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Message: [QUOTE="Icculus, post: 4357491, member: 1325"] There is a well known phenomena where the human brain is hard wired to see faces and/or figures within patterns of visual noise. This is probably an evolutionary left-over from our days facing apex predators in the jungle. There is also the premise that something that's not seen clearly can present itself along the path of what our preconceived expectations are (i.e. if you expect a ghost & you see something fuzzy out of the corner of your eye, your mind will register it as a ghost). I'm aware of these things. This was not that. I was not expecting to see anything scary. I assumed that this guy was just a dude that wanted something. And at that particular time, I hadn't even heard any of the "stories" yet. Also, this wasn't a fleeting flicker that I saw. I saw him in perfect detail. He wore white sneakers, blue jeans and a long-sleeve light blue shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. This was not a bunch of boxes stacked roughly in the silhouette of a man that gave me a jump scare lol. I am also curious about why you think that this defies phenomenological precedent. Literally millions of people have had similar experiences. As for the "physics" part, perhaps you should look into this deeper. In the last 10 years, there's been a general movement away from the idea of strict materialism. The only claim i make is that I saw something that could not be explained by our present understanding. Was it a ghost? I don't know. It may sound paradoxical, but I'm not even sure I believe in ghosts (or at least, the conventional explanation of ghosts) but i do know that this was something more than swamp gas. [/QUOTE]

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