Post Summary:
Pareidolia (parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a very common and very significant problem in paranormal research and especially when using photographic evidence to support the idea that a spirit was captured by the camera. Unfortunately, pareidolia is not limited to visual phenomenon but also has a significant impact in auditory evidence and may play just as an important role in the misidentification of sounds in EVP recordings which supposedly represents vocal contact with a “ghost”. Given that it has such a big impact on evidence and that it is so common, pareidolia should be understood and compensated for in any serious study of the paranormal. I discuss pareidolia and its impact in the paranormal in my book. Check it out!
Pareidolia (parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a very common and very significant problem in paranormal research and especially when using photographic evidence to support the idea that a spirit was captured by the camera. Unfortunately, pareidolia is not limited to visual phenomenon but also has a significant impact in auditory evidence and may play just as an important role in the misidentification of sounds in EVP recordings which supposedly represents vocal contact with a “ghost”. Given that it has such a big impact on evidence and that it is so common, pareidolia should be understood and compensated for in any serious study of the paranormal. I discuss pareidolia and its impact in the paranormal in my book. Check it out!
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