The Existence of Ghosts

It's true that the premise of the dead staying on has been with us since man has been on Earth; it is also true that up until a few centuries ago, the premise of the Earth being flat has existed since man has been on Earth. As had the premise of the sky being a dome of some kind, and of the moon being a light, and not a physical object. We now know all of these premises to be false excepting the ghost premise. Rebuttals 1. Ghostly prescence is felt by very few, those that claim to be able to are psychics and many have been shown as fakes. Animals knowing about impending natural disasters is easy to explain; dogs, for example, can pick up vibrations far better than we can, allowing them an early warning system against earthquakes and tsunamis, both of which cause such vibrations. If you could provide an entirely unbiased study which proves that Shaman voodoo works, then I'll take a look at that. Because I have seen a grand total of 0 evidence for said claims. 2. The journal you linked to is based entirely on the premise that thoughts and emotions can be brought down, on a fundamental level, to electrical activity. This is false. Emotion,on a fundamental level, are chemical reactions [http://www.amnh.org...]. Emotions can easily be understood as "X stimulus occurs, release Y hormone", which then changes the electrical activity in the brain. The journal then goes on to explain that the human body has an electromagnetic field, which it does. Electrical activity all over your body produces this field, and it does not remain when you die; your electrical activity has stopped. When buried (or cremated), the chemical energy of the body is broken down. That's literally it; after death, there's no other source of energy in the body. What the journal also fails to do is explain how these strings are linked. Assuing it is somehow true, and that all matter is strung to all other matter, this would create a web in which movement in any direction would put too much strain on the rest; whether or not the strings are affected by gravity is irrelevant, the strings would prevent movement. As I understand it, the Pauli Exclusion Principle shows how matter cannot move through other matter, i.e. despite being mostly empty space, atoms cannot move through other atoms. This, in relation to ghosts, would mean that should said ghosts be in contact with matter, being matter themselves, they would interact with it. Like we do. Now, I am aware that you said that ghosts are 'resonant' energy, but the question is this: What's the source of this energy? Upon death the electromagnetic field ceases, so it can't be from the human. None of this, by the way, explains why there aren't 106.999 billion more ghoss han here seem to be. Ignoring that cats, dogs, gunshots, sofas, and trains have been reported. Seriouusly, what kind of resonant energy does a sofa produce? Now for my next few arguments. 1. Haunted places 2. What makes you a ghost 1. What makes a 'haunted' place haunted? Based on your 'resonant energy' explanation, these places shouldn't be any more haunted than anywhere else. After all, they're just energy, right? So how come people report larger numbers of ghosts in haunted places? The answer appears to be that people are susceptible to suggestion. Upon a place being announced haunted by friends / family / various other trustworthy people, of course we assume it's haunted -- and thus that there are more ghosts there. However, like the mighty placebo effect, nothing is actually happening. flickering lights? Bad electrics. Chill down your spine? Draughty windows. There's nothing else to it. 2. What makes you a ghost? Surely, if ghosts are just 'resonant' energy, they don't have sentience. They think about as much as my bedroom light does. Unless they're not resonant energy, in which case your entire argument is invalid. Back on point, however. Surely if people came back as ghosts because of "unresolved issues, failure to accept death, revenge", then at least half of those dead people must come back. That still makes 53.5 billion ghosts, which is over seven and a half times the world population. Even if you can only see ghosts when you're on the same 'frequency' as them, that should be hundreds of millions of ghosts per person. And again, this ignores the reports of ghost cats, dogs, trains, sofas, footsteps, and gunshots -- what makes them come back as resonant energy? How do they come back as resonant energy?! I eagerly await your response.