Do Ghosts Exist? | Danny Robins & Sam Orams | TEDxSoho
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In this Q&A Sam Orams interviews Danny Robins about his love of ghosts and his investigations into the paranormal. Danny Robins is an award-winning British writer, broadcaster and journalist. He created The Battersea Poltergeist, a podcast series for the BBC that combined drama and documentary to tell a real-life ghost story, starring Toby Jones and Dafne Keen. It became a global phenomenon - the #1 Drama Podcast across the whole world, with more than 4 million downloads and counting - sparking a bidding war for the TV rights. Danny is now adapting it with Hollywood producers Blumhouse. The series won the Gold Award for Best Serialised Podcast at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
Sam has been involved with TED events for nearly a decade playing an integral role growing TEDxBrighton from grass roots to a celebrated, sell-out, 2000 seater event. In 2019 he was awarded the opportunity of creating TEDxSoho from scratch an opportunity to good to pass up.
By day Sam is an independent film and commerical producer and co-founder of Kindred Communications, specialised in film, photography & content production for brands, agencies and channels. By night he’s a husband, father, pianist, modern jazz drummer, meditator and a fierce film and drama enthusiast. Sam has played in both the World Series of Poker and European Poker open and as a child won a collection of pet care books after entering a competition on Saturday Superstore. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Perhaps having a background in nursing and care work, people I encountered felt I was empathetic and safe enough to recount their ghost experiences. They came from all walks of life and their experiences were not dramatic or life changing, but short, brief 'sightings' that were truly inexplicable. One simple example, a carpet fitter I had engaged to work in my house, recounted working in an empty Victorian villa in Clevedon. He had put down the underlay, and was on the opposite side to the door of the room, under the window. He was facing away from the door, ready to start laying the carpet. He heard heavy footsteps coming down the corridor, then into the room and coming towards his back. He thought it was the contractor who had hired him for the renovation, and turned at the last minute to speak to him. There was nobody there and he ran about the house looking for an intruder. Shaken, it dawned on him he had heard loud footsteps on wooden flooring, when it was all now underlay.
I have had 2 experiences, and putting those aside, I feel the sheer number of accounts of ghost sightings (videos, pictures, stories, etc) over the years, is proof enough. Even if I grant you fabrications, hallucinations, and mistaken sightings. Not everyone is lying, or crazy. Some of the most logical people I’ve met, have seen ghosts, and swear by their experiences.
They are Demons they are real and dangerous
But they just CANTTTT EXISTTTTT. THEY LITERALLY BREAK EVERY SINGLE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE RELATING TO EXISTENCE.
Spoiler Alert, those people weren’t “logical” or intelligent 😂
Your experience is not reality. Go smoke some green and then tell me how different reality is
It’s not ghosts that I fear, it’s the living!
Loove Danny! I've been literally listening to his interviews and podcasts for over 8 months. I've just got my C2 English certification thanks to his extremely sophisticated way of speaking, I cannot wait to listen to whatever he's gonna come up with! Danny, thank you very much all over from Italy!
I saw 2 ghosts in the early 1960’s I was about 3 yrs old. They were a woman and a girl. They were clear yet misty. They seemed to be animated looking at my mother who was walking ahead-with me in tow. Mum didn’t seem to see them & I wanted to tug her coat sleeve with my left free hand but I was in shock.🇦🇺
I forgot to mention that I saw the spirits at my local shopping centre. Apparently my neighbour pointed out years later their was an accident in that location but I didn’t ask what happened I was shocked when she mentioned it.
I work night shift in a hospital, I’ve seen several ghosts, it’s not scary at the time, but when you try to rationalise what you’ve seen then it’s unnerving.
I followed a lady, she wasn’t suppose to be where I’d seen her, she walked around a corner, there was no escape for her, I walked around the corner and she was gone. I can describe her, she was definitely real.
On the night shift I also go into the operating theatre to recalibrate some of the machines, I saw a man hunched over as though he was pushing maybe a heavy trolley, he was wearing theatre scrubs but not the standard blue ones we use, these were green. I only saw him for a split second then he was gone. Two of my colleagues report seeing the same figure.
I don't believe in ghosts (I mean do partially but yk sometimes I don't) so my cousin is a male nurse and when he had night shifts he also saw ghosts once someone asked him to come check the drip of a person he was following him and then that person disappeared he went to check the drip and said your husband asked me to check your drip but it looks fine she said my husband hasn't came today he is at home but I'll ask when she called he said I'm at home sleeping and both of them were shocked the other nurse said it's normal it happens most of the time just read some verses before going to sleep
Ghosts dont exist at all
I have seen some strange things over the years. The clearedt was seeing a carnate ghost of a Matron in her nursing uniform. My manager was with me at the time and she disappeared, right in front of us.
