I Believe that there are still things we don't understand about ourselves, our world and our universe.

AronRa even said that atheist means not believing in a god and it does NOT mean atheists cannot believe in other supernatural things. Atheists do not believe in gods but other things are up to the individual and yes many atheists do believe in ghosts and an afterlife but as a part of nature and not a divine creation. In fact there was a book written by an atheist about the afterlife without god The Atheist Afterlife -- The odds of an afterlife: Reasonable. The odds of meeting God there: Nil. by David Staume Also Skeptical scientist Dr Gary Schwartz did a book the After Life Experiments using science to show that the after life is real Ghosts are suppose to be energy from people that existed. Humans are real. god and jesus, etc are spirits of things that never existed so you cannot compare believing in ghosts to believing in religion beings. We have energy in us and they say energy never dies

I really like the fact that you always let people speak their mind without interrupting or criticizing (Regardless of how much or a nut bar they are) Integrity at its best :)

I'm an agnostic leaning toward atheism, but have had one unexplained experience in my life. One morning after I moved into my present apartment I heard a deep, masculine voice say "Barbara". Whether it was a ghost or a god, or just my imagination, I don't know.

@funnyvideos-rh5yg

5 жыл бұрын

No it's your in only imagination power of mind

Finally listened to the whole thing. Thanks for the awesome ghost stories. The one about Anabelle Lee was pretty cool. keep up the good work! ;-)

i look forward to these pod casts.. that totally make my day.. love em

I have seen "ghosts" or whatever one would call them. There was a spectral woman in white who roamed the downstairs of one of my homes. All three of my children and myself saw her at different times. Another time my son, who was not home, walked down the hall and past the open door of a room where my daughter and I were watching tv. We looked at each other and commented that we didn't know he was home. I went to his room to speak to him. He was not there. Another time, my husband saw my daughter, who was not home, go upstairs. He called to her asking when she had gotten home. She wasn't home. I went upstairs to check. She was not there. In our most recent home, my husband has seen 5 small children at the foot of his bed. The previous owners had 5 children and they occupied the house for 60 years. The father used to spend time in a basement workshop, and my son saw him walk through the den and into his workshop on more than one occasion. I have no explanation.

this is the first THA podcast i have watched. its great. i will go back and watch the other1s

Man, that's AWESOME to see someone else like that! Usually when I respond to stuff like this I have 5 guys calling me an idiot. Thanks Steve :)

Love the podcasts

To be honest, I believe in ghosts / spirits, because it would be nice imo, to live for eternity and for there to be some form of afterlife, and I do not really want to spend it praise and worshipping a god who didn't raise me or teach me everything that I want to know. Furthermore, it would be nice to be able to express my opinions and imagination more then what my physical body can provide me with. There's only so much you can do with a physical body, you know. I find it a shame that scientists are trying to styfle ghost stories simply by inserting logic into it. As the presenter said, the real thing is more anti-climatic then what's really there, and what's life when you can't have a bit of fun with your iamgination?

Thank you, that was very entertaining.

Awesome job.

The science of today was the supernatural of yesterday. The more we learn about what people call ghosts, the more supernatural becomes absorbed into modern science. An open mind is never a bad thing as long as you don't take insane ideas too far as some religions do. As long as you're willing to accept being proven wrong, belief in the supernatural is perfectly fine.

Can you up load these to Itunes so that we are able to listen to them on the road? It would be great to download it as a regular podcast.

Athiest here, and I've seen ghosts twice. Both in Spring. Once at a friends' house, and once in my own room.

Although, I'd like to believe in ghosts, I logically cannot...

@Manoichan Just wondering, since there wasn't a "no" in your initial statement.

This was a damn good episode. Plus, it helps disprove the theistic arguement of atheism being a religion by demonstrating that we don't all think the same and hold the same opinions. Kudos!

Does anyone know a much complex explanation about an "imprint" (the paranormal thing)?

@henshinhead And as possible as all of this is, not all of the footage can be explained with that. What do we say about the stuff that can't? (I believe the brick that was thrown was in a room without windows or holes, though I could be wrong.)

