(Note: The above link is just part 1, please refer to YouTube for the rest of the show!)
Did anyone else happen to see this episode of "Destination Truth"? I was thinking about that audio recording from the crematorium all last night! Usually this program does a really good job of debunking the "paranormal" but there seems to be absolutely no explanation for that recording. (That is, excluding the notion that it was faked.) Too weird!
Do you believe in ghosts? If so, what do you think they are exactly?
Do you think they're really the tortured spirits of the departed who just aren't ready to "move on"? Here's a bullshit theory that I made up once that has absolutely no basis in fact: What if there's actually a parallel dimension/alternate reality and the encounters we have with "ghosts" are just points where that dimension and ours happen to intersect...? You'd really have to get your tin foil hat on to accept that one, I know... but who can say for sure?
I'm not sure that I believe in the supernatural but I do enjoy stories about it on the level of really entertaining fiction. I do believe in the possibility that certain creatures/phenomenon might exist, and I'm open to hearing compelling proof if anyone could ever come up with it. And occasionally I enjoy being freaked out. Men in Black absolutely terrify me (no, I don't mean the Will Smith movie) and I find the idea of Bigfoot plausible and creepy. There's a lot on this planet that we just don't know about yet so I'm open to the possibility that such things could exist (but that doesn't mean that I think they do exist).
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I like your theory on overlapping dimensions; I think Dave Arthurs said something similar to me when we were in high school. There are a lot of things we don't understand about our planet, and places we haven't explored... I find supernatural stuff very interesting (werewolves, ghosts, etc) although I have trouble believing in extraterrestrials, don't ask me why. Maybe it's all the documentaries with hokey narration, like the intro on the clip above. The more dramatic they try to sound, the more fake they sound!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the "seriousness" is my complaint about "Ghost Hunters" so I know where you're coming from. (They act like it's a business & like they're doing some kind of important "service" work.) I'm more inclined to believe in aliens than in the paranormal, I guess because I find it more plausible that there's other lifeforms existing out there than to believe in things that can come back to life from the dead, the "undead", monsters, etc. O_o This stuff is interesting and I like to watch shows that explore it because (a) wouldn't it be neat if someone came up with some real proof and (b) it's just really entertaining escapism. Chris says my little theory sounds like something out of Lovecraft so I guess I'm not all that original. :(
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