I've never had a paranormal experience. I do not believe in the paranormal. And yet, I love listening to paranormal stories.
Watch Sam and colby
Be grateful. When and if you do, your whole new world view will either terrify you or will just get alot bigger. Most people who have experiences do not process them well upon first exposure and nearly every story, the person is terrified and is changed.
When u do ur view on life is differnt truely real stuff not explainable no sense
I can't stop having paranormal experiences. I am not religious, and sometimes I think it's just my brain, but stuff keeps happening around me, and everyone I have spent time with has witnessed it too even to those I never mentioneda thing aboutit to. It's become normal and doesn't scare me anymore.
My aunts house is haunted. My relatives of all ages even my sister. All of them have seen an human apparition in that house. I never saw anything myself. So I have no idea what is real.
Great stuff. Good to hear the Uncanny recap too.
it happened to me last year. I was sleeping on my sofa and around 2:30am I heard two female voices talking in a language I've never heard. They were both laughing and having a conversation. When I turned around it went quiet and nothing was there.
A few years back I was in my living room also doing work on my computer. It was about 2am when I finished. I was so relieved to be finished work that I pointed to the sky and said "thank God" in a relieved way, not two seconds later something whacked a countertop from behind me extremely loud. It absolutely freaked me out. I'm not even Christian or religious but that always struck me.
I've also woke up from bed with a creepy voice saying my name and groaning. That was the scariest. When I looked around my room nothing was there but the noise continued. When I switched on the bedroom light it instantly stopped! This has all taken place in my apartment.
My kids won't even stay here anymore. One of my kids was in their room when he ran into the living room. His face literally looked like he'd saw a ghost. He said a little boy was in his room. I said what did he look like and he said he kept doing this, then showed me his teeth chattering. He's still scared and he's 4 now. That was two years ago!!
This is all real!
When I was younger (around age 8) my uncle was drunk and told me to walk with him around to the all night petrol station for cigarettes. This was definitely around 2-4am. We went down a street and we both heard hundreds of voices talking. It felt like we were in a concert before it started. Literally loads of people talking. The thing was the street was completely empty and dark. That always freaked me out and that was nearly 30 years ago.
When I was 16 I was coming home around 12am and I only had a backdoor key to get in my parents house (they both were at their summer caravan) so I proceeded to climb over the backyard fence. Immediately I felt dread and someone was watching me. I ran to the backdoor and opened it and ran into the kitchen, but before I could rush to the light something breathed extremely heavy down my neck. I switched the light on as quickly as I could and ran straight out the front door. I then went and stayed in my aunties that night.
I've been plagued with ghosts my whole life.
I just stumbled upon this. Danny Robins I think you should do a documentary about Chico Xavier! Would be very interesting to get an your perspective on what he did and his abilities.
Was s great medium have you looking into Alan kardec before
Ghosts exist inside all of us. We are ghosts 👻 wearing meat suits. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
But what exactly IS a ghost?
Nah we are robots. Flesh robots but still robots
technically we’re a brain with a fleshy mech suit
@@alireardon6664 A ghost (or spirit) is basically a person or animal who is dead and floats around in the form of fog that can’t be seen
@@jamiewalsh264 IOTW they aren't real
Once you experience something paranormal you don’t want to believe it’s real and you don’t want to tell anyone because they’ll think your crazy. It’s an experience that you don’t want to accept.
No ghosts done exist paradox is if they did the world would be covered by ghosts ! Saying that my theory is this if conscience is one shared among all living things then sometimes we may be able to re live a moment in another vessel like a past recording experience fact is that all ghosts witnessed wear clothing of the time of there life so basically your are actually just seeing into the past our conscience inside a previous life ... hope this makes sense .
I believe in ghosts in fact I have at least 3 in my home. One is the whistler who whistles. How else can you explain what it is except a ghost. Another is the sweeper. A person who is sweeping the floors as I can hear sweeping sounds late at night. And the third is a young woman's voice who was singing to me. She stood in front of my bed and sang. I am a bit nervous and don't want to arouse them although I'd like to know about them.
Blimey I think I would be rather scared. My father said there was a child who whistled in a house we lived in as a family when I was growing up. The house was in North London and built in 1881. I never experienced anything as a child but I do find it fascinating as I trust my dad, he is not a joking sort of man. 2 whistling ghosts, no singing or cleaning though.
