Can anyone provide hard scientific proof that ghosts really do exist? Is there evidence that paranormal sightings have been true?

Coreymac if you up the tip to US$1,000,000 you might get a few people saying yes and being able to prove it......no.....hang on......the James Randi Educational Institute already has a tip that big for someone who can prove ghosts exist ( as well as any other paranormal activity ) and they still have the money safely in their account. So far not one claimant has passed the preliminary tests by the way, not one! (1) Our human energy leaves us when we die, it dissipates into the air just like any other form of energy.

We don't see dancing flames after the fire has gone out, we don't see glowing forms of streetlights hovering about the road, we don't see thousands of ghost flocks of birds, or cats or dogs walking around everywhere do we? Do we see swarms of electric eels in the rivers? They are full of current, where are their 'ghosts?

We supposedly see 'ghosts' of dead children or raped women, on grainy film or fuzzy tape, or poorly videoed shaky camera action with no light and no way to check the accuracy of the film or photo or tape....sigh...why are they always photographed that way? To hide the fact they are faked and no other reason. To say that we can't prove they don't exist, therefore they do, is called the "Argumentum ad Ignorantiam" and without going into a lengthy explanation of that false proof I'll just leave the source below for you to read through....its very good and easy to understand :) (2) We have not learned all we can about energy or paranormal things but that in itself is no reason to believe them.

You can't prove a claim by using a lack of knowledge as proof..... There is a great book out called UFO’s, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of Jesus by Christopher Hallquist that everyone should read who thinks they know that ghosts exist. It's a good part of the book, its not all about disproving the resurrection. A short quote below if you are interested " There is no credible body of evidence to support so many outrageous claims about things likes psychic healing, reincarnation, faith healing, dianetics, orgone energy, Kirlian photography, exorcism, poltergeists – and yet there is an explosion of pseudo-scientific claims that have sprouted forth with credibility during the past half-century.

Upon closer examination, each of these claims falls short of truth" (3) Remember the Ted Danson poster that fooled everyone into thinking a ghost boy was on the set of Three Men and a Baby? Yeah, it was fake (4) All the photos at this link, ghost photos by the way, are fake! Yep, every single one of them http://ghoststudy.com/fake_ghosts.html Honestly, if any of the photos or videos were real, wouldn't you claim the Randi prize?

Humans love believing in things we can't prove, it makes the normal everyday life exciting, maybe more interesting, maybe more spiritual but mostly its just us wishful thinking we were more than insigificant specks of star dust forced to earth by the planet's gravity.....no more or less than blood and bone and a bit of electricity. No ghosts, not real, just wishful thinking...... PS - if you want to try your hand at making a ghost pic, see the link below, its fantastic! http://ghoststudy.com/main/fakepage.html PPS - if you want to know how to make a fake ghost video check out this clip from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXos1JPngk.

According to Albert Einstein, energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form of energy into another form of energy. Human beings has both electrical and chemical energies in the bodies. When a person dies, the chemical bodies begin to decompose and the organic part returns to where it comes from---dust.

But the electrical energy that used to flow through a person's brains cannot simply disappear into non existence. This energy has to be somewhere only it has changed into a different form of energy. What happens to it is really determined by personal faith for no one know exactly what awaits beyond death.

What is certain is that electrical pulse energy in each person will always exist because it simply cannot be destroyed. Ghost hunters found out that there are certain electrical elements at work when they use EMF detectors which help them monitor electrical forces. These devices are very sensitive to the smallest flucttuation in the surrounding magnetic field.

Everything gives off electromagnetic field even our bodies and the appliances. The only difference is that with ghosts, they give off higher electromagnetic distortions, so high that sometimes they interfere with the working abilities of computer systems and audio/video equipments. There is also high levels of static electricity that are detected when ghosts are around.

Another scientific way of detecting ghosts is by recording temperature changes. There have been recorded fluctuations of more than 10 degrees in small areas of rooms with constant temperature. It is a scientific fact that there has to be some form of energy present which can alter the temperature and temperature does not change unless "something" is affecting it.

