SciShow: Things That Go Bump in Your Brain: 4 Scientific Explanations for Ghosts

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Content of the Lesson: Wandering an old dark place at night sounds pretty scary, but you can take comfort in the fact that ghostly encounters can be explained by natural phenomena: no “super-” prefix necessary. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.sgha.net/sightings-in-peripheral-vision-credible-or-not/ https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2191825 https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2192914 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.html https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety/stress-response.shtml http://www.skepdic.com/infrasound.html https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/06/21/infrasound-the-fear-frequency/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110929142806/http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/ghost/Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf https://www.who.int/peh-emf/about/WhatisEMF/en/ http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/htmlfiles/MADS%20haunted%20bed.html https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/emf/index.cfm https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-certain-frequencies/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891061815000599_ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.2001.92.1.35 http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/htmlfiles/MADS%20haunted%20bed.html https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pareidolia https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/19f3/764dba7481f875603e64c905e8fb3abf32b1.pdf http://muse.jhu.edu/article/20328 https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/51675 http://skepdic.com/evp.html http://theconversation.com/hearing-ghost-voices-relies-on-pseudoscience-and-fallibility-of-human-perception-48160 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002383095800100202 https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis#1 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00028/full https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079217301120#! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510904/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00092/full ------ Images: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/the-flow-of-thick-fume-on-the-background-of-dark-surface-slow-motion-capture-s8qvmvpqliwn943c2 https://freesound.org/people/bajko/sounds/399656/ https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/old-abandoned-prision-corridor-gm182051737-18943933 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abandoned-old-house-gm530744659-54796338 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ghost-back-pink-gm696624082-128935107 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/remote-wooden-cabin-gm155153338-18664363 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/monochrome-eyes-dlclowq https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ghost-hunters-gm173197896-16651989 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/digital-voice-recorder-dictaphone-on-the-wooden-table-3d-rendering-gm970445442-264414572 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sphinx-of-bucegi-gm157587274-12740577 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/smiling-tree-gm117321842-7425755 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/the-magnetic-tape-on-the-reel-of-the-recorder-is-spinning-rhqrttyj4jpfslfa1 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/historic-mabry-mill-in-virginia-gm1131793220-299796340 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/electromagnetic-field-detector-gm151932632-19321415 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ghost-hunter-gm139729517-19321527 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/an-alarm-clock-that-has-been-reset-from-power-loss-vajst5k https://www.videoblocks.com/video/abstract-dark-background-dolly-moving-camera-pass-through-particle-and-lighting-with-grain-processed-for-futuristic-technology-and-cyber-concept-rnniomwvfjc6h51uc https://www.videoblocks.com/video/human-hands-circle-using-smart-phones-in-cafe-hkwchujwkxiz6se2oe https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sleeping-woman-having-a-nightmare-gm488362072-74085605 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-lying-in-bed-incorrect-sleeping-position-for-neck-and-spine-unhealthy-gm1131889003-299856196 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_-_Lobes_-_Temporoparietal_junction.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/woman-sleeping-alone-at-night-gm175490428-20922222 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/portrait-of-a-beautiful-japanese-woman-gm169947252-22267381 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/scary-shadows-on-ceiling-r-moiqhzio87832w https://www.videoblocks.com/video/scary-fog-with-changing-colors-in-woods-eomtxo3


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