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- Who you gonna call?
Welcome to Myths You Still Believe,
the series all about explaining the truth
behind the most commonly believed myths.
And today, in honor of this spooky time of year,
we're diving into the world of the supernatural
and exposing the truth about Casper, little green men,
and even Bigfoot just to name a few.
So if you've ever wondered what else is out there,
get ready because here are seven myths
you still believe about the paranormal.
Businesses suffer from being haunted.
Let's face it, if you're spending the night
at a cozy bed and breakfast and the walls start bleeding,
you're gonna get out of there.
But believe it or not, to say that businesses suffer
from paranormal experiences, either the business itself
or something in the surrounding area,
is actually the opposite of the truth.
Believe it or not, hotels and other businesses
actually thrive after having supernatural experiences,
partly because they have a cool story to tell
and partly because their clients tell the story for them.
For proof, you need look no further than
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where the infamous Mothman
is said to call home.
Dating all the way back to 1966, people have been traveling
to this city with hopes of catching a glimpse of this beast,
making that city's tourism and hospitality industry boom.
Everybody's real excited to find the Mothman,
that is until you find him and, I don't know,
he chews your face off or something.
Mothman's gonna getcha!
Vampires are pure fantasy.
Although the legend of Dracula is popular in our culture,
the majority of people who have heard of it
believe it to be entirely a work of fiction.
Of course, bloodsuckers don't exist (laughs).
Or do they?
Well, surprisingly there are many people out there
who believe themselves to be vampires.
In fact politicians in India recently placed a $2,000 bounty
on the evil, undead creatures because cattle
in the town of Dharmapuri began turning up
drained of all of their blood.
Further back than that, in 2004 a corpse buried
in Marotinu De Sus, Romania was dug up and staked
due to rumors that the person was rising
each and every night, feeding on villagers.
And of course, everyone knows of the story of
Vlad the Impaler, a real Romanian prince whose story
was what the legend of Dracula was based upon.
And yes, if you ever go to Romania, the castle of Dracula
actually exists.
They sell red wine in front of it.
Haunted buildings are always old.
When you think of a haunting, you likely think
of a rickety, old building half fallen apart
as it spent many years abandoned.
However, experienced ghost hunters can tell you
that often paranormal activity is found in hospitals, jails,
museums, navy ships, forests, and yes even newer buildings.
Additionally, it doesn't need to be a specific location
for the haunting to occur.
Oftentimes, objects or even people can be haunted.
Yes, people.
It's even been documented that ghosts have left
one haunted location to follow a person to their home,
effectively creating a brand new haunting.
You know how sometimes you'll be standing there
and you'll feel a little something something
and you'll be like "Oh!", but nothing's there.
It's ghost.
No physical evidence has ever been found of Bigfoot.
According to a poll done in 2012, over 30% of Americans
believe in Bigfoot.
The truth is, while a full Sasquatch corpse
has never been found, there is actually quite a bit
of physical evidence according to Bigfoot researchers.
This evidence includes everything from tracks, blood,
tissue, hair, and even the mother of all evidence,
Sasquatch poop.
Idaho State University doctors Jane Goodall and
Jeffrey Meldrum, along with a whole community of scientists,
claim that nature has kept the creature
from being discovered by breaking down any remains
in less than ten days.
If you're ever walking through the forest and you see
a giant pile of poopy that's clearly unhuman,
you should definitely get out of there because it's fresh.
Science is unable to explain ghosts.
While it's very true that there are a lot of things
that science and logic cannot explain,
there are dozens of theories as to why people
see ghostly images.
In fact, scientists can even provide explanations
when multiple individuals see the same apparition.
These theories do vary greatly and include mass hysteria,
carbon monoxide poisoning, and infrasound,
which is a sound that is lower than 20 Hertz
and thus is too low for us to hear.
Though we can't hear the sound, we can feel it
through vibrations.
And sense our eyes have a resonant frequency
of around 20 Hertz, a low enough noise can create images
that we can see and are not really there.
Or are they?
A zombie apocalypse could never actually happen.
Oh sweet, skeptical human, what it must be like
to live so worry-free, certain that The Walking Dead
could never happen.
Well, I hate to burst your comfort bubble,
but scientists have been warning for years
that an outbreak that evolves to spread itself
is not outside the realm of possibility.
While the infected wouldn't exactly die,
it's possible that they would go through a reset period
and wake completely insane.
For evidence, we looked to Haiti where in 1962,
Clairvius Narcisse was declared dead and buried
only to be found walking through the village 18 years later.
18 years!
In this case, voodoo priest had used natural chemicals
to zombify him into being a mindless slave,
but who knows what horrors could evolve
from such mind tampering.
And if that wasn't enough to convince you,
the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has created
a real zombie preparedness manual that you can find online
right now that outlines how exactly to survive
in the event of a zombie outbreak.
Skeptics do not get along well with believers.
There are many people that believe that those who are
certain of the existence of paranormal entities and those
who refute them are at some kind of war with each other,
unable to see eye-to-eye.
But the truth is that skeptics often get involved
paranormal investigations and are normally welcomed.
See, sometimes they disprove misidentified phenomena,
making the skeptics an asset to the believers.
And when a phenomena can't be identified, it means that
the group is closer to a potentially legitimate experience.
And in the end, many believers actually embrace
the skeptics' input in order to increase their chances
of being taken seriously.
So there you have it, after hearing all of that,
the real question is do you believe in the paranormal?
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