Do Ghosts Exist? | Weird or What? Full Episode

[Music] you know I've been around for a while met some interesting people done some crazy things see you just might think that there's not much that can take me by surprise you'd be [Music] wrong the world is full of stories science and things that maaz and confound me every single day incredible Mysteries that keep me awake at night some I can answer others just defy logic do ghosts exist should we fear the Paranormal in California a woman is terrorized by an invisible attack is she the victim of a genuine haunting forget the silly movies that are out there this is real in New England a mother undergo a violent transformation has she been possessed by a deep it'll make a cold chill go up your spine and a British teenager claims to see ghosts does she have the gift not the fear it was uncontrollable yeah it's a weird word world and I love [Music] it have you ever seen a ghost where 90 million North Americans claim to have done just that and 40 million others say they have physically experienced a paranormal event many of these events are easily explained but some are not only weird and inexplicable most disturbing of all they seem to be evidence of Pure Evil do ghosts exist and what are they anyway is the Paranormal something we should fear or is it simply uh hogwash August 8th 1989 Barry Taff one of the world's leading paranormal investigators responds to the call of a distressed woman in San Pedro California he brings along a colleague photographer Jeff wheatcraft after 5,000 cases you go out expecting nothing to happen and most of the time that's exactly what does occur nothing the terrified woman is Jackie Hernandez a single mother who claims that someone or something has turned her home into a living hell she reported apparitions of an old man with strange lights some tried to smother her a couple times things were flying at her was extraordinary but perhaps most chilling on several occasions Jackie claims to have seen a corpse in her son's bed intrigued the Ghost Hunters decide to look around I have this attitude where I'm very skeptical because you know that a lot of people embellish and exaggerate and misrepresent what's going on but in Jackie's house they find something unexpected and very [Music] weird we were taking pictures all over the house and we saw the strange liquid I don't know what the viscous liquid dripping out of a wall unable to explain the weird slide Taff is now convinced Jackie is not faking anything and Real Paranormal Activity is occurring in her home they take samples and promise to return but just 3 Days Later another call this time it's an emergency whatever is in Jackie's house is on a rampage the physical attacks have become so violent and severe she fears for her life I was unavailable cuz my father had a heart attack so they were there without me Jacki reports the evil entity is now in her attic it has been tormenting her with strange lights and ear shattering banging Jeff and Gary decide to investigate nothing could prepare them for what they find they hear oh like a yell or a moan and Gary turned back to what happened to Jeff and he couldn't see it was too dark in the Attic despite his Terror Gary snaps some photos in the darkness what they reveal will haunt them forever you can see that Jeff a 6'2 man about 215 lb something has wrapped itself around his neck and it's pulling up him up against the rafter and yet there was no one there it was Jeff and Gary and he cut him down he had a rope burn in his neck it would have killed him the question is there was no one else there so what try to kill him how and why something had tried to murder Jeff wheatcraft the investigators leave the house only to make another chilling discovery [Music] the forensic lab report on the Ooze from Jackie's walls is in the conclusion was it was human blood plasma that's something you will lose sleep over literally forget the silly movies that are out there this is real now certainly are dealing with an evil homicidal phenomenon that tell Jacky to get out and never come back what was in Jackie Hernandez's house was it out to kill Jackie's story became known as the San Pedro haunting one of the most mysterious paranormal events in history but what really happened Javier Orga is a paranormal researcher he has no doubt the Jackie herand is case it's a very extreme case of a haunting if somebody DED me to go in the house I wouldn't sit fo in there haunting we've all heard of it but what does it really mean you know haunting it's usually uh the spirit of a diseased person the homeowner that passed away in that house and they were so attached to a physical object or location that they come back was Jackie's house haunted by someone who had died there incredibly the investigation uncovered something bizarre during the investigation of the Jack oranz case she reported that her and some friends were playing with the Ouija board and they were able to talk with the spirit in the house and the spirit had told them that he was a marine that was murdered so they went out and they did some research and they found out that there was a marine named Herman Hendrickson who was found dead in 1930 was the spirit of a murdered Marine responsible for the attacks on Jackie and wheatcraft does a haunting explain the other things she experienced a lot of the things that were reported