3 Paranormal Experiences Explained by Science
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- You've likely seen paranormal movies, tv shows, and heard spooky tales about ghosts and spirits. However with the right questions and careful observation, a ghost story can transform from a spooky anecdote to a scientific experiment. In this episode of SciShow, Hank shows you three times science could explain a paranormal experience. Let's go!
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I had an encounter the other night.
I heard weird sounds throughout the house. I heard cabinet doors being opened and closed.
I started exploring the house, in search of whatever was causing the noises.
All of a sudden, I saw a dark shape, with two glowing eyes. Then it spoke to me.
It said "Meow."
Just remember, if you capture video footage of any paranormal activity, it only appears if you record in 144p and shake the camera a lot.
I am Big Foot and i approve this message!
I'll give you a little secret if you are already a skeptic of ghost or don't believe in supernatural being.
I'll give you a procedure of how you will be able to be haunted by an angry spirit of deceased ones.
It works in my country, but because of cultural differences idk whether it's going to work in ur country but it worth a try.
I know it's very disrespectful, but if you meet a deceased person right after he got an accident on the street, you see his fresh blood everywhere on street.
Pour a liquid of fresh lime right on top of his blood..
But the person whom has his blood poured has to be dead already..
After you do that, the dead person will get hurt because his blood met lime liquid.
Imagine you have an open wound and you pour some lime into it, it will be very painful..
After u do that, angry or annoying spirit of the deceased one will come at you and question you why did you do that? He then complain that it's very painful, he haunt you for whole 40 days
If you have a fear, try it with animal blood. Pour drops of lime on top of animal blood of dead animal and see whether he gonna haunt you..
It's not a joke, few stupid ppl here already try it and it works. Some of them become insane after it
There are countless high quality videos of ghosts and countless more people that have seen them. Do some research.
@@abdur1300 "After you do that, the dead person will get hurt because his blood met lime liquid." LOL! Yeah, ok. Citrus juice has amazing afterlife properties such that the deceased person's "ghost" or "ghost blood" with be so irritated that it may just drive you insane. :) LOL!
@@jasonvoorhees3666 Sure, with the advent of high definition recording devices and editing software, all of those "countless high quality videos" are real, right? Just because some videos and audio recordings were done with high quality recording devices, do not then make them any more real. In fact, since the advent of free and easy to use digital editing and effects software has directly correlated to an explosion of "ghost" videos, UFO videos, Big Foot videos, etc. If anything, knowing what modern digital software can do, makes those high quality videos even more suspect.
The only way to prove any claim is for researchers to develop ideas, theories, and tests that can be done, data gathered, analyzed, and then the testing needs to be repeated by other who can duplicate the SAME results. And eventually, all of that data needs to be able to predict outcomes. UFO, aliens, ghosts, and all of the things associated with "other worldly" and "supernatural" or "supranatural" are nothing more than speculation and beliefs mainly and mostly on anecdotal personal recollection, with some "evidence" based on certain types of recordings that can't be duplicated, and even less so, can't predict outcome.
Saw a UFO over the ocean once. Friends and I went to investigate. It was a fisherman, fishing with a light as lure and the strange movement we saw, was him just throwing the lure into the water and pulling it out again... The simplest things can seem spooky, if you've never seen them before.
ikr, had a girlfriend try to tell me her house wasn't haunted and one night she woke up and couldn't move. it happens to plenty of people and can be dangerous when part of you wakes up but not the rest of your body. her mom also claimed to be psychic... no offense the people that go out of their way to search for those things are seriously crazy. listen to anyone who has ever tried to hunt for ghost or "bigfoot"... they will make you feel like the smartest scientist to ever live.
No-one...\o/ which explains UFO s, ghosts, 'orbs', etc AND religion!
Mike Ferster That’s sleep paralysis.
Judging by this, you must think u see something paranormal about 20 times a day. You must quite a handful!
@@angelined9814 you missed his point
Who remembers that small Egyptian statue that would slowly rotate on its own during they say. People thought it was haunted but it was actually vibrations rotating because the bottom was slightly curved
I have two 'walking figurines! If the figure wasn't exotic, I'll bet it wouldn't be considered as scary.
I read about it in a book called "Evil Archeology".
Another one was a guy moving it and editing himself out
Makes me think of the moving rocks that were just sliding on a slight ice shell, plus wind making it move over time.
😆😆😆😆
I live in the middle of nowhere. 10 miles from the nearest town, 50 miles from the nearest city. One night I went outside to have a cigarette, as I normally do. I'm mainly awake during the night, go to bed on average around 5am to 6am, and wake up around 1pm. That night, it was around 1am and the wild animals near my home started freaking out, running and hiding. Thousands of lights appeared, blinking everywhere. It was an awesome sight to see but also a bit intimidating. Then they were gone. The following nights they showed up again but in fewer numbers until a few days later there were only about a handful of these blinking lights left.
They were fireflies. But, I knew that beforehand because it happens every year on my property but I've had guests over the years and man does it freak them out. They think a bevy of things that I let them think because I find it hilarious to watch them freak out.
That was anti-climactic
@@mewntay230 It was supposed to be; that's the punchline.
They could be man-eating fireflies for all we know
Oh wow!
What an amazing experience!
I'd love to see that!
Its true, i was the fire fly
I lived in a house where you could hear sighing, and what sounded like a bouncing ball. My dad, a plumber, solved it, the person who unstalled the plumbing was a DIY kind of guy, and had put the valves in wrong throughout the whole house! Once the plumbing was fixed, no sounds. Also, I'm an exterminator, and a lot of noises are caused by rodents and even ants in the walls. I always wanted to try solving a haunted house, it would be very interesting.
