Ghosts: The Science of Spooky Encounters

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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About 40 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, and one in five even say they've had an encounter with one! So could ghosts really exist?? Or does some other spooky phenomenon explain these strange and sometimes terrifying experiences? To find out, we visit a haunted house with paranormal investigators, explore one very creepy basement searching for ghostly mold, and try to move cutlery with the help of quantum physics. Join us on this Halloween adventure with astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, environmental engineer Dr. Shane Rogers as well as psychologists Dr Baland Jalal, and Prof. Chris French. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsGhosts2024 This is an updated version of our ghosts episode from several years ago. In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Visiting a Haunted House (06:09) Hunting for Ghosts in Theoretical Physics (12:27) Eerie Electromagnetic Fields? (16:49) Spooky Sleep Paralysis (23:13) Spooky Spores (31:50) Spine Tingling Psychology This episode was produced by Ben Kuebrich, Kaitlyn Sawrey, Diane Wu, Heather Rogers, Shruti Ravindran and Wendy Zukerman. Editing by Annie-Rose Strasser and Blythe Terrell. Production assistance: Audrey Quinn. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Sound engineering, music production and original scoring by Bobby Lord. Thanks to Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe, Dr. Neil Dagnall, Dr. Giulio Rognini, Raymond Swyers, Dr. Joseph Baker, Prof. Kwai Man Luk, Prof. Kin Seng Chiang, Prof. Tapan Sarkar, Prof. Maxim Gitlits, The Zukerman family, Joseph Lavelle Wilson as well as Jorge Just, Devon Taylor … and thanks to Haley Shaw for the spooooky violins in the Science Vs theme. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, why am I getting this weird interference?
0:05.0	So my phone?
0:07.0	Could it be vehicles?
0:10.0	Is the interference gone now that you hit your phone?
0:15.0	Yeah, I've moved a phone.
0:16.0	Okay.
0:17.0	So not the occult this time.
0:18.0	Not this time.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to science verses.
0:24.0	Today on the show, Ghosts.
0:27.0	With the spooky season in full swing we thought we'd revisit one of our favorite
0:37.4	episodes and you might be thinking ghosts what science versus doing tackling ghosts?
0:45.0	Well, you know what? Surveys find that a ton of people, roughly 40% of Americans, believe in ghosts.
0:52.0	Around one in five even say that they have had an encounter with a ghost.
0:57.1	And that number has actually gone up since the 90s. On top of all that, many of us have had moments where things get a little spooky and we start to believe.
1:09.0	To tell you the truth, I was like being sarcastic, but I was a little bit freaked out when you said you had
1:14.4	interference on your microphone.
1:20.1	Proges to Caitlin Sorrey and I are about to enter a haunted house.
1:24.4	It's this totally unassuming two-story clapboard
1:27.8	on a busy street in Queens, New York.
1:30.2	Oh, here we go.
1:31.6	This one's. There's a blue door. It's very beautiful.
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