were apparitions you know whether it was a disembodied head floating in the Attic or a uh a corpse-like old man sitting in in her child's bed um she she also reported seeing strange lights they were described as Globs of of luminous light free floating Globs of Light have been reporting in haunted places as well before our most compelling evidence of a haunting is that mysterious goo Barry and Jeff found oozing from Jackie's walls I mean it just sounds so so bizarre you know that you have human blood plasma oozing from the walls and when they checked there wasn't any device like you know that was emitting this substance so that to me it has to be one of the most uh compelling cases in the Paranormal was the marine so angry about being murdered that he bled through Jackie 's walls incredibly or take of think Jackie wasn't the only victim when Jackie hernanz left the premise people who inhabited that home have also reported strange activities uh they reported objects being moved around pots and pans being moved around and they reported being uh touched by unseen forces when you have a lot of physical activity and in a uh in a supposed haunted location it it it tends to speak volumes for for the amount of energy that resides in that home and we don't know as as a paranormal researchers we don't know if it's um if it's due to psychokinetic uh forces or if it's du to location hauntings if you have the same reports happening year after year on the same location when there's different tenants it it usually tends to uh to point towards it being a location haunting what an incredible story you know I mean strange things happen around my house too but once I say I'm sorry everything's forgiven but human blood dripping from walls and a spirit that is so angry it tries to kill you I mean knew they going to call Ghostbusters I've always wanted to say that was Jackie Hernandez the victim of a haunting or was it something else it does not appear that the house would fit the classic haunting a terrified woman reports extreme paranormal events in her home weird lights strange noises even physical attacks did Jackie Hernandez live in a haunted house it does not appear that the house would fit the classic haunting Lloyd arbach is a Paranormal Investigator he believes the answer isn't ghosts at all knowing what about know about the Jackie Hernandez case it seemed that she herself was a poltergeist agent Poltergeist isn't that just a hyperactive ghost or is there a difference what we learned in the last 100 years is that these things relate typically not to ghost sightings not to hauntings per se not to a place being haunted but to a person an individual in the situation who is typically stressed or otherwise put upon there's possibly epileptic we're having epileptic type type activity it's about a third perhaps of the cases and the expression instead of by an entity is by the entity in the body it's by a person's unconscious blowing off steam or act having a seizure essentially it's a kind of like a seizure in some of these people as well but it's not a ghost related situation if you go on the web and look at a lot of ghost hunting sites you'll see Poltergeist is a particular type of ghost mischievous Spirit most of the folks who are on the web have no background in parapsychology they don't know the literature for the last hundred or so years they don't know how we've actually come to these conclusions or they don't know how the fact that we can actually stop these cases whereas it's a little bit harder when you have a reported ghost instance or haunting to deal with that many now believe poltergeists are not ghosts but a manifestation of something called psychokinesis we call it PK for short and it's the idea that the mind can directly interact or affect matter and energy we typically think of it in the Paranormal world as affecting things outside your body whether it be moving objects what people often call telekinesis or bending metal or even healing was Jackie Hernandez herself causing the weird phenomenon in her own house if so why and for that matter how certain people their unconscious minds let loose I mean we see people who are stressed out who are put upon in society in really expressing that stress in different ways some people get enraged and they break things some people shoot people some people keep it bottled up and it can explode in kind of a different direction for certain individuals which is a psychokinetic direction and we call those situations where they're stress they're they're think of it as an unconscious temper tantrum is happening outside themselves and just starts throwing things around probably like they'd like to do if they actually physically could do it but by having their unconscious throw things around who's going to get blamed the invisible force the invisible ghost certainly not the person who's stressed out when we talk about the stress involved in these PK events which are often called Poltergeist cases we're not talking about typical stress of you know just day-to-day stress uh sitting in traffic uh being frustrated because your computer couldn't work which may actually be Rel related back to the PK those kinds of stresses do show in small ways sometimes I but they can again come out in a lot of different ways for example Road Rage or people just screaming at the driver across you know the way