The "I don't what what you just said" bit was amazing. I was thinking the same thing...

This was great

What is your podcast? I looked it up on iTunes and couldn't find it :(

Yes, listening well beyond the air date

cont. I have researched the possible explanations of the EVPs as well and find many to be a jumbled mess, but this was very clear. It was a very strange experience visiting Waverly Hills Sanatorium. I just had so many weird experiences there! Highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in that area. I wish I had the photos in digital form to show you. Never felt afraid there though, just feel it is part of our environment and nothing to fear, just something we don't fully understand yet.

Is there anyway I can download the audio for these podcasts?

Your voice is smooth like butter.

I'm from Canada. We have some strange devil stories, especially supernatural transport means, and stories from the grave. Folk tales are great!

Great cast :) will there be an option to subscribe to the podcast on itunes, rather than just downloading an mp3 from the link?

I have experienced objects actually moving on their own right in front of me. I've had pennies thrown at me, often landing perfectly without bouncing. I've had a bar of soap literally levitate at me. I cannot explain these things, but they did happen. And I wasn't alone - I had at least one witness, so I didn't hallucinate. I'm atheist, but I can't ignore these things. They're too amazing to ignore. I don't say, "They MUST be this or that.." but I want to know what they are.

@DasHinchen Much obliged, sir or ma' dam. Any thoughts on Enlightenment? Perhaps the Indian yogis that meditate to try and reach unity with the vibrations of the spheres of the cosmos, similar to the perfect sound described in Pythagorus' theory of the Music of the Spheres? :)

17:00 - you have to admit, that was a pretty awesome story, haha!

Well how do you explain Astral Projection?

@henshinhead A million different things... OK so explain when they actually filtered the video that had from the first episode.

@Animeabe I totally agree with this! I think it's good for us to be able to accept that there may be things in our universe that are beyond our current ability to explain. I think it's possible that some of those things may be ghosts or they be things easily mistaken for ghosts, or they may be nothing at all. What I think is bad is assumption. When you say "that MUST be a ghost/god/coincidence/hallucination" and you close yourself off to even the possibility that your world view MAY be wrong.

i just noticed why you have Gary Busy on the front (sorry if i misspelled his name)

It's a really well-made podcast. Besides the 6 podcasts prior have you done anything like this?

Hey Seth, I doubt you'll read this but here's a fun one. Blair Witch. The last few scenes. Going down the stairs with the plaster and lathe then mud brick type walls, coming around the corner to the right, the brief flash of light over the other person standing in the other corner like a bad kid the way the story goes, then wham. Got that in mind? Okay... I used to live in a mud brick house. With two floors. Going upstairs to downstairs involved going down a wooden set of stairs and turning to the right. Often in the dark or low light situation. Mudlike walls immediately after plaster-like walls and wooden floor... Yeah. For a few nights after watching Blair Witch, once I was upstairs for the night I stayed there. No freaking way would I walk down those steps. Now, Blair Witch had it's issues. But that final scene really stuck with me, if only because it required the watcher to have been paying at least some attention and have at least some imagination. It took just a little effort to connect, and then it capitalised on that. I obviously knew I wasn't in the house in the movie. But the fact that my little house was also in the middle of a forested area with no neighbors in screaming distance probably didn't help matters. I didn't believe it.. But it still reached into my mind and pushed the 'primal fear' button.

The dorm was built in the early 1990's and the door had expanded to the point where it took a shoulder press (195 lbs of muscle here) to shut the door. If it had been a breeze, it wouldn't have shut and fully locked in the handle. Happened while I was alone, while my roommate was there, and while we had people over. I wish I could go back!

I have been researching paranormal events for a long time now. I have my own research group est. in 2007. I am an Atheist, but quantum mechanics is telling us that there may be reasons naturally that shows that there could a form of afterlife. We don't need a God to understand that. Good show!

Consider the following. The question 'can computers think?' is akin to asking 'do sumarines swim?'. With that in mind, 'Is there an afterlife' could be said to be akin to asking 'is there an after-off'.

