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I'll start by putting all my cards on the table and say I don't believe in ghosts. I certainly believe there are things we can't explain, but a few hundred years ago they couldn't explain volcanoes and attributed them to gods. Just sayin'.
Still, I have a fascination with shows about ghosts and hauntings. Maybe it's the skeptic in me, I enjoy 'debunking' their finds. It's not as through I've never had any weird things happen to me, things that 'believers' might point to a 'proof' (the incidents are fictionalized here) but I chalk up to coincidence. After all, more often than not weird things don't happen to me.
The best thing I heard recently on one of these shows dealt with orbs (the highly questionable 'proof', even among believers. I've caught thousands in my house with my cheap PHD, oddly enough, never ever get one with my SLR. Hmmmm, could it be that the camera people are right, and it's the proximity of the flash to the lens that causes them? Gee, I wonder...).
They were filming in an abandoned building in Texas that had most of its windows broken out. And in trying to discredit the skeptics, the 'researcher' said of the orbs: "And it can't be anything in the air, there are no bugs here."
Right.
Still, I have a fascination with shows about ghosts and hauntings. Maybe it's the skeptic in me, I enjoy 'debunking' their finds. It's not as through I've never had any weird things happen to me, things that 'believers' might point to a 'proof' (the incidents are fictionalized here) but I chalk up to coincidence. After all, more often than not weird things don't happen to me.
The best thing I heard recently on one of these shows dealt with orbs (the highly questionable 'proof', even among believers. I've caught thousands in my house with my cheap PHD, oddly enough, never ever get one with my SLR. Hmmmm, could it be that the camera people are right, and it's the proximity of the flash to the lens that causes them? Gee, I wonder...).
They were filming in an abandoned building in Texas that had most of its windows broken out. And in trying to discredit the skeptics, the 'researcher' said of the orbs: "And it can't be anything in the air, there are no bugs here."
Right.