without acting on it those you release that stress people have other ways of doing it in Poltergeist cases the stresses tend to be very psychologically oriented in most of these cases so they can be related to deep-seated issues around the family or even around the working conditions uh they are typically not expressed in other ways so there's no outlet for most of these people in other conditions these would be the kids or the adults who are going to act out in a very bad way whether it be breaking things or doing something else typically so we have a different kind of stress level involved but it's it can be very very much under the surface someone I had a case for example years ago where the woman was recovering memories of her father abusing her as a child and that caused significant stress especially as she talked with therapist about it and that was extended out to a poltergeist incident You by talking to her you wouldn't know I mean there's just no way you'd see that that stress was there and it was a completely different kind of stress than we think of of just being frustrated by day-to-day activity was Jackie's unconscious mind throwing a temper tantrum and if so why it could be due to the fact she was experiencing emotional issues at the time following a difficult divorce there was enough going on in her life and frankly enough psychological issues that would indicate that she was responsible for most of the phenomena that was happening in most poster gist cases people rarely ever think of themselves as the agent according to our back the most compelling argument that Jackie was both the victim and the problem is what happened when she moved 600 km away incredibly The Vicious paranormal attacks on her continued in poter cases when people move the phenomena follows them because it's coming from them and that also happened in that particular case but if Jackie was our own polar guys how is it that the new tenants also reported paranormal attacks we've had cases where people have heard about the case and have gone home and because they're so freaked out by the situation they start witnessing things that has happened so you can think of it almost like a contagious idea it is possible that it was a haunted house it is possible there was an entity there we can't completely exclude that but it best fit the Poltergeist model could it be that Jackie herself was responsible for the weird goings on or were they the result of an altogether different kind of bad Vibe professor John Huntington believes the Jackie Hernandez case can be explained by undetectable Audio Waves known as infrasound sound is just the vibration in air pressure that's how we perceive it and that's how it getss into your ear infrasound is below the range that we can hear as an audible sound but it is we're still being affected by the the sound wave is still impinging on our bodies in fact right now in the room we have a pretty loud uh 19 Hertz uh 19 cycle per second infrasound wave going but it's not very it's not really audible as a sound and it's quite a bit louder the than the speech the the level of speech that I'm talking at right now but it's still there and it's still affecting us it's still pressurizing the air uh that we're that I'm breathing that I'm speaking human ears can't detect ultra low frequencies if it's below 20 HZ you can't hear it your body makes lots of sounds down at very low frequencies such as your heartbeat the movement of your blood breath noise coming in out of your body if we could hear all that it would drive us crazy but we're still being affected by that the sound wave is still impinging on our body but other in our own bodies what might cause these low frequencies man-made sources of infrasound could be anything from a piece of air handling equipment in a building anything like a train a truck anything that's big stuff that's moving could generate these very low low frequency sounds incredibly Huntington believes low frequency sound waves could have caused Jackie Hernandez's unpleasant experiences so in addition to things like headaches and nausea being caused by exposure to infrasound there have been some reports of feeling a presence or some sort of hallucination or feeling like strange things are going on in the room a lot of that was documented by two researchers at Coventry University uh Tandy and Lawrence in the late 90s they were working in a space sort of a underground uh space as I understand it um and they had all kinds of uh just strange experiences people would think that somebody was standing next to them and when there wasn't anybody in the room they'd be feeling alone and felt like there was a presence in the room uh and there wasn't anybody else there all kinds of strange experiences um happening in this one space uh after and this would build up of course would build up anxiety being having these sort of constant um uh sort of strange experiences and then one of the researchers brought a fencing foil into the room to work on and clamped it into a vice and it started moving on its own and it was uh it was sort of flopping up and down at both ends where it wasn't secured in the vice that led the Tandy and Lawrence to research this and they ended up doing some acoustical measurements in the room and found that a piece of air handling equipment was causing a very loud 19 cycle per second uh infrasound