Come across a few people who got spooked by buzzing in their panel.
I've caught orbs flying through my house through walls, the roof, and even my foot once. There is always two of them that follow each other around. I've caught these using a full spectrum camera. As an exterminator, can you think of any bugs that exhibit this kind of behavior? These things fly straight and with purpose, not all over the place like stupid bugs do. I found this out on my own instead of listening to some Joe scientist from CZcams. Scientists are the last people to believe in this stuff.
Student: No, sorry. I don't want to help you in the lab, I heard it's haunted.
Scientist: Not anymore. I used a fencing foil to get rid of the ghost.
Student: So you foiled the ghost?
Scientist: Yes. Fencing is good... exercise.
Hello fren
did u mean
exorcise
Shell B I see what you did there
Master Therion But foil is the saddest and flaccidest off all fencing blades
Dam you that actually made me laugh 😁 thank you I needed that today
Most, if not all, of these explanations are cooler and more interesting than the original paranormal explanation. I truly think the universe is interesting, beautiful, and amazing without any paranormal or supernatural stories.
This is a thing that struck me as I moved out of belief in the paranormal. "Investigations" never advanced. Noting new was ever learned about how ghosts or UFOs supposedly worked. It got so very boring. Then, one by one, scientific explanations actually answered those questions. Sure, they ruled out magical ideas, but there was still so much more to find out.
As a believer in the paranormal (really, more a belief that there's more out there left to be discovered, that we don't have all the answers yet), I like how this video was put together. Very thorough without too much smugness. LOVE that fencing foil story - fascinating! Also, any remotely knowledgeable investigator knows what a moth looks like in slow shutter speed. I've never heard anyone call them anything other than moths. Skyfish? We'll leave that to Doctor Who ;)
I don't believe in paranormal activity but I still find it fun to experience something unexplained. Just the mysterious nature of such an experience can be quite frightening, even if I know there is a logical explanation somewhere.
Elvis S That, and trying to find the explanation for something weird can help you learn new things.
The best part is that you don't know what the logical explanation is. Trying to find one when you don't know where to start is futile, which makes it seem like it really is paranormal.
i am a man who lives "very-normal' after living through an innocent myself yrs ago..i know for a fact para-normal does exist
I would normally agree but ive seen enough ghosts as a kid and teen to believe. Not just black ghosts either but a actually white human ghost with distinct features 4 times.
Chad Simmons, Thomas Rios, I'm not here to argue that paranormal activity isn't real. I know that trying to do so is pointless. I'm just stating that even if something isn't paranormal, it can still be a spooky experience if you can't explain it.
I love how a lot of paranormal videos are taken using such low quality (often done in post) even tho phone cameras are pretty great
Monsters are blurry.
yup more cameras than ever before. less ghost sightings than ever before. the data speaks for its self
Rickstery And when it's not blurry, you can usually see the Photoshop artifacts.
use logic moron, more and more videos, with higher quality, will continue to be uploded to youtube, just a matter of time...
SlyPearTree there u go
ooh, so I can make my house really spooky using infrasound on Halloween!
I don't even know where to start finding infrasound generators...
Meh
Only because I've had the same idea for years now... it's actually quite difficult. From what I understand, you would basically need audiophile-grade equipment to make it loud enough and reliable enough. Or, get lucky and find a motor or a fan that happens to generate it naturally haha.
Quite possible. ANYTHING that vibrates at about the right frequency should produce sound waves at that frequency. Watch the 'cone' in your stereo speaker as it produces low bass sounds. It's very visible.
You know what would be excellent? A horror movie with infrasound in the background music and soundtrack! Talk about taking the horror to the next level!
The movie is haunted! 🤪
It's a well known fact that scientists ain't afraid of no ghosts.
at the beginning of the story
WHO YA GONNA CALL!?
If scientists are afraid of no ghosts then let them be at some of the real haunted places a few nights 😆 . Im sure they will turned to be a believer.
Baltazar Felix Been there, done that, got the disappointment. I can’t tell you how many places I investigated when I was younger using actual standards and rigor hoping to find evidence that could stand up to critical inquiry only to be met with profound disappointment.
I don’t believe now, not because I assume ghosts aren’t real, but because I investigated for myself and found out for myself that the only people who find evidence of ghosts are the ones so biased in favor of a place being haunted by “THE ghost of [person X] who died here in [year X],” that every little crash and noise and movement was to them absolute and irrefutable proof of ghosts. Their minds were closed to any other explanations, even if a mundane explanation stared them in the face. I have been to places like The Myrtles plantation in Louisiana, and supposedly haunted abandoned insane asylums. All disappointing.
Simply put, if you can explain something using natural mechanisms of action, then there is no need to shoehorn in a supernatural explanation. In fact, in situations where a natural explanation is well supported a supernatural explanation is artificial and forced. Even if you can’t find a natural explanation, saying that a phenomenon is positively caused by the supernatural without proof positive evidence is an assumption at best, and a self deceptive lie at worst.
I never found signs of intelligent interaction, and even the rare events that I saw something I didn’t have an explanation for, using a supernatural explanation would have required a house of cards worth of assumptions to make. The supernatural explanations don’t even offer adequate explanations for what they do try to explain.
