Halloween is near. Tell your true tale of metal detecting and ghosts.

[JASONSPAZ1]

I was at a beach at 2am working the low tide. Every few minutes I would whip off my headphones because I thought I heard a whispering woman's voice. I really didn't think of a ghost and chalked it up to someone in a beach cottage. It was real foggy and my headlamp was like a lightsaber in the fog. Later that evening on another forum I was discussing the odd whispering. My inbox started getting links from users telling me about how a ship in my location I was detecting sunk and the only survivor was a dog. The captain and his daughter drowned and for years many would hear the whispering. A metal detector is a powerful electro magnetic device and those ghost shows always use electro magnetic devices to search for ghosts. I wonder if the constant hum of the threshold and the emf waves of my sovereign GT metal detector enhanced the ability to hear the whispering?

 

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[Helipilot]

Interesting post. Can't say I believe in "ghosts" but there are interesting phenomenon that are not easily explained. I have had uneasy feelings before while MDing but that is about it.

 

[cudamark]

I was at a beach at 2am working the low tide. Every few minutes I would whip off my headphones because I thought I heard a whispering woman's voice. I really didn't think of a ghost and chalked it up to someone in a beach cottage. It was real foggy and my headlamp was like a lightsaber in the fog. Later that evening on another forum I was discussing the odd whispering. My inbox started getting links from users telling me about how a ship in my location I was detecting sunk and the only survivor was a dog. The captain and his daughter drowned and for years many would hear the whispering. A metal detector is a powerful electro magnetic device and those ghost shows always use electro magnetic devices to search for ghosts. I wonder if the constant hum of the threshold and the emf waves of my sovereign GT metal detector enhanced the ability to hear the whispering?

I had the same thing happen to me......until I realized that it was the Minion I found that was still turned on and talking to me from the pouch!

 

[kingskid1611]

2am at low tide? It could have been far away voices being carried on the breeze. At night it is quieter and sound seems to carry farther. Natural phenomenon and I find it fascinating too.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

2am at low tide? It could have been far away voices being carried on the breeze. At night it is quieter and sound seems to carry farther. Natural phenomenon and I find it fascinating too.

No matter how much there is naturally occurring explanations (like psychological confirmation bias, selective memory, or outright natural phenomenom explanations), people will gravitate to the ghost & supernatural explanations. Not saying there is "zero supernatural", but just saying that I think people go woo-woo much too easily.

 

[flgliderpilot]

Considering how many people have lived and died a horrible live and death on this planet, I would think it would be so noisy with ghosts one could barely think... if they actually existed.

 

[RustyGold]

I seem to hear a radio or TV playing when it's really quiet at night. Must be an old filling!

 

[Helipilot]

X2 on the filling. When I was a kid about a hundred years ago, my Dad built a cat whisker radio with a crystal. Actually worked and could be tuned by moving the "cat whisker" wire over the crystal. Still don't believe in ghosts though.