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Haunted House Experiment

  • 18-09-2006 01:19PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭


    I have started a discussion on a haunted house experiment here.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054991090

    Seems like what we need is
    1. One haunted house
    2. One or more similar houses
    3. A group of open minded people who have no knowledge of either house.

    We cannot prove the house is not haunted, but we can go someway to proving it is. So any opinions on whether such an experiment is worth holding.

    Feel free to question my belief in paranormal events. Skepticism is also encouraged.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    IMO much too difficult to organise. I wouldnt imagine many people giving up their houses for this type of thing and if it was the homes of people what would be the point?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    It's a worthy idea, but as already said (on other thread) there's no reliable way to actually detect a ghost which throws up some pretty big problems. There's no way to know that the 'haunted' house chosen is in fact haunted, and similarly there's no way to know that the 'control' houses are not haunted aswell. It's also impossible for two houses to be exactly the same at any given point in time. There may be perfectly naturally created noises, temperature variations, emf spikes etc in the haunted house which are not replicated in a control house, or vice-versa.

    To be honest, I think that as things stand the investigation of ghosts/hauntings needs to rely on subjective methods. Of course this rules out anything being used as scientific proof, but with the level of knowledge we currently have (or rather the lack thereof) I think we need to concentrate more on understanding the nature of ghosts so that we can then devise proper ways of proving their existence (or lack thereof).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41 Aoide


    Also, just because a house is "haunted" doesn't mean the spirits are active all the time. I've noticed this with my own house, there can be a string of activity and then nothing for years.


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