I still want to hear more of your stories of ghostly (and other odd) encounters. Yesterday, I talked a bit about different types of ghosts and that lead to the question: Why, if ghosts are dead people, aren't there a whole lot more ghosts around? In today's vlog, I propose some ideas on why we're not constantly running into our deceased relatives. Really, this whole subject is one of the questions that's perplexed humans for a really, really long time. Most certainly before people started taking pictures of ghosts (on purpose or accidentally), but the advent of the camera opened up a whole new world for evidence of the afterlife. It also lead to some very creative hoaxes and, eventually, to the expectation of a hoax by default (yay, Photoshop!). As is the case with UFO research, the plethora of hoaxers and the ease with which some pretty … Continue reading →