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Fritzo

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Heh...it looks like a hanging puppet thing spinning around in a circle.
 

ImpulsE69

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Where is a better version that you can actually see? WTF is this 1989?

I say it's something hanging from a crane spinning around. ORR it's a reflection in a window. Who knows though because whoever uploaded that video is a dumbass.
 

John Connor

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It has nothing to do with being "gullible". There is simply shit that we cannot explain. Just like this story:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/v...t-pa-news-crew-visits-haunted-house.wpmt.html

Do you think CNN set up this entire story? lol. If you believe that, then I would say you're "gullible". Paranormal shit exists whether we want to admit it or not.


I made a thread about this and got shot down like a zebra in a safari. People on this forum just don't believe in the paranormal.
 

Crono

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If ghosts existed, they would either be completely unobservable by regular physical means, or otherwise they should be appearing pretty clearly on a lot more images from reliable sources.

I don't understand this grainy image, blurry shot crap. There are millions of cameras out there since the advent of smartphones, and I don't see why ghosts would be camera shy if they are the spirits of human beings. You would think by now even one famous ghost would be a paparazzi-seeking being. Use your brain. :D

And if all ghosts are are just some nondescript white or grey blobs, someone please do something useful and come up with scientific experiment to capture it, a la Ghostbusters. Your photos and videos are worthless to me.
 
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CPA

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don't know what it is, but I don't think it's a spider. The object does not rotate even though it moves across in a zig zag fashion. If it was a spider, i would have expected the shape to rotate as the direction changed.
 

Bubbleawsome

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Haha, all you guys scared by this should watch the latest dr who episode "Listen." No backstory or anything, just watch it. :twisted:
 

Markbnj

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I made a thread about this and got shot down like a zebra in a safari. People on this forum just don't believe in the paranormal.

The term itself is stupid. "Paranormal" means "outside the normal." What the hell does that mean? What is normal? Are massive volcanic eruptions "paranormal?" They're certainly not "normal" but they are perfectly explainable. I guess a winter with no snow in New England is "paranormal" but I believe it has happened.

The other popular term, "supernatural" is just as dumb. Germs were "supernatural" 300 years ago, and now we can build our own in custom colors. If there turns out to be something about a human life that survives the death of the body, then whatever it is will also eventually be perfectly explainable based on our understanding of how things work. I don't think there is, or we would have some actual evidence of it by now instead of just inconclusive oddities.
 

John Connor

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The term itself is stupid. "Paranormal" means "outside the normal." What the hell does that mean? What is normal? Are massive volcanic eruptions "paranormal?" They're certainly not "normal" but they are perfectly explainable. I guess a winter with no snow in New England is "paranormal" but I believe it has happened.

The other popular term, "supernatural" is just as dumb. Germs were "supernatural" 300 years ago, and now we can build our own in custom colors. If there turns out to be something about a human life that survives the death of the body, then whatever it is will also eventually be perfectly explainable based on our understanding of how things work. I don't think there is, or we would have some actual evidence of it by now instead of just inconclusive oddities.


Pseudoscience?
 

Fritzo

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If ghosts existed, they would either be completely unobservable by regular physical means, or otherwise they should be appearing pretty clearly on a lot more images from reliable sources.

I don't understand this grainy image, blurry shot crap. There are millions of cameras out there since the advent of smartphones, and I don't see why ghosts would be camera shy if they are the spirits of human beings. You would think by now even one famous ghost would be a paparazzi-seeking being. Use your brain. :D

And if all ghosts are are just some nondescript white or grey blobs, someone please do something useful and come up with scientific experiment to capture it, a la Ghostbusters. Your photos and videos are worthless to me.

I've always had issues with ghost abilities. They don't seem to have to obey the laws of gravity but they stay stuck to the Earth? They can go through walls but walk on floors? There doesn't seem to be any consistency.
 

Markbnj

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I've always had issues with ghost abilities. They don't seem to have to obey the laws of gravity but they stay stuck to the Earth? They can go through walls but walk on floors? There doesn't seem to be any consistency.

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John Connor

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I've always had issues with ghost abilities. They don't seem to have to obey the laws of gravity but they stay stuck to the Earth? They can go through walls but walk on floors? There doesn't seem to be any consistency.


Um, they float??? :D
 

BUTCH1

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The term itself is stupid. "Paranormal" means "outside the normal." What the hell does that mean? What is normal? Are massive volcanic eruptions "paranormal?" They're certainly not "normal" but they are perfectly explainable. I guess a winter with no snow in New England is "paranormal" but I believe it has happened.

The other popular term, "supernatural" is just as dumb. Germs were "supernatural" 300 years ago, and now we can build our own in custom colors. If there turns out to be something about a human life that survives the death of the body, then whatever it is will also eventually be perfectly explainable based on our understanding of how things work. I don't think there is, or we would have some actual evidence of it by now instead of just inconclusive oddities.

