THIS PUZZLING PICTURE APPEARS TO SHOW THE OUTLINE OF A LITTLE GIRL TAKEN WHERE AUDIO RECORDINGS CAPTURED A LITTLE GIRL TALKING AND LAUGHING. THE GHOST GUILD DOESN’T PRESENT THIS AS EVIDENCE, BUT IT REMAINS A FASCINATING CAPTURE. ATTEMPTS TO RECREATE THIS PICTURE, IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN IT, HAVE FAILED.
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PARANORMAL POSSIBILITIES The Ghost Guild of Raleigh cautiously—and respectfully— pushes the science of ghost-hunting forward BY BETH SHUGG
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mericans love a good ghost story. In 1984, the movie “Ghostbusters,” starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis as
three scientists who lost their university jobs and took up ghost hunting, raked in $242.2 million at the box office, according to an October 2019 Forbes report. Fifteen years later in 1999, “The Sixth Sense,” starring Haley Joel Osment as a young child who could “see dead people,” grossed $293.5 million. By the end of the 20th century, the idea that spirits lurk in dimensions beyond what humans can detect—or scientifically prove—began to take hold of America’s psyche.
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