AUTHOR: Aisling
DATE: 15:36
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>I feel like we've become the ghost hunting equivalent of Mythbusters. 

That's not necessarily a <span style="font-style: italic;">bad</span> thing, but  I'm afraid that all these debunking articles will make us look like rabid skeptics instead of believers who choose <span style="font-style: italic;">healthy</span> skepticism, and do research accordingly.

I try to steer our research away from what I call 'Amazing Randi syndrome'; in other words, just because we <span style="font-style: italic;">can</span> fake a ghost photo, doesn't mean that <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> ghost photos like it are fakes.  In fact, they may all be real.  We're just trying to eliminate mistakes when we say that something in a ghost picture is an anomaly.

I hate it when we put a photo online and declare that it's an anomaly, and later realize that it was a bug or a reflection.  We look stupid, and I like to think that we're smarter than that.

But anyway, I look at all of our debunking research this month, and wonder if new visitors to our website will think that we're a bunch of raving skeptics.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div>
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