For example, when I was a teenager I went to the grave of Mercy Brown in the Chestnut Hill cemetery, and I saw a cobalt blue “orb” of light flying around the cemetery blinking on and off like a firefly. It started out a good 12 feet in the air and by the time it left the cemetery it was flying above the tree tops. I can’t with any honesty attribute either a natural or supernatural explanation to that. On the natural side of things, the only known species of blue firefly only flies 3 feet above the ground and doesn’t go higher. On the supernatural side of things the blue orb did nothing to indicate that it was THE ghost of Mercy Brown who was buried in that cemetery and who’s grave was dug up under false pretenses of vampirism. All it was was a blue orb that flew around, blinking on and off like a firefly. Was it an as yet undiscovered species of blue firefly? I don’t know, and I could spend a lot of time scouring Rhoad Island for a rare blue firefly. Was it the ghost of Mercy Brown? I don’t have enough proof positive information to say that it is. In fact it seems to me that it is more likely that people saw this blue blinking orb and automatically assumed it was her ghost without any further evidence.
You may say, “But you can’t prove that it wasn’t the ghost of Mercy Brown,” as if that proves that it is, but at some point you should realize that the absence of evidence isn’t proof positive evidence, now is it? That would be like me saying, “You can’t prove that it’s not an undiscovered species of blue firefly, therefore it is!” Well, no. The absence of evidence isn’t proof positive evidence.
There are two truths to consider here. First, that when people are faced with the unknown they tend to use their imaginations to make up explanations. Sometimes they use evidence to support or disprove their explanations, sometimes they stand by their imaginary made up explanation no matter what the evidence says. People have a tendency to bow to liars because they can’t wait for the truth. Second, sometimes the more honest thing to do is admit that we don’t know something, and instead of shoehorning in a made up explanation we should embrace the unknown and wait for more evidence even if it never shows up in our lifetimes. Admitting to ourselves that we don’t know, and that just because we don’t know it is not license to make up whatever mythology or explanation that makes sense at the time and say that our imaginary made up explanations are absolute truth.
I don’t believe in ghosts because in my experience A) every time someone has tried to use ghosts as an explanation it turned out that they were purely using their imaginations to make up explanations for things they didn’t know how to explain naturally, and B) I have not collected proof positive evidence of ghosts from any of the places I’ve investigated using any of the methods I’ve employed, nor has the evidence I’ve seen anyone else present pass muster with the standards I’ve presented to you here.
And yes, I am a published scientist. Type my name into the search bar and you will see me give a presentation on honey bee genetics, or into google scholar to see some of the papers I’ve written.
@@kurtlangberg6143 true👍👍people believe the things that they see but they close that thing with saying that it was a ghost or a paranormal. Sometimes from the story that people say I get suspicious and think about it and don't enjoy the life. So if anyone is reading this my story is tha sometimes I think that happens a paranormal thing but in the end I finde what is it ...It's our brain bc we are afraid about them, we are destroying our lifes so enjoy your life no mater what people think👍👍
Infrasound is one of the things I thought of when I heard the US Embassy in Cuba was experiencing illnesses. I had read years ago about an African clinic where the workers were all becoming ill. It was ultimately discovered that the ventilation system in the clinic was emitting sound at a sub-sonic frequency.
It was widely reported that infrasound weapons were being considered as a possibility in the cube incident. It wasn't just you. It sounds like the Pentagon / CIA was already exploring it
Science doesnt need to debunk unsubstantiated claims when they can't already stand on their own due to lack of
evidence.Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -- Carl Sagan
Why did he said at the end of the video (5:34) "also, maybe a fencing foil"?
I’m the Ancient Greek “daimon” is where we get demon.
Dai:distribute mon:fortunes
Some Peoples would create idols/gods that if worshipped they believed it would distribute fortune
"B-but what about [unverifiable personal experience]."
Nobody does this
@Elio Live and let live.
I never watched most haunted because I believed it, but because Yvette Fielding and Derek Acorah hated each other and it was funny to watch him being "possessed" to take it out on her. Also she'd scream at the drop of of a hat (in one case, literally.)
it's called having an "overactive imagination" that's all.
@@micmac274 Derek Acorah made a living being a fraud his how life all because people believed it. No matter how hard I try I just don't know what goes through peoples heads.
I love when sciences destroys paranormal activity.
John Cena but we can't see you
No proof is not proof
I feel like you are a pretty "destructive" person...
Ba-dum-tss
John Cena
Its easily my top 5 feelings of all time.
Scientists are generally unqualified to explain paranormal claims, and in most instants, should not try. They may do more harm than good. In 1974, the illusionist Uri Geller was able to convince many highly respected scientists that he was able to bend spoons telepathically. The only scientist who was able to debunk him was the brilliant Nobel physicist, Richard Feynman, and Feynman was able to do it not because he was a scientist, but because he was an amateur stage magician. Magician James Randi completely destroyed Geller's claims - spoon bending is an old magician's trick - and many scientists still believed their own eyes. The problem is that scientists are trained to look for natural, logical answers, and most paranormal claims involve deception. Deception is the magician's stock in trade, but scientists are easily fooled.
Scenario-
Hears something in the other room
Looks in there (Nothing's there)
Normal people-
"Welp, time to move
CZcamsrs-
"IM BEING HAUNTED (TRUE STORY) (Story time) (Gone wrong in the hood) (Gone sexual) (Gone Minecraft)
Juan Pancho Man ...
Juan Pancho Man Normal people: there are many logical explanations orders of magnitude more likely than a ghost and our entire understanding of physics, biology and the entire universe being wrong so I won't worry about it
Juan Pancho Man GONE MINECRAFT!!!11!=!11!!!1!1!1!!!111!1!111!!1!!!!11!!1!111!!1!1
Killian reference for the win!
Scientific Machine I wish that was just how normal people acted...
Ok so that floating, red-eyed demon head in the hallway that's been staring at me for the past hour is simply caused by my fan that doesn't work at all? Good to know.
Depends, is every light in your house flickering and there seem to be a string quartet strapped to your back?
If so, then yes it is the fan.