sound wave in the room and in addition the the physical geometry of the space was causing the uh that sound wave to build up in certain locations in the web uh and then this is as soon as they turned the hbac equipment off we actually decoupled that piece of equipment from the the uh mounting equipment where it was transmitting all the strange experiences went away can infrasound exposure mimic the experience of a haunting in the infrasound could possibly cause something like a hosin or an apparition or some other things like that based on the vibration of the sound wave actually affecting the eye the eye itself could resonate or get a very strong sort of vibration and that could cause boring a vision or possible issues around the periphery of the vision those things coupled with already being in sort of a spooky location being on edge by the infrasound could certainly cause some sort of ghostly experiences could Huntington's Theory be correct does the paranormal activity witnessed in San Pedro have a rational explanation and does it explain human plasma oozing from the wall was Jackie's home haunted or was she her own polarized whatever the answer this story is certainly weird what a Connecticut housewife is tortured from with within has she been possessed by an evil spirit demons like to attack good people many of us have experienced events that we would call paranormal but in fact are just things that are harmless and easily explained but what is the Paranormal and does it exist even the name is a little well weird and scary here's the way it's described in the dictionary paranormal the exp occurrence of an event without scientific explanation as psychokinesis extrasensory perception of other purportedly supernatural phenomena all right guys come on that's it out you can fool some oh oh boy oh boy but some people experience paranormal events that are real so real in fact they're deadly weird or what history professor John Kerner studies reports of Paranormal Activity none have haunted him more than the story of Patricia reading they all count she was a good person I mean there's nothing you can in her past that would indicate why this happens to her in 1992 Patricia's life took a terrifying turn doing chores around her home in Lichfield Connecticut she suddenly Hears A terrifying voice worship Satan she felt what she thought was an evil presence that was around her there was nothing that could explain this Patricia tries to brush it off but but the Eerie voice won't stop ever it's the beginning of a horrifying ordeal stop the situation got much much worse pet had a number of things that were happening to her that were very unusual there were bite marks in the back of her neck bruises on the back of her body things she could not do by herself what could be inflicting Patricia's vicious bruises and other injuries it's a frightening and bizarre mystery devastated and Disturbed she seeks help the family took Patricia writing to the hospital to local doctors they ruled out all the conditions that could possibly be affecting her with no medical explanation Patricia resorts to hoping her problems will simply go away but then things started getting much worse after that she was knocked over horribly she did not know what is happening again and again a seemingly evil presence HS her into the wall these are things that never could happen to Pat running in a normal situation she is not herself she's becoming someone else fearing for her safety Patricia has only one place to turn at that point the Catholic Church got involved Patricia's Bishop takes her claims seriously after an examination he reaches an incredible conclusion they make the diagnosis yes she is possessed demons like to attack good people there's only one solution an ancient ritual as old as the church itself the bishop decides he will perform an exorcism he called upon a demon to reveal himself and say say who you are reveal yourself in the name of Jesus Christ almost every every religion really believes in evil in some form or another but the difference with the Catholic church is that the Catholic Church believes evil is actually a physical manifestation in this world it's not just a concept at first the demon stays hidden but not for long she was speaking in a language that she could not speak in normally trying to insult the priest insult his family things that she never would have done on her own these are pretty clear signs you're dealing with a an evil entity inside the person's body having forced the demon into the open the real battle begins things like holy objects this op can anger the demon these are tools in a war that can cause them to be so upset the words of Christ makes them so angry so it has to be said over and over again it's a war of attrition the battle rages for hours at long last something breaks demons they get so upset they just can't take this any longer and they'll go somewhere else they'll go bother somebody else the exhausting battle ends with the demons on the run but before long they're back evil is real it can affect someone in some horrible ways sadly Patricia runs out of time after 16 exorcisms in 2005 she dies of cancer believed to be caused by her demons incredibly petriti story is far from the only one an estimated 15,000 exorcisms are performed each year can evil really live inside or is there some other way to explain