壁虎山莊 ™ Geckos' Lair

Ghost! Believe it, or not?!

read some articles from ah 9 and some of his linkies about ghostly trips with forum pals and SPI to proclaimed haunted places. basically, ah 9 is good with his camara, and definitely a "ghost hunter". click on the linkies to his blog to noe more about the story of OCH - Old Changi Hosp. - and view some pictures he took, no ghastly shot though.. He certainly knows more that anyone of us here.

he got quite some interesting post on his personal strange encounters, interested parties can click here and browse around at your onw risk.

from some of the linkies, i got here :
A news article entitled "Japanese company now offers a "Ghost detector""


such crap cost 185 bucks selling in Japan!

quoted:
"SolidAlliance Corp.'s portable GhostRadar beeps and flashes red lights in response to unusual magnetic waves."
"It also reacts to body heat and perspiration detected by a sensor where users place their thumbs."
"The device may beep as often as once an hour in a place that's haunted but might fall silent in other spots, Saito said. He wouldn't elaborate on how it works."
"This detects invisible phenomena and so the system is confidential,"
"This is not a game. This is a measuring device."

after some quick browse through.. i started to wonder..

1. What is the purpose of this Ghost detector?
   - for housewife to detect if ghost is in the house?
   - for exorcist to sense to detect invisible phenomena and do nothing but simply, just detect it fot the sake of detecting? (if they have the ability to expel spirits, they don't even need this gadget in the 1st place)
   - for superstitious people to detect if any spirits are following them therefore they loose their TOTO or 4D?
   
   
2. What convinced the company/scientist that this magnetic waves belongs to spirits?
   - why can't it be some unknown radiation or frequencies due to nature?
   - since it can react to heat from human's thumb, then what makes it true to say that, in so-called haunted area, it beeps since the area is humid instead? (isolated places is unlikely to have much wind and trees around, and not to say fan and aircon)
   
   
3. "GhostRadar is a novelty item that comes attached to a portable storage device, which holds documents, photos and other files on a memory card and plugs into a computer's USB port."
   Scientist dueling with such phenomenal said that unusual photographs and sounds could be due to some other factors instead of "Ghost"
   - then.. what is this gadget trying to proove?

From a photography forum, professional photographer are disscussing about taking pics of ghost..

1 participant posted an online manual which teaches you how to modify the CCD sensor of your camera to be more sensitive to 'ghostly' apparitions.

below is something i found from the forum:
" 'ghostly' appearances are generally remnants of electromagnetic pulses of people and events which happen long, long ago. these impulses are somehow trapped in a void, thus unable to easily transform into other forms of energies such as heat, sound and so on. over time, these impulses will slowly 'leak' out of the void. this is where we come in ... we modify the CCD chip and 'tap' into these impulses..transforming the impulses into visible light. as the 'leakage' is slow..hence the need for long exposures (2 minutes and longer). however, my advice is not to give it too long an exposure too, as this will result in the "Ring Syndrome" , whereby the 'ghost' will crawl out of your DSLR LCD screen. the fixing of the special filter in front of the lens is specifically to prevent this syndrome. go for the multicoated version!

now..to the more technical part .. focussing is not like what we do in conventional photography. as the 'impulses' are beyond the normal visible light spectrum, we need to 'agulation' the focus distance. if you ever wonder what the symbol '8' on your lens mean... (in this case, it does not mean infinity).. well, that's where you should set your focus distance to. ever wonder why they use '8'? because according to Chinese tradition..it is suppose to be a lucky number."

sounds like so chim to you cos you know nth about camaras, especially such a chim wan? same here.. but wad i wanted to hi-light is that:

• Wad is the purpose of a GOOD camera? Used to capture Ghost meh?!
• What are the strange images that appeared on photos? why some in humanic shapes while some in orbs and smokes? electromagnetic pulses from people give you human shape while EP from events give you orbs and smokes ar?

Totally in a lost...

after reading so many strange encounters in blogS, i wonder if the "things" are really ghost... but i kinda believe that those encounters are real lar, who will so bo liao spend so much time to think about ghost stories to post on blogs (they need time to think oso!)?

current thought: read a lot of spooky stuff in just one night give me lots of goosebumps that you can ever imagine... brrr.. its 6.40am in the morning now..
i guess i better wait till dawn for my toilet run before i sleep.

thought again.. another one..
i remembered my mum told me that i had another brother.. he died sometime after birth? or before birth? can't remember.. is he younger or older then me? i think is younger.. cant remember either.. (my memory is deteriorating fast) okok.. i had another brother who died and i knew nth about it till my mom told me sometime ago..

erm.. what has this got to do with the topic? hmm.. nth..

ANYWAY, got a spooky story to share? Better if it's your own encounter, post it in the comments! ;)
i wonder if i got the balls to read... anyway, just post it!

started posting at 4.15am
do researched for more creeps
ended posting at 7.16am
ywanz...

Posted by 壁虎 at 4:51:00 AM