Average Schizophrenic 😂😂😂
Ghosts, phantoms, spirits, entities. Whatever you wanna call them, I can assure you they do exist.
Had so many experiences over the last 30 years, at times daily living in a couple of places
Have you talked to a psychiatrist?
Love Ghost Stories. I remain sceptical. The idea of an after life is horrific! This world is bad enough.
I think I've seen hundreds of ghost stories, but the worst is "Really Hunted - Scary Ghost Videos from My Haunted House" in England. I thought that entity was actually going to kill him. Loud, continuous banging, portals, exorcism, blessings, poltergeist, talking thru Alexa, PC messages in Latin, shadows, pulling his wife from the bed. Gives me chills.
Lol
The Paranormal isn't an "it", but more of a "they"!
The subject doesn't have to be polarised, someone once asked me if I believed in Ghosts to which I answered "No" then waiting a little while, I added "But I don't disbelieve in them either!" Agnosticism is a third often overlooked position.
i was terrified as well
jp jp
This proves it
I’ve had spirit boards I wasn’t on go to numbers in my head when I asked. I stopped poking at that.
If ghosts don't exist then I don't know what my wife and I saw one night about 20 yards from us. Skeptics never have an answer but always are quick to ridicule.
You see something you don't know and assume it is a ghost immediately.
@@ericjuanhufathermn5094 what was it then professor? It was approx 8 feet tall 3 ft wide and in the form of a human and was could see through it, I shall eagerly await your educated answer!
@@ericjuanhufathermn5094 You just have to understand because you haven't experienced this kind of stuff doesn't mean it isn't a thing. You spend 1 month in my home and you'd walk out with a completely different mindset either wondering if you are crazy or just telling yourself ok, ya..there may be something to this.
A month ago, I finally did research on my home. It was built in the 50s...has had numerous owners and a lot of them have passed and the woman I bought it from, neighbor informed me her husband passed away. I called and she confirmed this, he passed away on his chair in the living room.
You can try your best to make it make sense...but it all makes sense to me because I'm living it.
I'm awake now at 2am YouTubing "are ghost real" because again..I woke up and for 5 minutes listened to someone talking in my living room. Just to walk in and no one be there and my dog staring inside through the kitchen
@@lusiscus You could see through it because there wasn't anything there, its might just be a man upstair and the light in his room leave his shadow on the wall or the tree. Only if you give me more information, this is the best I can theorize out of your highness.
@@stevvverobinson176 A house? Like, do you and your neighboor share the same wall? or you have your own yard like usually in the US? And you get to listen to him speaking for 5 minutes, can you at least give me a sentence of him speaking? This starting to seem fake.
If millions of people told you they saw a tiger in the woods, would you walk in there? Of course they exist, there's no doubt about it.
It is much easier for me to believe life would be easier without ghosts and shadows. How scary to be trapped in the unknown and for how long? Maybe we are trapped now since time, space, and matter do not exist.
I've experienced the Paranormal since I was a teen. some believe me some don't, doesn't bother me because I know what I saw.
What did you see? Can I guess? Back mass, unexplained moving object, voices, yes?
@@TheDayDreamingOwl😂
Yes they are I can take you to a home where I seen one with a witness when I was a kid.
What exactly are they?
i vividly remember seeing santa and his helpers spying on me to see if i was being good or not from the bushes and from the roof. i really saw this. but with growing up, you realise santa isnt real, and the times i thought o saw him peeking through the blinds of my bedroom were just the brainfarts of a child. would be really weird for me to be sitting here still now like "no santa IS definitly real!! i can take you to my moms house where i saw him peeking through my window when i was 5!!"
@@longdongmc.johnson bruuh
If ghosts exist, and I don't believe I have ever witnessed a ghost, there can't just be one or two, here and there. They must be all around us, harmless and unseen.
They are all over the place.
@@jopoveromo1054 Do you believe the living can interact with spirits? I have watched 'Ghost Theory' for a long while and though the boys have experienced stuff that is difficult to explain, I have yet to witness in any of their videos or during my long life definitive proof of existence after death. I am a curious sceptic. I believe, considering the age of the planet, of life on Earth, that 70-years is a short period of existence and that there must be something before life and after death. I do not, though, believe the gadgets paranormal investigators like to use are reliable tools to prove the life after death.
"It about death" That's another silly presumptuous blanket statement...For many it is about the fascinating possibility of something existing that is beyond the norm hence the term supernatural...The possibility of other realms/dimensions/entities etc Not just death.
What exactly is a ghost?
