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Torka
Jan 5, 2008

Psychologist Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire thinks that the odd sensations that people attribute to ghosts may be caused by infrasonic vibrations. In 1998, Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, and Dr. Tony Lawrence of the psychology department wrote a paper called "Ghosts in the Machine" for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.

The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA.[36] This was why Tandy had seen a ghostly figure—it was an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.[37]

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Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


ahaha yeah just chillin' out, with my fencing foil

Torka
Jan 5, 2008

In the second concert, the pieces that were to carry a 17 Hz undertone were swapped so that test results would not focus on any specific musical piece. The participants were not told which pieces included the low-level 17 Hz near-infrasonic tone. The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number (22%) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine, and feelings of pressure on the chest.[34][35]

Apthous
Nov 2, 2014

by XyloJW

Torka posted:

Psychologist

I stopped reading at this word.

Mr. Smile Face Hat
Sep 15, 2003

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy
a thug mansion... in the sky

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Torka posted:

(22%) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine, and feelings of pressure on the chest.[34][35]

know what else would cause this?

:gas:

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!
Oct 27, 2007

:slick: :slick: :slick: :slick:
this is all very interesting, mayhaps I can fit it into the short story Im writing

les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
ghosts are made out of sound

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
stay sick party ghost

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Unbelievably Fat Man
Jun 1, 2000

Innocent people. I could never hurt innocent people.


Mythbusters tested this and it turns out ghosts are actually the dispossessed souls of the dead

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