The Amityville Horror<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a popular horror movie released in 2005. The film is based on the same-titled book in 1977. According to the author and our internet findings, the story in the book is far from fiction. The story started when a young guy named Ronald Defeo murdered his entire family on November 13, 1974. In the middle of the night, at 3:15 am, he commanded his father’s shotgun and acted in a subconscious state.<\/p>\nAccording to Defeo, the evil spirits guided him through voices and told him to make the killing in sub-conscious. The court sentenced Ronald Defeo to 25 years of prison. After the incident, the owner rented the house to a family. And immediate after moving in, the family heard strange noises at 3:15 that included gunshots and people screaming. Their youngest daughter Missie made a friend Jodie who was the daughter of the DeFeo family. Out of terror, the family evacuated the house in less than a month. This also gave rise to one of the most significant ghost controversies. The movie ‘Amityville Horror’ asked permission to shoot in the house. However, the local authorities declined them.<\/p>\n
Controversies in the Church<\/h2>\n There is a widespread controversy that Church actually led people to believe in ghosts since early times. As strange as it seems, we’ve found that Bible has never mentioned if Ghosts exist or not. So, why do the holy churches perform exorcisms and cleanse the evil spirits in the name of the lord? Hear our opinions on some of the controversies relating to ghosts.<\/p>\n
Fear Sells Faster Than Faith<\/h3>\n There is nothing that sells faster than fear. Faith takes a long time to settle in the hearts of people, while fear takes seconds. By using the ghosts as a medium of fear, the Church sold faith as the only medicine. As a result, many people would come under the fellowship to be blessed by Christ.<\/p>\n
Movies<\/h3>\n How many times have we seen a Christian pastor defeating a ghost holding just a cross in his hand? The answer is countless times. No matter how overpowered the ghost is, it cannot cross the boundary of the cross sign and harm the believer. The forces of evil spirits would never dare to touch a priest. We have seen many of these ghastly beings perish just because they touched the Bible. And we have seen pastors get perished as soon as they lost their cross sign. This is a direct indication to hold on to the Church for dear life.<\/p>\n
Why Believing in Ghosts Can be a Good Thing?<\/h2>\n To believe in ghosts is to believe in the afterlife and everything that follows. As we turn the pages of history, we observe that people have turned atheists and more immoral for several centuries. You might wonder why anyone would benefit from believing in a thing that doesn’t exist scientifically. Let us talk about some reasons.<\/p>\n
Promotes Religion<\/h3>\n What is the cure to a haunted house? You certainly can\u2019t fight an invisible spirit with a rusted sword. However, for a Christian, a cross with the name of Jesus Christ would unerringly scare the ghost away. It would be chanting the \u2018Hanuman Chalisa\u2019 for Hindus and similar mantras for other religions. If people start believing in ghosts, they\u2019ll turn more religious and believe in the power of God. Furthermore, if they follow the scriptures with passion, they’ll undoubtedly live a good and holy life.<\/p>\n
Encourages Humans to Behave Ethically<\/h3>\n If everyone starts believing in ghosts, they also start believing in the presence of God. For them, heaven and hell would exist. As a result, they\u2019ll start doing good deeds in hopes of going to heaven. In scriptures, ghosts and demons are beings with evil intentions which led to not-so-religious life. Thus, believing in ghosts would automatically encourage them to lead a better life with good deeds.<\/p>\n
A Hope After Death<\/h3>\n Nobody wants to die. We’d bet some people would even take the offer of being a ghost rather than disappear from existence entirely, especially because some movies portray ghosts as a kind and free spirit too. The presence of ghosts means that death isn’t the end of everything. As a result, people would be less afraid of dying and do good deeds to pass the test of purgatory. Believing in ghosts makes one dream of living happily ever after in the afterlife.<\/p>\n
What do the Psychologists Have to Say on Paranormal Activities?<\/h2>\n Different psychologists give different logic for paranormal activities. While some psychologists are skeptical, some actually believe that ghosts do exist. Let us discuss what the mind experts say on the matter.<\/p>\n
The Mind Game<\/h3>\n The nature of the human mind is such that it searches for meaning. At the same time, many things exist but can’t be seen with our naked eyes. There are many facts and knowledge about nature that even science hasn’t discovered. Therefore, when a person encounters any incidents beyond his logic, his mind strives for meaning. In the absence of information, that particular incident is regarded to be paranormal. A simple example of it is, suppose you had a cell phone in the Stone Age, then the caveman would see you talking on the phone as paranormal. Thus, People regarded anything beyond the logic of the human mind as paranormal.<\/p>\n
