Could A Paranormal Event Scare You To Death?

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There are many people that believe in the paranormal. One just has to see what programs are playing on our television sets to prove that. Lately there are plenty of them that are of the paranormal persuasion. I don't look at most of them, but I admit that I do look at Ghost Hunters. It is not so much that I believe in the paranormal, but I am always curious to see what they find. Unfortunately I can sum up most of the episodes this way:
Did you hear that?
Did you feel that?
Did you smell that?
Did you feel that cold spot?
Did you see that light?
I was touched!
We caught a voice on our recorder that no one was able to hear!

Once in awhile you do see something, but it is never complete enough to know what it was. It always seems that we are waiting to see that human like figure descend a staircase and then disappear, but it never happens. Aside from this kind of thing, there are many reports from people that swear that they have seen a ghost. My favorite report and one that I have talked about before was the one where a young sailor on the carrier museum Hornet has conducted tours and answered questions. According to the people that run the museum this sailor does not work for them and is the ghost of a sailor who died in World War II. The people that took the tour with him praised him to the administration telling them how knowledgeable he was. Now that is more like the paranormal, isn't it? By the way this happens in the daytime.

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Throughout history there has been reports of spirits of the dead roaming the earth. Why is this? Is it just me or do any of you think that this subject is far too popular and there has to be a reason and it is not necessarily a paranormal one? I think that the reason why most people are so fascinated with the paranormal is that death is such a mystery. Most people find it hard to believe that death is the end of all things and even science tells us that energy never dies and our brains put out energy as does our bodies and that energy is electrical. We are electrical beings. We know that most of the paranormal happenings can be disproved. Some of it is a hoax, some is misidentification and some is just imagination. Some people can get so scared in certain situations that they think that they see and hear things that are not there, or are caused by quite ordinary circumstances.

I don't know if this is true, but there are some who say that people have been sleeping and gotten so scared from a dream that they died. Being scared on the level of one's heart stopping is not a new concept. It even has been written about. The famous Sherlock Holmes character investigated the death of a man that was supposedly scared to death by a ghostly dog in the Hound of the Baskervilles. On the site How Stuff Works, they relate a story about how the number four in Chinese and Japanese culture sounds like the word death when it is pronounced and is felt to be very unlucky. They go on to state that research was conducted for over 25 years and that research measured the amount of people that died on the 4th of any month in those countries against the amount that died in a control group of 47 million white people and indeed there were 13% more deaths among the Japanese and Chinese. It is assumed that they had put more stress on themselves on those days.

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I think it is safe to say that stress is a cause of some heart attacks, but anything that causes stress, whether real or imagined is bad for the heart. A doctor who is a neurologist at a famous hospital in Boston claims to have seen hundreds of cases of people who died from heart attacks caused by being scared to death. He goes so far as to say that not only can a terrifying event cause death, but getting too excited over a good event can cause it. The doctor gives an example of how such a good event can have a tragic consequence. A man was playing golf and hit a hole in one. He became so excited that he died. In another sporting instance a man bowled a perfect 300 and died. He has documented cases where people have gotten so scared on rides that they have died and others who died after stressful events such as earthquakes and even 9/11 in New York. These people were literally scared to death.

There is a story about a man that was dared to stay in an old abandoned mansion down South. It was said that the mansion was haunted and people had died in the house right after the American Civil War. The people of the area had said that they could see people inside the home when they looked through the windows from the outside and yet the house was empty. It was said that the house originally belonged to a Southern Officer who had met his death in the war and then his wife on hearing the news hung herself from a chandler, leaving two children parentless. Neither one of the children lived beyond the age of 30 years and it had been reported that the entire family could be at times in the form of a man wearing a Southern Officer's Uniform, a woman in a Civil War era dress and 2 young children. The year was somewhere around the 1970s and the man took up the dare of staying in the home overnight.

The next day at about 8:00 am in the morning, his friends who had dared him to stay in the home, went there looking for him. It is said that they found his body in a sleeping bag in what was the former living room of the home. His hair had turned white. When the body was examined there were no marks on it. The coroner had stated that his heart had stopped and he could not explain why his hair had changed color. Had this poor guy been scared to death? It seemed so. Could this story be verified, I tried without success, but who knows, it could still be true.