About unexplainable sightings: the brain is amazing at putting together an image out of essentially pure visual noise. I once "copied" a picture of a horse from a sketch on a wall, and when I went to look at it closer, it was nothing that even remotely resembled a horse! My brain just thought it recognized a pattern and filled in the missing detail. Halloween is awesome though. And I thought the story about Satan visiting his child's grave was so sweet. Aww. I bet he brings flowers too. :D

No, I'm not necessarily saying I don't believe you. I do appreciate the response. What showed up in the pictures? And have you researched the possible natural explanations of EVPs?

@TodaysThought Do aunicornists (those who dont have/hold a belief in the existence of unicorns) believe in aunicornism?

What I feel about ghosts or the dead was best summed up in the movie "Ghost Town" with Ricky Gervais: ghosts were still on earth not because they had unfinished business, but because the people they were close to were not finished with them. Even the faceless nameless ones we dont know, that we come in contact with. Its something in our lives and psyche that we havent dealt with yet...fear, death, loss, etc...

many did not believe of its probability to ever exist. But here we are after decades of researches, it was finally found and made a huge mark into science. Just like everything we study now in science. It's a shame that many skeptic atheist loses their sense of the possibility. Because that is what science was build on, to understand the unknown that probably exist or not.

Here's a Goblin, reporting for duty. I love horror movies, and despite being an atheist who does NOT believe in ghosts, the two scariest movies I know are THE CHANGELING and THE HAUNTING (the 1963 version). I think in part a movie about ghosts lends itself to being atmospheric and letting the viewer's imagination scare them, which is always the most effective way to scare people.

There's a lot of us that had an experience at around 13-14. Maybe there is some developmental thing going on with us then? I had a weird experience (with my mother present and had the same experience) involving a plate of oreos, a cold air blast from the garage (during a Texas summer), and then missing cookies. There's also stories of poltergeists and attachments to teens. Makes me really think there is a brain thing going on we haven't figured out yet.

One time my uncle was recording and we re watched the recording and at the end of the video there was a deep voice but we couldn't understand what it was saying.

@GigaBoost I believe that he trims up the audio a bit before uploading it, to keep things fluid, so sometimes it might seem more abrupt than it actually was. Incidentally, he seemed to keep the callers on this week for about as long as he normally does.

@saltsi I tried to like your comment, but there isn't a liking system anymore.

@LJay279 ..if you listen to it as you would any other kind of radio, then the hour really flies by.

I was just talking about that celebrity ghost show today! Haha it was funny.

I'm an atheist and I have had an experience with a ghost at an old stone building that my friends have lived at for several years. All of them have experienced and seen unusual things at that building. Apparently a chef hung himself in one of the storage rooms when it was a lodge. Keys get hidden, Sounds of footsteps, movement of objects, literally one guy got hit with the toaster after saying something to the effect of I don't believe in ghosts.He's an atheist as well. Unknown form of energy

@formless777 The Platypus could be a transitional creature between ducks and mammals. The furry platypus has a duck-like bill, swims with webbed feet, and lays eggs. However, where does this fit on the evolutionary tree? If the fossil record is so abundant with intermediates, can you show me a process from A to B to C. B being the intermediate, A the initial form, and C the final form. You can't just take Archaeopteryx and say it is the intermediate of Compsognathus and a Scarlet Macaw.

I was a "3d atheist" defined to the physical world until I went to college. The door between the two dorm rooms had to be slammed shut, yet it would open and close in the middle of the night. After 2 months of creepy feelings, I finally talked to the RA and found out we were the first people to live in there since a suicide during a finals week. How do physical manifestations like that result from neurology?

@julzabro Occam's razor tells us not to postulate plurality without necessity. Yes, ghosts and gods may be real, but with no unambiguous evidence, why should we believe it?

@DeltaPhi79 if you were to look up close to the stuctures themselves, you would find hundred of pores and openings within the walls, floors, ceilings, support stuctures, everywhere. its concievable that heat and sound travel through these pores causing heat to suddenly build up or disappear in certain areas, and it would create sounds eerilie similar to muffled high-pitched speech. as for some of the visual anomalies, that could be caused by anything. cameras aren't as reliable as people think.

