Ghosts Aren't Real: 4 Scientific Explanations for Paranormal Activity

[@keejinjohanson]

I don’t believe in ghosts. Until I’m alone In the dark, then I’m a little more open minded.

[@SG003]

I don't believe in God either until I get into situation you mentioned

[@NJ-wb1cz]

I believe that you two guys are creating ghosts for all of us with your paranoia.

[@amberhoward7807]

That's a natural thing as well. Your brain gets into fight or flight mode when it's dark or you're by yourself in a spooky looking place. It's actually a survival technique that is there to try to save our life.

[@reckarthack3018]

@@amberhoward7807 that's how it got there in the first place at the very least. For most people in modern times, it's usefulness is basically null, especially in first world areas

[@absolut.4780]

@@SG003 Beloved God saves us from the dark & our brain creating pareidolia, unless you're a Satanist abusing SRA (satanic ritual abuse).

[@shadowprince4482]

I'm pretty positive that barn owls are a big reason/influence for many ghost sightings. The fly silently, are white with solid black eyes, screech/scream, like to be in old buildings, usually flee when humans get near, are found almost everywhere on earth and are nocturnal.

[@sofieselene]

I've been spooked by barn owls many a time.

[@BananaPancake94]

I totally agree! Barn owls are really creepy, when I'm outside on a very dark quiet night owl screeches send shivers up my spine!

[@jmc9137]

Have you seen baby barn owls they are nightmare fuel

[@sofieselene]

@@jmc9137 They are pretty horrifying when they're really young, but they get pretty cute once they've grown up a bit and aren't a ghoulish white

[@shadowprince4482]

@Wade Haden Yeah because people of the past have never thought of anything crazy that just turned out to be a normal part of nature like fairy rings, gnomes, gods, blights, rocks at the devils racetrack, etc...

[@xxXthekevXxx]

Ghost hunters: go to 1000 year old German castle *_Tries to talk to the ghosts in English_*

[@maraeni]

the ghosts would also have a hard time understanding modern german lol

[@antoniomargallo5317]

They had more than a thousand years to learn English, they better speak it.

[@dra6o0n]

@@antoniomargallo5317 if ghosts could learn human society would have been doomed

[@Yal_Rathol]

@@antoniomargallo5317 assuming that the ghosts could learn english, they'd be much smarter if they learned mandarin and moved to china. much more likely to be spotted then.

[@IvanDmitriev1]

Kevin Benoit I guess that their reasoning is that they should have learned English in those 1000 years of spare time.

[@aste4949]

Growing up with some major anxiety, I turned to science, skepticism, and psychology. It was like shining a flashlight on the fears, helping me realize how exaggerated and likely to provably false they were, and leading me back to reassuring grounding in reality.

[@GTSN38]

It's weird , I've never been scared of imaginary things like ghosts, but sometimes I get terrified of real things, like people or animals

[@ZalexMusic]

Wait til you discover parapsychology and realize you were wrong

[@AlbertaGeek]

@@ZalexMusic Parapsychology is literally all crap. Not a shred of objectively verifiable evidence for any of the woo-woo claims.

[@ihcfn]

@@ZalexMusic lol nope!

[@Her_Viscera]

It's a demon-haunted world out there for many people, science is the candle in the dark!

[@HermanVonPetri]

I love it when those ghost hunter shows get excited by the spike on the EMF sensor just as the guys recording the show come in for a closer look carrying their digital cameras, microphones, battery packs, and lighting rig.

[@shellour1448]

I'm right there with you. I've watched too many ghost hunting videos to not find this comment funny XD

[@kerryfoster1]

😂😂😂

[@bigsmall246]

And then the ghost hunter shouts something, the cameraman lowers his camera, exciting music starts, and the show cuts to a commercial. But after you come back from the commercial, it was just a false alarm and they continue as if nothing happened.

[@jesseclutterbuck6617]

yeah i was convinced of that too. until i actually brought a camera and a emf detector. i can say the k2 emf detector can not pick up cameras

[@uncroppedsoop]

"I'm sensing a LOT of negative energy here"

[@Ilikerv]

“8 cows” is terrifying enough

[@UnderMan]

I only heard it when he told us what to listen for.

[@pepi560]

I thougbt he said ate cows...

[@novameowww]

Like why do they have 8 cows? That seems like too low a number. Did they get killed by the spooky shits? Who knows?

[@TerrariaGolem]

@@qs2808 burger king uses... Artifical Cow Homunculi, they have no souls.

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

8 cows... Now I'm thinking of the cheese and chocolate and ice cream I could make with all the milk... Yeah, that's scary if you're trying to lose weight 😂😂😂.

[@LoraCoggins]

Buzzfeed Unsolved: hunts for ghosts SciShow: _I'm about to end this man's whole career_

[@SarthorS]

If you think that, you have never tried to present facts to a conspiracy theorist or religious fundamentalist.

[@wheezetube607]

You get an upvote

[@tompaine4044]

@@SarthorS Allow me to suggest that if you present facts to a conspiracy theorist or a fundamentalist, you're unlikely to change their mind. In my experience, those beliefs aren't the result of inadequate access to facts but rather the result of naive epistemology. There is a growing movement that focuses on exploring justifications for beliefs called "street epistemology." Please consider checking it out!

[@SarthorS]

@@tompaine4044 Personally, when someone demonstrates that they are not open to reason and evidence, I just mock and ridicule them.

[@tompaine4044]

@@SarthorS Are you saying you are unmoved to help someone after you have given them a certain label? That would be intriguing. If you mock and ridicule positions you don't think are true, how likely are you to find out if one of your positions is actually mistaken? Would you want to know if one of your beliefs were mistaken?

[@Yarsig]

My mother is a massive ghost enthusiast. If anyone has ever known a ghost enthusiast, you'd know that no matter how many times you explain that there's a logical explanation to what was seen, it's met with "No, it's definitely a ghost!" or "I KNOW WHAT I SAW!"

[@Jagger-Tyr_13]

The same people like tobsay that they're "open minded" even though they exhibit closed minded thinking by blaming everything on ghosts or god. It's harder to work out the real reason you see stuff, it's easier to say "nope. It's ghosts".

[@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit]

She's insane bro 💀

[@timweedon2785]

Your mom is probably a narcissist

[@CEAsfg]

Someone in the room: coughs “That must have been the g-g-g-g-ghost!!!! 😨”

[@MatTurner-e5r]

Some people are willfully ignorant because they're allergic to learning, I guess. Oh, well.

[@waxwinged_hound]

These scientific explanations actually changed my entire view of life. I used to believe in ghosts and an afterlife, but that was due to not having an explanation for certain "paranormal" things. When I first saw this video, I had to reckon with the realization that I was wrong. There is nothing to suggest that there is any sort of afterlife, or at least, nothing that can't be explained by non-paranormal things. This has led to an existential crisis due to now believing that there is nothing after death. But it has also led to a stronger resolve to enjoy life as much as I can while I have it.

[@waxwinged_hound]

@@myguykaikai9215 Eh I think I'm too anxious a person to ever have any peace. But ceasing to exist is definitely better than suffering in a tortured hell for all eternity just because I'm queer lol

[@cobaltblue2756]

What about the one that captured in the photograph or video, or about being possess it's pretty common happened in asi ..

[@Dunlop86]

Theres plenty that can't be explained

[@kalebgerace]

Honestly, I disagree. This does explain some things people claim as evidence, but I have had too many experiences to say otherwise. From being a toddler with an imaginary friend (George) who pointed him out in a local museum picture of local civil war soldiers, with my parents researching him and learning he died in a fall in our very house. Also the whole: loud bootsteps on the no longer existent staircase freaked them out too. Sitting in a brightly lit room reading a book looking at the doorway and seeing the dark shape of a person in the doorway who watched me for over a minute while I stared at the first word on the page then turned and walked down the hallway. Defeating the whole "rods vs cones" argument as well as the "shape movement that disappears when you look at it" My sister waking up in the backyard covered in dirt (she has never sleepwalked any other time in her life) after dreaming she was digging for something in the basement, and me months later excavating the small dirt portion of the basement 24" for a concrete and finding a buried keepsake box with a cut off wedding band, cufflinks, and buttons. Oh and that time I was home alone, just me, no pets, no tv, no radio and I heard the loud sound of the metal bunkbed sliding on the second floor master bedroom (That chattering vibrating loud distinct furniture moving sound). If it had been a clang, a clunk, or a creak: sure something fell, or the house shifting because all old houses make noise. I jumped out of my skin and ran though because as a teenager that slid that bed around to make blanket forts with my brothers, I 100% knew the sound. To more unprovable subjective things like the staircase that instilled instant fear in anyone walking up it like someone was watching you. I only ever had experiences in those two houses one being constructed mid 1800s and the other in 1910 Will you hear me saying everything is ghosts or that I have experienced anything in years? Nope. Do I think a lot of people have experiences that this video covers? Absolutely. The mind has the ability to try and make patterns from noise, from people hearing things in radio static (EMF) to seeing faces in pictures of mossy trees (Hoh rainforest) I don't think that those are easily explained flaws in our biology or overactive minds though. They defy all logic. It's not to say there couldn't be a scientific explanation for the "paranormal" I just consider that maybe we don't have an absolute understanding of the universe around us and lack the science to explain it.