Yea there are so many innate reasons a human would believe in other humans not being completely gone after death. Obviously we're not too good with accepting death so we'd like to believe our loved ones aren't just gone in every sense of the word. Then there's the whole enjoying being scared thing, people love that stuff. Another big reason is how fascinating it is, the complete and utter intrigue over something so unearthly, peoples brains eat it up. I guess I only listed 3 reasons, but they're pretty enormous reasons. I might not believe in ghosts but somethin funky has gotta be goin on
@@newlchipson2900 Spirits are very real. Both good and bad. There’s also energies that can manifest as poltergeists and then theirs demons.
@@jjluck-smith9102 Do you have any specific memories that lead you to these conclusions? Would be interesting to hear
@@newlchipson2900 y dont u believe in them
my little story is i was out walking the dog through trails i see this guy looking towards a man made lake lost sight but carried on a hundred yards met the forest children (outward bounds )i said have you seen anyone else three of them said yes the tall man ,,,tw weeks later i see him again ....get there no one ,,
Whut?
I believe in ghosts and premonitions.
I've encountered both.
Whats the diference
Premonition is seeing things before they happen. Used to do it a lot as a kid.
@nonbiz1520 yea man thats just a coincidence. everyone has that sometimes. also that these mostly show up during childhood say a lot.
childhood memories are often VERY foggy. often kids will make things bigger in their head, and with time the memorie changes as well. when i invision what it was like being 6 years old playing football with the 12 year olds, these 12 year olds look huge. in my memories they looked pretty much like grown adults. they were strong, could run and jump like olympic athletes, and behaved like they were at least 25.
also i vividly remember seeing santa and his helpers on the roof when it was this time of year. looking if i was being good or not. i really really remember seeing this. though it wasnt real.. at all.
sometimes, especially as a kid, your mind plays tricks on you to make you believe youve seen, said or experienced things that in reality, you havent.
@@longdongmc.johnson 💀
My family is very Catholic so they had the arch bishop bless the house with salt and holy water and all my experiences ended after that.
Then explain the ghost I saw
What exactly ARE ghosts?
explain the one you saw then ?
Just imagine the amount of people that have died over the centuries. There must be billions of spirits amongst us, but only a handful of ghost cases. So the vast majority of ghost are silent, or spirits don’t exist. You decide!
Whats the difference
@paul james
I couldn’t say, personally.
“Handful” 1-5 people claim to have seen ghosts, that’s more than a handful.
People hear a noise and claim it was a ghost.
....
@@kevcaratacus9428
Unfortunately they do 😆
Ghost days
If only one out of billions is true then i will go for the one
I have at least 30 experiences.
I can assure everyone.. I promise.. on everything I've ever cared about.. ghosts are very very real.
What exactly ARE they?
they are definitly not. definitly 100% not.
it doesnt make any sense. do dogs turn into ghosts? do horses? or is it just humans? if so, why just humans? what makes us "more special"?
@@longdongmc.johnson I don't know for sure about any of that, all I know for sure is what I witnessed with my own two eyes as well as two police officers and my friend and my mother that were all witness to the same activity I was. And I'm just a random guy in a random town if it happened to me like it did it probably happens all the time all over the place
@@longdongmc.johnson They do
Can you sleep in a cemetery overnight?
I slept next to one and I wouldn’t recommend it.
A lot and i mean a LOT of people need to learn and understand how limited our eyes and ears are,we cannot see and hear everything,our limitations on decibels and the light spectrum.
Its many things we dont understand. I know that is something we can not see. Maybe it is ghosts who know?
What exactly are they?
I believe in ghosts, but I would like some scientific evidence of it. The science community don't bother because they think it's either pareidolia or entertainment, and people who already believe in ghosts only uses biased approaches and methods that doesn't really hold scientifically.
Proving ghosts exists is difficult, because how do you know it's a dead person to begin with, but proving something out of the ordinary "paranormal" is far easier I would say, but the effort for it has never really been done. As an example, if a stationary object moves without any wind present, or without any magnetic intervention, and if such object is on a dry surface, then that would be considered paranormal. Under the right scientific circumstances this could be used as evidence for something unknown, especially if it's done repeatedly after various commands with a wide range of different data.
I wish more people would experiment with this.
What exactly is a ghost?
@@alireardon6664 You can work after a hypotheses or theory, and the most leading theory is that it's dead/deceased people in some kind of form. This creates the stigma that people don't want to touch. Instead of focusing on what we think it is, we should focus on what is actually physically happening. Moving doors and objects without any person or wind present is a fascinating subject that could and should be investigated more.
@@karlkarlsson9126 do u believe in them?
