1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,640 Ghosts and poltergeists, troubled spirits of the dead, or the work of other mysterious 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:16,080 forces? 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:23,240 Dead people walking through walls, talking to us, throwing things violently about. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:32,040 Do ghosts really exist, or are they just the work of our imaginations? 5 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:37,080 This is the story of the brave people who search for the answers. 6 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,080 The ghost hunters. 7 00:00:53,240 --> 00:01:21,760 Ghosts and goblins. 8 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,760 Spooks and spirits. 9 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,280 For centuries we have been traveled by these unknown forces. 10 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,840 Perhaps someone you know has mentioned an unexplained visitor or an eerie event. 11 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:38,120 Scientists are seeking answers to these riddles, but the harder they look, the more puzzling 12 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:45,120 their search becomes. 13 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,840 Some experts now believe that what we see is ghosts are actually evidence of a powerful 14 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:56,520 force of nature called electromagnetism. 15 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:03,920 Bell House in Veldosta, Georgia is a hotel with a so-called ghost. 16 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:04,920 It scared me. 17 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,600 I mean, I couldn't talk or couldn't run or anything like that, you know, but he just 18 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,600 looked. 19 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:16,720 You know, pardon the pun, but it was just a dead expression on his face. 20 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,520 The owners claim the visitor is the ghost of David S. Bell, a man who sold medicine 21 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:29,320 from the back of a horse-drawn cart until he died here 35 years ago. 22 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:36,040 They believe his spirit is still here, haunting stairwells and hallways. 23 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,200 The owners want to know how to evict this unwelcome house guest. 24 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,960 For that, they have summoned Dr. William Rohl. 25 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:52,280 For 50 years, he's been using the science of parapsychology to study ghosts. 26 00:02:52,280 --> 00:03:01,320 One after the other, Dr. Rohl questions the people who work here about their ghostly encounters. 27 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:07,280 And when I felt this panting and I turned around, there was nothing there, then it really 28 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,280 bothered me. 29 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,280 Really? 30 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,880 I didn't see no facial expression or nothing like that. 31 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:22,280 Just hit with all my luck like a cloud. 32 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,760 Just a glimpse, really, a shoulder, a hip going around the corner. 33 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,400 So I came to investigate. 34 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,360 There was no one in here. 35 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,640 The stories they tell are typical of ghost sightings. 36 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Unexplained noises, hazy images of a person, the feeling of something close by, even objects 37 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:55,560 violently and mysteriously thrown about. 38 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,880 Dr. Dean Raiden, a leading parapsychologist from the University of Nevada, has many possible 39 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,320 explanations for hauntings. 40 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,200 One explanation is that it's purely psychological. 41 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:11,880 This includes things like misperceiving something as an illusion or as a hallucination and so 42 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,960 on. 43 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:19,240 Another possibility is that it's psychopathology, that there's actually organic brain damage. 44 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:24,520 But Dr. Rohl believes that in this case, neither of these explanations apply. 45 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,400 Instead, he continues his investigation in other areas. 46 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:35,080 The third category is probably related to environmental changes, mainly electromagnetic 47 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,200 and probably magnetic changes. 48 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,880 Dr. Rohl now searches specifically for unusual electromagnetic energy fields. 49 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:51,960 Because these fields are invisible, he needs a magnetometer to detect their presence. 50 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:58,000 One of the fundamental forces of the universe, electromagnetism, holds every atom and molecule 51 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,280 together. 52 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:06,880 Electromagnetism is all around us, in the form of waves. 53 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,800 These waves vibrate in many frequencies. 54 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,600 Different frequencies of this energy create different effects. 55 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,840 Light waves allow us to see. 56 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:21,600 Infrared waves from the sun keep us warm. 57 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:28,520 Radio and television waves carry signals that keep us informed and entertained. 