The unexplained electromagnetic fluctuations as well as the temperature changes are scientific evidence that ghosts are real.

I personally believe and have proven that ghosts really do exist. I have had so many personal experiences with ghosts already and I didn't like them. They scared me a lot.It's really hard to give solid evidences by yourself because at the time you actually saw them, you didn't even expect them to show you.

The most scary one was when I and my cottage mates went for an overnight to a beach resort. We didn't have the digital camera so we only used the film camera. When our pictures were developed, mine and my friend's photo really scared me off.

I could really remember that no one else was behind us but in the picture, there was a hand, like a hand of an old woman, maybe a witch's with long black hawk-like nails appearing behind me like the person who owned it touches my thigh (like we're close). I couldn't keep the picture so I tore and threw it.My cottage mates teased me a lot and I wondered why that really happened. The second instance was last Halloween.

I really had an almost nightmare because our dead neighbor, who I once hated, seemed to approach me. I wanted to move and to tell my husband that our neighbor is here but I couldn't. It was only when I woke up in the morning that I was able to ask my husband why he didn't help me.

I was really scared because our neighbor appeared to be angry at me, maybe because he knew already that I once cursed him to die. Now, I am careful of what I say even if I'm too angry to the person because it really is so scary when ghost/spirit haunts you. And in our back is an old building.

This building maybe here for 40 to 50 years and we had big old trees, too. We have lived here for 6 years already and I had no fears before because I didn't feel anything. But when we reconstructed our house, I seem to have noticed that there really are other creatures living with us.

Before, I could even stay up to 1am without thinking that I may saw anything but I felt it little by little. Once I could take a nap facing my PC, I could notice a white something swiftly passes by behind me but I just ignored it every time. There are also instances when I notice that after I had cleaned the floor from the toilet to the back door, I saw it many times, not just once, a green liquid that's like a mixture of a squeezed leaves and water.

I would really get mad because I thought it were the kids who did it but I realized that kids were not playing there. That happened many times until my sister asked me if what it was about. My sister has been with me for less than a year.

At first, I didn't tell her because I don't want to scare her off. But she told me that she saw a white something many times also and that green liquid that seemed to drop from the toilet to the back door. She also thought that it were the kids doing it when they didn't.

So I told her that there are really ghosts existing in the building. I know it. I feel it because they made me grow goosebumps.

I seldom grow goosebumps but when I feel something are near me, I do. And the old lady who once had visited me told me that there were a lot of other people living in the building. I remember a wife of my husband's officer.

She really had run outside with her nighties because she saw a white lady in their room like it was sitting beside her. Grrr, I'm growing goosebumps now... There are a lot of horror stories I can tell you based from my own experiences and experiences of my friends but it seems too long to tell here so here are some videos: youtube.com/watch?v=EzZI16Z13dw youtube.com/watch?v=xIvIWJbzimo&NR=1&fea... youtube.com/watch?v=deoJUBW9CI8&feature=... I once lived in a haunted boarding house for a year. The feeling was never good!

Just because something can't be identified using "scientific proof" doesn't mean it doesn't exist... It might just mean that we don't have the equipment or knowledge to measure it at this point.

I believe that ghosts do exist. I also believe that when a person is near death they can leave their bodies visiting their loved ones or viewing what is happening from outside their bodies. My belief is based on personal experience.

I was hospitalized and hemmoraged losing over half my blood. While this was happening I felt I could view what was happening from a different spot in the room. Also my sense of hearing was intense.

I could hear every little detail, voices, etc...All I remember other than that about the experience was I felt real cold and began shaking. Eventually I felt the sense of touch when a family member kissed me on the cheek and I opened my eyes. I felt really confused after not understanding what really happened to me.

But I do believe I had an out of body experience due to the near death. Another bit of personal evidence I can provide is the story of my family member on her death bed, unable to speak came to me the night before she died. I believe I was dreaming but she stood in my bedroom door and had the sweater on she always wore and she didn't speak but it was a spiritual exchange of words.

