PROOF! Ghosts Do Not Exist!

Modern technology may have finally dispelled the purported existence of such mythical entities as Ghosts, Bigfoot, UFO’s, the Loch Ness Monster and the like. While it is difficult to prove a negative (that is, to prove something does not exist or did not happen), and thus one reason why tales of these things still persist in our modern world, the increasing lack of evidence significantly reduces the likelihood that such phantoms do, or ever did, exist.

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the availability and use of digital cameras and cell phones with digital cameras. Whether it’s a plane crash in a remote part of the world or Michael Richards, Kramer of Seinfeld fame, engaging in a racist rant on stage, it seems that there is invariably someone standing by with a camera, and the next thing you know the movie is up on Youtube. Additionally, with security cameras being so ubiquitous, it is hard to find an event that is not captured on some camera somewhere. Crime scene investigators often go to this resource when looking for clues and it often pays off. This was one way that they were able to track down Timothy McVay, the man responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.

It’s hard to imagine that with all those cameras out there and all the things that would have previously gone unseen now getting out in the media, that there are really no new exciting photos of supposedly supernatural beings. For instance, several weeks ago hundreds of people in Texas reported seeing UFOs’ but only one person caught it on video, a video so poor the image could have been nearly anything.

People are still finding Bigfoot footprints, but when was the last time you saw new photographs? Search for images on the internet and the majority of pictures you will find are grainy old footage from the 1970’s and shots from Harry and the Hendersons. If “civilization” is indeed encroaching on the natural world, surely more contact would be occurring and thus more photographs of these creatures would be available. Sure, there are plenty of photographs of supposed ghosts, but most of the more contemporary images are of featureless “orbs” and not the full bodied apparitions, or even bodiless faces, that our human imagination has heretofore created as the model “ghost”.

For that matter, where is the evidence of ghostly activities, such as the moving of objects or other unexplained phenomenon? Again, if this sort of thing exists, why is there not more evidence of it today?

Even when hoaxers come forward and raise their hand, saying “yes, I faked the Loch Ness Monster”, or “I made the crop circles” many people still can’t bring themselves to disbelieve. Though, it’s getting harder and harder to believe even when confronted with so called proof. Photographs, the past high watermark for proof value, are so open to manipulation using easily available technology that they are now nearly useless as evidence. Many doctored photographs, touted as authentic, circulate via the World Wide Web, so many there are websites, such as Snopes.com dedicated to verifying their veracity or debunking exaggerated claims.

If you are looking for proof one way or the other, you can accept blurry images or dubious eye witness accounts without any hard evidence, or you can listen to the overwhelming silence on the subject, because there is no evidence and accept things like ghosts or Big Foot do not exist. Its time to relegate these stories to the campfires where they belong and allow millions of children world wide to sleep in peace knowing that there is no such thing as the boogey man.