A Believer Believes in Paranormal Activity<\/h3>\n It does not matter whether you believe some scriptures, religion, fiction, or some controversy that is not proved. Once a person starts to believe something without being skeptical, he begins to see paranormal things. So, if he experiences rare and new natural phenomena instantly, his mindset regards it as paranormal activity. They will either blame God, devils, aliens, or some supernatural forces. Its best example is Bermuda Triangle, as even famous influencer, critics, YouTubers, and educated scholars explained it as paranormal activity. Accordingly, the People named the Bermuda triangle “The Devils Triangle.” Thus, low skeptical IQ is the reason why people experience paranormal activity.<\/p>\n
Emotional Instability<\/h3>\n If a person is emotionally unstable, they will see bizarre dreams. They are naturally good at overreacting to small things and fearful of insects, darkness, etc. Thus, if they see a bushy shadow with a familiar shape, it is natural for them to wet themselves with sweat. In addition to it, they have intense imagination. Such intense imagination combined to fear may lead to hallucination. In most cases, they dream bizarre and have fearful imaginations in darkness. Thus, emotionally weak people are prone to experience paranormal incidents and believe in the existence of ghosts.<\/p>\n
Mystery of Life and Death<\/h3>\n Death is the greatest mystery afterlife. Once a child is born, he does not care about any other thing but to enjoy life. However, when the concept of death enters his mind, it’s natural to have curiosity. Death is not a simple thing to understand because people give various meanings to it. Some groups are trying to avoid death while same take death as natural. At the same time, there is suffering in life. Thus, with death comes a tsunami of questions. When these questions are unsolved, then automatically, people see the world filled with paranormal activity. In a survey, 3 out of 5 people believed in life after death. Even an atheist remembers God or asks questions to God when he doesn’t find the answer to his suffering.<\/p>\n
Thus, a lack of clear scientific logic to death helps people to imagine paranormal activity.<\/p>\n
Superstition & Traditional Belief<\/h3>\n Society is not only a group of people but their superstition, tradition, and belief as well. The running principle of most of the society is goodness and evil, happiness and sorrow, and gods and devils. Society carries all the superstition and traditional beliefs held by their ancestors. Very few societies have the scientific knowledge granted to their next generation. But the majority of social groups depend upon the concept of supernatural forces. There are many scriptures where the ancestors talk about ghosts. Ancestors have also written how to impress the goddess and save their life from devils. Thus, they automatically fill our intellect with belief. People start to imagine things. They pray from time to time, holding these beliefs. These kinds of thoughts and emotions also make them readily believe in paranormal activities.<\/p>\n
The Science Behind Ghost Sightings<\/h2>\n The question of ghosts being reality or illusion has still remained a mystery in the 21st<\/sup> century. Studies have suggested that 54% of the world population believes in ghosts. Research also suggests that cultures around the world have faith in life after death. They believe that a person’s spirit survives death to reside in the spirit realm. The controversy of whether the ghosts are real or not is unsolved to date. Sightings of the ghosts by many, including some famous personalities, support the existence of ghosts, while the inability of experts to provide authentic evidence questions its existence. Though there are debates around this topic, many scientists have tried to explain the science behind the ghost\u2019s sightings. However, modern science has failed to spot spirits flying or ghosts walking on the wall. Here we shall discover some of the science related to ghosts and their sightings by people.<\/p>\nReasons for Ghost Sightings<\/h3>\n There can be multiple reasons as to why people might have mentioned sighting ghosts. According to science, the following can be few grounds on which people claim to have seen or heard ghosts:<\/p>\n
\nSounds below 20Hz frequency, i.e., low-frequency sound<\/li>\n Toxic molds that cause illusion or say irrational fears<\/li>\n Breathing in the presence of Carbon Monoxide<\/li>\n Changes in earth\u2019s geomagnetic field<\/li>\n An unwell brain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInfrasound or Low-frequency sound<\/h4>\n There have been instances of people having heard uneasy sounds that give you a chill down your spine. Studies suggest that they mainly found this case in people who go to concerts frequently, where they are exposed to sounds below 17Hz. They tend to hear shallow frequency sounds produced by volcanoes, unnoticeable earthquakes, and even some animals. These sounds are unusual to human ears and give chilling sensations, which many people confuse for a ghost noise.<\/p>\n
