Posted On: November 15, 2023

How I look at it is, if ghosts existed, media would be flooded with convincing videos of sightings.

Everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket at all times, people have cameras in and around their homes which notify the owner of any movement or activity of any kind.

Businesses have dozens of cameras recording 24 hours a day, many of which notify the business owner or security contractor of any movement as soon as it happens.

There are more cameras on this planet than there are people.

99.999% of the evidence out there showing "ghosts" are either clearly faked, or easily explained by natural processes, physics or human psychology.

The tiny remaining handful of videos, are genuinely compelling, but more than likely have a perfectly rational explanation which doesn't involve spirits.

These are the videos I visit this sub for.

I'm all about the debunking and understanding peoples mentality and analytical approaches.

What I think happens is people are anxious, paranoid or desperate believers, who will look at anything they perceive as "evidence" and convince themselves that their observations cannot possibly be anything but the paranormal.

Basically, they don't understand something, so rather than jumping to a logical conclusion and looking at the evidence in a non-biased manner, people tend to just apply their personal beliefs to a situation.

Same sort of thing as flat earthers, UFO conspiracy theorists and religious people.

But if you can see them with your eyes, as so many people claim to have done in the past, then you will be able to see them with a camera since a camera captures light in almost the exact same way that our eyes do.

If people are able to see them but cameras aren't, then it implies that they're a form of psychological event such as a hallucination or dream.

This doesn't prove the existence of ghosts, merely that the viewer is imagining things.

Imagining things, lucid dreaming or hallucinating is a difficult thing to understand when you're the one experiencing those states of mind, so people attribute it to ghosts because their mind, being the center of their perception, must surely be infallible.

The more convincing evidence of this are the circumstances where people experience "hauntings" often in states of grief from losing family members, or in situations which are admittedly creepy and cause their senses to be much more overactive than normal.

For example if you're walking through a dark cemetery at night, you're more likely to imagine things because your brain is working extremely hard because of it's dark scary environment.

People see creepy photos any their brains are super quick to point out "spooky" details and attribute them to the paranormal rather than just camera noise, smudges on the lens, backscatter or any of a dozen other potential reasons for the perceived anomaly.

The main issue is that people are happy to post hoax videos and photos online, and when people are unable (or unwilling) to explain the scenario, the assumed solution is that it simply must be ghosts and then those believers share those same videos as if it's evidence".

Post from user Vegetable-Bit-5892 at at reddit.

Posted On: November 15, 2023

How I look at it is, if ghosts existed, media would be flooded with convincing videos of sightings.

Everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket at all times, people have cameras in and around their homes which notify the owner of any movement or activity of any kind.

Businesses have dozens of cameras recording 24 hours a day, many of which notify the business owner or security contractor of any movement as soon as it happens.

There are more cameras on this planet than there are people.

99.999% of the evidence out there showing "ghosts" are either clearly faked, or easily explained by natural processes, physics or human psychology.

The tiny remaining handful of videos, are genuinely compelling, but more than likely have a perfectly rational explanation which doesn't involve spirits.

These are the videos I visit this sub for.

I'm all about the debunking and understanding peoples mentality and analytical approaches.

What I think happens is people are anxious, paranoid or desperate believers, who will look at anything they perceive as "evidence" and convince themselves that their observations cannot possibly be anything but the paranormal.

Basically, they don't understand something, so rather than jumping to a logical conclusion and looking at the evidence in a non-biased manner, people tend to just apply their personal beliefs to a situation.

Same sort of thing as flat earthers, UFO conspiracy theorists and religious people.

But if you can see them with your eyes, as so many people claim to have done in the past, then you will be able to see them with a camera since a camera captures light in almost the exact same way that our eyes do.

If people are able to see them but cameras aren't, then it implies that they're a form of psychological event such as a hallucination or dream.

This doesn't prove the existence of ghosts, merely that the viewer is imagining things.

Imagining things, lucid dreaming or hallucinating is a difficult thing to understand when you're the one experiencing those states of mind, so people attribute it to ghosts because their mind, being the center of their perception, must surely be infallible.

The more convincing evidence of this are the circumstances where people experience "hauntings" often in states of grief from losing family members, or in situations which are admittedly creepy and cause their senses to be much more overactive than normal.

For example if you're walking through a dark cemetery at night, you're more likely to imagine things because your brain is working extremely hard because of it's dark scary environment.

People see creepy photos any their brains are super quick to point out "spooky" details and attribute them to the paranormal rather than just camera noise, smudges on the lens, backscatter or any of a dozen other potential reasons for the perceived anomaly.

The main issue is that people are happy to post hoax videos and photos online, and when people are unable (or unwilling) to explain the scenario, the assumed solution is that it simply must be ghosts and then those believers share those same videos as if it's evidence".

Post from user Vegetable-Bit-5892 at at reddit.