58 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:34,560 These force fields, made by power lines, televisions, microwave ovens and other man-made devices, 59 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:42,960 are now drowning us in electromagnetic signals. 60 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:48,080 Some scientists believe these same signals could explain why people see ghosts. 61 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:58,600 Is your TV sending out a mysterious energy that possesses the mind? 62 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:07,240 Find out when we return to truth or scare. 63 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,560 Electromagnetic energy is all around us. 64 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,960 It's emitted from our televisions, microwaves and computers. 65 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,120 Could these common signals be clouding our thoughts and creating the appearance of ghouls 66 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,120 and ghosts? 67 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:31,120 Dr. William Rohl thinks so. 68 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,640 When the head of the brain is surrounded by a strong field, magnetic field creates electric 69 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:42,840 currents in the brain and that can give rise to all kinds of unusual experiences. 70 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:51,680 Dr. Rohl walks from room to room, measuring the electromagnetic force fields. 71 00:06:51,680 --> 00:07:07,280 His magnetometer detects unusually high levels of electromagnetism in the kitchen and bedrooms. 72 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:11,640 The readings are so strong that Dr. Rohl is certain the haunting of Bell House is the 73 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,800 result of those fields. 74 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,560 Now he looks for their source. 75 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,480 Dr. Rohl believes the people here are being influenced by unusual electromagnetic fields 76 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:30,320 coming from electrical wiring in the building. 77 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,240 He asks for the building's main power supply to be shut off. 78 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:43,320 Zero. Clear evidence that we're dealing with unusual constellation of wiring in the house 79 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,280 that's producing these very strong magnetic fields. 80 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,960 And that, according to Dr. Rohl, explains why Bell House is haunted. 81 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:59,160 The people I've spoken to seem very sincere, very truthful. 82 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:08,640 The experiences I've had are unusual, are strange, but if you understand the human brain 83 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:14,440 and the way it can be affected by extraneous magnetic fields, it really all makes sense. 84 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,240 It all falls into place. 85 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,440 In Northampton, England, a family claims to be living with a ghost they call Fred. 86 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,720 Fred is an entity or an essence in the house. 87 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:32,880 He has an intelligence about him that we basically cannot explain or understand. 88 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,560 Paul Hopgood says the ghost has been living with them for 12 years and his family has 89 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,120 come to accept it. 90 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,680 I'm afraid Fred is now a part of our lives. 91 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:48,280 I think if he was going to do harm by now, it would have been done. 92 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,920 A simple experiment shows the electromagnetic fields in the home are strong enough to move 93 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,040 tiny pieces of metal. 94 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:02,840 It's a sign this haunting may also be the result of energy fields, like those that 95 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,560 caused the ghost sightings at Bell House in Georgia. 96 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,280 But there's a difference here. 97 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:14,120 Something is mysteriously moving items of food and clothing in the kitchen, while the Hopgood 98 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,080 sleep in the bedrooms upstairs. 99 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:24,560 Is this another electromagnetic oddity, or is the Hopgood home haunted? 100 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:28,680 Albert Budden, another investigator of the paranormal, is called in. 101 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:31,520 He's looked into hundreds of hauntings. 102 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:38,240 Some people hallucinate aliens, ghosts, spirits, or manner of usual physical sensations like 103 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,000 poltergeists will occur. 104 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:47,400 People think they live in haunted houses when really they're living in electromagnetic hotspots. 105 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,680 Immediately he sees the Hopgood's house is filled with electrical equipment. 106 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:57,600 His magnetometer detects extreme levels of electromagnetism. 107 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,680 But his examination of the Hopgood's themselves suggests something even weirder. 108 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:06,920 Quite clearly, the people living in this house are subject to high levels of electromagnetic 109 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,360 fields, and the man of the house in particular has developed a clinical condition called 110 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:16,080 electrical hypersensitivity. 111 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,440 Budden believes this condition was brought on when Paul Hopgood received a very strong 112 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:26,360 electrical shock several years ago. 113 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:32,080 Electromagnetism may explain how the family senses the presence of Fred the ghost. 