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Good point. The guy mentioned in my tag line would agree for sure.

I believe you missed my point. Just because multiple explinations of this even can be explained via paranormal activity doesn't mean one should reject paranormal activity out of hand. Though Occam's razor states that the simplist explination is the most likely to be true, it doesn't state that the simplist explination is true. Sometimes there are just too many coincidences. (In this particular case though, I think the non-paranormal explinations take care of those problems. This story doesn't have any additional elements to convince me of another possibility beyond the natural.)

-The Hajman-

I think we have to stay open to some kinds of paranormal stuff.

Discovery channel has ran a few times "A Haunting in Georgia", about a young girl who has strange stuff happening to and around her, including seeing a spirit of an old man.

They bring in a science type guy from a local college, and he starts setting up his instruments, etc, and for the length of the show, he's talking about variations in electric fields, etc, ad nauseum.

Somehow, he gets a picture of an old man who had died at the house. He mixes it with ten other pictures and takes it to the girl.

Of course, after looking at the pictures for a few seconds, she picks out the one of the man who dies there, and says he is (one of) the spirits she sees.

At the end of the show, the rational science type dude still goes on with his electromagnetic spiel then drops this little nugget... "We are forced to conclude that after a person dies, something residual remains"

I believe you missed my point. Just because multiple explinations of this even can be explained via paranormal activity doesn't mean one should reject paranormal activity out of hand.

You are right, I did miss it. Of course it doesn't mean it ISN'T something paranormal, but if thats the case, you can never really know what it is, so in effect you are still p*ssing in the wind. I mean, there really MIGHT be 100 angels on the head of that pin, but then again, it might just be Whoville.In my mind, I always leave the possibility open for something paranormal. Heck, it would be cool! But it is essentially a useless argument. (unless, of course, somebody can come up with some kind of repeatable measurement for these things, in which case it becomes SOMETHING of a science, but even the researchers at Duke University were not able to get it anywhere close to mainstream).