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September 07, 2003
Soundless Music
So-called "soundless music" may be responsible for many alleged paranormal experiences.
British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.
We lived in a haunted house once....my daughter saw a lady all dressed in white standing in our bedroom doorway. I saw a weird strand of smoke move down the hallway & begin to grow bigger. (I didn't stick around to see what happened next) She often poked around in the kitchen....which would usually cause my dog at the time, a big very protective boxer, to alert & start growling. Finally, one night I was sitting in the living room watching tv and the doors on the kitchen cabinets kept opening & closing...I was the only one home. I yelled "Hey, do you mind? That's really annoying." The noises stopped and I never heard those particular sounds again. Weird, huh?
We never felt threatened or anything, though we would certainly get startled on occasion. She always seemed to me like some poor lost soul, who had somehow gotten caught between this world and the next. I've had a lot of weird things like that happen to me over the years, but really have no idea what caused them.
So what do you think about ghosties & things that go bump in the night? Are they real or just a product of poorly understood natural phenomenon and an overactive imagination?
Posted by Rita at September 7, 2003 06:54 PM
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I'm not ready to commit one way or another. But, I lived in an apartment where one window kept opening itself. We drove nails in above the window and into the frame (the nails stuck out of the frame by about 1/2" each), in order to make sure it stayed shut. That night, while we were all in the living room, the window slammed open. We found the nails laying on the window sill.
At the same place, I was home alone and had gone to bed. I heard a "click" and opened my eyes to find that the hallway light was on. It was a light that had a pull chain, and I turned it back off. Pretty soon there was another "click" and the light was back on. After turning it off again, it stayed off.
Posted by: bogie at September 8, 2003 05:29 AM
Things like that sure do make you wonder, don't they?
Posted by: rita at September 8, 2003 05:59 AM
If ghosts do exist, then they must be so sad. To be stuck for all eternity living in this in-between state, repeating the same actions over and over? Then again, maybe they aren't all that different from the living.
I'm not sure how I feel about what that says about the options in the afterlife. I mean, how difficult is that transition? Is it that easy to screw up that you can get stuck in the middle? Is there a way I can study for this test?
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Posted by: David Strain at September 9, 2003 07:10 AM