Are there animal ghosts

Oh well. I am a believer in the spirit world. Their eyes can see perfectly with the smallest bit of light, they can hear six to eight times better than we can, and their whiskers are designed to detect everything from temperature changes to air current changes.

Does this mean that cats can see ghosts, though? But Galaxy believes it could be more. His own cats, he says, are always picking up energies in his house. But, when several pet psychics ignored my emails, I began to lose hope. Perhaps I would never know if Cleo was really seeing ghosts. Yes, my information was unconfirmed, but best to keep them on their toes, I figured.

Then, Katherine Bozzi got back to me. Bozzi is an animal communicator who lives in British Columbia, and who uses meditation to communicate with animals who are both alive and dead. Bozzi, of course, believes animals can see spirits. Ghost sharks live deep in the ocean and never see sunlight. Ghost frogs get their name because the skin on their stomachs is almost see-through!

And the rest of their bodies blend in with the forests they live in. All the better to sneak up on you! These amphibians are super mini at about the size of a grape! You can find them in South Africa. Photo by gailhampshire licensed CC BY 2.

People who experiment with psychoactive drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms frequently report spiritual fantasies. Furthermore, psychiatrists have deemed many visions the result of sleep paralysis, a poorly understood condition in which the afflicted wake up and find themselves unable to move. Scientists have yet to pinpoint the roots of this phenomenon, but some think it occurs when the brain crosses wires between conscious awareness and the dream-filled REM stage of slumber.

According to a survey in the International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research , at least 8 percent of the general population and around 30 percent of people with psychiatric illnesses have reported having one of these nighttime episodes at some point in their lives. Many cultures even have a specific name for the ghoulish occurrence. Sometimes people experience an otherworldly encounter simply because something in their environment is making a strange noise that sends their bodies into disarray.

In the early s, British engineer Vic Tandy was working in the research lab of a medical supply company when a strange feeling came over him. All at once he felt frigid and overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom. As he paced around the room to calm down, he suddenly sensed an ethereal presence. Moments later, he was sure he saw a gray apparition in his peripheral view. When he whirled around, the specter was gone. The culprit turned out to be a fan that hummed at a rate of Waveforms that dwell around this acoustic sweet spot and below are known as infrasound.

In fact, after Tandy published his findings in in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research , For Tandy, the fright left him more curious than ever about ghosts.

Consider the rural town of Anson, Texas, where locals long believed that if you drove out to the crossroads nearest the local cemetery and flashed your headlights, a mysterious flicker would bounce back at you. Legend held that the blink came from the lantern of an ill-fated mother searching for her son. In , a group of skeptics armed with iPhones and Google Maps confirmed a less evocative explanation: Cars coming around a bend on a nearby highway cast the eerie beams of light.

Some historians believe that rye bread contaminated with ergot fungus the same microbe from which LSD is derived may have triggered the presumed possessions that led to the Salem witch trials of the late s. So far, the evidence supporting this hypothesis is pretty thin. In recent years, neurologists have identified potential bases for the feeling that someone or something is haunting us. Research suggests seizures in the temporal lobe—the area of your noggin that processes visual memory and spoken language—might trigger ghost sightings.