Coltan Scrivner

You got 25 and 25, right?

So 50 people, 25 believe in ghosts, 25 don't.

And then another group, the same thing.

Now, in group A, you tell them when they come into the lab to do this study, hey, just so you know, we need you to sign this form to let you know that someone died recently in this room.

If people were told that there was the possibility of a ghost being in the room, they reacted to strange events during their lab experience in the same way.

It didn't matter if they believed in ghosts or not.

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?