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Old 05-21-2008, 06:26 PM   #86
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I'm a died-in-the-wool skeptic, but I've also worked in Theatres my entire life, which makes it a little hard to utterly discount the possibility of 'hauntings'.

While I do not believe in 'ghosts' as in the spirits or souls of people who have died lingering behind, I am prepared to accept the possibility that there is something going on that we aren't able to quantify yet.

My personal lay-person's theory is that, in certain places or under certain circumstances, it is possible for people and other life forms to leave behind a kind of residual energy which can be occasionally perceived - either visually (seeing ghosts), auditorially (hearing footsteps), or tatically (temperature drops, creepy feelings).

I am prepared to accept this because we live in a universe where 70% of the energy and 25% of the matter are invisible to us. I think it's entirely probable that we are as effected by 'dark energy' as we are by gravity (forces of similarly weak magnitude) and that maybe our brains interpret these energies by representing them in ways we are familiar with - sights, sounds, and sensations.

Obviously I have no proof, and I know that the burden of proof is on the claimant, but I will quote Mr. Holmes: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
I believe these can be explained by Quantum Physics one day. That's why I do not discount someone when they relay their haunting experiences to me.

I'm serious.
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