Truly, there is no limit to human stupidity

[mr blur]

Meet the Alive in Jesus Healing Ministry:

PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS

&

DELIVERANCE OF BUILDINGS, PLACES, & THINGS

We are a Catholic prayer team investigating & delivering people, places and things from paranormal activity of human and inhuman spirits. We primarily work in the NW region of the US, and assist in locating help for people not in our area.

Scientific investigative methods are used to determine if unwanted spirits are human or inhuman. They are removed by approved Catholic exorcism prayers for houses or buildings. We work with priests and have the blessings of our diocese!

See pictures of good and not good spirits in our photo gallery found in the deliverance section of this website

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"Scientific investigative methods", eh? Sounds convincing. They've even got photos!

This is a "Ghost napping"


This is a woman with "Angel on her shoulder"


:banghead:

[semillama]

1. I wonder if they could help me

I keep hearing about ghosts and the walking dead being located in this building:

[Deep13]

2. "Scientific investigative methods are used...

...to determine if unwanted spirits are human or inhuman."

I would love to know what these methods are and just what they think science is.

[onager]

3. Here ya go - Ghost-Mart.com!

http://www.ghost-mart.com/product/kit5.html

A few weeks ago, I ranted in here about the NatGeo series Is It Real? Their show on ghost hunters was excellent (as was the whole series, for us skeptical types).

The show pointed out that ghost hunters are usually people with zero scientific training or interest, using scientish equipment in the pursuit of complete pseudo-science.

e.g., the Ghost Hunting Team in the show was made up of a beautician, a salesman and a security guard, IIRC. None had any scientific training past high school.

In a really hilarious moment, NatGeo brought a psychic into a haunted house under investigation. One Ghost Hunter complained that the presence of a psychic would "totally invalidate the scientific nature of our work."

Most hilarious moment: when one of the Ghost Hunters started screaming that her EMF Detector was "jumping all over the place."

At the time, she was holding her EMF detector right beside a live electrical outlet.

[Deep13]

4. I guess it goes without saying...

...that none of that stuff has ever been demonstrated to detect ghosts. EMF? Are ghosts made of static electricity? My socks must be possessed when I take them out of the drier.

[onager]

5. My "haunted" house experience!

My cousin once owned a house with some bizarre interior decoration. Several rooms had very large and weird murals painted on the walls, mostly featuring dead celebrities - Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, etc.

A former occupant had painted the murals. He was a young man with severe mental problems.

My entire family took part in a big set-up, since they know I don't believe in any supernatural hokum and I often say so.

I slept in one of the Illustrated Rooms. When I went down to breakfast the next morning, I noticed everyone looking at me...expectantly.

My aunt kicked things off: "The man who painted the walls in your room? Hate to tell you this, but he committed suicide in that very room where you were sleeping!"

I think I responded with something eloquent like: "Yeah. So?"

"Well, what HAPPENED?"

"Nothing."

"NOTHING! Didn't you even have bad dreams?"

"Nope. Don't remember dreaming at all. I was jet-lagged and slept great. Pass the grits, please."

Nothing remotely supernatural happened during my stay, except for a few demonic visitations. But that was just the family's 4-year-old daughter, and I exorcised her by playing horsey.

[realisticphish]

6. here's a video reenactment of that...

Father Ted telling Father Dougal a ghost story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5DXZnFoX0

[frogmarch]

14. haha, thanks!

That was a good one. :-)

I miss Father Ted so much.

[Deep13]

7. "Well, what HAPPENED?"

"I was about to ask you that. How should I know how he killed himself?"

[HappyCynic]

11. Of course they're possessed...

That's why they a sock occasionally goes missing from the drier. They've been haunting you without getting a reaction so they've decided to haunt someone else.

I believe Einstein once said "There are two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the universe."

[Nevernose]

13. There's a perfectly natural law explaining the drier/sock phenomenon

It goes something like this:

Every time a sock meets its mate in an enclosed space, there is an exponential chance that one of the socks will become jealous of its mate and eat it before it can reproduce. See, what confuses people is that folks normally assume it has something to do with the supernatural or black holes or chemistry or something. Nope. Simple behavioral biology. Personally, though, I wonder about the eventual breeding of a supersock, a piece of inner footwear that is superpowered, covered in sweat, and capable of becoming the dominant life form on the planet.