Who ya gonna call?
Monday's insanity LSD isn't a liquid, and doses are measured in micrograms. A gallon of it would be worth billions of dollars.
(Yes, I'm aware you were joking.)
Devin Ward it's a reference to dbz abridged lol
Monday's insanity Oh, OK.
I thought for years I was attacked by a ghost. Turns out it was ball lightning which is scarier since it could have killed me.
The Marfa lights are still pretty darn cool.
On a related note, when I was a teenager, my family and myself saw lights hovering over an area South of where we lived at the time. The lights were orange in color and in one occasion a group of 7 of the lights merged into 4 before they disappeared. We figured at the time that the lights were illumination shells that were fired by artillery cannons at firing range which was located South of us. Years later, I joined the artillery unit and did fire illumination shells at that range, I knew what illumination shells looked like by that time. On one trip to that range, similar lights appeared to our North. They were too far away to be any of our own illumination shells, they persisted far longer than our shells, and they didn't behave like our shells did visually.
The only logical conclusion I could come up with would be Ball Lightning, barring that, I have no idea what those lights were.
I believe in the paranormal. But I acknowledge skepticism. I acknowledge that ghosts may or may not exist.
same, to me there’s no way they aren’t real but then again maybe 1000 years from now there will be explanations for what we experienced
You might like my opinion at the top... it lets you have both. And still, be skeptical.
Real ghosts are manifestations of past selves from departed souls who failed to connect with the source
@@samindaperamuna6392 and how do you know that? Have you been a ghost before?
Those were fascinating! There are so many other freaky, explainable 'paranormal' instances out there-- I look forward to the day we can figure out the truth with science.
Yess this is the true spirit of science: never fear the unexplained, always seek the answer.
Di
Shut up
Well you won’t... mainstream science is as biased as anything.
@@gabrielg.2401 I bet you're afraid of vaccines
Gonna hunt Bigfoot with a fencing foil
Bluespheal that's pretty badass if I do say so myself
Squatch!
Make sure it has an actually pointy end first instead of one with the nub.
Someone did with a PCR hehe
Skyes B. 2014 "Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates" Proc Biol Sci 281(1789): 20140161
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100498/
Is as Hilarious as a peer review paper can go. Check the results table.
True Darkness Sasquatch?
Is there a possibility of a series of you talking about supposedly paranormal events or places, Hank?
I absolutely love paranormal things, even though I don't believe in them.
If there's something weird...in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Hank Green!
That being said, I’m glad people investigated this stuff without immediately writing it off as fake. To assume something is false with no evidence, is wholly unscientific. To assume something is fact without hard evidence is also unscientific, but where there’s smoke there’s fire. It’s always worth investigating
I guess you could say the laboratory ghost was...
foiled.
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A lab technician with a fencing foil!
MYTHBUSTERS!
There is so much stuff in this world that can't be explained. I had something happen to me that scared the hell out of me. I was living on a property where someone had died and I tryed making contact with them. over time like a week or so I could hear someone speaking in the air. This went on for days making me think I was hearing voices going crazy, so I bought a voice recorder from the store. When I got back home that day I thought I would check if it picks anything up so I hit record and that's when things got scary creepy I recorded every voice I heard.
A few other explanations for ghosts: hypnagogia, which is when the brain is on the threshold of entering a sleep state and can produce hallucinations while the person thinks they're awake. The most common is a sense of falling like on a rollercoaster, but they can also be visual hallucinations like seeing someone at the foot of your bed. Another is carbon monoxide poisoning, which can cause dread and hallucinations.
Hmm I think these concepts are fascinating. I’m very skeptical and most of the time I think there’s a logical, scientific explanation for unexplained occurrences. But it’s still fun to wonder and explore into these things lol.
Also fear can cause sensitivity to lights, noises, and sight. It creates high anxiety in the brain. People love getting this adrenal rush from watching horror movies, or shows on the paranormal. I was on a beach once on the central Coast of NSW Australia, the beach was named after a woman who survived a ship wreck in the early 1800s, it was probably a myth. There was an old guy with he's dog that I past while walking on the shore and he said to me, do you know that there is a ghost that haunts this beach, and I said to him it's not the dead you need to fear, it's the living.
Lady Robinsons Beach?
This is why I find paranormal shows quite annoying now. They tend to leave out very important details that happen to explain what's happening.
I remember one show talking about gravity hill or something like that.. They had this whole story about a school bus stopping on the tracks on the top of the hill, a train hits it, and all the kids died. Now when you set your car in neutral, the car would go up and over the tracks even though the tracks are on top of a hill. The legend goes that it's the kids of the school bus making sure no one else would stop on the tracks like they did. You could even put powder on the back of your vehicle and fingerprints will appear.
While I figured that it's just the car owners previous fingerprints just showing up as the powder falls off, I was wondering how a car could go from no speed, set to neutral, and magically go up a hill. At first, I thought maybe it was just an illusion. Maybe it's actually downhill, but the horizon and the hills behind it make it look like uphill. When Wikipedia became quite extensive, I found out there was an article on this road. It turns outs that you can't just set your car in neutral anywhere. You had to be up the previous hill. You gain enough momentum to ride over this mysterious hill. Seriously that was it. Way to leave out important information that basically self-explains what's happening.
Kayle Lang Watch Ghost Adventures, they actually went to that road and said everything about the legend and tried it out and it worked, but then they invited some experts with professional tools to measure wheter or not the road is going uphill and downhill, and it turned out it just seems like it's going uphill. They debunk as many things as they can and really rarely claim something is 100% supernatural, they will just say they can't find explanations for certain events. They even came out and pointed out all the "evidence" that the head of the TV channel they work for made them fake.
