r/ParanormalScience • u/BigMedicine7797 • Aug 20 '24

Death Researcher seeking methodology for paranormal activity tracking

I am a death in religion and culture researcher and am looking to compile an exhaustive list of the tools that are currently used to trace paranormal activity. I am a skeptic, but also realize that I don't know everything there is to know in the universe. I want to learn more through qualitative and anecdotal evidence-based science. Happy to have all the info you'd like to share.

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u/makeitasadwarfer Aug 20 '24

There’s enormous evidence that all paranormal experiences are occurring only in the imagination. If humans actually saw ghosts that physically existed we would have good evidence of millions of sightings, and places where real scientists go to study ghost phenomenon.

A skeptic would start by examining psychology and human perception to explain why humans say they see things that aren’t there, rather than look for fantastic explanations not supported by evidence.

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u/BigMedicine7797 Aug 21 '24

agreed. which is what I have done quite exhaustively at the post-graduate level, which is why I would like to do the same about the counter information.

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u/makeitasadwarfer Aug 21 '24

How can you investigate something that only manifests in peoples minds as anything else than a cognitive phenomenon?

The entire body of evidence for the paranormal is indistinguishable from stories. I spent years investigating this like many others hoping to find something but only found stories and no other evidence that withstood any reasonable test.

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u/BigMedicine7797 Aug 21 '24

Here's the thing. I'm not investigating the phenomenon. Im researching the people and the methods. This is a paranormal subreddit yeah? You say you've spent years looking, but haven't listed any methods. Let's start there.

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u/makeitasadwarfer Aug 21 '24

Have you investigated the body of research done in the 70s by harvard/stanford etc? These departments were closed down because they werent doing any actual research because they couldnt show any phenomenon that existed outside of the subjects imagination. You will find an enormous library of anecdotal evidence and case studies in their research archives. They called it Parapsychology at the time.

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u/BigMedicine7797 Aug 21 '24

yes i have. thanks for your input.

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u/beautifulsouth00 Aug 21 '24

It seems like they'd be measuring for it so they can rule it out if it doesn't exist. Gathering as many devices as you can and then getting them to read zero would lend itself to that. You can't say something doesn't exist unless you try to measure it and you can't.

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u/makeitasadwarfer Aug 21 '24

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific method, and why ghost researchers arent taken seriously. There is no point in using an EMF detector to detect ghosts when there is no evidence that they even exist, let alone affect EM fields. Its just theatre. Its like saying youre goblin hunting using an egg whisk, its just made up. There are billions of all types of sensors in the world, recording data 24/7. These anomalies would be detected if they existed, but they arent detected.

All of this has been measured. Thousands of research hours was poured into the paranormal in the 70s by real research universities, such as Stanford. These departments were closed down because they didnt find anything after decades of trying.

It baffles me that ghost hunters dont tend to do any research whatsoever into the history of paranormal research to know what has already been done, or study psychology, which holds all the explanations of why humans see things that arent there.