[TZ]

8. Everytime I hear stuff like this I think about the ONE episode of Ghosthunters I watched

They got really excited when their detection device started going nuts...after they waved it at a CIRCUIT BOX...I don't understand how anything like this is credible...

[Deep13]

9. Not credible, just entertaining.

That show should be called Douchebags in the Dark.

How come they only go to these places at night? And why do they pretend to turn the lights off? I saw one episode where this one douchebag was sitting in a cellar in the "dark" getting freaked out by the usual vague noises that happen in old buildings. The whole thing was shot in this "night vision" green hue. Except douchebag did not have a flashlight or night vision glasses, but it was clear that he could still see what was around him.

[onager]

10. Hey, you elitist skeptic! The Ghost Hunters are highly trained scientific professionals!

The program features Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who work a day job as Roto-Rooter plumbers and by night investigate places that are reported to be haunted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunters

:rofl:

Looking around the blogs and such - some constant viewers have even complained about all the Roto-Rooter product placements in the show, saying they amount to free advertising.

[csziggy]

12. Ghost Hunters is absolutely credible when compared to Ghost Adventures

On the Travel Channel. Those people are completely stupid and annoying. I don't understand how they rate television time, but it is sort of like watching a train wreck - you almost can't look away it is so bad.

And immediately following Ghost Adventures is Most Haunted from the UK. I don't understand why a crowd of people hunting for ghost goes all freaked out, screaming and hysterical, when they think they've found something. I watch it to see the locations, with their great floorplans the show puts up, but damn, the people are so stupid, I usually leave the sound off.

[frogmarch]

15. So you all don't believe in ghosts?

Need proof they exist? Check out www.ghostsofamerica.com and see your skepticism vanish! (snort, chuckle)

Here are a few ghost sightings from western Nebraska, where I live.

A gentleman with the head of a leprechaun was witnessed in Chadron State Park quite near the park headquarters holding a headbone. The ghost didn't seem to be scared by the observers. People who have spotted this ghost argue this ghost is that of a resident who dwelled in Alliance before the present.

A woman in flames, grasping a fuel bottle was witnessed screaming in Scotts Bluff National Monument by the park headquarters. The ghost waved to the eye witness.

The spirit of a planter having on a farmer hat came into view gazing at an old man snoozing on a couch in a home in Alliance. When the ghost was made out it vanished into the thin air.

A young-looking girl having on a blood-splattered wedding gown was noticed trying on a hat in an Alliance mobile home. The ghost was swallowed by the air after being observed. In any event, this ghost unquestionably is terrifying; one that you shouldn't go searching for.

How can anyone doubt the validity of these sightings? :shrug:

(Love the photos! A ghost napping! OOOOOOooooooo!)

[salvorhardin]

16. OMG! We have the same leprechaun-headed ghost dude in our city!

A man with the head of a leprechaun has supposedly been made out on one or two instances trying on clothes in a Fort Wayne apartment.
http://www.ghostsofamerica.com/4/Indiana_Fort_Wayne_ghost_sightings2.html

Makes me think Ghosts Of America website itself is haunted by the ghost of a young troll.

So, what does a leprechaun head look like? I thought leprechauns looked just like us, but smaller, and Irish. And why would a ghost be trying on clothes? I didn't know leprechauns were so fashion conscious.

[frogmarch]

17. Amazing! :-O

I am flabbergasted!

haha, I agree that the website is haunted by the ghost of a young troll. Funny! I wonder how many other geographical locations listed at the website boast leprechaun-headed ghosts.

I think of leprechauns as cute little redheaded guys, but maybe some of them look like this: (eek!)

[salvorhardin]

18. Apparently 853 cities

According to Google. http://tr.im/wvDA

I, for one, welcome our new ghostly, stylish, leprechaun-headed overlords.

[frogmarch]

19. ROFL!

Great find!

I welcome them too. They do get around, don't they? :D