Ghosts

I think I'm in the same boat with Yeti. I find the topic of ghosts and other paranormal things interesting but I haven't been made a believer. There are a lot of things I find difficult to explain however but with modern technology it's harder to believe anything people record.

It would be one thing if EVP recordings said stuff as recorded but typically, if not always, paranormal researchers have to tinker with the recordings to get it to sound like something.  They're editing, manipulating, the recordings.  Then they interpret the sounds. 

"Did you hear that?  It said 'Get out!'"  Did it?  It also sounded like "That couch" or "licorice" or perhaps someone clearing their throat.

"EVP" stands for Electronic Voice Phenomena.  Ghost hunters use various devices to detect alleged ghosts and/or to record images or sounds.  EVPs are sounds recorded but not heard at the time they were recorded.  Normally the audio is amplified and/or manipulated (edited) to sound like voices.  The investigators then typically try to make out what is supposedly being said.

Good question, and I won't claim to be an expert at electronics.  I'm not qualified to speculate about the sources for random white noise picked up by recording devices.  Even regular Joes know we're surrounded by radio waves, microwaves, magnetic fields, and whatnot zipping all around us, so I wouldn't be surprised if the answer involves those.  When I was a kid, our old televisions displayed static scribbles if you weren't on a channel receiving a broadcast, and what we're seeing is a remnant from the birth of the universe; specifically, cosmic microwave background radiation.

The problem with that is that either ghosts exist in our world and are detectable or they're not.  If people ever see them, feel them, or hear them, then they're detectable by human senses, which means they're detectable to technology.  If technology can't detect them, then neither can our eyes or ears.  People allegedly have photos, videos, and audio recordings of them, and if that's possible then that means they were detectable by technology.  The argument that we don't have the technical capability to detect them means suggesting that we can detect them for crappy photos of ghost blobs but simultaneously we can't detect them.  They need to pick a story and stick with it.

Edit:
I'm bunny-trailing a bit now but why is it, here in the US, that at least 99.9%, if not 100%, of ghosts are of people between colonial America to present?  Natives lived here for thousands of years before anyone came here from Europe so it seems like there should be heaps of native ghosts, but it's all post-America ghosts.  Natives don't have spirits?

Why are 99.999% of ghosts human?  If they're souls because you believe in God and him giving us souls that He didn't give animals, that makes ghosts religious rather than scientific, but I'm taught that I die and go to heaven or heck (word filter) but ghosts mean I can defy God and choose to hang out on Earth instead. 

If ghosts aren't a religious thing then their spirits should be natural and not be limited to humans.  Other critters exponentially outnumber humans, not even factoring in a billion years of life before humans.  Where are all the horse ghosts, dog ghosts, mastodon ghosts, frog ghosts, beetle ghosts, and dinosaur ghosts?

To be scientific. Einstein said energy cant be created or destroyed. If souls are energy than that energy cant be destroyed and could keep on going after death right?

Maybe it's the souls that make us alive and when the soul leaves the body loses the energy that animates it and it dies? I don't know.