demonic Poss Christopher rosi is a psychologist he says he knows exactly what happened to Patricia reading coming from religious perspective you might assume that this must be a a demonic uh presence but as a psychologist my diagnosis would be dissociative identity disorder better known as a split personal disassociative identity disorder is when two or more personalities inhabit one mind an abusive childhood can sometimes cause such a psychological break one personality becomes the happy face the person the world SE the other deals with all the hidden pain shame and suffering the primary personality is unaware of the other personality they may hear voices and have these sort of signs but they don't know what it's about were the demonic voices Patricia heard really the screams of a tortured second personality could it have even tried to hurt her I had a patient who would end up in a graveyard with her blade in her hand and having cut her arm is a self-destructive Alter Ego responsible for Patricia's injuries can psychology explain the power of an exorcism after the exorcism the individual experiences complete and sudden remission of their symptoms and of course that's considered proof positive that the demon has been removed an alternative way of looking at that however is that the the prayer the ritual is in fact just sered to rearrange these separate identities such that they have receded from the host HS awareness they don't hear the voice anymore then what I experienc happen with some patients is that maybe weeks or months later the voices come back and then they think well you know I must have I must have invited it back or if something's wrong with me I'm really evil um and so that's just to say that there that experience of the sudden symptom relief after exis is not uh a clear indicator that uh there was a a demonic presence that was expelled at that point everything I'm saying here is in no way meant to malign the the value of religious spiritual care but there are some psychological ways of understanding these experien that really should be taken into [Music] account demonic possession Ordinary People suddenly possessed by nasty entities ring a bell H you know I've seen all the movies Omen 1 2 3 the excist a lot and guess what not only do they not scare me but I don't believe them I mean just because it gets a little stormy doesn't mean the devil is on his way to take over your soul does it and as for all that other ridiculous stuff like twisting heads speaking in strange tongues oh is demonic possession all in our heads or is there a more frightening answer what Satan can do is invade human bodies a Connecticut woman appears to have been possessed by an evil demon could she be suffering from a split personality or is the explanation far more terrifying Reverend Bob Larson is not your average man of God I am among other things an exorcist Larson has studied Patricia reading's possession and is convinced it was real there are those who would like to have the public believe that demonic possession is rare I can tell you it's not rare it'll make a cold chill go up your spine are demons really all around us are they trying to take over the bodies of innocent humans the Bible teaches that when Satan was cast out of Heaven a third of the Angels involved in that Insurrection were cast out with him according to the Book of Revelation when Satan lost his war with God he and his followers were banished to the spirit realm on Earth Satan is now an invisible spirit being Satan can pull the trigger of a gun but what Satan can do is invade human bodies and those people then become the instruments of evil lson believes demonic possession as a firm basis in scripture he's also certain that Patricia's condition wasn't case of split personality I deal a lot with multiple personality disorder I know the difference when you see the demon have such utter hatred for God and religious objects such as the cross that aversion means it's something more than psychosis that's when you know they are possessed but there's one thing Larson believes is the ultimate proof of demonic presence in the pat reading case she apparently spoken another language I've seen this happen thousands and thousands of times I had a woman speak Chinese one time I had a fascinating case where a strange language was being spoken in a college professor with a PhD in ancient centic languages he said I can come up and tell you exactly what the voice was saying and he did and the voice was speaking about his possession of the person and how it was determined to destroy them now this was a PhD college professor who was giving testimony to it could these forign forgotten languages prove that Satan is carrying on an ageold War by invading the bodies of hum to the Skeptics who may not believe in demonic possession I say travel with me and meet the thousands of people who have had exorcisms when you see the smile and the glow on the person's face face as they say to you wow I didn't know I could feel like this something is gone that's why I do exorcisms are exorcisms ultimate proof that devilish spirits still roam the Earth could reports of demonic possession be explained by a misunderstood mental illness or is everyone simply making it up whatever the truth this mystery is most def something weird or what I don't know about you but stories of ghosts and the