I knew what her request was and I understood it. She told me once her request happened she would leave her body for good. The next day I told my uncle what she said to me in the dream and he came to see her giving her the wish she wanted.

He left her bedside and she died. And my final experience and evidence is once night after a friend of ours died, I was in bed and thinking about him when my blind flew up and the tv went off. I just laughed because I felt it was him.

I have no pictures, no video, and I'm not a scientist but I did experience these things which makes me believe ghosts and spirits do exist.

Bunk. Pseudo science. Garbage research.

These are just a few of the many colorful names and phrases that get tossed at people in the field of paranormal studies. The offenders are plentiful in the scientific community, and it has unfortunately been ongoing for years. For whatever reason, studying the paranormal seems to really get under the skin of many scientists.

Since the first seance was held by gaslight, men and women in lab coats have been calling for our heads. Admittedly, in many cases they have been right. The popular psychics and mediums of those days, and even now, are mostly, if not all, frauds and scam artists.

But when the playing field is moved from this realm and into the world of personal experience, I feel it crosses a line. The fact is, for many years and in many cultures, strange things have been reported by rational and intelligent people. Everything from the apparition of a deceased loved one to Bigfoot to UFOs have been witnessed and documented time and time again.

The scientists say it is impossible. There are no such thing as ghosts and there is no giant ape creature wandering the wooded areas of the Pacific Northwest. We are the only intelligent life form.Us.Earthlings.

But what if they’re wrong? Scientists say that ghosts and the paranormal cannot be proven legitimate because instances of their existence cannot be recreated in a laboratory. First of all, paranormal experiences are not a constant.It is not like adding one part oxygen to two parts hydrogen to create water.

There are no formulas or chemical compounds to balance out. Secondly, and even more important to this argument, is the fact that the inability to recreate an experience in a controlled setting is not proof of its nonexistence. Simply put, just because I cannot prove to you that something happened, doesn’t mean it did not.

Think of the innumerable pieces of our biology that make up the human body. Our skin, our blood, our heart, and our brain, for instance. Under controlled settings in labs the world over, scientists have succeeded in creating likenesses to certain parts of our anatomy.

Pacemakers, artificial limbs, and much more have granted some people a better quality of life. However, try as they might to recreate the human heart itself or to faithfully reproduce living tissue, they have failed. Does this mean our hearts and skin do not exist?

Are they fallacies of our collective imaginations because they cannot be recreated in a lab using chemicals and test tubes? Furthermore, the experience of being human itself is a uniquely personal thing. I wake up each day, breathe air in and out, walk, talk, and feel.

I think, speak, eat and laugh. In other words, I exist. I am in control of my own human experience.

And though I can describe in great detail my thoughts when it comes to each part of my experience, I cannot describe anyone else’s. In fact, it is a hallmark of the philosophy of ages that, though we are sure of our own human experience, we can never be sure of that of others. Think of that.

It’s quite fascinating. I can tell you what I am thinking and feeling right now but how can I prove that you are? Or vice versa?

I cannot. But we each have faith that we are indeed having our own experiences, don’t we? So this is my challenge to the scientific community.

In any lab, and in any controlled environment you see fit, sit across from me and prove my experience. Recreate it. The simple truth is, it is impossible.

For now, so too is recreating what those in the paranormal community refer to as a ghost or apparition. But be that as it may, it simply does not mean that it isn’t real. And until we can verify the existence of consciousness inside the human body, we'll be hard pressed to prove it exists outside of the human body.

For far too many years, far too many people have reported seeing things; strange things. Things that aren’t supposed to be real. Ghosts, monsters, aliens.

Is every report factual? Of course not. But, likewise, is every case fraudulent?

Even the most closed minded dismissive would have to admit that there must be something to at least a few of these stories, right? Not everyone can be crazy, can they? Science and the paranormal have been at odds for years.

But, in truth, we can and should learn from each other. From scientists, paranormal investigators can learn techniques for collecting evidence and how to properly research specific claims of activity. But from the paranormal community, I believe scientists can learn a far more valuable lesson: the benefit of keeping an open mind.

