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Running Your Own Ghost Investigation?
Quirkz writes "I am a skeptic, but have friends and family who swear by their ghost stories. I have access to a supposedly haunted house and been tempted to run a proper scientific investigation. My first question is what sorts of tools or measurements would make for sensible metrics to test during a hunt? Temperature change seems to be a common one, but the other devices you'll see ghost hunters use seem pretty random. The second question is what kinds of results would it take to be 'interesting'? Baseline readings at several presumably non-haunted locations seem to be obvious requirements for comparison. Once you have those, what kinds of results would it take to convince a skeptic there's something unusual going on, or demonstrate that there's not? I don't have much hope of changing the minds of those who believe, but it would be satisfying to at least be scientific about it."
So then how do you define something that apparently doesnt exist? DNA didnt exist until someone found a way to show it. Is it no different here? Were bacteria not treated the same way? The fact that you're saying there's no way to prove exists means that it doesn't seems to me to be the exact equivalent of how the dark ages were. "Oh you think something other than demons caused your illness?! KILL THE UNBELIEVER!"... I believe that is how it goes.