Coltan Scrivner

Their body kind of lit up in the same way.

If there was an inkling that there might be a ghost in the room.

Yeah, that's why the lights are flickering.

Yeah.

You would think nothing of it.

Yeah.

They just didn't say anything in the control condition, right?

There was no story of a ghost.

So the manipulation was a light went off for seven seconds and came back on in the middle of one of their tasks.

And it was dark and quiet in the room.

They were supposed to be...

Oh, you would hate that.

And if you're just in there, you're like, okay, well, I guess the electrician didn't install his light correctly.

But if you're told we have to sign this death on the premise form, one of the grad students says he saw a ghost, then you're like, oh, why did that light go off, right?

And even if your conscious mind is like, I don't believe in ghosts, right?

You still, your body feels the same way.

The amygdala takes over.

I'm nervous about this.

It's like, fuck that, we believe in ghosts.

Something's gnarly around here.