Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters
Journal of Scientific Exploration December 28, 2023 Christine Simmonds-Moore 15 citations
A collaborative team called the Ghost Gang uses adversarial collaboration to study ghost experiences, bracketing personal beliefs to explore the phenomenon systematically. They present the theory of Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S), which understands ghost phenomena from psychological, social, and environmental perspectives. The approach advocates ruling out normal explanations before considering parapsychological ones, keeping an open but critical stance. The text describes a participatory research method aligned with transpersonal and community-based approaches, aiming to equalize academic hierarchies and generate new insights into a common human experience.