[@TheLithp]

​@kalebgerace There is a lot we don't have the science to explain--dark matter, for instance--but science still tells us it's there. I have never heard a logical explanation for why that principle doesn't apply to the paranormal. There's obviously no way to know the precise explanation of every event we weren't there for. You yourself would have been too young to remember the first story, so you have no way of knowing if it became embellished over time. There are countless explanations before we consider some violation of the laws of physics. Childhood hallucinations are fairly common, sometimes people just sleepwalk even if they have no history of it, if you already attribute things to ghosts then you'll likely count things I wouldn't find all that notable if I was there, etc. I'm not convinced I just "don't have the experiences." I've experienced a lot of things I think others might cite as evidence of ghosts. Even major things, like doors opening on their own, which I eventually worked out was a very specific combination of circumstances, hence why it happened seemingly at random. And that was a room I had sleep paralysis in, so I was tempted to believe it was haunted.

[@JeremyWinfreeDev]

Sawmill ghosts always bragging about how many cows they have 🙄

[@DeathBone4656]

Well Id hate for random saw mill ghosts would be saying "8 Bill Clintons

[@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd]

It’s like I get it. You got 8 cows. I have none. No need to boast about it.

[@Matthewn57]

"It's not a ghost" is something that a ghost would want you to think

[@MikeFilemaker]

This is why ghosts invented science

[@cheesecrew]

Scishow bought out by ghosts confirmed?

[@TheRABIDdude]

Matthewn57 The popular view is a ghost is a spirit TRYING to contact the living. So nope, a ghost wants you to know it's a ghost.

[@AGFuzzyPancake]

BUAHAHAHAHAA!!

[@meyerlemon3776]

@@MikeFilemaker You could be onto something

[@KRJayster]

Sleep paralysis is terrifying. I’ve had a few minor versions, but only one of the classical hallucination incidents. I was in my room, it was early morning, and I swore there was a demon or monster standing behind me, whispering in my ear words I couldn’t understand but I KNEW that if I turned around it would kill me. I “woke up” crying and was a nervous wreck for the rest of the day, and i still think of it over a decade later. After that experience, I can totally understand where stories of demons and ghosts come from and became a part of our culture.

[@myguykaikai9215]

That experience was NOT sleep paralysis. It was a nightmare.

[@eightplusone7512]

@@myguykaikai9215 yes but that's what makes sleep paralysis bad is you can have a waking nightmare

[@eightplusone7512]

I had a very similar experience with it. I woke up to a 6 armed thing holding my arms down. I only panicked for a moment before I realized what was happening and was able to snap out of it.

[@danielm.1441]

"Sophisticated Bad Dreams" would be a great name for a band...

[@IceMetalPunk]

"Sophisticated Nightmare" is maybe a little better :)

[@XenoflareBahamut]

Foreground Eclipse is a great band but they disbanded.

[@stlkngyomom]

Robert Waggoner hold my metaphysical beer.

[@BBR-rd7iy]

King Gary!

[@sommelierofstench]

Daniel M. sounds like a band that i wouldn’t listen to

[@morsecodereviews1553]

Funny you mentioned sleep paralysis. I figured out years later, THAT was what gave me multiple night terrors as a child. At least 4 times a week I'd partially wake up with a heavy feeling on my chest, unable to move, eyes barely open to spy a shadowy figure standing at the foot of my bed. Or even more terrifying was when it clung to the ceiling where the walls met...

[@MrofficialC]

Wild. My sleep paralysis demon did the same thing when I was younger

[@FUNCUT.83]

Everyone has the same story, on all parts of the world. Me too.🤔🤔

[@morsecodereviews1553]

@@FUNCUT.83 weird how that works, very weird 🤔

[@FUNCUT.83]

@morsecodereviews1553 Proof that all of our brains are wired in same way no matter the beliefs or religion.

[@randomenvelope]

Never had sleep paralysis, also you are dreaming, people who say they've had sleep paralysis claim to be awake and alert but irl they are snoring.

[@twilafreek25]

EMFs are my leading theory of why I was so anxious and convinced I was being haunted as a child until I simply moved my bedroom to another room in the house and then was totally fine. That bedroom was next to the furnace room in an old farm house and I'm pretty sure there must've been some weird vibrations going on in there, along with the added bonus of my brother telling me ghost stories all the time

[@KellyClowers]

Coulda been from gas leaks too if it was a gas furnace.

[@rudra62]

@@KellyClowers Indeed. Also carbon monxide. Many so-called hauntings are explained and eliminated with a CO detector and remedying the high CO situation.

[@MatTurner-e5r]

It was literal vibration. That old furnace or some other old gear in there was oscillating below 20Hz and the infrasound induced anxiety. If your brother hadn't ever told you any stories, you wouldn't suspect it to be a ghost. Funny how people always have to *tell you* their houses are haunted.

[@MatTurner-e5r]

@@rudra62 Or what this guy said. Not a ghost, they aren't real.

[@andreapildis794]

I had sleep paralysis once about 20 years ago. Back then, I had NO idea that sleep paralysis even existed. I had the whole gamut of hallucinations. It was absolutely terrifying! I abruptly woke from a nightmare and just laid there. I started feeling a tingling sensation in my feet and it slowly worked it's way all the way up my body until it got to my ears. Once it reached my ears, I started hearing a weird sound, like water flowing through pipes...After that, I felt people poking me through the blankets, repeatedly...then I felt someone messing with the blankets at my feet. It felt more mischevious to me than anything, like little kids playing a game or something. I don't remember being super scared at that point...just having a WTF moment...But then a woman came right up to my face and stared at me...she looked like me, but she had a super stern look on her face and she was completely gray..like out of a black and white film. THAT was scary. Then it all went away. I remember lying there thinking "OMG, I have to get up and walk across the room to turn the light on!!"...I didn't sleep in my bed for about 6 months after that. I was absolutely petrified it would happen again...Sleep paralysis is no joke.

[@EyesOfByes]

6:37 I've had sleep paralysis. If it doesn't scare you shitless, it will at least f***k you up for the rest of the night.

[@huyked]

It used to scare me until I found out what it really was. It happened years ago. I wish it would happen again. :)

[@tophers3756]

Amen! I used to have them. I'd "see" the dark outline of someone standing in the doorway of my bedroom and struggle to move. It didn't help that I had an apartment that was ridiculously easy to break into. It was a terrifying experience that took me most of the day to shake off. Just in time for it to happen again. 🙄

[@akhyarrayhka4048]

@@tophers3756 the scary thing is if it were a real person that person may kill you or rob your place.

[@pakey423]

Yes, completely true. I've had sleep paralysis since my teenage years, but only after 20 years I found out that I had it, thanks to a Discovery documentary. Since I know this, the sleep paralysis has almost gone away. And when it does manifest, I'm quite able to fight it, although it still f**ks up most of the rest of the night. During my past episodes however, I've never 'seen' any (shadowy) figures. I only felt an evil presence, sometimes next to my face, sometimes all around me. Explaining sleep paralysis, the (shadowy) figures and/or the evil presence to people who've never had it, is almost impossible.

[@Inconsistent-Dogwash]

EyesOfByes yeah, I heard screaming and someone pushing on me with one of mine and once had a group of people with animals walking through the room into the wall and one walked right up to me and looked right in my face.

[@fahrinurlaub01vg]

"Magic is just science we don't understand yet." -Arthur C. Clarke Right? 😉

[@ThaFashionAssassin]

Right

[@lerquian1970]

Even i'd say that the closest thing we get that resemble magic is electricity, but because we can throw it from the tip of our fingers or isn't just connect some wacky cables we don't see it the same way as magic.

[@sofieselene]

Or things science debunked yet.

[@charlesbrowne9590]

There is no such thing as science we do not understand. There are phenomena we do not understand. Science is what we call our evidence based understanding of phenomena - even if that understanding is incorrect. Magic is an attempt to control nature by appeal to the supernatural. Practitioners of magic are always eager to claim the supernatural is not subject to the scientific method. Arthur Clarke means technology is as impressive as magic to those who do not know science.

[@xxXthekevXxx]

Charles Browne perhaps a translation for those of us who are pedants would be “Magic is just phenomena which we have not yet been able to study through scientific means.”

[@Simon-ow6td]

I regularly have sleep-paralysis. It sucks, but once you recognize it, it is way easier to deal with. It is probably different for everyone, but my best tip is to keep your eyes closed at all times to make it easier to not panic about the things you experience, and to start working on wiggling your toes and fingers until you can move again.