I can't believe I listened to the whole thing. I love the show I suppose :)

Great podcast. The part I find unbelievable is that some people found the movie "Paranormal Activity" scary. :p

the wincherster mystery house is really amazing, look it up, its shows how crazy the woman must have been to build the thing.

@DeltaPhi79 the keyword in that statement is FILTERED. anyone who knows how to use sound editing software could filter out everything but a specific noise they want, they do it for movies and tv all the time, which is why you can always hear the characters when their talking, even in crowded, noisy places.

I've been in the winchester manor, its cool, and yes there are doors to nowhere, including one to the kitchen sink, what a way to take a bath...

I used to live in a haunted house, an old Colonial era in Pennsylvania. Supposedly a girl was violated and dismembered by some lunatic, and then he killed himself, and the spirits were in conflict blah blah bullshit. I did have auditory and visual hallucinations there. But that was also when I was on some really strong pain meds after a nerve in my tooth was severed when the tooth broke. Curiously, it all ended when the pain subsided and I didn't need the meds. I wonder why.

If athiests believe that a mind can eimxist without a physical body, doesn't that mean the Kalam argument suddenly become more difficult to defend?

@altonnukem I have the zombie survival handbook, better safe than sorry right? But if you think about it, if you are prepared for the zombie apocalypse, then you are prepared for any other lesser disaster that might occur.

IMDB him...? What does that mean?

@LeighJones9001 Recently after my grandmother died, me and my friends took a picture of the basement.....we caught an orb ghost.

@henshinhead Watch the latest Ghost Adventures episode. I'm pretty sure something is there if you can catch it on audio, a video camera, *AND* a sonar machine with all people being filmed and shown to not be moving.

'..don't take this wrong... I have no idea what you just said' Classic Comedy Moment

@RollTheDice00 Because BlogTalkRadio servers were glitchy during our broadcast, and we couldn't hear our callers from the host cue. There's a logical explanation to everything.

Why Human afraid of the dark? Even though they can see using a torch light. Why are you afraid? Explain to me please.

@sovietbot6708

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It's a byproduct of evolution. Long ago, we were hunted by other animals they lurked in the dark, so naturally, fear of the dark is what kept us alive.

@silverandgold4573

3 жыл бұрын

@@sovietbot6708 No!! Subconsciously you know ghost exist, but you denied your heart...I dare you go to abondened house that you can check in the morning for safety, that stay there, and talk loudly calling ghost, then sleep there alone, i mean really abondened house with no neighbor.... afraid?? There is no wild animal to eat you though??

I understand the difficulties of believing in ghosts for people who have never experienced it by hand. A lot of arguments stated that it's just the imagination of the individuals and how they always set their mind into that kind of situation (wanting to believe ghosts are real). But the problem is how would you know that's the case? How would you know those people are "indoctrinated"? Especially if they are atheists. We mustn't judge too easily for things that can't be proven yet. Discussions about ghosts aren't necessarily equally talking about god or religion. Religion has been disproven so many times by science. But has there been any thorough research on ghosts? It doesn't even necessarily be ghosts as described by supernatural meanings. I just think it's pretty sad if we limit our judgement to something we haven't really found out. Are we limiting the possibility of time travel? Are we limiting the possibility of alien life? Those are a few things that we haven't really had any clear conclusions yet. All I'm saying we can't really dismissed that easily something that hasn't been researched thoroughly by science. Is the world only has 1 dimension? What about 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, 4 dimensions, etc? What if we changed the term "ghosts" to "energy" or "dimensions"? Clearly the words energy or dimensions are by far more acceptable for science. If it turns out there are no such thing as "ghosts", so what? Especially for atheists who actually experienced some strange things they want to prove it (or disprove) as much as other atheists. I don't think it necessarily atheists who experienced those things be considered foolish because the fact was they did experience it. And it's not like they believe it religiously. If it was some kind of process in the human brain then that's fine too. For me I'd like more explanation scientifically on the topic. Just as i'd like a conclusion about alien life or time travel.