I remember watching a show talk about that like 15 years ago. You're right that the handprints were just from anyone who touched their trunk. I wonder how old that story is.
Ghost Adventures. Everywhere they go Zak the Muscle Guy claims something is a "demon." Who the hell is stupid enough to believe in that? I saw them lie on camera, years ago one of the guys was holding an EMF meter (which means NOTHING as far as evidence) and you could hear the ear splitting noise from it, and the one man who is always scared and says "Dude" a lot, said, "It's maxed out! The needle is all the way up!" But the camera panned over his shoulder and the needle was on zero. That told me they added the sound later and Dude Man was acting. That was all the proof I needed. There is a high demand for these nonsense shows, so these crooks create them for the advertising money and TV contracts. The TV channels themselves are just as greedy. The Weather Channel had a paranormal show, you KNOW this fad has to end soon. I admit I used to watch and enjoy Ghost Hunters but once it caught on and the show became more famous, the faking started and that may be why Grant left. The times they got busted, Grant was always around. Now we have one with the Osbourne kid ghost hunting. I guess there is no one better at deciphering unintelligible gibberish from a tape recorder than Ozzy Osbourne's son! @@PowerfulPete
Jozee G I noticed that too. When Ghost Hunters was new, they did a lot more actual debunking. There were even episodes where they caught absolutely no evidence and admitted they couldn’t find anything.
But as their popularity grew, I think they were pressured more and more to find good evidence, and started faking things.
imagine devoting literally your whole life to something like ghosts/ bigfoot...……….. imagine what kind of person you have to be to spend every second of every day lying to people about some strange made up being that you devote your life to. oh sounds like religion... never met a religious person that wasn't selfish, a liar, a criminal, and mostly a hypocrite. if one religion is real they all are. or none are and people evolved and you could listen to science... being a conservative must be difficult to lie about everything you ever believe in...….
I recently wound up with a bunch of traffic to some old home movies (long story) I’d loaded to CZcams so I could share them with friends. This included a video filmed on our back patio, with my grandfather behind the camera. Part of this influx in traffic to the videos was shown with comments, and while most were very kind, a few were just weird, including one where a girl was convinced she was seeing ghosts in the clip. I had to explain to her that no, it was simply smoke from my grandfather smoking while he recorded...
The Paulding Light near Houghton, MI are even creepier. They're similar to the Marfa lights, but there doesn't seem to be any location like a street that the lights should be coming from. Students from MTU recently figured out that the effect was very similar to the Marfa lights, but the lights were also being reflected off a street sign, which gave them a strange angle of attack.
But can science explain the mysterious screams from my parent's room?
You could be imagining those voices.
Let's just say pops is clapping them cheeks
My bad, I told your mom to be quiet but she wouldn’t listen
@@johnnymac8843 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Alien abduction. Definitely. It happens every night in my sister's room. I feel so bad for my dad and sis when it happens to them in there
I would love to see "science" debunk the things that happened in the house I grew up in.
DarkKnightDelta Same.
@DarkKnightDelta if you don’t mind, can you share your experiences from your old house. Thanks in the meantime
@@elijahyoung11 Well, talking about the supernatural isn't the most popular thing to be talking about and when things happen to a person that can't be rationally explained, mentioning it out loud tends to get negative attention. Let's face it, people don't want to believe in things that they can't interact with. If they can't see it or touch it then it mustn't be real. I thought that.
But I found out that there are indeed forces that we cannot account for, things that have no natural explanation. Almost everything we can see has a definition as to what it is but there are things that we can't see, things that lay outside the natural explanation and because they can't be explained naturally, they are called supernatural. Ghosts, demons, whatever you want to call them are real and they can be very dangerous and inflict harm.
How exactly do you explain to someone that you were psychically touched or even assaulted by an unseen force without being laughed at? You can't. The house I grew up in looked just like any other house. It wasn't the old decrepit mansion that is often depicted when you see an illustration of a haunted house. In fact it wasn't a mansion neither was it decrepit. It also wasn't old. No one had died in the house. I know because my dad had owned the house for most of his life. The house had been built by my grandfather on a small plot of land out in the country, many miles away from any large settlement.
It was a beautiful area surrounded by mountains and trees. A small creek ran beside the house. Before the house was built, the area was just a thick forest. There was no graveyard of any kind nearby. The road that the house was attached to had a native American name but as far as we knew, there were no native American graveyards near either. So as to where its unknown otherworldly occupants came from, I have no clue. I know that sounds lame and dumb but it's true.
The house I live in now, I have lived in for the past 15 years and there's no paranormal activity in it. It's just a house. But the house I grew up in, the one I'm talking about, was different for some reason. It had a different energy, a different feel to it. It's very hard to explain. In my current house, everything feels fine. But that house had an odd feeling. The feeling that something was just off. You can't really explain it to someone who has never experienced it. The closest comparison that I can think of is when there's a person who doesn't like you but you have no feelings of hatred or anger towards them.
An edgy feeling like someone is there looking at you who doesn't appreciate you and you're wondering what they're going to do. But in this case there was no one. It was just a house. Yet it felt like it was that person watching you except for here you couldn't see them. I enjoyed being outside and away from the house. There, I could do whatever I wanted without feeling like I was being followed. But as soon as I stepped back inside, that same uneasy feeling came back. It's like the house had eyes and it watched you. You couldn't see anything no matter how hard you tried but it always seemed like there was someone staring you down. It was uneasy and very uncomfortable. But that's only a small part of a much bigger story. I can tell you more if you want.
@@darkknightdelta2880 thank you for sharing some of that.
