Posted: Mar 04, 2010 9:48 pm
I have seen no evidence for that assumption: I personally counsel ghost hunters the best use for an EMF meter in a ghost hunt would be if you were to need to rehang a picture and want to knock a nail in a wall without being electrocuted. My planned next piece of research involves psychomanteum induced hallucinations and MRI scans to try to identify neurophysiologiocal correlates of the "ghost" experience. However Radin (2001 in Houran & Lange Multidisciplinary Approaches to Hauntings) noted that environmental variables changed during even psychomanteum induced apparitional experiences -0 this ppaer looks interesting but I have not read it properly yet - http://www.pamelaheath.com/PDF/PlaceMemory.pdf
I spent much of the 90's chasing environmental variables - firstly gauss, later infrasound (after Tandy and Lawrence), then after agreeing with Cornell and Braithwaite there was nothing in that (though almost every (mainly sceptical) site i have seen that deals with that hypothesis misunderstand Tandy's original paper, or had simply not read it - it's the standing wave effect NOT the presence of low frequency sound that matters) I moved on to trying to do lab based studies, but currently I'mm writing up my spontaneous case collection after grounded theory analysis. If you want to look at the kind of thing I worked on in the 90's, Wiseman's paper is probably the best http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/hampton.pdf and a great place to start is Wiseman, R., Watt, C., Stevens, P., Greening, E. & O'Keeffe, C. (2003). An investigation into alleged 'hauntings'. The British Journal of Psychology, 94, 195-211. http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources ... ntings.pdf Hey people cn't say I don't try!
j x
I spent much of the 90's chasing environmental variables - firstly gauss, later infrasound (after Tandy and Lawrence), then after agreeing with Cornell and Braithwaite there was nothing in that (though almost every (mainly sceptical) site i have seen that deals with that hypothesis misunderstand Tandy's original paper, or had simply not read it - it's the standing wave effect NOT the presence of low frequency sound that matters) I moved on to trying to do lab based studies, but currently I'mm writing up my spontaneous case collection after grounded theory analysis. If you want to look at the kind of thing I worked on in the 90's, Wiseman's paper is probably the best http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/hampton.pdf and a great place to start is Wiseman, R., Watt, C., Stevens, P., Greening, E. & O'Keeffe, C. (2003). An investigation into alleged 'hauntings'. The British Journal of Psychology, 94, 195-211. http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources ... ntings.pdf Hey people cn't say I don't try!
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