Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits and Hauntings, by Pye and Dalley, begins by discussing the major theories to account for haunted houses. This section in itself is fascinating. The noted Psychological Theory is associated with hallucinations and mental states. Most of these arguments are well known.
The Spiritistic Theory discusses that sitings are caused by dismembered spirits or non-corporeal entities. Variants of the theory include demons and extra-dimensional beings. Investigators who embrace this theory assume that the
physical effects reported in hauntings are real and that ghosts can be photographed or recorded under certain circumstances.
Lastly, the Parapsychological Theory presupposes that some paranormal activities are involved. Sometimes, witnesses to apparitions acquire knowledge about a particular location that they could not have otherwise known or perceived. The theory also suggests that reported sounds are sometimes genuine. The book has numerous pictures depicting both humans and spooky shadows of ghosts in the background.
There are a number of theories about ghosts. For instance, ghosts are earthbound spirits of the deceased. We know from the first law of thermodynamics that energy does not cease to exist rather it changes form from system to system, i.e. changes form from human to an aura. Buddhism explains various levels of the aura and this concept makes sense for the afterlife.
Our bodies die, as evidenced by the agonal phase or deep descent. Body systems shut down and the temporal body reaches a highly acidic state with a pH near zero. And so, the only remaining part of our being is in the spiritual or aura state which may weigh a fraction of an ounce.
An aura is a field of hardly perceptible, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object (like a halo). The depiction of such an aura often connotes a person of a particular stature. The idea of an aura most comports with our spiritual being in the afterlife.
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