Scientists Used a 'Psychomanteum' to Summon Ghostly Encounters. Then It Got Weird.
Scientists Used a 'Psychomanteum' to Summon Ghostly Encounters. Then It Got Weird.
Researchers at the University of West Georgia and Northwest Missouri State University studied 30 participants in a psychomanteum, a dim mirror room, to evoke sensations of deceased loved ones. Over 45 minutes, 24 participants reported feeling a presence, with vividness linked to higher creative fantasy scores, not to synesthesia.
Source: Scientists Used a 'Psychomanteum' to Summon Ghostly Encounters. Then It Got Weird. — ScienceAlert
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