What is the scientific explaination for ghosts?

By paranominal
Published: April 11, 2009

Tagged with: Explaination, Ghosts, Images Of People, Images People, Mean People, Spirits

  1. Byzantino says:

    the vast majority of the scientific community believes that ghosts, as well as other supernatural and paranormal entities
    do not exist. Now the "Occam's razor",;it's a basic scientific principle. And it says, all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one."
    There are several conditions that cause people to hallucinate. Among these conditions are:
    1) An active imagination — a desire to see a ghost or something not real.
    2) Dream like state of consciousness — not quite a wake.
    3) Chemical imbalances in the brain — drug or biologically induced.
    4) Brain injury

  2. billmanskills says:

    they are mainly reflections of light, dusk and objects on the lense of the camera, theres no scientific explanation because there is nothing to explain

  3. metagg says:

    It's a study of psychology. There has been no hard scientific evidence of the existance of ghosts. People still claim to see and hear ghosts from time to time. If the phenomenon isn't environmental, it's mental, and science needs to study the condition of the brain and the way it behaves during these "sightings". It's either an instance of the brain in a state of confusion and misunderstanding…. or it could be a human sense that science has yet to replicate in order to sense ghosts with instruments.

  4. Gee says:

    The most credible explanation for Ghosts that I've heard is that they are 'astral' material. The essence of that which makes us conscious and self-aware. Remnants of that energy that are dispersed in the act of death are sometimes observed as 'ghosts'.

  5. Ken E says:

    There are no scientific explanations because they are not a reproducible phenomenon. Appearances are sporadic and unpredictable. Not amenable to measurement.

  6. Richard J says:

    these images are nothing paranormal, the are just residual bio-electric fields created by mass deionisation of brain cells when someone dies. they often look and act like the person too.

  7. Wiccan Rider says:

    Psychologists usually explain the visual appearance of ghosts to chemical imbalance in the brain. To them ghosts do not exist so anyone seeing a ghost needs medication to stop the visions.Voices are the same if you go to a psychologist and tell him or her you hear voices, then they will put you on medication.

    Now that is what the professsionals who have PHD' in their name who are truly professionals, but as we all know ghosts are people without bodies. Spirits of the people who once were alive.

    For some reason true scientists do not accept the posssiblity of ghosts.
    BB

  8. raseema says:

    how can we connect the two: One is related to organized facts, called Science, the other is spiritual, and has nothing to do with science. Ghost, the word does not exist for the scientist, or scientific world. Period. Its like telling the world, that there was no such thing called Adam and Eve, or God. It is for the non believers and believers. Thats all.

  9. siobhan says:

    There's no explanation because the science community need concrete evidence, something solid they can examine and decide upon. With ghost and spirits this is just not possible because they are made up of energy. Images, photos, voices – they can all be explained away by the science community and sceptics.

    http://www.moonslipper.com/ghosts.html

  10. stickymongoose says:

    That people are making it all up?

  11. siva_cochin says:

    Please go through the article given under

  12. mushrooman2000 says:

    the scientific explanation would be hallucinations in a persons mind. No other scientific proof exists. Hence the reason for so many people not believing in ghosts

  13. Skeptic123 says:

    Unless you can test it. It's not Science.

    Same goes for Ghosts, Religion and all of that.

    It's not considered part of the Scientific world and how we view it, if you can't test it.

  14. Jancis says:

    The only semi-plausible explanation in physics is a kind of weak, temporary 'bumping-together'of parallel realities. Quantum physics potentially predicts an infinite number of alternate and parallel universes. The 'closest' ones to ours are very similar….same history, same inhabitants…..but the further along you go small differences occur. For instance: in a parallel reality Aunt Betty didn't die in a car accident….so if our reality briefly bumps into that one you might glimpse her still going about her usual routine.
    btw…this actually potentially explains most 'supernatural' phenomena including past lives, deja vu, precognition. The parallel realities similar to ours may have slower or faster timelines, meaning a version of World War 2 might still be happening in one series of realities, the Civil War another, it might be 2009 in others, etc.

  15. celtic_rose213 says:

    In short; charged ions. Presumably.

    In another short; no one to this day knows. And parapsychology isn't helping much.

  16. Curious George says:

    The power of the brain is under estimated, if you want to believe something bad enough, you will! Some people call it hallucination.

  17. muaythaiguy92 says:

    Ghosts or spirits are made of a semi tangible subastance called ectoplasm. Strong emotions or thoughts can emit ectoplasm. When you die you release it and it goes to one of three places…