Death. It’s the end of our life and thusly the end of our conscious physical existence. This is what most of us have been taught to believe from the time of our birth. However, throughout history mankind has asked “Is this eternal finale really the end?” Many times when we have a paranormal experience we accept it under the façade of our mind playing tricks on us, that we are overtired, or some other similar pretense that we can easily and comfortably assure ourselves of. Paranormal experiences happen to people more often than they would be comfortable knowing about. This is not to say that every event that we can not readily explain should be called paranormal. On the contrary - we should view all potential paranormal events with a skeptical eye until we find that there is no other plausible or logical explanation for what has taken place. Most paranormal events take place just out of range of human perception, but there are times, because the fields of existence border each other so closely, that they intermingle with each other. Barring religious and philosophical arguments we must look to physics and physiology to explain, at least in part, what happens when a ghostly manifestation takes place.

In order to better understand how a ghost manifests we must start with the basics - a rudimentary look at our own physiology. Recalling high school Biology you may already know that when your heart beats it pumps blood throughout the circulatory system so that it may deliver oxygen and nutrients to the body while removing wastes and toxins. What you may not know is that the human heart, during the process of this natural rhythmic cycle, also produces a regulatory 60 Hertz (Hz) bioelectric pulse. Your brain also produces a similar 60 Hz bioelectric pulse that is distributed throughout the body via the spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system. What does this have to do with ghosts?  Essentially, everything and here’s why.

The First Law of Thermodynamics which is paraphrased here states that: “…energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed…” This would mean, in a sense, that the 60 Hz bioelectric impulses from your heart and brain cannot be destroyed; only changed. When this transformation occurs, which is typically understood to be at the time of physical death, the Second Law of Thermodynamics takes effect. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that “…energy is dispersed from a core source and will radiate outward in a symmetrical pattern until acted upon.” In light of this, human energies upon death of the physical body generally disperse in a natural manner in accord with the Second Law of Thermodynamics and nothing more occurs within the process. However, there are times when the energy leaves the body upon physical death and does not disperse as dictated by the Second Law. These exceptions are the origins, the very beginnings of a ghost. In the cases where the Second Law has been circumvented and the circumstances for anomalous creation is right, we must then identify the Genesis Mechanism. That is, what caused the ghost to be in that particular place? Death? Love? Unfinished business? Damnation? The reasons for debating why ghosts “come back” to haunt a place are almost as varied and heavily argued as the existence of ghosts themselves.

After reading the latter portion of the article about the First Law you may be thinking that it sounds as if everyone who dies becomes a ghost. That is not the case at all as the Second Law of Thermodynamics prohibits that sort of event from occurring in most situations. Because of almost infinite variables the circumstances are right for only a relatively small percentage of human energies to actually become ghosts. In the situations where the circumstances are right and the energies do amass to a great enough degree to generate a fragment of consciousness they are generally found to be bound by a linear association near the place of physical death. This means that although true ghosts are free-roaming entities, manifesting and moving about as they please, they are still “bound” in a sense to a certain place where their energy resides or is tied to, which is usually the place where the Genesis Mechanism occurred. This is not a physical binding obviously, as a ghost is comprised of bioelectric energy. Rather it is a case of covalent electron bonding where the ghost’s energy has become a part of that place or object due to an electron deficit or a negating of a valence field, hence the ability to use EMF meters effectively. This bonding can be considered to be a secondary effect which has been created by the primary cause, the Genesis Mechanism. The binding of a ghost to a certain place is a double-sided concept. Although the Genesis Mechanism causes the ghost to be “placed” within a certain geographic location the actual bonding of the entity to that place is performed entirely through the covalent bonding of the ghost’s energy to that place. Ghosts are also “bound” in a sense by their own fragments of consciousness. Like humans, ghosts are creatures of habit and when the fragment of consciousness again becomes self-aware they think that they are who they were in life and usually tend to carry on as if they were still living. This means that their memories and personality would also carry over with their energies and they would then tend to have the same habits and personality traits that they did in life.  

Over time a ghost’s energy may dissipate to a point where the consciousness fades and it is no longer self-aware. In this state the ghost’s energy may lie dormant until its cell is disturbed or reactivated. Disturbance of the energies is a relatively straightforward action that obviously creates enough of a change in the energy of the surrounding environment to “awaken” the ghost’s consciousness. Reactivation, however, requires a trigger mechanism to act as a catalyst. Unlike a Genesis Mechanism a trigger mechanism is a bit trickier to define as they are innumerable and almost impossible to predict as each situation is unique and has its own set of specific circumstances and variables. As with the Genesis Mechanism these triggers are highly variable and can range from intangible energy such as emotional stresses and extremes to physical acts such as trauma and violence. What all of the previous information in this article points to is that under the right circumstances the bioelectric energy within the human body coupled with a Genesis Mechanism and the physics of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics can potentially lead to the creation of an anomalous bioelectric manifestation – a ghost.

Even with the strong evidence presented in this article, as well as that found throughout Haunted Times Magazine, there will always be skeptics. With the mounting tide of accurate scientific research, the data compiled continues to support the existence of ghosts. This burden of evidence supports the continued scientific efforts in the field of paranormal research. The various works in this magazine hold true to the scientific vision of that burden.