Your conscious mind keeps you from receive all the signals drifting around, but when your mind is calm you could pick up the stronger signals. That normally occurs when you are between being awake and sleeping. But it doesn't help with lottery numbers, as you would have to win to generate that strong thought of joy for your past self to pick up on.

I haven't seen a ghost myself but my son at 3 did. Where we lived was a ranch style house, the den on one end and bedrooms on the other One day my son had past knowledge of our house that he couldn't know. When asked where he heard what he was saying he replied, "from the lady in your bedroom". The lady that lived there prior to us committed suicide in the master bedroom. So how does an Atheist like myself deal with this phenomenon. I heard what my three year had to correct say... explain that!

' Are you the axe murderer that killed thirteen people....' absolute genius!

Why the hell is the school Busey there?

@hgihynam he sounds a LOT like Beck (unfortunately for him heheheh). I mean, he sounds like he sounds but man, they sound really alike.

I fully agree with you.

@TheThinkingAtheist No problem, it happens. I enjoyed the show :)

And it turns out that the host is really Rick Dees!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This show is awesome!

YESSSS thank you!

4th. Good show, sorry about the audio problems. I got a blog tv account now.

@DeltaPhi79 document their paranormal encounters. Another purpose COULD be to "entertain" people (more like scare the wits out of them) but mainly to show what goes on in the world. Not being able to explain a simultaneous temperature, video, and sonar change, to me, is a good reason to say there was a ghost in the room and that they exist. (Try looking up their Poveglia Island episode here. You might like it.)

@RollTheDice00 Just because YOU hear the audio output to the stream, doesn't mean that HE heard the audio input to his headphones.

I think it was best said by Dennis from Canada. Because it is widely know in quantum physics, within the you atom you have these fermions, quarks, and leptons particles. But farther than that, you have these strings that are vibrating within those particles. That is where the string theory comes in. That possibly that there are other strings that vibrate higher or lower than our universe. So i would not so easily push the idea of spirits off. Just like the higgs bosons, at first...

BUSEY IS STARING INTO MY SOUL

about 16:00 : That force tugging you down? It's called gravity.

People that claim to see ghosts with top hats must also believe that inanimate objects must also have spirits because hats also have to have spirits to exist in an afterlife, does that make any sense at all? I used to be an atheist who believed in spirits but no longer. Listening to Matts Atheist Debates videos especially the one titled religion and fear has turned me into a skeptic and that all of this spirit, ghost god crap is all human inventions.

@SHINIGAMIxPABLO What are you trying too prove in quoting those New Testament verses? The divinity of Christ? "You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I,'" (John 14:28).

@Uberboy07 Fear of imaginary things is in many cases an involuntary behavior, a defense mechanism in the same way that we might flinch even if we know someone wouldn't really hurt us. As children, it can make us act silly. As adults, it can let us enjoy a more primitive, emotional side of ourselves - or convince us something's out there.

Winchester Mansion is awesome!!!

Continued- yet it kept playing. I thought well it has a short and there are batteries in it. I flipped the radio on it’s face to access the battery compartment popped off the cover and found no batteries inside. I set the radio back on it’s feet and decided, as the radio continued to play for another hour, that my departed friend was happy to have me there. Wish I had a camera for that because this story is far too outlandish for any rational person to accept. Yet it happened.

@sssharp1 He may have just overheard someone talking about it.

What's with kicking everyone off with some excuse like "we're losing your connection" even though you can still clearly hear the guys talk?

I really enjoy lsitening to these podcast. They're smart and OMIGOD IS THAT GARY BUSEY?

An atheist who believes in ghosts is almost as bad as a theist; they are believing superstitious, invisible, unprovable, untestable, unfalsifiable, immaterial, supernatural nonsense just like theists who believe in magic men.

I love those ghost hunter reality tv shows. They're just fun to watch. I have to say, of all the days I get to exercise my eyeballs by rolling them back inside my head, it's those times. They're funny and frustrating at the same time because you just know tons of dopes out there will buy that instantly.

it gets me how someone would believe in science that admits its "90% guesswork" when it comes to evolution but that same person would deny things they see