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Through out the years, ghost stories have been told...passed donw from generation to generation, family to family. Some concern
family history, some murder, some suicide, and some unfinished business. In the end, Ghosts have become an intrinisc part
of society. There are professional jobs one can persue to become a "ghost hunter". Oue feelings and senses are
all we have in this world, its all that we can use to determine something...(with few acceptions such as oxygen). When our
senses are tricked, this causes fear!
SIGHT:
Element of sight is important, yet rarely used in hauntings. When we see something our brain does not understand (someone
walking in a hall that has been deserted for years, seeing a door close on its own, etc.) it enters a state of panic. The
human mind does not like to be tricked, and it does not like to have something unassociated with it. When we see something,
our mind immidiatly associated it with something else based off of expirience. When we see something we have never expirienced,
our brain can not catorgorize it, and thus, it turns into a panic mode, in which it must categorize it. This leads to fear,
an uncatogorized image.
SMELL:
Smell is rarely associated with hauntings, and yet is the strongest connection to our brain. There is no filter in the brain
smell passes by, it just is what it is. However, smells have been..smelt...in haunted places. Take the smell of perfume,
or the smell of rotting bodies. When smell is involved on rare occasion, it usually will envoke immidaiate fear, because
like I said, there is no filter smell passes through (mental filter) so the brain will know what the smell is, and recall
an image of what it is, or what it could be. If you smell perfume, you think of a person...when no one is supposed to be
near you, your mind enters the state of confusion mentioned in sight. However, the brain rarely relies on smell alone to
make a judgement, usually sight has to accompany it.
TASTE:
Taste is a strange one. Again, rarely involved in hauntings (less than smell if you ask me) but it can occur. A Bad taste
in your mouth can resemble a stomach upset, and upset stomach's are caused time to time by, smell! however, taste rarely
rears its head. Only in extreme cases may you taste something liek blood in your mouth, but only in RARE cases, and only
if you are "IN TUNE" to whatever is around you.
HEARING:
One of the best for Hauntings, and the most frequent. What we must keep in mind here is that hearing is sometimes sensative,
and for an area to stay completley silent, is virtually impossible. If our mind is ready for fear, and a floor board creaks,
we are going to associate it immidiatly with someone walking on it, not considering that most buildings settle into foundations
for decades after they are built. Hearing is for some reason the scariest, however, our brain is confused and can not translate
a sound that should be coming from an entity (whispering, etc) and not seeing the entity. Our ears are the easiest to trick
however, and this is why you hear alot more at scary places than all the other five senses. However, it has been told that
ghosts communicate through EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomina) which means that they can be recorded, some ghosts can only communicate
with sounds (or via electronic devices, such as cameras, etc)
TOUCH:
About as frequent as sight (on an honest basis.) However, touch can expand to abnormally cold rooms (which is usually associated
with an angry spirit.) and the hairs on the back of your neck standing up (spirit VERY close or passing through you.) Touch
can also associate with someone holding you down, pushing you, or gracing ur skin. Touch is like hearing, it can be very
scary, but the brain will not associate and gets confused without seeing something. Usually the brain will not want to stick
around to find out what is touching it though.
ALONE:
A new "Sense" you can call it, it is called lonliness. Have you ever found that when you are in groups, nothing
happens, but when you are alone, you always expirience this? Theres a theory I have reguarding this. A ghost is a mystery,
thats what keeps us interested. If ghosts jsut appeared to mass audiences, would it be at all interesting? No, they would
loose their "spark" per say. Do remember, ghosts were once humans, or other beings, they are stupified by death.
They might stay hidden because they want this mystery, this fascination, and maybee, this power. Also, we tend to talk alot
in groups, this will drive them away. Do remember from above however, its silence that makes our minds mad, we can imagine
things, especially when alone! So possibly, they never appear in groups, cause they might not even be there, figments of
our imagination...or possibly, not....
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