Paranormal send Shivers up my spine that's kind of fun right but do spirits or ghosts or whatever they are always have to be evil aren't there any friendly dead people out there I hope so but there are some people who not only enjoy having ghosts around they can talk to them whenever they like how they've got the gift in just about every way Fay Jackson is an average teenage girl I like to shop and just hang out with my friends while fa's life appears to be ordinary in truth she and her family are dealing with something so sensitive they've chosen to conceal their appearance although it has become part of everyday life for us it is still at times frightening fa story began 3 years ago when she was 10 I was sitting in my bedroom on my own I could feel a man sitting next to me she could feel like an energy like a presence next to her and I could just feel his breath in my ear and it was a warm and then she heard him whispering in her ear can you hear me can you hear me can you hear can you hear me can you hear me you hear F races to her mom like the fear I I just it was uncontrollable I just it was unexplainable the child was absolutely terrified and I was scared for her to be honest when Lynn takes her daughter back to the room the man is gone but Fay is in no doubt as to what she's experienced I saw my first ghost terrifyingly fa's encounter was just the beginning the spirit started regularly visiting me they only come when I was on my own and when they did just random Spirits would walk into my bedroom f is haunted by hundreds of ghosts sometimes she sees as many as five a night sometimes they just want to show her how they died which is a little bit Grim at times and she's only 13 the ghosts begin getting bolder there was an instant when her bed was shook which completely terrified me I just felt like I was being attacked it was horrible it was felt really dangerous and I felt like I was on my own that was when I knew we had to do something about it at her Wit's End Lynn seeks professional advice we got lots of help from local mediums who understood what was happening far from seeing it as something frightening the mediums tell them fa's ability to see and connect with the dead is a gift and a very rare one at that um they talk by techniques that she could use to take more of a control over her gift and to see it as a gift really with the help of psychic mediums the support of her mother and lots of hard work Fay finally mastered her gift it's like I have two lives like I live one life so I'm just a normal girl and then other times I can talk to spirits so it's really quite exciting I see dead people that's something else I've always wanted to say but I can't cuz I don't well now one I'm sober anyway but incredibly it may be because I'm an adult you see Fay isn't alone millions of other children see dead people too how do they possess a special power a six sense and is it a gift or a [Music] curse weird or what 13-year-old Fay Jackson claims she can see ghosts do children possess the gift who better to ask about children who see ghosts than Karen good author of children who see ghosts to discover that children see ghosts and talk with ghosts to me it was exciting after more than 25 years researching the special abilities of young minds good has reached an incredible conclusion children are more predisposed to see ghost than adults are primarily because of their brain power the six sense begins to develop in children between the ages of 18 months all the way up through 5 to 6 years and the reason is because their their brain is going through a tremendous growth spurt we've all heard of the Sith sense but what is it what does it do that your other five can when I discuss with a parent for example what is the six sense I explain it to a parent as being intuitive intelligence some people have a heightened in tuition particularly um sensitive children we call them sensitive because they may be sensitive to the feelings of someone who might be ill or a child one child that I'm aware of used to tell me about he would know a car accident when his mom was driving he would get nauseated and it always correlated for him with a nearby car accident so I think that that a six sense involves feeling and intuition and it could involve heightened sensitivities but where does this Sixth Sense come from is it a gift only bestowed on some remarkably good believes it's an ability that's within us all the pineal gland is located within the brain which actually regulates light within our body I believe the pine NE gland can be a doorway to the sixth sense but if we all have the ability to access our sixth sense why do so few children maintain this power into adulthood as the hormones change children go through brain wave shifts mood shifts and that's the time logic develops and children may turn away from their intuition their feelings if children have not been encouraged in their imagination in their conversations and six sense development it can shut down when cognition sets in do children's growing brains give them a sixth sense should a child's ghost sightings be encouraged do kids like Fay really have the gift my initial reaction to reading the article about Fay um was quite honestly is I wasn't impressed psychic Jack roor is an expert in parasitology experience has taught him that a far more mundane explanation may be at work or rather