LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phones are killing off ghosts, an expert who has
spent years researching the occult has said.
Tony Cornell, of the Society for Psychical Research, told the Sunday
Express newspaper that reports of ghost sightings had started to decline
when mobile phones were introduced 15 years ago.
"Ghost sightings have remained consistent for centuries. Until three years
ago we'd receive reports of two new ghosts every week," said Cornell, of
Cambridge in Eastern England.
"But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years ago, ghost sightings
began to decline to the point where now we are receiving none."
According to the paper, haunted tourist attractions in Britain could be
under threat if the number of cellphones continues to grow from the
present figure of 39 million
Apparently paranormal events, which some scientists put down to unusual
electrical activity, could be drowned out by the electronic noise produced
by phone calls and text messages.