I believe ghosts and paranormal activities exist in this world. But I doubt you can get the scientific proof about it. My answer may not really answer your question, but here I want to tell you about "Infrasound" - a teory that scientific suggested - was responsible for many ghost sightings.

Infrasound is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz (Hertz) or cycles per second, the normal limit of human hearing which has been known to cause feelings of awe or fear in humans. Since it is not consciously perceived, it can make people feel vaguely that supernatural events are taking place. Some film soundtracks make use of infrasound to produce unease or disorientation in the audience.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound The Ghost in the Machine is a paper written by Vic Tandy, a lecturer at Coventry University, suggested that the frequency 19 Hz was responsible for many ghost sightings. He was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When he turned to face it, there was nothing.

Further investigation led him to discover that the extraction fan was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz. This was why he saw a ghostly figure — it was an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. He carried out a number of investigations at various sites believed to be haunted, including the basement of the Tourist Information Bureau next to Coventry Cathedral and Edinburgh Castle.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound On May 31, 2003, a team of UK researchers held a mass experiment where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine waves produced by an extra-long stroke sub-woofer. The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number (22%) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine and feelings of pressure on the chest. In presenting the evidence to British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Wiseman said, "These results suggest that low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound.

Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost—our findings support these ideas. " source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound A Tourist Information Centre next to Coventry Cathedral stands over a 14th century cellar, where a journalist claimed he saw a ghostly face peering over his shoulder. Tandy and his colleagues using measuring equipment discovered that the corridor of the cellar was supporting a 19Hz standing wave infrasound.

Later, Tandy reported the findings in a paper titled "Something in the Cellar", published in 2000. Source: http://scientificinquiry.suite101.com/article.cfm/infrasound_and_ghosts.

I have never heard of any. I've had a couple of questionable experiences myself: seeing a phantom marching band when I was in high school at an overnight band contest. About 10 of us all saw the same thing and went running out to check it, only to find ourselves facing a brick wall.

None of us were drinking or doing drugs, just sitting around talking at 1 a.m. We couldn't believe someone had a practice field that late and wanted to check to see if we could get one ourselves, but all we saw when we opened the door was a brick wall. Which freaked all of us out so much we went back to the gym and went to bed (our whole band was in sleeping bags on the floor).

I've had eerie feelings various places. I even had a weird tone in my bedroom a couple of nights ago that woke up both me and my husband, but it turned out to be that our doorbell was frozen half pressed in and started to short out. The tone was much lower than normal.It stuck again the next day when the temperature dropped.

I've had dreams about relatives the night they died, but no visits. Relatives that I loved and liked, but really hadn't seen in years. But when my grandpa and my grandmother died, nothing.

No real scientific proof.

There is no evidence at all about the existence of ghosts and the paranormal. People who wanted to get money quickly like the English writer Colin Wilson,invented such things to sell his rubbish books about paranormal.

Just sayin... I have a friend who is a voodoo priestess. Now this isn't hard, scientific proof, but she had never been to my house, or met any of my family (who lived in another state). She walked into my house, and told me that I had a lot of "people" living there, and proceeded to describe my grandmother, father, husband, uncle and brother-in-law...all dead.

She described them in great detail, even down to their eye colors. Then she said "This one (pointing to where my father was supposedly sitting) rings a bell." There is a bell that rings in my bedroom whenever I am upset or feeling lost.

There is nothing on that side of my house that could ever make that noise. It can only be heard in my bedroom. Others have heard it, and we have investigated thoroughly what could make the noise, but there really is nothing.

My father had had a laryngectomy from throat cancer. Before he died, since he could not speak or call out for help, we put a bell by his bed so he could call us. Explain that, and I'll believe in God again.

If it could ghost could be proved definitively then there would be no need for you to ask this question. We would consider it a known fact. Like when people used to ask if you believed in Black Holes, there was great debate.

Now we have proof, no debate.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.