Do spirits drain energy from small devices?
I'm not big into the paranormal and was hoping someone with a bit more knowledge and interest on the subject could shed some light on this.
One of the soldiers in our barracks swears his room is haunted as well as the last 3 soldiers to live in the room. The guy is so scared to go in his room he often sleeps overnight in the off post room upstairs. So to figure out whats going on we've been putting a go pro in his room to see if anything happens. It went fine the first few days, but today the battery died after 2 hours of recording. The battery had been fully charged and recorded much much longer the days prior. I noticed there was a funky, but very subtle noise just before the camera shut down if that means anything.
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<The kid says his clothes and things in the closet get moved around, that's what I'm trying to capture.> If things are being moved around, it's a human doing it. Either your friend is absentmindedly putting things where he doesn't remember, or someone else is doing it for him. It's easy to imagine a prankster sneaking into his room to reinforce his fears after learning he's superstitious enough to believe his room is haunted. Another possibility is that he is a sleepwalker. In any case the camera is a good idea in all cases, unless it's the prankster scenario, in which case the same person (or persons) also disabled the camera. So, yes, as FU says, a second, hidden, camera is called for.
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People are absentminded creatures, and it's easy for us to set things down and forget having moved them. We hear this 'ghosts moved my things' claim constantly. Ask yourself this: whether the intent of the ghost is to communicate with us or to frighten us, why wouldn't they move things *while we are looking*, instead of when we aren't? Why make it look exactly as it would if a human had moved things? Wouldn't it be orders of magnitude more effective to fly an iPod around the room right in front of the astounded human, than to sneak it behind the bed while we're not looking? Of course it would, that's undeniable, isn't it? It only happens when we're not looking because humans are doing it.
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<Do spirits drain energy from small devices?> There's no compelling evidence that spirits even exist, but even if there were, what evidence is there that they can drain batteries? None. We only have the assurances of the New Age believers that it is so, but frankly, they just make it up as they go along. Did your lights flicker? Must be a ghost, not a fluctuation in the electrical mains. Did your house creak? Must be a ghost, couldn't be thermal contraction of the house materials as night temperatures change. Did your battery get drained? Must be a ghost, because there's no other explanation, right? The thing is, there are almost always rational, normal explanations for paranormal claims.
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How would you propose that a non-physical entity, something with no mass, transfer electrical energy from a battery? A conductive connection between the positive and negative terminals needs to be made for the electrons to flow (unless induction is used - but then the hardware is needed - induction coil, etc). And then what? What happens to the electricity? Do ghosts have batteries they need to charge, or perhaps and electric motor to power? Why would they single out a small thing like a go pro, instead of draining power from all electricity sources around?
Sorry, but you just can't break the laws of physics to satisfy silly superstitions. And you're wasting your time with a camera anyway - cameras work by detecting reflected light. Again, your ghost would need to be a physical thing to reflect photons.
That is the claim---But we really do not know what "Spirits" are do we? Very "Haunted" places are often rife with MOVING EMFs. easily detected by measuring devices. "Ghost lore" aside, a more Scientific and conservative theory would be that the location is subject to some sort of atmospheric or Telluric (Earth electricity) disturbances------This would both explain why people think there are "ghosts" there and even can induce "hallucinations" and strange feelings in "sensitive" people.---"Draining" batteries and other interference with electronic devices could also be expected.
Now this Phenomena is "unexplained" for now, (since when do we know everything?) but certainly possible and detectable. It fits in with known Science. Likely it is related to "Earthquake Lights"---something else suspected to be real, and finally accepted as so as late as 2012. Running water underground, and stresses on quartz bearing rocks are KNOWN to produce electrical effects.
I have heard of batteries being rapidly drained before, in haunted locations. That is part of the reason why paranormal investigators often use a gadget called an electro magnetic pump. It is supposed to feed the entity with energy, needed to help it communicate or even manifest.
maybe it was not charged properly
when I once placed a camera to film so called ghost activity my camera some how turned off
so the next night I set it up again but this time I set another camera filming my camera, but I did not tell any one and sure enough I found out that the person who was messing with the camera and doing the ghost stuff was indeed someone who was very much alive
Try using voice recorders. And yes spirits seem able to mess with electronics. You will likely get 10x more audible evidence than visible.
Don't believe the Christian view that everything is a demon. It is more likely to just be an ex soldier.
Here's one story told to me by an ex squadron leader who was my father in law; He saw a lot and didn't believe in this type of thing.
He was posted to Germany, and spent the night in one room of a barracks that was empty apart from him. He was woken by some banging upstairs, so got up to see what the fuss was. Opening his door he could see the stairs to the upper floor to his left through the glass of double doors, and to his right another set of doors and the front door beyond that.
He heard the noise of banging getting louder, and coming from the stairs, then it stopped. Two seconds later the set of doors opened , then closed, then moments later the other set of doors to his right opened and closed!
When he discussed this with the guys over breakfast, they said the boys used to store their trunks upstairs, and would drag them down the stairs with a bump bump bump when they went on leave, and had been heard before.
Try leaving small items like old coins to see if they are moved, but you must use things of the same age or earlier. If they didn't exist in their time they may have problems seeing or moving them.
If his things are getting moved around that sounds like someone pranking him. If you are going to set up a camera make sure it is hidden and don't tell the other guys about it. If you capture anything it will be some living person sneaking in there and doing it.
Are you allowed to swap rooms, why doesn't he just exchange with some sensible person that is not afraid of imaginary beings?
whenever humans try to record anything paranormal everything starts to go wrong like a panic feeling the camera stops working etc. This is proof to me that there is a prescience that is also connected to your own mind
It could mean the presence of a demon, however, is the faculty of the demons to be registered or not, they use their prodigies who are more evolved human science.
Tell her the soldier to feel comfortable, beyond what they can do the demons on the people, the demons can not kill anyone, because God does not allow the demons !!
If iol soldier is a believer can pray to God, then the spirit will go away! Ok!
No, there are no such things as ghosts. Soldiers afraid to sleep in a haunted room; are you sure that's an image you want out there? What's next monsters under the bunk?