QUOTE(Dr.Shotgun @ Oct 19 2005, 07:28 PM)
Why don't I believe in ghosts? No proof, plus its been Occam Razor'd many times over.
Its a lot easier to explain unconfirmed and non-replicatible findings as light aberrations and film defieciences and the like, or imagination, than to suppose that ghosts and all kinds of hiddne energy fields exist.
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Actually, there is proof, but it's a bad idea to call them ghosts. They can't be identified as spirits because we've no way of proving that. We have found things that act like people. White Noise is often a great example of this. When in a "haunted" area, if you have a recording device, you could ask a question, and then a direct answer would be played over in the recording. As for the dust orbs, most people that study ghosts watch out for those, to make sure they aren't mistaken for anything that seems out of the ordinary.
In any case, I don't think you can call em ghosts, but they certainly are there. If anyone has the Sci-Fi channel, watch Ghost Hunters. Every now and then, they come up with some great stuff.
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here for a direct link to the TAPS website. It's at the very least worth a look.