[@yimingwang8037]

having sleep paralysis as a brain biologist will be like：bruh not again，wth is my brain doing

[@ifyoureplybackyouregay466]

Lmaoo same here everytime I have sleep paralysis I’m like “here we go again” and break out of it once you realized ur in a sleep paralysis state and stay calm it’s actually easy to get out of

[@bbqq013]

It’s so horrifying when it happens, I usually move my feet too

[@kristijanstosic9231]

As a lucid dreamer I would say you are very lucky, getting sleep paralysis is one of the best ways to get a lucid dream. You should try it next time you get sleep paralysis, there is some tutorials on how to turn sleep paralysis into a lucid dream. Believe me its worth it.

[@abraxasjinx5207]

I don't think my eyes were actually open, I think I just thought they were.

[@Coffee-hj5di]

I’ve had sleep paralysis once, it was so freaky and terrifying, but i already knew about the concept so when I woke up I got excited that I was able to experience it

[@EverythingScience]

I saw the ghost of Michael on Vsauce 1 come back to life recently... Pretty spooky stuff

[@QlueDuPlessis]

Rofl. Scary $h!t that! Especially when half a million people had the same experience...

[@britbong1457]

Hey! Vsauce! Michael here! *Or Am I?*

[@UltraHuman]

Ikr?

[@buccob]

"Or is it?"

[@randomguy4616]

But the question is, how much the ghost weigh?

[@sebastianelytron8450]

What did the ghost say when it woke up with a bad hangover? “Man, I really need to lay off the boos.”

[@budmeister]

Leave

[@bronwynecg]

Sebastian Elytron 😂😜👍🏽

[@Wulfnstein]

Took me a second to get it xD

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

"Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!"

[@christelheadington1136]

I'm saving that for Halloween.

[@sclair2854]

"Whats actually happening is the opposite..." "ELECTRICITY ATTRACTS GHOSTS!" "They cause the feeling of being haunted" "Oh"

[@sofieselene]

Is it ghosts are gnats we're talking about?

[@ThaFashionAssassin]

@@sofieselene both

[@MsSwitchblade13]

@@sofieselene June bugs

[@romeucapelasa]

ghosts: UwU electricity

[@theoverseer393]

The more haunted a power plant, the more efficient they are

[@petrifiedviewer]

The scariest thing about sleep paralysis is that many of us end up triggering an attack when it's mentioned or we hear about it during our day. For a lot of first time sufferers, they hear about first hand accounts of sleep paralysis from friends and that night when they sleep, they end up in sleep paralysis.

[@jacobc9221]

So we should make sure to mention a way to pacify the beings, such as being friendly to prompt a similar attitude from them.

[@randomenvelope]

Heard about it ages ago, never happened to me. Ive had nightmares where I know Im asleep and im trying really hard to wake up, but never have I been in my bed paralyzed for a while

[@robramsey5120]

I've watched enough Scooby Doo to know ggg ghosts are just some creep in a costume.

[@rompevuevitos222]

Wich is probably worse than a ghost

[@RaoulRamsaran]

Invisible costumes?

[@wyndhamcoffman8961]

Except for that one time it really was zombies, trying to scare people away from the voodoo cat ladies. Or that time a real ghost appeared while they were spending the night in a haunted mansion, in accordance with Beauregard Sanders will. And the ghost ended up killing everyone, including the two perpetrators who were trying to scare everyone away. And the gang had nervous breakdown about the whole thing. Thankfully Castiel, Dean, and Sam where there to put them back on track. kzbin.info/www/bejne/goSYepuPiMuZn8k

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@wyndhamcoffman8961 new Scooby doesn't count.

[@laurieberry4814]

A boy who watched Scooby Doo tried to act like a ghost. He put a rope around his neck and strangled himself while he didn’t know that it would end his life. The cartoon had something like this

[@ecsciguy79]

Unfortunately, most people who need to hear this message are probably not subscribed to SciShow

[@UnderMan]

But they would not accept that as an explanation. "Ghost Hunters" would go pout of business.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

I love science, but I know there is far more out there, and these explanations cannot be applied to most of what I have seen. They assume everything happens at night, but that is the one time I haven't experienced anything strange....maybe it's because I don't have mirrors anywhere but the bathroom. I know when I see something and its paradolia and when it's not. But then I don't run off screaming like these silly youtubers I see posting videos. I go get a closer look. And somethings just defy explanation.

[@SysterYster]

@@ladykoiwolfe Would you mind giving an example?

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@SysterYster I actually gave an example that happened to my mom regarding her 78 Plymouth. Those doors don't move easily. Not in wind nor on hills. And we were parked on a flat driveway. There was a gentle snow falling. No noticable wind. The drive was quite long and because it was snowing she parked at the end of the drive to minimize how much shoveling would be needed. But she'd been shopping so there were several loads of groceries to bring in. After the last one she looked back at the car and realized she had not closed the door. They required a fairly large amount of force to move. I'd been accused of slamming doors on newer cars because I was used to those car doors and any less didn't get the properly closed. But as she watched, with no one near the car, the door slowly swung shut. It didn't slam and the snow fall never changed, there was no sudden gust of wind. When she checked on it the door was properly shut and even locked. The locks and windows were manual, you couldn't lock them without being at the car.

[@SysterYster]

@@ladykoiwolfe Hm, interesting. I just wish something cool that I can't explain would happen to me someday. But it seems like that's not gonna happen. :P

[@Moxxuren]

When you said "Get out" I heard it in a deep gravelly voice but when you said 8 cows I suddenly heard 8 cows but with a Russian accent

[@sofieselene]

Damn those Russian ghosts! Overthrowing the bourgeois even in the afterlife!

[@eldritchabomination0]

@@sofieselene Honestly, we could do with some of that.

[@antiisocial]

Lol

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Jackson Ayres In Soviet Russia, do you haunt ghosts? 🤔

[@kevinc9065]

Now I feel left out because I don't hear either of those thing.

[@Intoxicatious]

After living in many basements and crappy apartments, my vision has been trained to spot bugs. Now I constantly think I see bugs in my peripheral vision. Maybe they were ghost bugs

[@robertheller4583]

Aren't we all just ghosts in a flesh covered skeletons living in a giant rock flying in space?

[@kinoko87_b]

UUHHHH

[@GeneralDurandal]

Well, no, "ghosts" aka "souls" are some kind of electromagnetic static stuff. When living things die the soul leaves the body. Neutral Souls stay on the surface. Negatively charged "souls" get pushed away from the planet. Positively charged "souls" get pulled into the planet. When a newborn breaths their first breath it acts like a vacuum, that sucks in whatever soul is nearby. The magnetosphere of the planet is what pushes/pulls on souls. Something of an oddity, spiders actually negatively charge their web parachutes so they can fly. (which is something I learned from another SciShow) It makes me think that maybe all we need to do to make a real flying saucer, is build one out of super light/tough materials and build it in a way where we can charge the outside of it negatively so the magnetosphere pushes it into the air. Then for driving we'd need some sort of weight system built in, where moving the steering controls makes the weight move in the direction, causing it to move in that direction.

[@GeneralDurandal]

@True WingChun Yeah they do. They also apparently have a weight. Souls are usually formless, but they can take on the shape of their last life. Reincarnation is only a choice if they got to Heaven, had a negatively charged soul. If the soul wasn't negative or positive, then the are "lost", and stay on earth. Positively charged souls go to hell... Oh geez, what happens to the people in Heaven when the Earth gets swallowed up by the Sun? If the Core of Earth is hot enough to melt souls into it's most basic form, then the Sun will have no problem doing the same. God'll probably move them away some how.

[@robertheller4583]

@@GeneralDurandal guys chill. I was just high

[@spindash64]

We’re brains piloting bone mechs wearing meat armor

[@Black-Swan-007]

I appreciate the "This information doesn't invalidate other people's haunting experiences" caveat at the end.

[@rompevuevitos222]

in your mind anything can happen and the emotional damage is very real

[@apple54345]

@@rompevuevitos222 never really thought about it like that tbh. i know the stuff that goes bump in the night is just in my mind, but for people that believe it, REAL damage CAN happen.

[@MrTreeHumps]

I appreciate you and it sucks that people immediately discount it. I had an experience with another person where a floral perfume smell would follow us. When we stopped talking about it a cage inside a building rattled right next to us. I was skeptical before but now I want to know more. P.S. 69th like🙌

[@myguykaikai9215]

People should spend more time trying to invalidate their own experiences according to what is know about the universe. Only valid experiences can ever lead to wisdom.

[@Polopony20.]

@@myguykaikai9215 but what if ghosts are real and we just haven't confirmed it yet. We don't know a lot of things about this world.

[@firebladetenn6633]

I’m not saying there aren’t ghosts, I’m saying it’s never ghosts until it’s ghosts.

