There are several types of hauntings. One of them is residual hauntings. Residual hauntings don't involve the presence of spirits. Rather, they' re like the playback of past events.
In residual hauntings, the ghost or spirit doesn't seem to recognize your presence. It's because the ghost or the spirit itself is not really there. According to paranormal experts, building materials like nails or bricks have the ability to "record" events (especially traumatic events) that they "witness" and play them back, just like camcorders do.
Personally, I believe in residual hauntings because I've witnessed them. But I'm not too sure about the "building materials being able to record events" theory. Whatever cause residual hauntings is still a mystery to me. Got any explanation?
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Trust your eyes....?
Do you think it's a real ghost captured in this photo? I think so. What do you think?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Was it real or am I just crazy?
I may sound nuts to some people but I actually find paranormal experiences exciting and thrilling. There's just something about being scared out of your mind that's oddly addicting (plus you have a pretty cool story to tell everybody afterwards). The way I see it, I'm quite lucky to have experienced a few paranormal occurrences.
I used to live in a big, old house in the Forest Hills area. There's a room on the third floor that I'd never been fond of. I always felt that there's 'something' there. A friend of my parents who spent the night actually claimed that she saw a man standing in front of the door one night.
One night, I was up late doing some assignments. Suddenly, I saw an old man dressed in white standing in front of my desk. It happened very fast, probably for just a couple of seconds. When I told my family, they just laughed it off. They said that I was just too tired and I was seeing things,etc.
This happened a few months after. I was sitting in the library/computer room, just e-mailing some friends. That room had always been warm because the window's always closed. All of a sudden, the room got very cold and I heard people whispering behind me. Again, nobody really believed my story.
Since I was the one who experienced these things, I think I know what I saw. If you were in my place, what would you make of these experiences?
Monday, February 11, 2008
EVP
EVP stands for Electronic Voice Phenomenon. It's supposedly recorded sounds or voices of paranormal nature on radio or tape recorders. Some people believe that these voices are caused by ghosts or spirits who are trying to communicate with humans. EVPs are usually short and it takes a little bit (sometimes a lot) of time to decipher the voice. What paranormal investigators would do is walk around the location with the recorder and just ask questions such as, "Is there any astral being that wishes to talk to us?" or a more direct question like "Why are you still here"?, etc. Then they would wait for around 15-20 seconds before asking another question.
There are three types of EVP recordings*:
-Class A: To be considered as Class A, the EVP recordings must be able to be heard and understood clearly with a speaker by most people.
-Class B: Class B recordings include recordings that can be heard over a speaker but are a little bit hard to understand. Most EVPs fall under this category.
-Class C: Class C recordings can only be heard with a pair of headphones and are hard to understand. Keep in mind that not all EVPs can be understood.
*Source: http://ghosthuntingsecrets.com/blog
Believers in the paranormal have several explanations for EVP*:
- Discarnate entities: ghosts or spirits are not able to talk directly with humans but somehow they're able to "imprint" information on recording media.
-Psychokinesis: By definition, psychokinesis means "the ability of the mind to influence matter, time, space or energy by means outside the laws of physics". On EVP, communication might be done by humans through an "unknown form of matter/energy manipulation".
-Extraterrestrial entities: Sarah Estep, the founder of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) believes that EVP might be caused by extraterrestrial beings.
Skeptics of the paranormal also have several explanations*:
- Interference: The frequency of the EVP recording devices can mix with the frequency of other electronic devices (intermodulation) which forms additional signals. These interference can be recorded as phenomena.
-Auditory pareidolia: By definition, auditory paredolia means a condition where the brain "incorrectly interprets random patterns as familiar patterns". In EVP's case, it's when the investigator interprets random sounds as human voice.
-Apophenia: It's human's tendency to "spontaneously find meanings or connections" in random things.
-Capture errors: These are noises that result from "over-amplification of a signal at a point of recording".
-Processing artifacts: These result from attempts to increase the quality of an existing recording through re-sampling, frequency isolation, noise reduction or enhancement which can alter the way the existing recording sounds.
-Hoaxes: Some recordings are simply regarded as frauds.
*Source: Wikipedia
There are three types of EVP recordings*:
-Class A: To be considered as Class A, the EVP recordings must be able to be heard and understood clearly with a speaker by most people.
-Class B: Class B recordings include recordings that can be heard over a speaker but are a little bit hard to understand. Most EVPs fall under this category.
-Class C: Class C recordings can only be heard with a pair of headphones and are hard to understand. Keep in mind that not all EVPs can be understood.
*Source: http://ghosthuntingsecrets.com/blog
Believers in the paranormal have several explanations for EVP*:
- Discarnate entities: ghosts or spirits are not able to talk directly with humans but somehow they're able to "imprint" information on recording media.
-Psychokinesis: By definition, psychokinesis means "the ability of the mind to influence matter, time, space or energy by means outside the laws of physics". On EVP, communication might be done by humans through an "unknown form of matter/energy manipulation".
-Extraterrestrial entities: Sarah Estep, the founder of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) believes that EVP might be caused by extraterrestrial beings.
Skeptics of the paranormal also have several explanations*:
- Interference: The frequency of the EVP recording devices can mix with the frequency of other electronic devices (intermodulation) which forms additional signals. These interference can be recorded as phenomena.
-Auditory pareidolia: By definition, auditory paredolia means a condition where the brain "incorrectly interprets random patterns as familiar patterns". In EVP's case, it's when the investigator interprets random sounds as human voice.
-Apophenia: It's human's tendency to "spontaneously find meanings or connections" in random things.
-Capture errors: These are noises that result from "over-amplification of a signal at a point of recording".
-Processing artifacts: These result from attempts to increase the quality of an existing recording through re-sampling, frequency isolation, noise reduction or enhancement which can alter the way the existing recording sounds.
-Hoaxes: Some recordings are simply regarded as frauds.
*Source: Wikipedia
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
To Believe Or Not Believe
Hi,
What are blogs for? Blogs are like an online diary or journal. That being said, it means you can write whatever the heck you like. You know, whatever interests you the most. Post something, share your thoughts with the world if you want and get some feedbacks along the way. Anyway, as you can see, I've titled my blog Specter. What's a specter? Well, a specter is a spirit, a ghost, "a source of terror" (according to Webster). My blog is pretty much about the world of the paranormal. Some people are believers and some people are skeptics. It's totally up to you whether you want to believe in ghosts or not. Me, personally, I find it very interesting and well....mysterious. Paranormal activity is not something that's very tangible. Sometimes evidence are hard to get and sometimes you just might get lucky and bump into something. So go ahead, speak your mind, share your thoughts about the paranormal. To believe or not believe...
What are blogs for? Blogs are like an online diary or journal. That being said, it means you can write whatever the heck you like. You know, whatever interests you the most. Post something, share your thoughts with the world if you want and get some feedbacks along the way. Anyway, as you can see, I've titled my blog Specter. What's a specter? Well, a specter is a spirit, a ghost, "a source of terror" (according to Webster). My blog is pretty much about the world of the paranormal. Some people are believers and some people are skeptics. It's totally up to you whether you want to believe in ghosts or not. Me, personally, I find it very interesting and well....mysterious. Paranormal activity is not something that's very tangible. Sometimes evidence are hard to get and sometimes you just might get lucky and bump into something. So go ahead, speak your mind, share your thoughts about the paranormal. To believe or not believe...
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