Posted on 04/02/2015 3:59:29 PM PDT by lowbridge
If you think you have seen a ghost, you may have been suffering the effects of exposure to mould, according to a group of scientists.
Researchers claim that older buildings where hauntings are usually reported, often have poor air quality from pollutants like toxic mould, which can affect our brains.
Exposure to the mould can cause mood swings, irrational anger and cognitive impairment.
‘Experiences reported in many hauntings are similar to mental or neurological symptoms reported by individuals exposed to toxic moulds,’ said Professor Shane Rogers of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
‘Psychoactive effects of some fungi are well-known, whereas the effects of others such as indoor moulds are less researched.
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Professor Rogers is currently leading a team of researchers measuring air quality in several reportedly haunted places around New York State.
The group will compare samples taken from several buildings where ghost sightings have been reported with samples taken from properties with no paranormal activity, to see if there is a difference in the types of fungi.
Professor Rogers said: ‘I have long been a fan of ghost stories and shows related to investigation of haunted places and have to admit to some strange occurrences in my own past.
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Snorting mildew is bad, mmkay.
I’ve seen the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Walter Peck of the EPA cited sense and nerve gases as precursors to seeing ghosts.
In Colorado, they’re turning on the hot water.
Yes, there’s toxic mold...and there’s also toxic demonic spirits masquerading as “ghosts”
How do you explain Harry Reid? Mold? Mildew? Fungis? LSD?
You forgot STD.
Mold attracts ghosts?
No. Ghosts attract mold. :-)
I’ll go 1 step further and say the women are extremely, extremely sensitive to mold. This can be the only explanation based upon the symptoms...
Ducking.....
The second paranormal experience I had was at the Winchester mystery house in the formerly large gun museum. It used to occupy the entire building but they cut it down to one small room. Very disappointing.
There was a flight of old wooden stairs in the middle of the museum that went to the top floor which was supposed to be office spaces. It was sealed off with a rope and closed off. There was obviously no one around and I was alone in the museum. As I passed the stairs I looked up and had a creepy feeling and scooted past them into the other side of the bottom floor.
As soon as I got past the stairs, someone started to step down them, creaking with each step. They would have had to get through the ropes, but they were coming down and very close. It felt wrong and the hair shot up all over my body like electricity.
I got the hell out off the building through the exit on that side of the museum as not to go back by the stairs.
No one came out of the museum. It was nearly 5pm in the afternoon.
Honestly, I prefer the toxic mold theory. To this day I’ve taught my kids there are no ghosts. Whatever the heck that was, it scared the crap out of me and to this day I vividly remember the incident.
I returned to the place some 15 years later. Anyone who visits the gun museum knows it’s confined to a single room now and it is sealed off from the rest of the house that used to be a much larger museum. You can’t see or access the stairs any more.
How do they explain ghosts in cemeteries?
All mold does to me is to give me a screaming headache. The only ghost I have ever seen was outside in the middle of the day.
What’s next ... exposure to lead paint particles in old buildings?
What’s next ... exposure to lead paint particles in old buildings?
Scientists embarrassing themselves ping.
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