Supposedly, a ghost can manifest itself using the electromagnetic fields in the room. If you’re a frequent watcher of televised ghost hunting shows, you may know about EMF readers. Eventually, those stories get passed down, revamped, and modernized to create some scary ghosts. We may not all be suffering from faultline gas poisoning when we see our long-lost grandmother, but some of the oldest tales of the supernatural come from a time where furnaces were poorly regulated, mercury was on the loose in food and drink, and candle flames were notorious for throwing shadows. All the magical fumes inside the Oracle’s cave? Probably just some extremely toxic gasses. In fact, a geological team from Wesleyan University found ethane, methane, and ethylene in spring water near the oracle. Scientists are pretty much in unanimous agreement that hydrocarbon gases from bituminous limestone under the Earth where Delphi sat probably brought on the Pythia’s trance. People came to Delphi from hundreds of miles just to listen to her visions and see the ancient medium commune with invisible otherworldly beings. She could speak to the spirits, the gods, and any other mythical, magical being to tell the future.
Some considered the Pythia’s trance state supernatural and paranormal. It might be cheating to say this, but sometimes supernatural occurrences can be explained by weird, yet not supernatural, things the Earth does every day.Ĭonsider the Oracle of Delphi. Still, the result is the same: a large minority of the participants reported that certain objects had moved and that they had witnessed genuinely paranormal events. An existing belief in the paranormal did reveal the group’s likelihood of reporting a paranormal event when it didn’t happen, whether through true belief, suggestion, or demand characteristics-essentially, subtle cues that reveal to the participants what the experimenter expects to find or how the participants are expected to act.
It’s unknown whether the verbal suggestion directly affected the participants’ perception of the event, their memory of the event, or both. Overall, around one-fifth of the participants believed they had witnessed genuine paranormal phenomena. For example, if the fake medium suggested that an object had not moved when in fact, it had-through trickery, of course-believers were no more likely to accept the suggestion than disbelievers. They only reported that something happened when the suggestion aligned with their personal belief in the paranormal. Paranormal believers were more inclined to believe in the suggestions made or inferred by the medium than disbelievers following the next set of fake séances as well-with one caveat. Believers in the paranormal were more likely to misreport such activity than disbelievers. About one-third of the participants later reported that the table did move-though the table remained stationary throughout the experiment. During the evening, the psychic inferred that the table had moved. The first experiment consisted of a fake medium who held a séance. The purpose was to examine the power of suggestion in a séance setting, asking whether belief in the paranormal made participants more prone to suggestion. In 2003, Richard Wiseman conducted two experiments for the British Journal of Psychology. In fact, some might say the entire Spiritualist movement is based on this theory of trickery. The use of suggestion is a powerful tool, and well-known studies have been done, but only recently have we investigated the power of suggestion with regard to paranormal events.
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