That's because Germs are easily observable and explainable with today's microscopes and technology, the same for lightning, for century's it was the "hammer of the gods" because ancient man did not know what was happening, and had no concept of electricity or it's discharge across the atmosphere, now we know it's just a Led Zeppelin song. :awe: No seriously though, it could be that there are no set "rules" or exact circumstances in where these events can be explained or studied by modern science. Lets take UFO's for example, IMPO 99.9% are explainable phenomena but once in a while you have a case that IS backed up with credible witnesses with nothing to gain and plenty to lose by coming forward, perhaps the most famous was JAL flight#1628 flying over Alaska spotted a gigantic UFO about a mile in front of his plane, after determining through contact with ground control that there was no military aircraft in operation the now frightened Captain did a 180 turn because he feared collision only to find the UFO was now on his tail and closing, it's size dwarfed the 747 cargo plane he was flying at the time. For reporting what he saw he was demoted to a flying a desk for years before finally being reinstated for flight duty, meanwhile the FAA had the object recorded on radar but when John Callahan the FAA's Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch he presented the evidence to a group including representatives of the FBI, CIA and President Reagan’s Scientific Study Team, among others, the evidence was taken and Callahan was told "this meeting never happened". Months later the FAA tried to explain it away with the radar being a "split image" and Captain Terauchi's observations were unexplainable and that with "appeared with unfortunate timing". Callahan had brought copies to the meeting so he still had all the original evidence in his desk which he eventually released to the media. two more incidents within a 4 month time frame also happened, one in which an AA flight watched an object on their weather radar move so fast it moved past the 100 mile range of the radar in 2-3 seconds, in the second a USAF KC-135 reported a large object that came within 40ft of his plane then disappeared out of sight. These were professional pilots, accustomed to the anomalies of light due to their time spent flying, not "UFO hunters" looking to write a book for $$..
 

SP33Demon

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Typical ATOT like the uninquisitive losers in this thread (you know who you are) whose only retort to documented CNN videos = "lol" or "no". Nice retort to documented evidence btw - is that how you explain away things you don't understand? Face it, there is shit that modern physics cannot even explain by our comprehension such as:
-why is there more matter than anti-matter
-the fact that we cannot detect dark matter yet nor know if it's even a particle
-the topic of parallel universes and if they exist
-if there is only one type of Higgs Boson
-the mass of neutrinos
-the charge radius of a proton

It's quite possible that many of these physics problems could uncover what we view as the "paranormal". For example, how does perceived spirit activity increase/emit electromagnetic fields? How do they generate hot/cold spots? All of this has been proven to be true with a plethora of evidence as technology has increased.
 

BoberFett

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Typical ATOT like the uninquisitive losers in this thread (you know who you are) whose only retort to documented CNN videos = "lol" or "no". Nice retort to documented evidence btw - is that how you explain away things you don't understand? Face it, there is shit that modern physics cannot even explain by our comprehension such as:
-why is there more matter than anti-matter
-the fact that we cannot detect dark matter yet nor know if it's even a particle
-the topic of parallel universes and if they exist
-if there is only one type of Higgs Boson
-the mass of neutrinos
-the charge radius of a proton

It's quite possible that many of these physics problems could uncover what we view as the "paranormal". For example, how does perceived spirit activity increase/emit electromagnetic fields? How do they generate hot/cold spots? All of this has been proven to be true with a plethora of evidence as technology has increased.

LOL, no.
 

QueBert

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It has nothing to do with being "gullible". There is simply shit that we cannot explain. Just like this story:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/v...t-pa-news-crew-visits-haunted-house.wpmt.html

Do you think CNN set up this entire story? lol. If you believe that, then I would say you're "gullible". Paranormal shit exists whether we want to admit it or not.

I believe this, I'm fucking lost for words why they still live there. One time I had a similar unexplainable experience at a place I use to hang at all the time. 2 seconds after I was hall ass'ing out of there and have never went back.
 

Markbnj

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That's because Germs are easily observable and explainable with today's microscopes and technology ...

Which all basically boils down to "we have no explanation for what was reported therefore ghosts or aliens."

We also have no explanation for why that Malaysian airliner disappeared, but it wouldn't be reasonable to assume some explanation outside the bounds of natural law just because we don't know yet, would it?
 

sandorski

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In related news, a recent Study shows that New Mexico Police are easily stunned.
 

BUTCH1

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Which all basically boils down to "we have no explanation for what was reported therefore ghosts or aliens."

We also have no explanation for why that Malaysian airliner disappeared, but it wouldn't be reasonable to assume some explanation outside the bounds of natural law just because we don't know yet, would it?

No, it would be asinine to think it got swept up in a "time vortex" vs a malfunctioning plane that is in small pieces at the bottom of the Indian ocean..
 

alkemyst

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I believe this, I'm fucking lost for words why they still live there. One time I had a similar unexplainable experience at a place I use to hang at all the time. 2 seconds after I was hall ass'ing out of there and have never went back.

Who is going to buy the house and like they said they are underwater basically right now.