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> The contractor said, when he was at the Clark Kerr job site, landscapers were using one of its buildings to store tools. But they did their best to steer clea
by tzs 3y ago
> The contractor said, when he was at the Clark Kerr job site, landscapers were using one of its buildings to store tools. But they did their best to steer clear of the area.
> "They don't go all the way inside," he said, recalling that they had told him why: "'This place is creepy. We see ghosts in there all the time.' And this is before we saw the body."
It is of course extremely improbable that they are seeing actual ghosts but still I would think that when you’ve got multiple people avoiding a place because they think they see ghosts there all the time someone would try to figure out what they are actually seeing.
Most things I can think of that might make people believe they are actually seeing ghosts are things you wouldn’t want happening in or to your unoccupied building.
- MarceColl 3y agoWhat are the things you can think of?
- Loughla 3y agoAnimals, humans that aren't supposed to be there, water leaks, carbon monoxide or other dangerous gases.
- s5300 3y agoPerhaps infrasound, described in Vic Tandy’s A Ghost in the Machine Here’s a brief of it: https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunted-frequency https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunt... The full story is a PDF that is the first google result of “Vic Tandy’s Ghost in the Machine” e.g. failing mechanical equipment
- tzs 3y agoI'm assuming that an unused building would not be well lit. One class of things that might be mistaken for ghosts in such a building is various animals. A family of raccoons moving farther into the darkness to hide when a human opens the door, for example. Or a lot of rats or mice. Another would be humans who are clandestinely using the space. A trail of moving water running down a wall from a water leak might reflect light in such a way as to appear to be some sort of shimmering ethereal thing moving around.
- DonHopkins 3y agoGhosts? In Berkeley? BOOOOOOO!!! http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=322 http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=322 Cows? In Berkeley? MOOOOOOO!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JSPdTDFsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JSPdTDFsI https://eastbayexpress.com/mister-dairy-goodness-1/ https://eastbayexpress.com/mister-dairy-goodness-1/
- dataflow 3y agoCarbon monoxide. https://www.ted.com/talks/carrie_poppy_a_scientific_approach_to_the_paranormal https://www.ted.com/talks/carrie_poppy_a_scientific_approach...
- moeris 3y agoJust to add to other things people have mentioned, reports of ghosts could very easily be the result of false memories, as well. Finding a dead body in a creepy location, then sitting on it for two years is plenty of time and fuel for false memories. (Which are notoriously easy to form.) Another thing I think is the most likely is [pareidolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). Our minds evolved to be sensitive to seeing faces/hearing voices, and so we tend to see these things where they don't actually exist. (Think faces in toast, or listening for satanic messages when playing music backwards.)