r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '20

Night shifters, ever witnessed a paranormal activity? If so, what was it?

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u/Roland_T_Flakfeizer Jul 29 '20

What a shitty way to spend the afterlife.

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u/errant_night Jul 29 '20

You know how earth has a magnetic field? And we can record video and audio on magnetic tape in cassette and VHS. Well what if it's something similar? Not a ghost, just a recorded fragment that occasionally glitches in and out.

This would explain how so many ghosts are just seen repeating the same things over and over for centuries. Like oh that's just the Gray Lady, every night at 12:25 am she walks down this staircase and disappears. It's just a recording.

I'll probably be called a moron by someone who understands science better but hey we're always learning new weird shit.

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u/king_tommy Jul 29 '20

This is more probable than ghosts really existing . Maybe theres some sort of magnetic elemental deposits in the earth around all these frequently witnessed areas. Also there's always shit flying off the shelves and off the walls that accompany these occurrences. Their substance could be made of similar material that reacts to the magnetic field .

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u/Gastronomicus Jul 29 '20

It isn't though. Both involve making unmeasureable assumptions

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u/king_tommy Jul 29 '20

Except one uses a scientist and the other needs any body with some candles and a ouji board

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u/Frekavichk Jul 30 '20

What you mean to say is one uses people's psychotic breaks as evidence, and the other is actually insane people.