A month ago, I told you all in an episode that ghosts don't exist, can't exist, and

no extension of any science can change that.

And yet many people have ghostly encounters.

I don't want to dismiss their experiences, so today I'm going to explain what I believe their experiences probably

were, since they certainly weren't ghosts. And in our extended content for premium members,

my experience with a live show I once hosted explaining people's ghost experiences in real time.

All of that is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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You're listening to Sceptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Sceptoid.com. What Accounts for Ghost Encounters?

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

Last month, I did a show asking the question of whether ghosts might

exist. This was a quick survey through the realms of physics and energy, observation, and the

scientific method, even alleged religious justifications for ghosts. We found nothing. No replicable

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