[@miandrew88]

Knowing that sleep paralysis exists really helps me get through my own episodes. I've had them for my entire life and the logic calms me down through it all

[@mmeggnn]

I've always been a skeptic, but there's one story I haven't found a way to explain yet. My aunt (for context, she is the toughest woman I know, scared of nothing) was sharing an old (i mean 1700s old) house in my area with another family, and she and her son, 1 yo, were home alone with their 2 dogs. This home was a part of the undergound railroad, and has a lot of history behind it. This day, around 1 pm, the house phone rang and she left to answer it, and the dogs stayed in the living room with the baby. The call picked up, but no one spoke on the other line, and she hung up thinking they'd call back. Immediately after hanging up, she heard 2 solid knocks from the next room, specifically wooden knocks. Knowing it was her and her baby alone in the house, she went in where she heard the noise after the dogs, who had begun barking after the knocking. At this point she was spooked, but more in the 'almost missed the step' way and expected to find something fallen over. The room was the original maid's kitchen, with a full fire stove and not much inside, as it was barely furnished. Looking around she couldn't find the source of the noise, but realized the floors in this room weren't wooden, but stone. The only wood in the room at the time was the cellar door on the ground, leading to the cellar and then further down to a basement that had no electricity or lighting. Both of her dogs were sniffing at the doors, pacing them as if they smelled something beneath them, but she knew no one was down there. [If this was me at this point, I'd be down the drive way, but I'm telling you, my aunt is tough as nails.] So, she figures an animal made its way down there, and they smelled it after entering the room. Knocking must've been in her head, call must have dropped, animal must be in the basement. She goes back and gets the baby, just in case, and decides to call her mom to tell her the weird things that just happened, hoping to laugh it off with her. After exchanging hi's, before getting to explain what happened, there was static and then the line got cut. She tried to call back, but her phone wasn't working. Stranger enough, turns out the wire was ripped in half in one spot, as if it had been yanked or cut somehow, and they had to get the phone company in to install a new line. As for my aunt, she still doesn't know if it was all some frightening coincidences, cryptic prank, or house spirit. She simply turned the radio on and put her baby down for a nap, and waited til my uncle was home to tell him about it. Like I said, I'm a skeptic, but if anywhere had lingering energy from the past, I'd bet money on that place.

[@TheDayDreamingOwl]

So, she heard a noise, the phone went out, and the dogs smelled something downstairs. Where is the ghost?

[@SlimShadyVro]

I aint reading allat 💯

[@MatTurner-e5r]

She got a scam call. The old floorboards settled. The dog smelled something because that's what they do, and they have way more sensitive noses than people. A small animal chewed thru a phone line. There are so many explanations that aren't "it was a ghost".

[@chestersnap]

I just think it's really important that we teach people what sleep paralysis is when they're young. I've only had it happen to me once and I had no idea what was going on. I wasn't dreaming at the same time but I couldn't move and I knew I was awake. It absolutely sent me into a panic attack but if I'd known what was going on I wouldn't have been scared

[@kinganomaly1880]

My mother loves horror movies, so as a young kid I was exposed to movies like Hellraiser and the Evil Dead series...unfortunately for me, I suffer from somewhat frequent night terrors/sleep paralysis. Several years ago I had one where something that resembled a deadite from the evil dead was leaning over my bed watching me. I’ve very rarely slept with the lights off since!

[@buccob]

I would love to know the psychological explanation to why the "Night Hag" or something similar is what most people experience? I have been a fan of KZbin's Channel "Bedtime Stories" and their episode about it was one of the creepiest..... definitely weird stuff from real life

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@buccob never heard of the night hag before and I grew up with lots of night terrors.

[@GameTimeWhy]

I found that imagining that evil could never exist unless I had powers (of my wish). I would usually imagine myself as being goku or someone like that who is extremely strong, goofy, and positive mentality. Just embrace the superpowers and the "night terror" will go away or at least will become weaker and then you can fight. Hope this helps!

[@brandonhughes645]

@@buccob holey crap! You just made me realise what I saw as a kid. 'Night hag' is the perfect explaination. She stood there at the end of my bed saying she was going to kill my brother in the bed next to me. I tried to scream out but I couldnt. Then all of a sudden i awoke and she was gone. I was shocked and didn't yell out for a few seconds. My dad just said sometimes your brain tricks you and that was enough for me

[@WhenDevilsDuel]

@@buccob ? Tf are you on about? Night hag is simply what you see not one specific thing 😂 A group of men, a horned being, an animorph, doesn't matter what it looks like. Its technical term is *night hag* Perhaps your asking why sleep paralysis is always the form of a visually bad omen?

[@WiiFan20XX]

I get sleep paralysis if i eat too close to sleeping. One time i got a dream while experiencing it and hallucinated that i was forced upright on the bed and saw something in front of me. After the attack ended my response was "that was a wierd dream" not "omg ghosts"

[@mousetrap773]

I’ve only gotten it if I have a really high fever. It freaks me out every time. I usually see swarms of bugs or vaguely human figures standing in my room. I just stare at them in fear until they eventually go away. It’s terrifying.

[@xxXthekevXxx]

Sleep paralysis and our memories of dreams getting mixed up with our actual waking memories are common causes of false memories and ghost/supernatural belief. The human brain is notoriously bad at remembering events accurately after even a short length of time much less years later.

[@davidjackson9680]

@@xxXthekevXxx yeah that’s called long term memory loss in some people

[@fremper9230]

@@xxXthekevXxx ghosts are real their are some recordings and we cant all have the same thoughs or trauma or whatever for everyone to see something

[@Art_BC]

You forgot about the power of Mold and Volatile Organic Compounds, both often cause people to experience "paranormal" events. I met a man who swore his basement was haunted, and every time he went downstairs he felt like something was watching him. Turns out he had a giant pile of old paint, varnish, and other chemicals stored under his basement stairs. I removed them while he was away one weekend and never told him. Three months later when I asked him about his ghost in the basement he laughed and said it must have moved on as he no longer felt a presence. I never did tell him what I had done, and he still hasn't noticed the missing paint cans.

[@MatTurner-e5r]

funny how that works, eh?

[@gayflower900]

Another popular explanation is that “haunted” houses might actually just have a gas leak Sudden chills, intense anxiety, hallucinations and sudden death are all symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning Combine that with the fact that buildings where a tragic death took place are unpopular and likely to be abandoned and fall to disrepair, and it’s easy to see why so many people would make a false connection

[@devyn10111]

I had an experience about a week or two ago and it was something known as a hypnopompic hallucination. There are two types of these hallucinations both associated with sleep. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur just as a person is falling asleep and hypnopompic occur just as youre waking up. Anyways, I had just opened my eyes in the morning and I saw a face over the top of my head leaning over me from the edge of my bed. Before I reacted to seeing this, the face breathed out over my face like someone fogging up a window pane with their breath when its cold outside. It had grey skin and I think it was a woman. I never felt the breath or anything touching me. But I screamed very weirdly and flipped over onto my hands and knees seeing nothing over the edge of my bed. It was very frightening and I've never experienced anything like it before. However, I immediately ruled it out as my mind playing tricks on me and went back to sleep with no other disturbances to date. Ive never had sleep paralysis or anything of the sort so I guess it makes sense why I was so scared but nonetheless it was a very interesting experience. After waking up some time after, I got on my laptop to research the topic finding these terms and I was very happy to hear that it is something that occurs meaning I wasn't going crazy.

[@DizzyDisco93]

explain why baby gators sound like they are having laser gun fight.

[@notasian7620]

Its f**kn cute tho!!

[@linwong1494]

aren't those calls for mama? as i understand it. but yes they do sound like laser gun fights

[@kensmith5694]

Get away from them when you hear that. Any mother gator will arrive in a bad mood if it hears that sound. Yes, they *are* pretending to have laser guns to try to scare you away.

[@UnderMan]

Now I want a baby gator to take to my next laser tag game.

[@brettflemmens1784]

I think Michael was chosen to host this episode simply because of his evil laugh skills

[@SysterYster]

All my life I've wanted to see ghosts and stuff. I've been to haunted houses, to old castles, stayed at the cemetery at night, been in the forest at night (and day, because I love the forest) and many other things. I have never once seen or heard anything that suggested real ghosts. Things have scared me of course, but it's always been normal things. Animals and branches and stuff moving, sounds I couldn't place (probably also animals), drafts... never anything cool like a real ghost. Ultimately, I don't believe in ghosts. But I'd love to see one if they really exist. But this also makes me fairly certain that you more or less "have to" believe in them to be able to see them. Not just want to see them. The human mind is a complex and weird thing, and it plays many tricks on us.

[@xxMpEGxx]

Yeah but by wanting to see them you're susceptible to self-induced delusions and hypersensitivity to mundane things.

