Testing Infrasound Thrills And Chills

[Christopher O'Brien]

From the Anomalist.com:
According to skeptics, infrasound, or very low-frequency sounds, can make people feel chills and spooky thrills, and may be responsible for ghost sightings and reports of hauntings. Along with some friends, John Huntington, author of Control Systems for Live Entertainment and the Control Geek site, decided to test the hypothesis by setting up a spook-house with a double-blind randomized infrasound generator and used surveys to check for a correlation between infrasound and creepy feelings. The result of his exhaustively documented experiment? He found no correlation.

[Excellent article worth reading. I love it when the skeptics and debunkers are themselves debunked. One thing I wondered was whether the VLFs made anyone run to the bathroom. We still haven't ID'd the mythical "Brownian tone," --Chris]
Five part scientific study HERE:

 

[saucerwench]

[Excellent article worth reading. I love it when the skeptics and debunkers are themselves debunked

Me too, when experiences I've had are not part of their prosaic explanations. How could anything mundane have caused these dramatic handprints all over the inside of my vehicle windshield, while it was locked, and not far from me, while I was working nights at this haunted location?

 

[Kandinsky]

[Excellent article worth reading. I love it when the skeptics and debunkers are themselves debunked. One thing I wondered was whether the VLFs made anyone run to the bathroom. We still haven't ID'd the mythical "Brownian tone," --Chris]
Five part scientific study HERE:

I read the article this morning and found it fascinating enough to save the attached pdfs for future reference. Yeah I'm a 'skeptic,' but not in the sense of cherry-picking facts to suit my conclusions. I've had numerous 'paranormal' experiences since adolescence and naturally look for explanations or ways of ruling out some explanations and looking for others. The notion of sound frequencies causing sensory hallucinations is one I'm aware of and consider plausible. In that sense, it was interesting to read the studies no matter the open-ended conclusions.

The scientist who found himself feeling out of breath with fear and the sense of a presence is admirable in the scientific approach he took. Remaining objective and testing a hypothesis is what the subject needs.

A friend of mine has split with her boyfriend and moved in with a friend and her daughter. She's never had a ghost experience in her life. At 23, she's had two in the past week in her new temporary bedroom. She woke up at 3am to see the door open and a figure standing in outline against the wardrobe. Not realising the time, she thought her friend had brought her a morning cup of tea. As she sat up, the figure walked out of the room and she felt he familiar goosebumps when she realised it was 3am. She freaked out a little. A few nights later, she was awoken by a rustling sound in her room and then felt the duvet being lifted off her feet. She screamed out and woke the house up. I asked her some pertinent questions to rule out pranks, sleep paralysis or the daughter sleepwalking. She's convinced there's something spooky going on and I gotta say, I take her word for it.

So far, ghosts seem to be similar to UFOs in the way that most are hoaxes, misidentifications or wishful thinking. Nevertheless there appears to remain a small core that defy an explanation we can all agree on.