In one of my older houses, my mother saw a tall dark figure that looked like it had a hat move from one room to other. Apparently my sister and her friend saw that as well. The house was pretty new at the time.
Personally, I don’t think I have had any supernatural experiences, however, I trust the anecdote of people quite a bit, especially from family.
My mother told me another story that really is sad, however, to me at least, is undeniable proof of some god or gods or divine beings of any kind.
Let me know if you want to know that story.
@@elijahyoung11 Sure, go ahead.
I would pay to see an entire series of you guys debunking supernatural claims with solid science.
The take away here is that, while not every phenomenon is *currently* explained (usually due to insufficient information or difficulty in replicating the conditions), that doesn't mean that there *is* no conventional explanation. While we may never find out what caused a given specific instance of lights or shapes or odd visions, it is important to keep that healthy dose of skepticism and a willingness to look for answers within the known before positing the exotic. The universe is cool enough as it is without needing to invoke the supernatural to non-explain things we see.
Also, many things aren't currently explained simply due to lack of funding or lack of interest in even bothering to try to explain them, not because they are unexplainable.
I know, right. But it's more scientific to also say that the inverse could also be true, from my point of view.
True. But it COULD also be an explanation that has nothing "paranormal" about it, but still would mean being currently placed in the paranormal melting pot, but we wouldn't know because we don't have the scientific principles yet.
Some UFO cases do pose questions, do induce a credible explanation by actual alien life piloting advanced vehicles. Still the whole UFO subject is "paranormal" apparently, as a lot of "scientific" minds like to say a lot.
This is literally three out of millions of paranormal scenarios.
Yeah, just because they currently don't have a scientific explanation doesn't mean there isn't one. Scientists have better things to do.
@@illig4912 There is a scientific explanation for everything, and finding it is of supreme importance. Blind skepticism, as expressed through today's popular reductionist opinion, is just as ignorant as blind belief. They are one and the same. A true scientist will never leave a single stone unturned in the pursuit of truth.
Not all scientific explanations have been found yet, but this is just common sense. There are no ghost you dipsh*t.
@@Drew-od4dh Scientists can't explain why atoms don't fly apart - a scientific explanation for everything pfft. LOL Bumplebees shouldn't be able to fly according to the laws of aerodynamics- BUT THEY DO FLY. Science is funny.
Because these 3 things covers them all with the exception of plain old fraud
I'm not saying it's aliens... because it's not.
Leopoldo Aranha Hey Vsauce Micheal here
This is how I get into the Halloween mood
I'd like to see more data gathered on localized temperature drops followed by an increase in EM activity. It would almost seem to me that there is a sort of energy conversion taking place, but how is very interesting.
I've personally felt "not measured" a significant drop in ambient room temp, maybe some 10-15 degrees, followed by kid's voice saying "Abigail" in my right ear while staying at a supposedly haunted hotel in Louisiana. Up till that point, and never after have I ever heard voices like that before. It was pretty interesting.
Ah, but did you have your trusty fencing sword to debunk the whole thing with?
Wait, is this
A Halloween episode?
Georgina Close You are right.I just now realized.So stupid.
Very spooked
Pause at 4:42 Hank looks both happy and excited about what he is going to say. "Superior mirage" is a fun thing to say, so I think I know what's up now. Just saying... it's really hard to put the words "Superior" and "Mirages" together in a normal conversation.
I always try to find a rational explanation for everything but I'm also easily scared. one time I was by myself and a toy fell out of nowhere and said "peekaboo I see you" it was a terrifying coincidence 😭
The Comments: Yeah but I definitely saw a ghost.
notablegoat because anecdotal evidence is THE best kind
Yeah but I definitely saw a ghost
notablegoat . Inaccurate comment about the comments.
@Interceptor That's a lot of people.
@Rade Knezevic the black shadow was just trying to kiss you on the forehead
Always interesting videos!
Marfa Lights are still, as of yet, classified as unexplained phenomena due to the fact that they have been both reported, and recorded photographically, for decades before both cars _and_ the highway near the mountains.
This is brilliant. You have taught me a lot here 🙌🏻
I always have to laugh at how digital photos have fooled people into thinking that all kinds of strange things exist, like "orbs" and "rods" simply because of the idiosyncracies of the technology. Similar to old photographs of the spirits of people who actually just walked through a long exposure shot and paused for a second and moved on....
Yes. Having the lens and your light source very close together on your device has seriously increased the number of spirit orbs in the world. Maybe the dead don't like new tech and are haunting mobile phone users everywhere!
They didn't seem to have so much of an issue with the previous 100+ years of photographical device users where the lens and flash were much further apart...hmm.
When you say “probably”, that isn’t definite therefore not a debunk.
Nokia Mikau I comment on a lot of videos on here.
I love science. Although, I was recording me playing guitar once in a sound proofed room. When listening back, in between me playing, I heard a voice In the room I couldn't explain. From then on, I've continued recording searching for voices and captured more voices and whispers I can't explain. I'm still a sceptic, although it's quite facinsanting.
Explanation - your room isn't so sound-proof or your recording tech is picking something up.
Thousands of hauntings & ghostly happenings you solved 3 well done !
Ever seen a real ghost of something that just wasn't right -That shouldn't of happpend ?
no, but did you ever make anything happen? anything you couldn't explain? when you were angry? or or scared?
The title is screaming INFRASOUNDS. They're spooky and not fun at all if present in residental areas...
Hodajii You're spot on about the first one.
This makes me feel better after watching CZcamsr ghost stories
IbieB definitely less clickbait here
Don't waste your mental energy on that nonsense. It's a bit like talking to the village idiot in the town square.
I love everything about this video, especially the Marfa lights exclamation. Also, I prefer Saber fencing.
