Are Ghosts Real

Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos.

I found this story interesting as Halloween is right around the corner. I think this year my girlfriend and I, are going to finally sit in a cemetary with a tape recorder, and record to hear if their are any ghosts around the area, also called EVP's. Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in recording media. It is a form of after death communication. ITC is a newer term that includes all of the ways these unexpected voices and images are collected through technology, including EVP. Of the many hypotheses designed to explain these phenomena, the Survival Hypothesis has been found to be most effective in answering the evidence. What is the Survival Hypothesis? The Survival Hypothesis holds that we are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our point of view to nonphysical reality. In effect, we exist before and after our current lifetime.

If you remember, this was the premise of the Michael Keaton movie, "White Noise" from 2005.The plot is that the pregnant wife of the architect Jonathan Reeves (Michael Keaton) is missed after a car accident near a cliff, and the police do not know whether she is dead or abducted. Some weeks later, a mysterious man comes to Jonathan and tells him that his wife is dead and had communicated with him through Electronic Voice Phenomena. Sooner Jonathan is informed by the police that her body was found in the sea near a harbor, and the tormented grieving Jonathan decides to try to contact her using uncontrolled E.V.P and jeopardizing his own life. So if you want to watch a pretty good spooky film about ghosts this might be a good one for you.

Anyway, I'll let you know if we do it and what the results were. However, my only other fear of doing this, is the fact that most of those B movie plots start out with people going into a cemetary, and then a slasher or any number of monsters sets about killing them?! We'll hope for a better outcome!!


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