@@alireardon6664 I do believe there is something there worth investigating properly. I have never experienced anything myself, but I am optimistic. What do you think? Do you believe?
Btw sorry if this sounds patronizing but please can i ask you to explain exactly what a ghost is? Im 26 and still dont fully k ow 😂
I’ve seen a ghost of a live person. I don’t believe in ghosts but think it was something I couldn’t explain.
Why don't you believe in them?
@@alireardon6664 i see your interested do u believe?
@@alireardon6664 😂
it’s so frustrating because i want to experience them so bad and nothing has ever happened to me
No you don’t
@@zay2xgreedy720 yes i do
@@ethan-ray sleep in a graveyard or cremation ground all alone
You really don’t. Unless you really want to you need to do your research to do it safely and correct. Oujia boards are hit or miss but you really have to be open to it if you want to believe. It’s all up to your mindset
@@jjluck-smith9102 he is wrong to experience such a thing most people wont like to get into
G host
Can you sleep in a cemetery overnight?
The video title doesnt answer the question...
The answer is yes they do exist.
most depressing thing is imagine being around for rest of eternity . If the world died would ghosts then die ?
what if a ghost are higher paracausal dimensional beings? I mean, we theorise higher dimensions 4th 5th 6th etc. Maybe we eventually we just disappear to a higher plane of existence lol? who knows xd
What’s going on with the hair?
That guy was so jealous of the ghost guy all the time
Can you sleep in a cemetery overnight?
Now I know why this video is so unpopular. 😂
We are all sleeping in capsule and playing simulation in the matrix world
I'm a Christian who believes in ghost because I experienced them. If you have read the Bible you know that ghost are mentioned multiple times.
No.
I was doubtful that “ghosts” existed and then my Mum died and I was woken up at 2am, with my heart pounding, why have I woken up? And I saw an orange glow by the living room door (I was sleeping on the sofa), and then I saw it again by the entrance to the kitchen. At first I did not understand what it was - then the realisation dawned on me, I know it was my Mum. Never woken up in the night like that, unless I am ill. A day or so before it happened, (my Mum’s funeral was two weeks earlier) I asked my Mum for a sign she was there. She gave me a sign. Now I believe in ghosts and life after death. People will say I am imagining it, but I know it was my Mum, she came back to see me, in orange-glow form, (I don’t know why in orange-glow form). I know it was her. It both scared and comforted me at the same time.
If someone ask you if ghosts, god or spiritual world exists, tell that person "Learn Thermodynamics." To prove the existence of god, first you gonna have to prove the existence of ghost or the spiritual world, but none of these two don't exists, so God does not exist.
I will never forget the face of a poltergeist. Hollywood could never make anything as scary
What exactly ARE ghosts?
@@alireardon6664 Souls that are stuck in our realm
@@jjluck-smith9102 whats a soul and what a realm?
@@alireardon6664 Every living human has a soul. You could say it’s our conscious but it has a lot to do with religion. The current plane with live on is different from the plane souls or “ghosts” reside in.
Comment yes if you are a true believer of ghosts comment no if you are a true skeptic of them.
no . Would you like them to be real or not ? I find it depressing if we live as ghost forever
what exactly are they??
Yes
Not very scary story WHATSOEVER DANNY
Nobody knows anything.
There is a word, which can describe any person who is seeing ghosts... Schizophrenic
So basically he is scared of dying so believes in ghosts and also profits off it lol. Absolutely zero evidence for ghosts but everyone says they have it.
But there are many people who claim the existence of ghosts.. and there are many videos and stories.. Do you think that all this is just hallucinations?
Zero evidence…you don’t believe so ur small brain capacity will never have an unbiased view
Until you both experience the afterworld / paranormal you both will never know, laugh you will and you call it fasinating? Why dont you both embrace the world has no answer for but you both have a conclusion?? There was no weapons of mass destruction...that's not possible the Govermant and media would not lie, surely...?? And Ghosts, give me an answer, please....
I experienced crazy ghost story me and my sister both witness our toy plastic plate suddenly flying around like crazy even my cat witness it and try to catch the plate
@Trey Adams ? Are you with me at that time
@@muhammadfadhil1681 So that means you're truthful? "Oh you didn't see it, but I promise you I saw the Loch ness monster"
@@TomTKK of course buddy of course
@@muhammadfadhil1681 That's not how it works, I just don't understand how people convince themselves that they exist. The stories originated in 1600s when people were easily manipulated.
NO they do NOT exist!
I've lost all respect for tedtalks...what pure hogwash...seriously unbelievable they would do this and lend credence to the subject