to compare them to the fact that despite years and years of scientific research, scientists can no offer a valid explaination for what causes me to be left-handed or explain why I have red hair. Sadly, science can’t answer a lot of things. yet.
If ghosts are in people’s minds, what causes that to happen? Hallucinations usually have a cause, do they not?
There is, of course, no need to assign one explanation to all sightings. Nor to assign only one explanation to any single sighting.
D’oh!
Ummm, a ghost did it. Yeah, that’s it…
Ghosts: Have to be believed in to be seen. Not the reverse.
I had a ghastly experience once. Does that count?
No, no, Squink! Don’t give up hope just yet. I want you to know that I read both articles when you linked them. I did, I did. Do I get a cookie now? Do I? Do I?