114 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,720 But what about the moving food and shoes? 115 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:42,240 Albert Budden believes Paul Hopgood is moving them himself without knowing it, in a trance-like 116 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:51,240 state brought on by his electromagnetic illness. 117 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,000 But how could electromagnetism explain hauntings that happened hundreds of years ago, before 118 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,080 the discovery of electricity? 119 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:08,800 We take a closer look at ancient ghost sightings when Truth or Scare returns. 120 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:18,640 Hold your guises. 121 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:19,640 Spirits. 122 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:26,000 Is the human mind strong enough to move objects wildly around a room, or is it the work of 123 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 ghosts? 124 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:33,040 Charlton House, a 17th century manor near London, has a long history of strange noises, 125 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,520 lights, and phantoms. 126 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:50,200 The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, or ASSEP, has monitored 127 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:57,320 this old stone building for years, using an arsenal of ghost detection gear. 128 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:07,200 Magnetometers, night vision binoculars, movement detectors, infrared sensors, and Geiger counters 129 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,920 to check for radioactivity. 130 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:15,640 The team monitored the building for changes in temperature, movement, light, and sound 131 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:16,640 levels. 132 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,640 They are looking for explanations for the ghostly hauntings. 133 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:28,400 The physical features associated with haunting sites are granite, either granite under the 134 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:35,000 ground or granite in the structure itself, usually both, underground water, and higher 135 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:41,760 levels of background radiation. 136 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,360 Dr. Raiden believes granite structures are important for two reasons. 137 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:53,360 They are naturally radioactive and they give off unusually strong electromagnetic fields. 138 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,160 3 a.m. 139 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:05,160 Parapsychologists say this is the time of night when most ghost sightings occur. 140 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,400 The true witching hour. 141 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:14,640 Night time and fear of the night and certain foreboding plus dreams plus different environmental 142 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,640 states. 143 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:25,360 All of it together conspires to make the conditions which are ripe for ghosts to appear. 144 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,680 Ghost watches like this have helped ASSA build a huge database of haunted sites. 145 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:35,600 They found hauntings are often reported in old buildings like this. 146 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,560 While poltergeists, that is, the hauntings that include the unexplained movement of objects, 147 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:48,560 are more likely to be found in cramped, overcrowded homes where there are high levels of stress. 148 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:55,560 There is almost always a single person who has identified as the cause of that movement, 149 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:01,560 typically a troubled teenager. 150 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:06,560 And that teenager is taken away from the poltergeist site, the movement stop. 151 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:10,560 So it looks like a person, a person, is causing these events. 152 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:14,560 Could the human mind be powerful enough to control the physical world and create these 153 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:17,560 eerie events? 154 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:22,560 Dr. Dean Raiden's experiments at the University of Nevada show there may be a link between 155 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,560 these odd movements and the power of the mind. 156 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,560 This robotic arm moves randomly. 157 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:35,560 On average, it successfully places the object in a container after 25 moves. 158 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:40,560 When the subject consciously tries to influence the machine with their thoughts, they can reduce the 159 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,560 number of moves to as few as two. 160 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:52,560 Dr. Raiden calls this direct mind-matter interaction, and he believes it may help us understand how the mind 161 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:59,560 could cause much larger objects to fly across the room, as if thrown by a poltergeist. 162 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:08,560 In Vancouver, Canada, there is amazing evidence that bigger objects can be manipulated, again with 163 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,560 the help of electromagnetic radiation. 164 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:18,560 Physicist John Hutchison discovered that giant Tesla coils, which are generators of massive amounts of 165 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:23,560 electromagnetic fields, were able to lift objects nearby. 