Paranormal Investigations and Belief in Ghosts

Esther Schindler writes "Sure, everyone uses technology on the job. But you may not have contemplated the tools used by paranormal investigators (at least, not until you began thinking about Halloween) who look for the truth in ghosts and other things that go Bump in the Night. In Paranormal Investigations and Technology: Where Ghosts and Gadgets Meet, CIO's Al Sacco writes about the most unusual of tool chests, with everything from thermometers to blimp cams." You want spooky? An anonymous reader passed a link to a survey that says a third of Americans believe in ghosts. Who you gonna call?

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[Anonymous Coward]

First Ghost!

captcha: fainted

To quote Penn and Teller...

[Das Modell]

... ghosts are bullshit!

Important Warning

[PPH]

Don't cross the streams. That would be bad.

oblig quote

[mackil]

Scully: "So now we're chasing ghosts?"
Mulder: "Who you gonna call?"

Re:Okay, I'll bite.

[El Lobo]

A third of americans believe in ghosts?

Well, 92% of americans believe in God [foxnews.com], so, boy I wonder if there is something wrong with those polls or if America REALLY is in so bad intellectual shape (to express myself nice)...

Re:To quote Penn and Teller...

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"... ghosts are bullshit!"

Show some respect, man. Ghosts were people, too!

Re:Photos

[meringuoid]

pick up the background IR, except where spirits, which apparently suck the energy out of their surroundings when they manifest themselves.

Fascinating. If that was me I wouldn't be trying to photograph them. I'd be trying to run a heat engine off them. You've got an object here that's going to be consistently cooler than ambient temperatures? That's a perpetual motion machine right there.

Re:Important Warning

[bill_mcgonigle]

It's not the proton streams themselves that cause the problem, it's those spiral-shaped things around the streams they use to shape and contain the proton streams.

Re:Okay, I'll bite.

[PopeRatzo]

If you meet an angel, you should very easily be able to test its reality.

If you meet an angel, it's your reality that should be tested.

Re:Photos

[Lurker2288]

But, you'd need an army of ghosts, and maybe a team of guys to run the machine capturing the energy. Maybe they could be based at Canary Wharf.

Pardon if it's too obscure, but based on your sig, I thought you might get it. Cheers!

Re:Photos

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks for the heads-up about the ***SPOILER***, asshat

Re:Are you serious?

[amRadioHed]

You want to know where morality comes from? The answer is not as complex as you seem to want to make it. Morality comes from humans.

It is nothing but a label for what we humans consider to be right behavior. To say morality requires supernatural is just daft. The concept of morality doesn't need a supernatural source any more than do the concepts of stinky or cute.

Have ghostse.cx

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Then I'll be impressed!