In high school, in the 80’s, I was practicing Bb contrabass clarinet near a digital alarm clock with red lighted numerals, and checked the time while playing the lowest notes. The numbers were wiggling very oddly until I stopped playing. I assume that one of these audible, though very low, notes was an upper harmonic of 19 Herz or thereabouts, and was somehow exciting enough of the fundamental to be vibrating my eyeballs?
Some people will believe anything.
Then debunk Casimir's effect as "non existing"... Instead it is ghostly in its nature... That's why I believe in ghosts, and higher dimensions and i do not believe into philosophers or so called "scientists" who desperately want to deny the existence of quantum physics and consequently the eternal question - is there life beyond our material (visible) realm.
VendPrekmurec, I’m not sure what you’re on about with the whole “debunk” thing. It is due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, not ghosts
Hello to you. I am talking about the coherence, which could be related with that field, because you can create a matter out of "0"... And energy can not disappear into a thin air; it simply transforms itself.
VendPrekmurec they dont hear u
@@VendPrekmurec When you die you don't have much energy. Your body transforms food into energy but when you die it doesn't. And also how does energy turn into a ghost?
The paranormal's realm of explanation gets continuously smaller every time we learn the workings of things we did not know before.
well, when you think about it the definition of "paranormal" doesn't even make sense. it's just natural things that we don't (yet) understand.
Yes, centuries ago people believed that epilepsy was demonic possession, that gravity was magic, that the stars were holes punched in a cover over the earth which let in light. But I wonder just how far we've come when I still see people believing in demons and angels. Or when their "proof" of a ghost is feeling cold. Or thinking an animal is "bad luck" because of its hair color. Or believing that a cheap piece of plywood by a game company, with a sticker on it of letters and numbers, will let them talk to their dead grampa. Humans can truly talk themselves into anything.
How god of the gaps works, too.
until you actually see a ghost.
That first one was fascinating!
So Rods are flying insects!!
Now, who'd have guessed that! 🤣🤣
The infrasound frequency causing so called strange phenomena is fascinating.
The more i learn about sound frequencies, the more amazed I am!
can a very loud infrasound damage the tiny hairs inside your ears? like if there would be a 15hz tone played at 100db for 10 minutes near you, you wouldn't hear it because it's out of the human hearing range, but would it still damage your hearing?
Science doesn't need to debunk unsubstantiated claims when they can't already stand on their own due to lack of evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan
You got it! Even the so-called evidence isn't evidence, and now we have "ghost hunting equipment." The K2 or whatever that thing is, the manufacturer admitted designing it so it would randomly go on and off. The twist flashlight going on and off has been explained too. Ouija boards used by drunk teens? BS, someone moves it and pretends he didn't. Possessed by the devil? More like the person thinks he or she is possessed, or is acting, or is mentally ill.
On the contrary. That's what I love about science. We CAN debunk these things by finding the evidence ourselves. Each one of us in the field is a pioneer of evidence. We question authority, follow the evidence wherever it leads. We test hypotheses with the evidence gained from measurements and observations (Both Qualitative and QUANTITATIVE). If an experiment fails a well-designed test, THE HYPOTHESIS IS WRONG!
@@kroelld While I find comfort in science as much as anyone else, what you said is also the glaring problem with science. The opposite side of the same coin, if you will. If something is not necessarily qualitative or quantitative, or repeatable, science will turn a blind eye to it. Not everything in the universe is repeatable.
Setting aside all paranormal to put this into a very real possible example, what if astrophysicists find that the structure of the universe isn't in fact the same everywhere, and different parts of the universe experience physics just slightly differently at different times. Experiments couldn't be repeatable due to the timing and laws of physics being slightly different, and thus, science in its current form would have an extremely difficult time making any legitimate progress towards understanding this. Science would even willingly miss an entire realm of unknown information simply because something couldn't be repeatable.
@@Midnight24435 wow
Cool stuff. You can find infrasound online. You can't hear it, but it will register in your sound settings.
Love your videos especially at around 9 pm
You cannot disprove S K E L E T O N S
nein nein skeletons are a proven thing, just look in a mirror and say "cheese"
nein nein I heard this urban legend about this guy who actually had a skeleton INSIDE him
Scary spooky skeletons send shivers down your spine.
DOOT
[Undertale reference]
[01:31] '19 Hz'-back in the '60's a popular mechanics magazine (maybe 'The...') told of USSR experiments using 7 Hz to disrupt human adversaries-(but DARPA hasn't said)...
Shhh. Some folks aren't ready to venture into the realm of classified.
The picture at 2:20 is also caused by the rapid blinking of the light. That is why you can see many distinct wings instead of a continuous blur. I have been doing this very same thing with falling snow and LED headlights.
I like to use "paranormal" stuff to explain phenomenology to my students. I describe a friend's claim to have seen a "ghost," and point out that all we can know about it is the description he gives; it could have all these different causes/explanations (I give a few; this video will help me flesh that out a bit) and point out how naming it a "ghost" imports all kinds of claims about metaphysical qualities we don't actually have any access to. This example seems to really help them.
How people ever thought the Marfa Lights were anything but headlights is beyond me.
It is making me crazy that i can't remember the name of the place...but i remember a similar story where the scientists thought the lights (like the Marfa lights) were headlights or street lamps or something similar and they thought they proved their hypothesis right up until they realized how many documented sightings were described before there were cars. Not to say the early sightings were ghosts or aliens...most likely campfires or lamps being carried by people or attached to wagons for night travel...they just couldn't have been car headlights.
why just three this is so unsatisfying?
Yeah, science like 's been disproving ghosts countless times.
Simply wow! 😍
That 19 Hz thing blew my mind. So many things we still don't know.
