In the spirit of Halloween season, for this post, I thought I’d look at the science of ghosts and how we might reasonably test whether they exist or not. Surveys suggest roughly half of Americans ...
Halloween is a haunting time. This is the spooky moment when ghosts appear. But ghosts and spirits are always with us, especially for those who grieve and mourn. Students occasionally ask me if I ...
Ghost hunting, as Warfield approaches it, is a curious combination of procedural rigor and leaps of faith. During a typical investigation, he will use digital recorders and night-vision cameras to ...
My mother claims to have had a handful of paranormal encounters. My best friend’s sister is apparently visited by spirits constantly. And I closely followed Adam Ellis’ Twitter tale of a ghost ...
What is a ghost, anyway? Merriam-Webster defines it as “the soul of a dead person thought of as living in an unseen world or as appearing to living people.” Or, in Oxford Languages, “the spirit of a ...
Two in every five Americans believe ghosts and demons exist, and aren't just fantasy characters in books and films, according to a recent poll by YouGov in the run-up to Halloween. The poll, published ...
"You aren't supposed to believe in these things." Netflix has debuted a new trailer for a ghost horror film from Thailand called Ghost Lab, streaming in the US and Thailand starting this May. After ...
Sometimes you just shouldn’t be peeking into rooms behind doors that were never meant to be opened. Unless of course you’re an investigator with a complete disregard for your life and the lives of ...