Some ghostly and historical tidbits about the most haunted locations in the country in which I fester (and places surrounding that).
Tag Archives: parapsychology
The Coldness of Ghosts
A sudden drop in temperature is often associated with hauntings. The question is why? We also look at Mary King’s Close.
Ghostly Force Fields
How come ghosts are associated with high EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies)? Do the EMFs provide the “ghosts” or do the ghosts cause higher EMFs? Let’s investigate…
Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious
Whilst I was ferreting about in a graveyard testing Ghost-hunting apps on my phone last week, one of the apps mentioned that ghosts may be part of Carl Jung’s “Collective Unconscious”. So… who was Carl Jung, and what had he got to say about ghosts? Read on to find out. Carl Jung This fellow wasContinue reading “Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious”
Testing Ghost-Hunting Apps
Last time I posted, I covered old-fashioned and modern tools that paranormal investigators use when visiting supposedly haunted locations. As I said I would, I have trialled a few iPhone apps that claim to detect presences and enable the layperson to communicate with entities from the “other side.” To start with I used the appsContinue reading “Testing Ghost-Hunting Apps”
Analog and Digital Ghost Hunting
Comparing old-fashioned and modern methods of capturing spirit phenomena. While the Spiritualism movement was at its peak in the 19th century and early 20th, mediums and other folks looking to contact the dead or otherwise prove the existence of ghosts used a few different tools: Spirit boards or Ouija boards Originally sold as a typeContinue reading “Analog and Digital Ghost Hunting”
Adventures in Automatic Writing
otherwise known as Psychography Automatic writing is claimed to be a method of communicating with spirits, or the subconscious, using writing implements and often a trance state. The belief is that spirits take control of the medium’s writing-hand to put words and marks on paper, sometimes in a foreign language or in a strange alphabet.Continue reading “Adventures in Automatic Writing”
Fun with Aura-reading Apps
Last week we delved into the scientific process of Kirlian photography / electrophotography and how pseudoscience has adapted it into a method of “reading people’s auras” — guessing their emotions, thoughts and health according to the colours shown around them. I decided to experiment with different aura photography apps available on the iOS app store,Continue reading “Fun with Aura-reading Apps”
Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?
Back in 1939, Semyon Kirlian, (a Soviet electrical engineer and scientist) and his wife Valentina discovered a bizarre photographic phenomenon. Someone in Krasnodar Hospital was receiving a treatment which involved a high-frequency electrical generator. Semyon and Valentina noticed that whenever the electrodes were near the patient’s skin, there was a glowing light similar to theContinue reading “Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?”
Nightwalks 