at home there is a phenomenon called parenti where in essence there's a bit of a roll reversal where a child can sometimes become the caretaker of the parent or become the mirror to the parent Ro believes that through parenti children can be actively encouraged to say they see ghosts the more positive reinforcement a child gets from their parent that they are special that they are extra sensitive that they have special empathic or intuitive abilities the more the child then believes they're psychic and I'll give you an example of how this is done a child wakes up in the middle of the night from a horrible dream and it's talking about ghosts chasing them things like this you come in as the parent and say no you're wrong that didn't happen you lose the ability to comfort the child because they've been made wrong now I go into the room same scenario and I say oh you saw a ghost didn't you yes this is how it's done but why would a child like Fay go along with the idea of seeing ghosts what's in it for her the specialness of the child in these circumstances gives the child permission to commiserate with the parent they become their emotional partner um they go to activities together they may go to certain psychic functions and this unique relationship becomes a reward to the child and in order to maintain that closeness with their parent they have to maintain the psychic identity for the parent this also gives them a passive means to control the child and also what I've witnessed is a way to to slow down their development and prolong their childhood um so this is an interesting thing one of the things that we look at um now why per se a child might have a specific uh experience could be biological it could be an environmental reason it could just be an ordinary bad dream can you hear me can you hear me can you hear me can you hear me are children who see ghosts merely playing out a fantasy with the encouragement of their parents is there nothing special about them at all does the gift exist in children at all a person like Fay may be capable of seeing ghost because she has some physiological advantage can you hear thousands of children across the glob cling they can see dead people can you he me do they have an extra special sense known as the gift Paranormal Investigator Joshua P Warren believes there could be a medical explanation for this phenomena a person like Fay may be capable of seeing ghost because she has some physiolog logical advantage in her eyeballs themselves could FaZe eye have powers the rest of ours don't Warren believes her secret maybe that she sees light differently right now all the data that we have indicates ghosts are more visible in the infrared realm some of the best ghost images I've seen have been captured using infrared technology could Fay be seeing ghosts that are all around us ghosts that most of us miss because we can't see infrared the average person can only see a relatively narrow band of light from usually around green to Red Fay might be able to see a little bit more than the rest of us scientists call the range of light the visible spectrum although most of us know it as the colors of the rainbow but what a f was somehow able to literally see what the rest of us can in the human eye there are two primary types of cells you've got the rod cells and The Cone cells Rod cells are used for nighttime vision but they can't see color then you have the cone cells which respond very quickly and they see color if Fay has more of those Rod or cone cells especially the cones that alone might allow her to see a broader range of colors and frequencies than the average person her eyes physiologically allow her to peer deeper into the infrared or ultraviolet Realms incredibly Warren also believes the eye might not just explain face story but also why children on average report seeing more ghosts than adults and as a person ages the components of the eye become more and more dense in extreme cases they can become very cloudy and form a cataract so the older you get the less you're able to to see when it comes to this band of frequencies children are not only able to see a wider range of frequencies but they also should have an open mind and open awareness they have not been structured so much yet into a belief system and into a a task driven daytoday routine that gives us tunnel vision as adults uh as children they still have a wider awareness and perception of what's around them and the willingness to acknowledge honestly what they see good Fay and other children like her really be able to see into the infrared world of ghosts does she have a six sense or is Fay just a needy kid who wanted her mother's attention and approval we may never know weird or what so there we have it ghost stories from around the world a Californian woman's home plays host to one of the most terrifying paranormal events on record in New England a woman is possessed by an evil spirit so strong even the Catholic Church fails to defeat it and a British teenager can see and talk to ghosts is she proof that some children have the gift are these bizarre stories evidence that ghosts exist can we seek comfort in rational explanations or do we ignore them at our Peril you decide join me again next time for more stories that will undoubtedly be weird or what [Music] [Music] he

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