[@SysterYster]

@@xxMpEGxx Quite the opposite. Wanting to see, and believing, are two different things. I'd like to see vampires too, and elves and dragons. Doesn't make me actually see them. However, people who truly believes in ghosts see them and "feel" them all the time. And that makes me think they don't exist, they are just figments of our imagination. And if you really think they exist, you don't wonder what caused that noise, you just go: It's a ghost. At least that's my experience. To make it clear. I don't believe in ghosts. I want to see them if they do exist. I have never seen anything that suggests they do.

[@knox9739]

I think u can use a camera to record and watch it after u done since we dont really aware with our surrounding and ghost only will be seen in sort period of time

[@huttmangaming4986]

yeah not everyone can see them

[@SysterYster]

@@huttmangaming4986 Or they don't exist, since nothing really suggests they do. Just like god. And people who see them are just seeing things? That's also a possibility. Still, it'd be cool.

[@arzaki460]

Closest thing I've ever experienced to experiencing a ghost or whatever was when I was in my room and trying to act out some scenes for a personal project. I was moving my arms a lot, but at one point, it felt exactly like there was a hand on my left shoulder. I'm almost certain that it was just the way I was moving my arm at the time, but it's a feeling I've never had at any other point in my life and it freaked me out for a good while.

[@jacobc9221]

It was a ghost trying to give you tips, but it was too quiet to hear without the recording device.

[@chegeny]

Once years ago, I was asleep in a very old house being renovated. There were six of us in the parlor, not far from the main stairwell. The power to the house was off. It was an usually warm summer night, but I woke up freezing cold. After a few minutes of being awake, I saw a transparent human figure clearly at the top of the stairs, walk down and turn, disappearing down the large hall. I turned my head and saw my girlfriend awake and shocked at what she saw as well. Another friend saw our mystery guest. So three of us spontaneously saw the same thing, transfixed, not knowing what we saw. No booze. No drugs. Workers the next day complained of misplaced tools and running footsteps in the attic. I have never seen anything quite so mysterious since that night.

[@chinossynthesizer705]

Maybe

[@trafalgard.waterlaw7330]

More likely you remember it wrong and nothing supernatural happened, or just want the clout.

[@williamsduran3232]

@@trafalgard.waterlaw7330 don’t think people come on KZbin to get clout 😂.

[@luisa6142]

scary. sounds like a gas leak though

[@FrancomBros]

I have sleep paralysis from time to time. Now that I know what is happening I try to break out of it as soon as possible. Most of the time I just make a gurgling demon sound when I try to talk to my partner. There is a sense that if I can get someone else's attention my body will snap out of it but usually it just fades over time. When I was younger they were much more extreme. This was paired with becoming an apostate from Mormonism. Losing my religion caused a lot of mental trauma because of the way my community treated me, so that reflected in my sleep paralysis too. I felt I was being attacked by the Devil once. I sleep on my side and that keeps me from getting it. When I sleep on my back I usually always have it.

[@tricdaddy316]

Frakbox when I was a kid probably 8 or 9 I used to get frequent nightmares if I slept on my back, so I learned how to sleep on my side and stomach and never got them afterwards. Even as an adult now if I try sleeping on my back I get freaked out and will quickly flip over to my side or stomach

[@Willygurl32]

I have sleep paralysis n im a paraplegic lol but I noticed i dot get much of the paralysis if I'm sleeping on my side but it still happens every now n then. I think it's the worst feeling to get sleep paralysis on the side.....I panic bcuz sumtimes I feel like I'm gonna smother ugh 😑 it's weird feeling.

[@irrisorie7]

a lot of things i've experienced in my life that convinced me ghosts were real have already been explained by science, and who can resist occam's razor forever, especially when you value science? i still believe in forces beyond our current understanding that people mistake for the paranormal, but i don't believe in "ghosts" as they are anymore.

[@Snarethedrummer]

Isn't Occam's razor just a blade owned by somebody named Occam?

[@JaydenGlass-tv6ot]

Don’t everybody have souls when you die yo soul come out your body and you say ghost aren’t real

[@VGlauren]

Once I started experiencing sleep paralysis, I understood why so many people think they've been abducted by aliens in their sleep. In many accounts, they're laying on their back looking up (sleep paralysis typically happens when someone is sleeping on their back), they can't move, and see vivid hallucinations like bright lights.

[@Hoigwai]

Due to things in my life that I've experienced, I'm relatively immune to being frightened by anything less than a physical threat from something absolutely real.

[@mikekoch4151]

My shop is a very old building and sometimes at mid day I hear what sounds like someone walking across the upstairs room when nobody is up there. It happens quite often, almost every day, and other workers have heard it too. Rain or shine, summer or winter it is still heard. I only hear it if I'm downstairs, never when I'm upstairs. We have become pretty complacent about it. It would be interesting to find out what is causing it.

[@affiliatedmc]

I lived in a house where someone died years before. Somehow my leggo lid was thrown into my room when mum was in loungeroom with vacuum going. I seen it hovering for a couple seconds then thrown into my room from the hallway like a frisbee. No science can explain that

[@meta_analysis]

I ain't taking chances with spooky places because if ghosts are real then it's best I'm not there. If they are fake then I am just avoiding feeling freaked out by special air vibrations and bad vision.

[@kinoko87_b]

If they exist and I meet them rhw fiesr question would be: so what can i do for fun when i die

[@RedditSupport]

Story time. When I was around 8-9 me, and my whole family were eating dinner around 2 in the afternoon. My grandma was talking about some random stuff that I don't remember, and out of the blue a really loud thud happened in the attic. It sounded like someone dropped a 50 pound book perfectly flat on the floor. We all just sat there silently, and pretty much everyone looked at our grandpa. He was kind of like the head person of our family so we were all waiting for what he was gonna do or say. A few seconds passed, and he visibly looked disturbed(never seen him have this look before) then he blurted out in a joking manner "oh that's just George being noisy!" Probably 30 seconds after he said that, another loud slamming noise happened, then it sounded like something heavy was being dragged across the floor in the attic. Grandpa yelled "shut up George" then we all awkwardly started eating again. We were all kids so anyone that tried to talk about it got scolded so it took a good 15 years for anyone in my family to even talk about it. For clarification the house we were living in was an old farm house completely made of rocks. There was no electricity, and no running water. There was a well in the basement(always creeped me out) We did check the attic after dinner, and there was dust everywhere, and nothing was moved. Pretty sure it was crazy completely empty besides a few old jackets being on the floor

[@anh7807]

Could have been an animal? They jump on my roof all the time and make thud noises.

[@RedditSupport]

Alicia A It was a tin roof so anytime anything hit the roof (rain, hail, leaves, etc) it would make a very distinct metal sound. Everyone was mostly on the same page about it being in the attic(or on the second floor) because the floors were only 1 inch single boards and nothing else. So there was a sort of echoing wood clanking sound anytime someone was walking up stairs or someone getting in bed. It's like if you take a long board, and drop it on the floor, it'll vibrate and make that wooden sound. That's what it sounded like

[@RedditSupport]

Alicia A there was never any answer or something that could explain what it was. Which is what made the whole experience so creepy

[@JEBavido]

Audio pareidolia- so cool! There’s a video of a porcupine eating corn and grumbling at its caretaker that sounds amazingly like he’s speaking English.

[@DaellusKnights]

As someone who occasionally experiences sleep paralysis, I can definitively say that "can be terrifying" is an exponentially overstated understatement. 😳

[@howiedavis8258]

I see shane from buzzfeed bring this video up to ryan, everytime he says he saw or heard a voice.

[@mummamortitia]

I constantly get the peripheral vision stuff. I believe I get it happen more regularly because as someone who was trained in art, I was taught to see patterns in everything!

[@trafalgard.waterlaw7330]

Trained in art? I taught my kid how to draw shapes. Is she trained in art?

[@jennypulczinski7204]

I once read an SF story where the premise was that aliens who didn’t want to be seen were the cause of that flickering of motion in your peripheral vision. I see a lot of peripheral motion, and I think to myself, “aliens!” Never even crossed my mind that it was ghosts.

[@pedromagana7238]

This is all the stuff I use to bring up when people started talking about ghosts, but then one morning while working a retail job I had a shopping cart ripped out of my hands. It was pulled forward and to the right hard enough to make me stumble forward and almost fall. Now I don’t say anything.

[@Snarethedrummer]

The best and most believable part about this story is that a creature wanted to mess with someone so bad it frig'd up a shopping cart, instead of doing something inside the building.

[@tompaine4044]

What about having a shopping cart ripped out of your hands made you connect the event to a ghost? If all my coworkers believed in leprechauns and one day I had a shopping cart ripped from my hands, would I be justified in attributing my shopping cart experience to leprechauns?

[@Jason-ut3ou]

I don’t believe in a god or anything religious but I’ve had way to many paranormal experiences to ever say the stuff is fake, and I try to take everything really logically and debunk things

[@pedromagana7238]

@Tom Paine are you trying to be condescending or do you (figuratively, because you might get confused) have a stick up your ass?

