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Conspiracy Theoryology is written and produced by Ryan Nelson, who created the show to explore why we’re drawn to conspiracy theories, the paranormal, and the supernatural. Rather than debating what’s true or false, the podcast examines what makes these topics so captivating—and why they inspire such strong belief and skepticism alike. Each episode dives into the cultural, psychological, and historical roots that keep these ideas alive in our collective imagination.
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Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Episode 8 - Ghost Photography
You've seen them on the internet. You may even have some within your own collection. Ghost photos. Also known as paranormal or spirit photography, the practice of capturing ghostly apparitions on camera is as old as the field of photography itself. Thought to be caused by the environmental affect by the apparition, either through radiation, ionization, or some impact to non-visible light spectrums, the camera captures images that are not seen by the naked eye. Well, it may be a ghost, or it might just be that you are hard wired to make sense of randomness of all that background noise in the photograph. In this episode we explore the history of spirit photography, and discuss the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia that might help explain at least some of those spooky ghost photos that we all love to stare at, looking for something otherworldly.
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Links:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140730-why-do-we-see-faces-in-objects
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3280816/What-photos-s-faces-suffer-facial-pareidolia.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/87784/13-historys-most-famous-ghost-photos
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150629-the-intriguing-history-of-ghost-photography
https://psmag.com/social-justice/believe-ghosts-youll-see-ghost-69599
https://futurism.com/pareidolia-why-we-see-what-isnt-there/
https://www.popphoto.com/parapsychologist-steve-parsons-discusses-fallacy-ghost-photography#page-14
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/201310/how-fake-ghost-photo
https://psmag.com/environment/bloody-mary-bloody-mary
https://neurosciencenews.com/face-pareidolia-frontal-cortex-1019/
https://www.prairieghosts.com/ph_history.html
http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/echoes-from-beyond-the-strange-history-of-spirit-photography/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sensed-presence-effect/
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