166 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:32,560 These coils were originally designed to send electricity through the air, instead of through wires. 167 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,560 When their energies were focused onto a corner of his lab, Hutchison found all sorts of ghostly 168 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,560 activities began to occur. 169 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,560 So you have things either taking off and starting to float or go around in circles, 170 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:52,560 or just move around a little bit on the target area, or lift off or break apart, and shatter into many pieces. 171 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:59,560 But, stranger still, these events only occur in the presence of Hutchison himself. 172 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:05,560 It's as if his mind is somehow using the massive force fields to twist reality. 173 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:11,560 Hutchison has even shown this with ordinary household objects. 174 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:21,560 By using electromagnetic fields, electrostatic fields, and all different kinds of configurations, 175 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:31,560 it seems to me, in my opinion that is, it forms a key way into this other realm that allows for certain effects to happen. 176 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:42,560 If the mind uses electromagnetism to create ghostly effects, is this only a modern condition? 177 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:48,560 Or is it the explanation of something that's been happening for centuries? 178 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,560 Find out when Truth or Scare continues. 179 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:13,560 The ancient druid site of Stonehenge was for 5,000 years a place of strange visions and mystical events. 180 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:20,560 Could a simple magnetic field possibly be responsible for centuries of its ghostly hauntings? 181 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,560 Scientists have searched for the answers in the ruins of this ancient place of worship. 182 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:35,560 Were electromagnetic fields disturbing our ancestors before microwaves and electric lights were a part of our lives? 183 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:43,560 This place and these stones were chosen for specific reasons, according to parapsychologist Serena Rony-Dougall. 184 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:54,560 The stones that they use, such as the Sarsons stones or the Blue stones, all have strange electrical and magnetic properties to them. 185 00:17:54,560 --> 00:18:01,560 We've found that nearly every stone circle in Britain is within a mile of a geological fault line. 186 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:14,560 We know from research in parapsychology that when the Earth's magnetic field increases in intensity, such as you get somewhere like this, 187 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:29,560 that you get very strong visions of apparitions, that you get UFO-type effects, that you get poltergeist-type effects and strong healing effects. 188 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:38,560 But why is it that visitors at Stonehenge today report different phenomena than ancient mystics? 189 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:47,560 Dr. Raiden believes it's because when we are confronted with something we can't explain, we tend to describe it according to our own beliefs. 190 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:55,560 If there's a blob of light in a room caused by who knows what reason, and you ask 10 people to describe what they saw, 191 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:04,560 a religious person might report seeing a religious deity perhaps, a scientist might report seeing a globe of light, 192 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,560 somebody else might report seeing their lung departed Aunt Susie and so on. 193 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,560 People's expectations will drive how they perceive these unusual events. 194 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:27,560 Scientists can't yet explain it, but places like these may somehow hold a psychic picture of their history. 195 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:34,560 Maybe some people can tune in to these sensational events captured at the place where they happen. 196 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:42,560 Dr. Raiden believes his experiments are beginning to prove people's ability to pick up images of those events. 197 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:52,560 But even weirder, he thinks certain people have the power to create these horrifying images themselves and to control the surroundings as well. 198 00:19:53,560 --> 00:20:03,560 Since we know that the mind can influence the physical environment, it's possible that somebody's expectation is so large and their motivation is so great 199 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,560 that they actually can change something in the environment which they will see. 200 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:14,560 Not only that, other people will see it as well. That will then be interpreted as a ghost. 201 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Study of ghosts and goblins is revealing a strange new world. 202 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:38,560 But even as we find reasonable explanations for the seemingly unreasonable, we open doorways that lead to even more mysteries. 203 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:50,560 Electromagnetism may simply be fooling our senses, or it could be turning a key that unlocks previously unknown powers in the human mind itself. 204 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:59,560 The only way to solve this mystery is to find the real power of the mind. 205 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:05,560 The power of the mind is to find the real power of the mind. 206 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:11,560 The power of the mind is to find the real power of the mind. 207 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:17,560 The power of the mind is to find the real power of the mind. 208 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:22,560 The power of the mind is to find the real power of the mind.