Skippy was a 14-year-old girl who had been murdered by an older man. The most successful of these efforts, to date, has been the Skippy Experiment, which has also been referred to as the “Sydney Experiment.” This study took place in Sydney, Australia and is often said to be ongoing.įrom the start, the Australian team focused on a fictitious character named Skippy Cartman. The Philip Experiment, discussed last week, has since been replicated several times. If you’ve ever made even a cursory visit to any of those online ghost sites, however, you would’ve noticed that there’s an even darker side to the stories of hauntings: Trolls! Hundreds of people – maybe even thousands – have taken it upon themselves to declare – because they claim they’ve never seen or experienced anything “paranormal” themselves – that the rest of us are just plain, bat-shit crazy.Ĭontinue reading “Science and Ghosts” Author Shanon Sinn Posted on AugJanuCategories Ghosts Tags 19 hertz, Ghosts, Haunting, Near Death Experience, Philip Experiment, Poltergeist, Science, Skippy Experiment, the Quiet Ones, Trolls 3 Comments on Science and Ghosts The Skippy Experiment

Whether we see them as a fantastical source of entertainment, or as dark messengers from an unseen world, one thing’s entirely certain: ghosts are here to stay. They’ve even spawned a multimillion-dollar industry in the form of books, movies and television. Every family has a ghost story or two, as does every town. Ghosts, they’re everywhere! From the pages of the Bible to the old building down the street, people have been reporting hauntings for thousands of years. “Science itself does not always know why a thing is so.” – God’s World: A Treatise on Spiritualism (T.

Conjuring Up Philip by Iris M. Owen