(October 11, 2018 at 9:07 am)Reltzik Wrote: All that would take is a prank-inclined sibling or parent with a bit of "invisible" string (usually transparent nylon). Standard kit for any stage magician.
It's one thing to say "I don't understand how it happened and it freaked me out." That's fine. It's even kinda okay to say "I don't know how this happened and I can't see how to rule out magic or the supernatural." That's okay too. But determining it must be supernatural requires ruling out the natural, and that's pretty dang hard to do.
Exactly. I was asked about a similar ghostly experience fro a cousin, and his brother also witness the event.
Apparently a knob on a radio turned itself on by itself and because they couldn't see any normal way it could have happened then it had to be a ghost.
What they don't realise is that this isn't the simplest explanation.
If it was a ghost then where did it get the energy from? Because to interact with the world you need energy. This is why we eat food and robots have batteries. What powers a ghost?
If it doesn't have a material form then how can its energy continue as a persistent pattern? How was it intelligent enough to turn the knob in a directed manner if it doesn't have a brain?
And how did it turn the knob without any material body?
Sure you could do this very carefully arranged electromagnetic fields but then what generated them?
So when you start to ask these questions, and there are many, many more, you realise that ghost is actually the least simple explanation. Not least because it violates some of the concepts that our modern world is built upon.