[@Snarethedrummer]

@@tompaine4044 Can you maybe not respond in a way that invalidates other people's experiences just because you don't believe they happened how/why you think they did? Science has helped us come extremely far, but it admits there are a lot of known and unknown 'unknowns'. It's completely within the realm of possibility (regardless of how probable) that something or some force intentionally exerted itself in this way on this person, and we might not know about it for hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years, until we can develop tools that might even observe why this happened. We don't/barely have a grip on how and why gravity works, despite it mostly ruling our lives, so maybe chill out on your leprechaun analogy and let people post their observations and hypotheses without jumping to ridicule them.

[@hope_youhaveagoodday]

"...full blown ghost voicemail." -SciShow, 2019

[@christopherhall5361]

sleep paralysis is creepy, woke up once and saw the moonlight on my ceiling, and for a few seconds i thought someone was in the room. didn't take long to figure out what happened but still creepy

[@TheMMSpirit]

So cool to have a scientific explanation for so much phenomenon. Yet, I am not convinced. It would be good to have a scientific explanation for "ghostly attacks". What if a ghost flings something, or grabs and actually injures someone? That might be a little more difficult to explain. I'm also not 100% sold about recordings. If human speech comes out really clear on EVP, and every listener thinks the same thing - then is it just static? Does the explanation provided by the poster means everyone has the same reaction in the same exact way? It seems unlikely that is true.

[@anas.3253]

I've had experiences that I wish could be explained by something else, something rational, yet can't. In broad daylight, with other people around that all saw and heard the same things. Not in my peripheral, but right in front of me. Things that can't be dismissed by saying I imagined it. I'd like to think of myself as a very rational person, and I've thought these things through over and over in my head trying to make sense on them. Sometimes, things just happen and you have to resign yourself to not knowing why or how. I believe in science and reality, but they can't always explain everything we experience.

[@danielkonecny2956]

Well, what did you see?

[@dineshvasudev6911]

Ma'am is it possible for you to share your experience with us... It seems quite intriguing and fascinating.

[@keerthanasatheesh9639]

Can you please share what happened?

[@anas.3253]

It was several experiences over the course of three and a half years. They started about three months after my husband and I moved into our first home. There were many things, appliance's would turn on, objects would move, we would hear music playing. At first my husband and I tried to convince ourselves we were imagining things or that maybe our cats were knocking things over and such, until they started happening right in front of us. When we first moved in, the house had no working doorbell, so we had one installed. It was a basic doorbell that only had one tone. We started hearing a doorbell ring randomly, very different from what ours sounded like. Something which should definitely NOT happen. We tried to ignore it, as it wouldn't happen often. Then once while my parents were visiting, the doorbell rang and my dad went to answer the door before I could stop him. He heard it, my mom heard it, my husband and I heard it, both of my brothers heard it. There was no one at the door. My dad just stood there with a really confused look on his face when he opened it. No one was there. Him and my brothers rang our doorbell for a full 15 minutes trying to get it to make the same ring we all heard. Nothing. On a separate occasion, the eldest of my two brothers was over for lunch. We were planning a party for our mom's birthday. The glass I was drinking from slid two feet away from me. Like, as in it moved on it's own, without anyone touching it, two feet away from where I sat it down. We both saw it. There was no condensation on the outside of the glass. The table wasn't level, but it actually had a tilt in the opposite direction. If anything, it should have slid TOWARD me, not away from me. Another time, I was cleaning and I sat the broom up against the was while I arranged some couch cushions. I saw something in my peripheral and turned to see what it was, expecting one of my cats. What I saw was the broom gliding up the stairs, as if someone was holding it while walking up them slowly. It made it about 3/4 of the way up before it fell and slid all the way down making a loud clank when it hit the tile floor at the bottom. My husband ran in from the kitchen (the room behind me) asking what the noise was and if I was ok. He thought I had fallen or dropped something heavy and came to check on me. I just stood by the couch staring at the broom across the room. I could barely breath, let alone answer him. We were the only ones in the house. The microwave would turn on randomly. We would hear music playing upstairs where my husband's desktop was, only to find it completely off when we went to check. We would hear people talking downstairs in the middle of the night. Loud enough to wake us up, only to find a silent and empty livingroom. Loud voices, no distinct words, but clearly voices. Almost like loud chattering at a party. It would go on for minutes at a time and then suddenly stop. It happened more an more often the longer we lived there. We thought we were going crazy. It took us over a year to sell the house after we put it on the market. Neither of us have experienced anything like that since we finally moved out of that house.

[@dineshvasudev6911]

@@anas.3253 Good lord that is really really frightening... Glad you guys were able to sell off that house and hoping a peace of mind for you and your family.. And thanks a lot for sharing your experience ma`am...

[@GoPieman]

I was always wondering whether my eyes were open during sleep paralysis, one time I saw my feet and when I woke up they were under some cushions, so I just dream realistic surroundings and would guess this is what other people do.

[@damnedcarrot]

I suffered sleep paralysis before. The first time was an incredible but terrifying experience. Unlike a traditional dream, everything seemed exactly the same as in reality. I was in bed, daylight with all details the same. Something felt really wrong and I had a deep foreboding feeling. My black bed sheets started billowing from an unknown source. I felt myself being dragged out of my balcony door and towards a 2 story drop. When I awoke I noticed my bed sheets were actually white as I had changed them the day before. This was the only detail different and I might of questioned realty had it not been for that difference.

[@kezkezooie8595]

I'm a sleep paralysis sufferer and the "waking dreams" you experience can feel very, very real and can be quite terrifying. You realise the more outlandish ones are dreams fairly quickly after you fully wake but the ones where you feel someone sitting on your chest and or strangling you while pinning your arms down, or climbing into bed with you and holding you so tightly around the torso that you can't breathe or move are the worst because you think that an actual intruder is attacking you. That takes a while to recover from, believe me. It was an enormous relief to me and my siblings, who are also sufferers, when we learned about sleep paralysis, how it can manifest and how many people suffer with it. Although I wouldn't wish it on anyone, knowing we weren't alone and that it was a known phenomenon made it a lot easier to cope and recover from the nastier, more realistic episodes. We all suffer instances less frequently the older we get but we all still have them occasionally.

[@Sc0ttPrian]

I love sleep paralysis, my brain doesn't show me "demons," instead it transforms the way my house looks. For example, my brain told me it was normal that my entire house was covered in vines as if my home had been abandoned for 100 years or something. I certainly woke up very confused only to find a normal boring house around me.

[@MatTurner-e5r]

hey, that happened to me too! The walls were all staticky and it was foggy inside. But no demons.

[@electronicsNmore]

People quickly change how they think when it happens to them, especially when more than one person observes the same thing.

[@The_Man_In_Red]

It's no use mate. You either have or you haven't and I'll wager most people haven't.

[@electronicsNmore]

Yes, most haven't, but based on everything I've heard, it's not your imagination. LOL

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Group hysteria is not uncommon. That doesn't mean magic is real.

[@electronicsNmore]

@@patrickmccurry1563 Like I said, if it ever happened to you, you'd think completely different.

[@morphingninja]

@@patrickmccurry1563 group hysteria does happen but how does it explain physical activity such as everything attached to an entertainment center being turned on at the same time while the host and guests are playing cards? (It was preceded by the words "Turn On" coming through the turned off Sound System, but lets isolate the physical event that occurred) This was about 10 or so years ago and the things that turned on notibly included at least one old game console being the GameCube (which can only be turned on manually, not with a remote) and the rest being a Wii, a VCR, a DVD player, the TV, the Cable box, and the 5 disk Sound System itself.

[@poxart]

My house is haunted by a ghost. It turns our lights on and off and talks to us. We call her Google Home >.

[@jamesmitchell7707]

I have sleep paralysis pretty frequently. It's pretty freaky. I'll be 100% conscious and still dreaming, but unable to do anything except flutter my eyes open for fractions of a second. I remember one time I heard a vicious, snarling dog pacing in my room. I kept catching glimpses of it when I opened my eyes. Even though I knew I was dreaming, it was still terrifying.

[@Jflwer]

As somone who hallucinates due to bipolar and major fepression. Ive found out that just by having depression alone can make people hallucinate. I never knew that until recently.

