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[anotheranon]

Well, everyone responds to "infrasound", according to this Reuters article. British researchers think it might explain haunted houses. I don't know much about deep sound, but this explanation seems more scientifically-based than claims of ghosts.

The idea of infrasound generated by weather patterns or seismic activity might also explain why hauntings/other weird happenings appear to fall along "ley lines". Could be that all of these "mystical" places that fall along the lines were built there after centuries of weird experiences caused by this phenomenon.

Disclaimer: yes, I'm interested in weird stuff, but I do approach it cautiously.

Comments

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

lol, the very same news were in Swedish media today, and the headline was: science finally explaines why some peps believe in god, as churches has been found to omitt these infrasounds alot ;)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't think that covers it - the version of the article I read suggests that pipe organs can create infrasounds, but not all churches have pipe organs!

You might want to look into temporal lobe seizures (http://dubinserver.colorado.edu/prj/cba2/p02.html) - Kevin Randle, a UFO researcher thinks that activity in this part of the brain might explain both religious experiences and ufo "abduction" experiences (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312872704/qid=1063109348/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-5535272-4444159). Needless to say, UFO believers hate him for this :P

Note: this might only explain religious *experiences* - as for explaining religious belief, that's another post :P

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Carl Sagan had some interesting things to say about religious experiences (especially visions) and alien abductions in his book, "The Demon-Haunted World" ... the fact that abductions had replaced visions in most western cultures, while still retaining many similar significant features (messages to love one another, etc.) was something I found especially interesting.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

"The Demon-Haunted World" is an excellent book, and it's a damn pity Sagan is no longer around to add his commentary to this interesting subject! He was one of those rare researchers of Weird Stuff™ who looked at it objectively, rather than picking and choosing to serve an agenda.

I think he was also one of the many to write that abductions, religious visions, sightings of faeries, etc. may all be examples of the same sort of phenomena; it (whatever "it" is) just gets re-interpreted to fit the culture viewing it.