GHOST SHOWS SUCK

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I found this awesome YouTube video making fun of "ghost hunting shows".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W0WFjaQ5PY&t=883s

I've never understood why some grown adults still think that ghosts are real.

I know. The hunters hear words they want to hear when there's just a click in static. They also always manage to find a just one piece of evidence that has electromagnetic activity.

I know ghost shows suck. You know ghost shows suck. But because they suck, it's fun to watch them when you're drunk. And so my wife and I do!

Ghost hunters are classic pseudoscientists. The things they take as "evidence" such as temperature variances, problems with electrical equipment, imagined voices and images in static..there is no evidence that these things are even anomalous, to say nothing of them being caused by ghosts.

The existence of life after death is impossible given everything we know about physics and biology. Case closed.

Oh, and Ancient Aliens shows suck too. And the so called History channel has had them front and center for years now.

I know, but I'm a sucker for a good ghost story.

I like ghost stories, too. Especially the ones of the "Suspense" genre, rather than the "Slasher" sub-type.

"The Haunting of Hill House" is a particularly good example of the kind of suspenseful ghost story that I like -- you don't know if the house is really haunted, or if the principle characters are just losing their sanity.

Maybe both.

Huh. EVERY "reality" show where grown adults hunt for a legendary creature or supernatural being sucks.

Oh, and the Roswell "Aliens?" They were crash test dummies seen by people who didn't know what they were looking at. Seriously they were. The cover up story about a weather balloon WAS a cover up story, but NOT of an alien space craft. Simply human built equipment that was being tested and was secret at the time.

Loch Ness is not productive enough to support anything big enough to be called a monster. And Atlantis? As a geologist that one really gets me. The rock making up the continents is very different in its composition from the rock making up the ocean floor. If there were a continent sized landmass submerged somewhere in the North Atlantic, we would have plenty of evidence for it.

You can forget Planet X too. Scientists once thought it might exist because of some descrepency in the predicted vs observed orbit of Neptune, but it was discovered that this existed only because the calculated mass of Neptune based on ground based observations was in error by one half of one percent. This was revealed when data from the Voyager space probe was received when it passed Neptune. When the new, more accurate mass was plugged into the equations, the problems vanished without having to postulate the existence of a bigger than Jupiter planet beyond Neptune orbit. And probes of the Voyager and Pioneer series encountered none of the gravity expected from so large a body, so sorry, the Sumerians were wrong and Niribu does not exist.

The one guess (it does not qualify as a theory) that makes the most sense about the Atlantis Myth is that Plato made it all up in an attempt to illustrate the concept of hubris.

The only other guess is that the Atlantis Myth is derived from oral histories dating back to the end of the most recent glaciation period. That is, as the "Ice Age" came to an end, the massive ice sheets covering most of North America, Asia, and Europe melted, filling the oceans, and causing the sea level to rise. All of the villages and settlements that were once well above sea level were slowly inundated and covered by the rising waters. Even though this process may have taken 400 years, the subsequent 300-foot rise in sea level was remarkable enough that every culture from all over the world had a story about how their ancestral towns were swallowed by the sea. After many tellings, exaggeration was bound to take hold -- what was originally an 8-inch rise in sea level every year that eventually swallowed the local fishing village became the overnight sinking of an entire continent into some far-off ocean. Human nature being what it is, this exaggeration eventually became accepted as 'truth' to people for whom the word 'science' has more to do with superstitious nonsense than with methodical evidence-gathering.

What we know as the 'Atlantis Myth' is nothing more than an oft-repeated story told of ordinary events that happened 12,000 to 15,000 years ago -- roughly 6500 to 9500 years before the first known written language!