Toxic Molds<\/h4>\n According to science, breathing in the presence of toxic molds affects our respiration and sends false signals to our brains. These signals can then lead to illusions, delirium, and irrational fears. These fears, in return, can affect human imagination and make them sight the things they fear. This fear for some might be of ghosts, leading to ghosts sightings for them.<\/p>\n
Carbon Monoxide<\/h4>\n Just like the mold, breathing in too much carbon monoxide could lead us to see, hear and feel things that don’t really exist. Science has successfully proven that the poison from carbon monoxide causes auditory hallucinations and builds pressure on our chest. Hence, keeping carbon monoxide detectors in every home is suggested to ensure that you do not breathe this colorless and odorless poisonous gas. Moreover, this explains the reason why people might have heard footsteps or sighted unusual shapes that they portray as ghosts.<\/p>\n
Unusual Change in Geomagnetic Fields<\/h4>\n Geomagnetic or electromagnetic fields surround the earth. It is the property that the motion of charges induces. When there are sudden changes in the motion of these electric charges, it creates specific changes in the environment. Moreover, scientific research has found that when these unusual changes in the electromagnetic field occur around people, they tend to feel “an unexplained presence in the room.” This so-called unexplained presence can be the ghost that many people refer to. Neuroscientist Michael Persinger has tested this theory in the 1980s and found that eighty percent of his test subjects felt this unfamiliar presence.<\/p>\n
An Unwell and Tired Brain<\/h4>\n Ghost sightings can also result from problems in our brain’s gray matter, as suggested by scientific studies. A medical condition known as schizophrenia is one such disease wherein, in its initial stage, people tend to hear voices and also experience ghostly visions. Furthermore, there is evidence that people tend to have paranormal confrontations with ghosts in their imaginations. However, people without any mental conditions too have reported sighting ghosts. The use of psychoactive drugs and magic mushrooms frequently can cause these hallucinations even in healthy minds.<\/p>\n
Despite all the reporting of ghost’s sightings, hearing of unusual sounds, and sensations of a ghostly presence, there is still no single evidence that proves the existence of ghosts. The lack of authentic evidence frequently questions the reality of ghosts and life after death. The question has remained unanswered for centuries.<\/p>\n
Do Ghosts Really Exist? Conclusion<\/h2>\n Time and again, reports of sighting ghosts take surface. However, their existence is as questionable as it was ages ago. Hearing voices, seeing spirits, and sensing an unexplained presence in the room, these occurrences surface from time to time. Additionally, physical encounter with the unreal power has always found their way in the news. However, only people with medical conditions that involved the brain reported these incidents.<\/p>\n
While a part of the population says the ghosts are real, the other remaining part thinks differently. More than half the world has believed in the presence of the soul and spirit realm, and the other half claims it\u2019s just a paranormal belief.<\/p>\n
Likewise, if we have to answer the question on the existence of ghosts and whether if they are real, we would fall on the part of the world that says the ghost is just a paranormal belief. The study of research on ghosts and their sightings suggests the science behind why ghosts appear or seem to appear to many people. It is clear from those studies that ghosts are just hallucinations and illusions that our minds and various environmental factors create.<\/p>\n
Despite all the reporting of ghost’s sightings, hearing of unusual sounds, and sensations of a ghostly presence, there is still no single evidence that proves the existence of ghosts. The lack of authentic evidence frequently questions the reality of ghosts and life after death. The question has remained unanswered for centuries, and we wonder if that will change in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghosts are the soul of the dead, usually believed to have stayed in the living realm because of their unfulfilled work or wish. We have all heard folklore since ancient times about how ghosts appeared and haunted the living. Cultures across the world believe in the existence of ghosts. Different people have different perceptions of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghost-stories"],"yoast_head":"\nAre Ghosts Real? Do They Really Exist? Explained - ghost-shows.com<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n