To be absolutely terrified after watching latest episode of Uncanny

I do think Julian’s house should have been investigated for sources of infrasound.

Because of their professions. That's nothing to do with the paranormal by the way.

Yes! The getting in the car thing was horrible. I drive in isolated areas at night, and a while ago convinced myself I could hear breathing from the back seat. This episode didn't help! We've had lights on all night since last Friday. Danny Robbins needs to help pay my electricity bill ;-).

Here is Stephen Novella, a neuroscientist, talking about "I know what I saw". theness.com/neurologicablog/sleep-and-false-memory/

Danny himself did a demonstration of this. They staged an incident in a lecture theatre with some students, then asked them to discuss the incident afterwards, with a plant there suggesting things that hadn’t happened. Then they interviewed the students individually. Many if not most of the students reported the untrue things the plant had suggested as fact.

Can living near trains going by cause weird things to happen in your house then? As i have had a lot of weird things happen in mine and there is train tracks not far from mine and often hear them going by

Suggestion is so, so powerful. People will swear up and down they have seen / heard something that has been seeded. Derren Brown does this well.

To them, they did see it, because their brain created it. Our eyes and brain together don't work like a camera, there is always processing decisions based on expectations. I have seen and heard things that my brain 100% made up.

Difficult to imagine how so many other people saw/experienced this thing if it was a manifestation of grief. Although I know it is said that paranormal experiences can be be sort of contagious/group hysteria can happen. I do agree that the mind IS a very powerful thing but that doesn't explain all the other people who have paranormal experiences at a time when they are in a good place mentally.

@PixieandDelilahsmum "Indeed we know some things but not everything about the universe. Science cannot explain these kinds of experiences but that does not mean they are not real."

It does not mean that they are paranormal either. When I was a young woman orbs floating in photographs were a big "thing". There were also a lot of photographs of ghosts and ectoplasm. (Who else remembers ectoplasm?🤣). Surprisingly their decline exactly correlates with advances in camera technology. Many ghostly manifestations were easily explained when we found out about sleep paralysis. It's absolutely fine not to know stuff. It's not fine to fill the knowledge gap with the paranormal.

The laws of the universe are themselves a bit of a mess, incoherent and many of them unexplained. Several things we know about, quantum mechanics, black holes, dark matter etc. are "weird" or don't "make sense" according to other laws.

That does make me think paranormal things could be arising out of "real" or natural phenomena we don't understand - just as we once didn't know about radio waves or ball lightning. I find it really interesting how so many of the things people report, specially ghosts and UFOs, follow similar sequences or have similar features, even descriptions from completely different times and places that couldn't have influenced each other. Though there probably is a contagion effect as well.

Iwas listening a podcast last night, Haunted Uk. They had a famous US paranormal investigator on. He spoke about a case in which a woman was convinced she’d heard footsteps in her attic. Turned out it was a squirrel throwing nuts around, the investigator actually saw it, but the woman refused to believe it wasn’t a paranormal entity. Some people just want to believe so badly.

It doesn’t mean they are paranormal either!

Indeed we know some things but not everything about the universe. Science cannot explain these kinds of experiences but that does not mean they are not real.

Yes that’s my take, that it is amazing how much science CAN explain and that the world is fascinating enough.

Tbf, that is the definition of paranormal - things that cannot be explained through current scientific knowledge/understanding.

I love hearing about 'paranormal' experiences. I watched a documentary on the Enfield poltergeist when I was about 13 and was fascinated but what I'm most interested in is the possible scientific explanations for these experiences. That's far more interesting to me than discovering ghosts are real!

When I turn my light off to go to sleep, it looks pitch black. But if I'm still awake a few minutes later, or if I wake up in the night, I can see quite a lot as my eyes have adjusted and can pick up tiny amounts of moonlight or a distant streetlight entering round the sides of the curtains, and I can see furniture and objects. So I would see a presence (real or paranormal!) - but I do also agree that those conditions combined with the effects of being half asleep can make people imagine they've seen something.

Same. All of previous Uncanny has been quite scary but forgettable, but this shadow man episode has absolutely terrified me. I had to stay on the phone to my other half when doing a night time drive at the weekend, too scared to drive alone. It's convincing which is obviously... quite alarming!

Mind you, S2E1 about he farm was also pretty bad.

Please do email in your experiences, they're so relevant to that episode.

@PixieandDelilahsmum "Do you think we know everything there is to know about the universe?"

Absolutely not. But we do know some things!

Yes, should have said not all people who claim to have experienced paranormal phenomena are liars!

Oh no, some people are definitely liars, especially where money / attention can be gained. It's naive to assume otherwise.

I don’t think people are liars. I think they have experienced psychological, environmental or natural phenomena that are as yet not fully explained but will turn out to fully comply with the laws of the universe. And not “paranormal”.