So, guess what? Turns out those spooky ghost vibes might just be your old plumbing giving you the heebie-jeebies! 🤣 Yeah, a new study from some brainy folks at McAwain University says those creepy sensations in haunted houses could actually be from low-frequency sounds—like the kind you hear when your HVAC decides to throw a hissy fit. I mean, if something's gonna scare me, it better at least introduce itself, right? 😂 We’re diving into how our brains jump to conclusions faster than a cat on a hot tin roof, thinking every creak is a ghost instead of just a rickety old floorboard. So grab your popcorn, and let’s figure out if that chill in the air is supernatural or just your radiator acting up!
Takeaways:
Ever think ghosts are just cranky old pipes? Turns out, it might be just that!
A psychologist found that those spooky sensations might just be low frequencies messing with us.
Your body freaks out from unexplainable sounds, and your brain jumps to 'ghosts'—classic!
Ghosts getting a bad rap while it’s really the HVAC system playing tricks on us!
Next time you feel a chill, don't call the ghostbusters—call a plumber instead!
Ghost tours are about to get way less thrilling—'Welcome to the haunted radiator!'
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Good morning.
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It's Haystack.
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And there's a new piece of research that tells us ghosts may just be bad plumbing.
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With a marketing team apparently from Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, which already sounds like the haunted wing of a university library.
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A psychologist from McAwain University found that a lot of the haunted sensations in old buildings may actually come from something called infrasound sound.
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Below 20 hertz, those are frequencies so low that humans cannot hear them, which is unfair.
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If a sound can scare me, the least it can do is introduce itself first.
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In these experiments, participants were exposed to low frequency vibrations and they couldn't hear anything, but their cortisol levels went up.
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They felt irritable, stressed, unnerved.
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Basically, it's like trying to assemble furniture.
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That's how they felt.
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No, there's definitely a dark presence in here.
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No, that's just step 14.
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Read the destructions.
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And the best part were that these sounds come from aging boilers, ventilation systems, vibrating pipes.
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So the ghost haunting the Victorian mansion is basically H vac.
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A ghost hunter walks into a creepy old inn's a spirit trapped between worlds.
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s, yeah, it's a radiator from:
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I just love that our.
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Our brains are so desperate for answers.
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Your body feels a little weird for just a few minutes and your brain goes, well, obviously dead children, that's the leap it makes.
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Not.
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Maybe the building needs repairs.
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No.
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Straight to the paranormal Netflix special.
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We are a dramatic species.
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The study says that people already primed to believe in ghosts are of course more likely to interpret stress as supernatural presence.
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Which makes sense if you already believe in ghosts.
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Every old building is basically an Airbnb hosted by Satan.
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And you know the type of every creek in the house becomes evidence.
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No, seriously.
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The spirit is trying to communicate.
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No.
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Brenda, your floorboards.
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140 Years old.
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The house is making a retirement noise.
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That's all it is.
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Now, I do think ghosts are kind of getting a raw deal here, though.
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The actual ghost.
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Can you.
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Can you imagine being an actual ghost and hearing about this?
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What do you mean?
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It's the boiler.
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I worked hard on that haunting.
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I flickered those lights personally.
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This research could save people a fortune, though.
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No paying for the expensive exorcism.
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Just.
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Just call a plumber.
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The priest shows up, the power of Christ compels you.
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Hold on.
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Father Maintenance says they fixed the ventilation system.
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You can.
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You can go on.
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And if this catches on, ghost tours are going to be a lot less exciting.
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Over on your left, you'll notice a 19th century staircase where visitors reported a chilling presence.