[@chukyuniqul]

I hoped I could get a clue that would invalidate (or at least make me question) my personal paranormal experience. I'd been a skeptic (and still am pretty skeptic) regarding all paranormal phenomena. One night I was unable to sleep because I had slept at noon, but it was still late and I had to get up the day after. I was at my step-grandma's house, in the living room's bed. There was a balcony, the doors to which were open, and in the middle of the room there was a table. Normal eastern european living room dining table. As I was fidgeting on my phone, trying to find sleep where there's none I hear this SLAP smack on the table. I immediately turn around, and nothing was there. I went out the balcony, street was completely empty. I went back in bed, frankly not really worried because I was convinced if it was actually a ghost it was of my step-dad's father who at the time I remembered died in that room and frankly I had no reason to worry he had quarrel with me. So I turned my phone off and turned my back to the room which is when I felt it. A drumming, on the bedframe. 4 beats, drumming like someone impatient would. Frankly, I was bewildered, but even more than that excited because I finally encountered a ghost. That's gotta be some story to tell, especially since people knew me as a skeptic who would first follow through every logical possibility that would come to his mind. After a while I did manage to fall asleep, though it was pretty late and I just cancelled my next day plans so I could sleep in. The next day I woke up near noon, rather poorly rested, went into the kitchen and had lunch for breakfast. Chatted a bit with that grandma, then I felt sleepy so I went back into my room and laid in bed, back to the wall. And I felt the regular breathing of someone fast asleep on the back of my neck. The only window was on the opposite side of the room, and the bed itself has a rather tall bedframe, it reaches way higher than your head when you lay flat so it would be really unlikely the breathing was currents from the door. Thing is, alone I could just chalk these phenomena up to something or other (though the table slap was so cllear it would be a fair bit difficult to justify) , but all together it seems like a case of "if you hear hoofbeats think horses". I don't expect anyone to just up and believe me, and I do not mind potential explanations other than "oh you were just tired, your mind played tricks on you" and that's that because frankly those are non-arguments (not to mention that, again, I was quite restless and rested) and can be said about every paranormal phenomenon that doesn't happen in one's presence and direct observattion. But for what it's worth, I'm pretty certain I've experienced the paranormal that night, at 19 years old.

[@George_M_]

Dad had sleep paralysis once, thought someone was torturing him. He was screaming with his mouth closed.

[@toonedin]

I often do that when I get nightmares. I'm 49 y.o.

[@sionanenrois1433]

I’ve done that a lot. Once I dreamed I was being electrocuted; I have epilepsy so it made me wonder if I was feeling a minor seizure at the time.

[@SouDeePop]

Wow that explanation of sleep paralysis is insane. And it kinda makes me wonder more about something... I get this thing that is kinda like sleep paralysis, minus the paralysis part. As in I wake up hallucinating and can still move (roll over/bat my hands/hide under the blanket). The hallucinations are always about bugs. Always. Which seems like maybe something really different is happening in my head compared to what happens when people hallucinate humanoids. I'm still trying to figure out wtf my night hallucinations are/if there's a name for it. I did use to sleepwalk as a teen and child if that gives any clues

[@stinky59]

reply to an older comment so hopefully you’ve figured this out by now but it’s called hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations if it specifically happens only when waking up or falling asleep. it’s something that can be related to sleep disorders. if you also have difficulty staying awake during the day or falling asleep at night, i would talk to a doctor.

[@SouDeePop]

@@stinky59 thanks, I never made the connection to hypnagogic hallucinations, but sounds about right. Closest I got was Alice in wonderland syndrome which matched the hallucination of tiny things to the sensory distortions I had as a child. AWS seems more like an umbrella for disorders so not super helpful tho. Read that some issues, including my chronic nightmares, may be due to sleep apnea. Hence doctor is a good idea, just as you say.

[@stinky59]

@@SouDeePop i hope you’re able to figure it out! sleep neurologists always have a long wait list but it’s hopefully worth it. i have something similar except instead of bugs it’s voices and indecipherable whispering. it’s been happening since i was a kid and i thought it was just a normal part of falling asleep tbh. i have the sleep study scheduled in november tho

[@Youtube221B]

I will think about this while watching Buzzfeed Unsolved. I now know that I was always a Shaniac.

[@ThisIsAigle]

i just wanna say the background during the mirror neurons part. creepy. Good stuff

[@merckmaguddayao6814]

Michael Aranda suddenly getting slammed on the ceiling and getting impaled by the chandelier without any visible force. Brent and Shane: Ooooh that must be a strong gust of wind.

[@LordSlag]

Either we exist after death, or, we do not; either possibility is equally as disturbing.

[@SarthorS]

I never get why people fear actual death. I mean, you won't even exist anymore, so there won't be a you to feel or experience anything. Do you fear having not existed before you were conceived? Dying is a legitimate fear, but death itself is nothing.

[@LordSlag]

@@SarthorS Agree with all.

[@steffeeH]

@@SarthorS I'm not really scared of death, I'm just depressed by the whole concept of existing and doing stuff, and then ceasing to exist and never remember the stuff I did. In that essence, why does it matter if I die at 80 years old or if I die tomorrow, the outcome will still be the same. Why bother doing stuff, when it won't matter in the end. Everyone affected by my decisions will also die eventually, and my trace and legacy will be erased from the face of the earth relatively quick. Now that I think of it, maybe this is what people are scared of. Not the notion of ceasing to exist itself, but how the acceptance of the concept of an inevitable end would affect your ongoing life.

[@SarthorS]

@@steffeeH But that would only be true if you were an utterly worthless person who never had any impact on anything or anyone ever. I'm not sure that could be true for anyone. An analogy I came up with would be, imagine you have your favourite food in front of you. What would be the point of eating it, because it's not going to be there forever. Once you've eaten it, it is gone so what's the point? I think most people have a massively over-inflated notion of how they fit into the world and wildly expanded expectations of what they should be doing with their lives. You are just a single member of a population of over 7 billion of a single species among billions, on the surface of a single planet among hundreds of billions in a galaxy which is just one of trillions of galaxies in just the sliver of the universe that we can detect. And if there is a multi-verse, then it's even worse than that. The idea that you should have a significant impact on the entire universe for the rest of time it pretty ridiculous. Do you live a decent life? Do you generally have a good impact on those around you? That's all most people should really be concerned about. For some people, they might have a positive impact on the lives of many people, but that's unlikely to be me or you. And that's OK. Set your goals and expectations to be suited to you. Realistic and achievable. Do not set them by the super successful people that the media is constantly shoving in our faces. Because guess what. The image of those people that we see is no-where near the truth of those people.

[@phantomfantasia]

@@SarthorS The brain has an innate fear of death as a way to preserve itself also because many experience intense stress and anxiety when thinking about what happens after we die. Some scientists believe that its because the brain can't comprehend the concept of nothingness so, it then freaks out (rightly so because censing to exist after we die is terrifying. Imagine if you will seeing nothing not black just nothingness, no sounds, no smells, and touching nothing for the rest of.. oh yeah you don't exist... there is no sense of time nor space.)

[@SkaarAragon]

Ok...what about when your completely awake and able to move and you still see shadows moving around and making noises where none should be?

[@surabhi_kumari]

I once had a dream that my mom who is living with us isn't actually my mom , she is her doppelganger and she is looking for a chance to kill me and it was such a horrible and vivid dream that when I woke up I was actually scared of my mom for a while lol .

[@totothedoggo]

Surabhi Kumari yikes

[@kbee225]

Haha.

[@BattousaiHBr]

that's not a dream, that's just a black mirror episode.

[@killmimes]

@bad1dobby THANK YOU!

[@mousetrap773]

Surabhi Kumari - I had a dream that a fictional character my brain made up had abandoned me. I had no connection to this random dream person, but I remember the feeling of betrayal I felt for days after that. I felt like I had just lost a friend.

[@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6]

Adding on to what you said about the eyes don't forget saccades, or the regular movement of our eyes, and how that interacts with our peripheral vision to make it seem like something's moving when it isn't.

[@Hail_Sagan]

Someone once showed me a photo of what they claimed was a ghost standing in a window, and it was fully clothed. I asked, how did the clothes become ghosts too? And if they can float through walls, why don't they fall through the floor?

[@LadyVagabond13]

shoutout to my friend who took a small electromagnet on a ghost tour specifically to mess with the emf detector

[@Manj_J]

I wanna do this now too lol

[@Badger77722]

If your friend tells you it messed up the EMF detector, your friend is not being truthful. EMF meters (with very few exceptions) are instruments to help electricians find problems in electrical wiring. They won't detect a normal magnet's field, because they're designed to monitor the types of fields that man-made appliances generate, not natural EM fields.

[@sacr3]

I suffered from sleep paralysis once in my life when I was a bit younger, I woke up but I was unable to move all I could do was look at the ceiling and thankfully I was looking at the ceiling because I started to hear a scream, the scream was deep and guttural, and it kept getting louder and louder like something was coming closer to my ear and screaming in my ear, I finally snapped out of it and the noise disappeared and I was able to move. I was so f****** scared at that time that when it was over I wondered what the hell just happened, and I say thankfully I was facing up because if I was facing to the side I might have actually imagined something coming to my face screaming at me and that would have screwed me up for a little bit But I've always been a hardcore skeptic towards apparitions and paranormal stuff, it just makes no sense at all.

[@blondbum]

Your comment made me sit up and look around. The idea of that happening is creepy!