I love this channel, very interesting. Please do a episode on Dr Ian Stevenson and Dr Jim B Tuckers work.
He said that investigators believed the Marfa lights were "probably" caused by headlights of nearby vehicles. Probably doesn't sound 100% to me. Just saying...
When Edison created the light bulb, its efficiency was not as high as leds nowadays. But even leds now aren't 100% energy efficient yet. Science and technology will still accept that we may never reach 100% completeness of anything. So be happy if you aren't 100% satisfied. At least, with a probable scientific explanation, we shed some light into it, and be happy with that. We don't have to live in the fear of unexplained things. We must always seek the answer.
Can you come up with an explanation for the ghost in Monster House?
Checkmate
Flamingpaper Imagination.
Dizzy-Paws joke<
your head
Dizzy-Paws woosh
First of you should get some food for your commerades in Venezuela
I personally see them as more of misunderstandings rather than debunkings.
What would change my mind completely is if scientists went into an area without any other external forces (e.g. sound frequencies, light, etc) and did a small experiment to fully prove the non-existence of ghosts. I must admit, i am somewhat bias since i’m agnostic but if it’s 100% proven they don’t exist, i’ll change my opinion.
Loved that first story!
Sounds to me like none of these were actually considered paranormal to begin with.
Anyone else went and played 19hertz sound test on the sound system? I did it's an interesting thought I will test it on my friends wish me luck.
The absurdity of quantum physics is definitely some spooky science! Like how light can be both a particle AND a wave! Or black hole singularities?! Really neat stuff.
And temperature inversion??Haha, gotta love it! 😆 I’ve heard it called a a “soft horizon”. 🤓
I loved these and how they aren't what people think. Could you debunk the Hessalden lights in Norway (I think they were there?)
Even if some “paranormal” activities are real, everything can be explained. Some things can’t be explained because we haven’t discovered the science behind it. Take radiation sickness for example
except radiation sickness can be explained lol
I'm very confused by your example. Who chained radiation sickness is paranormal?
Yes everything is ultimately explainable. The difference is only between those of us who accept that we can wait for an explanation to come and accept the unknown as unknown ... and people who jump to fanciful and facile claims of the "paranormal"
Since you have all the facts I'd love to see sci show take a stay ALONE in some of the most haunted places around the globe. You know for science?
I too would love to see real scientists "investigate" but there is no money in debunking. Channels are making millions off of those silly ghost shows, if it is debunked, there goes that advertising money. Believe me, real skeptics and scientists and historians want to explore "haunted" places but no one will finance a show. It's all about the money.
I'm going to be in Marfa next week! I'm gonna check that out! All the way from the UK
Could you investigate how our internal body clocks work? How is it that regardless of what time I go to sleep, I can wake up 5 or 10 minutes before my alarm? That would be fascinating!
Where's Alex Jones when you need him?
THE GOVERNMENT IS A BUNCH OF MIND CONTROLLING PEDOPHILES AND VAMPIRES WANTING TO RULE EARTH
No one needs Alex Jones. Save possibly as a cautionary example.
Don't know why but every time those 'rods' are mentioned I picture a man dressed in a cow costume... weird
that is me... just don't ask why i look like that
The Jurassic Warewolf uhhhhh why were u in a cow costume
because reasons
Jeepers creepers oh, the guy in the movie was a big moth monster. Man in a costume
I want them to make a tv show called Ghostbusters, where scientists of all ages (even young kids) debunk superstitious dummies who think that rats in the attic are phantasms and demons.
Me too, but there is no money for channels to debunk their own paranormal shows. They rake in big bucks from advertisers who pay for airtime on these ridiculous paranormal shows. I would LOVE to see serious debunkers on a TRUE reality series.
I have never loved anything like I love this channel now😌😁
Whats next santa claus is just a myth?
Yep
I wonder if resonant frequencies are what cause food items to fly off my kitchen counter and slam into the wall? Hmm.
Francisco Felix Did that really happen or are you just lying?
Francisco Felix
Was it a one time event? Or Is it a regular occur? And if it is, why haven't you documented it?
Francisco Felix did u record this is there any proof?
He might have been joking...
Digz the Swag King of course you don't need to beliefe thousands of people who had the exact same experience
Please do more on this subject :)
I had a Paranormal experience and not sure if science can answer it. Used to work with this old guy at my first job ( he was in his 70's). He's describing to me how the trees where he lived would frost over and become this beautiful ice sculpture. Christmas morning he passed away from a heart attack :(. His family held a remembrance for him and on that day every single tree were frosted over like he described to me, it has only happened once and never again. So yeah science debunk this for me.
I think ghosts do exist, I am however glad that there are people finding rational explanations for things. Not all weirdness is caused by ghosts, also ghosts freak me out. I'd rather the explanation not be ghosts.
ghost arent real
'i'd rather the explanation not be ghosts'. Good, because it never is. Mostly because (and it's a weird thing to have to point out in the 21st century) there's no such thing.
Do you believe in unicorns and leprechauns too? Dumbass
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No they cannot. There is a clear difference between good scepticism and retrofitting ad hoc information to pseudo debunk something.
There is also a great distinction between "pseudo-debunk" something with science and pseudoscience explanations involving paranormal.
I remember seeing, as a kid, “Unsolved Mysteries” doing an episode on the rods. They came back to it years later and said it was just flying bugs. This was from the 90s so the fact people still think it’s something else is just an example of gullibility/stupidity.
What about hearing a voice while in the bathroom in your house home alone saying "I'm bored" and I could even pinpoint the direction it came from? Cause I'd love for that experience to NOT be a spooky ghosty 😅