I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost || Examining the Paranormal

In this episode Jordan and Jared examine the concept of ghosts and some of the relative peer-reviewed literature on the subject of the paranormal.

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Sources

Pew Research Study, "18% of Americans say they’ve seen a ghost", https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/30/18-of-americans-say-theyve-seen-a-ghost/

Babylonian Exorcism, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/16/figures-of-babylon-oldest-drawing-of-a-ghost-found-in-british-museum-vault

Letter by Pliny the Younger, http://www.vroma.org/vromans/hwalker/Pliny/Pliny07-27-E.html

Vic Tandy, "The Ghost in the Machine", Published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdf)

Dr Jason J Braithwaite, "Good Vibrations: The Case for a Specific Effect of Infrasound in Instances of Anomalous Experience has Yet to be Empirically Demonstrated", Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, vol 70.4, Number 885, pages 211-224. (https://www.academia.edu/1191555/Good_Vibrations_The_Case_for_a_Specific_Effect_of_Infrasound_in_Instances_of_Anomalous_Experience_has_Yet_to_be_Empirically_Demonstrated)

Christopher C. Frencha, Usman Haqueb, Rosie Bunton-Stasyshyna and Rob Davis, "The ‘‘Haunt’’ project: An attempt to build a ‘‘haunted’’ room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound", Cortex 2009

Sharpless BA. A clinician's guide to recurrent isolated sleep paralysis. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2016 Jul 19;12:1761-7. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S100307. PMID: 27486325; PMCID: PMC4958367

Dean, Akhtar, et. al. "Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research", PLOS ONE, May 2022, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267360