[@mexa_t6534]

Man I didn’t need to read this rn it’s 11 in the night

[@mousetrap773]

I’ve had it only once. I was young and had a pretty high fever. I don’t remember what movie I had watched before, but it had scenes in it where a swarm of bugs would fly around, envelop a person, and leave nothing in their wake. It obviously freaked me out because when I fell asleep, I dreamed about a swarm of bugs following me as I visited every family member I cared about, only for them to be eaten away. When I “woke up” from this dream, I was staring at the corner of my ceiling, and I couldn’t move. I started to see little bugs starting to crawl out from the ceiling, and gather in the corner. They were black, looked like termites, and had swollen abdomens and horrible buzzing wings. More and more of them appeared and I remember trying to scream but no sound coming out. I tried again and again to scream but my mouth wouldn’t move and I remained silent. Once I snapped out of it and was able to move again, I ran to my parent’s room and banged on their door as hard as I could. I screamed that my room was full of bugs. They followed me to my room, found no bugs, screamed at me for waking them up, my brother ended up waking up because of all the yelling and calling my stupid for believing there were bugs in my room. Eventually everyone went back to bed. Creepy thing is, the next day I tried to bring up the bug dream and waking them up, and they didn’t remember any of it. They insisted I never went to their door, and they never checked my room for bugs. That messed me up a good bit as a kid.

[@jesseluna4406]

I've had it many times.. I had one somewhat similar to yours. I heard a cat meow then thousands of Meows getting louder and louder. It felt like i was having a seizure or something. Typically when i get it i just get worried i may suffocate because i can't move and if something were to cover my face i couldn't do anything can't even talk or yell for help. It's a great way to feel helpless lol. Although there are some I had that made me super paranoid about sounds that are deep bassy and from a long distance as if aliens or something were trying to control us. So it magnifies what ever your thinking and can make things feel very real. It also brings some simple worries and turns them into full on panics.

[@jokuvaan5175]

I have never had any dreams as creapy as above. The closest thing is probably when I have sometimes had dreams where I can't open my mouth and it feels like my jaw muscles are just cramming my teeth together harder and harder so hard that it starts to hurt and I fear my teeth will break. Then I eventually wake up to find my mouth is fine.

[@jesipohl6717]

It would be cool if SciShow could produce an episode on EMF and the brain, from myths of cancer to actual effects.

[@nicholasgarrett8594]

I hope that in my lifetime science can come up with answers for how ghosts do exist! I had a surprising but pleasant experience (that has yet to be explained away), when a cat revisited me.

[@lanny_thorne5247]

Well done for totally missing the point 👏

[@burtonedwards]

Once I had realized that my sleep paralysis was not harmful, I started to look forward to them and try to keep the sessions going. I've experienced several out of body exps. as well.

[@crovax1375]

I've had a spooky experience. I was working alone on an electric panel in a sub basement of a school and a janitors mop bucket was tossed at the door to the room where I was working

[@i.i.iiii.i.i]

maybe you just weren't that alone :/

[@crovax1375]

@@i.i.iiii.i.i I know for a fact that I was completely alone in the building. The work that I was doing on the electric panel required that all power to the building be turned off. So I was working on a Saturday and the district gave me my own key so that the janitor or any other staff wouldn't have to be there to let me in.

[@i.i.iiii.i.i]

@@crovax1375 Maybe some sneaky students followed you in or maybe it fell off something and "jumped" against the door idk Maybe it was just a ghost :P

[@crovax1375]

@@i.i.iiii.i.i well it definitely wasn't any students. And, even if someone else with a key came into the building without me knowing, the room that I was working in was in a sub basement of the building and is accessible through a four foot tall maintenance tunnel that spans the entirety of the substructure of the school. It would have been impossible to make it to where I was without a flashlight and knowing the way through the tunnel.

[@sofieselene]

Orrrrrr, maybe the bucket was placed unstably somewhere and it managed to roll and hit the door with some force. Or there was a janitor in the school after hours (not an uncommon thing, they can often get in whenever they need to) and they decided to play a prank and scare you. Obviously though, the most likely explanation is that you're being haunted by the ghost of janitors past.

[@mattparker7932]

No, it definitely said “Get out” and it was creepy AF.

[@julesfromsydney]

I did not believe in ghosts or any of the online stuff in fact thought it was all explainable. That is until I personally had a number of experiences that can't be ignored or explained. I am now very certain they exist. I am not asking for others to believe either way doesn't bother me but I now know what I know and am 100% sure.

[@myhand5100]

Your problem

[@This4263]

6:57 as someone who experienced awful sleep paralysis too many times, all this explanation makes a lot of sense to me

[@joebykaeby]

Not that I’m defending paranormal beliefs, but I feel like “these particular neurons happen to wake up halfway through sleep and it confuses your parietal gland, and then your mirror neurons happen to fire weirdly” is not that much easier of an explanation to buy into.

[@Lucaazade]

"your body wakes up before your brain and you're still sleeping, big oops" compared to "your body dies before your brain and you're still haunting, big oops" - one of these happens in reality, the other doesn't

[@joebykaeby]

+Luca That’s the explanation for the paralysis part, and it makes perfect sense. The part that feels like a hell of a stretch is everything after that trying to explain the figure in the room with you.

[@Lucaazade]

@@joebykaeby Fair 😂

[@harrisonlichtenberg3162]

"Low-light, High-spook conditions"

[@thecoffeegod]

Are you implying that I'm imagining ghosts to make up for my lack of friends?

[@Ethan7s]

Only if they are friendly ghosts.

[@katiemolloy9073]

Someone gotta send this to buzzfeed unsolved

[@AlbertusVanSchalkwyk]

I usually write things like this off as a minor hallucinations, and go to sleep. Especially if you have a cat, you tend to see cats in the corner of your eyes when you are tired.

[@vertexedgeface3141]

Yep, my mom once hallucinated our cat clinging onto the (running) ceiling fan at night.

[@amberhoward7807]

Stefan's faces in the beginning literally made this video for me... well besides all the accurate information in this, but I keep re-watching it just for his facial expressions...

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

There is a saying in Japanese: "if you look closely, what you thought is a ghost may actually be just withered grass". However, isn't that because human minds want something fun, frightening, and scary legends or tales rather than bland and boring facts?

[@0333aaa]

Many individual cultures have a weak dichotomy between fantasy and reality but fiction and fact have gone through several booms so it's a bit sad that we often don't agree on what's important. The fact may leave some of us more lonely but the revelation is hilarious.

[@hnyii]

Read that in _Hyouka._

[@IceMetalPunk]

I was going to write a long comment about seeing ghosts when I was a child, just to end it with, "Thanks for reading my ghost story, none of it was true, enjoy your Halloween Month." But I can't be bothered to, and some people would surely believe it was true anyway, so... here's a +1 Internet Brownie Point for this video instead :)

[@TheHeretic2011]

I have a friend that didn't believe in ghosts. He always said the same things you're saying. Then he moved into this old house. He's a believer now.

[@zethloveless7238]

TheHeretic2011 apparently you didn’t listen to the video. Ghosts don’t exist bruh

[@TheHeretic2011]

@@zethloveless7238 Keep telling yourself that, if it helps you sleep at night.

[@apple54345]

@@TheHeretic2011 It's in your head, kiddo. When you get past your religious upbringing and learn some science. You'll laugh at the things you've been believing all along.

[@TheHeretic2011]

@@apple54345 Hahaha. I'm an Atheist. I gave up fairy tales a long time ago.I'm not even saying they're the spirits of the dead, just that I've seen things that I cannot explain. People were called crazy when they saw ball lightning until science proved it was real. UFO's were a subject for the tin foil hat crowd until the Pentagon admitted they were real. Science will discover what ghosts are someday, but only if people keep an open mind on the subject.

[@apple54345]

@@TheHeretic2011 "UFO's were a subject for the tin foil hat crowd until the Pentagon admitted they were real." Welp i'm buckled in now. let's see what happens......

[@connorgahan5197]

sleep paralysis and mirror neurons can also explain alien abductions if you watched a show or read a book about alien abductions, and you were dreaming about aliens during sleep paralysis

[@loopernoodling]

Don't believe in the supernatural, but we do have a family story that's pretty spooky; The first house I grew up in, along with my sister (a year younger than me), up to age about 5, was a lovely place, with a nice garden, in a friendly street. Because my parents wanted the family to grow, we moved to a bigger place, and it was a big old creepy sort of place (big by UK standards, not USA standards!). It was in permanent shade because it was on a very leafy road - a steep hill, as it happens. My mum hated the new house - it was so gloomy compared to where she'd been happy when me and my sis were babies and toddlers. We left when I was about 11, but I remember having recurring nightmares there, and just feeling spooked to be there alone and stuff like that. But the spookiness properly started when my mum told me the people who had moved into our original house had to move out because they kept hearing a woman crying at night. We'd never heard anything, and my mum, to this day, insists it was her, going back in her dreams and crying to be back where she was so happy with her new family. So it's not a proper ghost story - but perhaps ghost story adjacent! ;-)