What it's like to run a paranormal investigation helpline...
What it's like to run a paranormal investigation helpline... Paranormal investigator Jay Alani has taken more than 1,000 calls from people claiming to have seen ghosts or to be possessed. His findings are quite the surprise.
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Some time in 2018, Jay Alani logged on to his Facebook to find a disturbing message from a woman in the north Indian city of Yamuna Nagar. The woman, a 22-year-old dentist, claimed she had seen a lady floating in front of her. She appeared to not have legs. The woman was convinced that the apparition was trying to kill her, and was so distressed that it pushed her to contemplate ending her life. When Alani asked if she had confided in her friends and family, her response was equally alarming. “She said that when she told her parents, they sent her to an ashram (a spiritual or religious retreat),” the 32-year-old paranormal investigator from New Delhi told VICE. “She was there for about 15 to 20 days when the baba (godman) heading the institution tried to make a ‘physical connection’ with her. He told her he was an avatar of god with miraculous energies flowing through him, and that the moment his sperm would enter her body, the ghosts would go away. She somehow managed to escape from the ashram, but was worried that if she brought up the hauntings again, her parents would send her back.”
When Alani paid a visit to the woman, he realised that her experience might not have been supernatural. Instead, he believed it was a result of pareidolia, a tendency to see meaningful shapes and figures in random or unrelated objects. “People often see imaginary figures or creatures when they have suffered through trauma,” he explained. “When I asked her about her childhood, she told me about how she was molested by her uncle at the age of 7, which is probably what triggered her [hallucinations].”
At that point, Alani, the founder of paranormal investigating startup The Paranormal Company, had been investigating the supernatural for eight years. Having visited hundreds of sites of reported paranormal presence, Alani was a firm believer that most supernatural sightings could be explained through rational and logical explanations.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bn...i-ghost-buster
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