In Nollywood, they always make reference to ghost and ghost-like being existing and it looks like a lot of people believe in ghosts and their existence but do ghost really exists?
Let's go back a little in time to November 1921 when Dr. Williams Wilmer received a distress call from the H family, where Mrs H. narrated how she and her family have been seeing ghosts in the old country house they just moved into. They explained that the house was worn out, dark, and had lamps that couldn't lit properly. Not only that, the corridors echoed the sounds of creaking and squeaking doors.
The couples felt like they were watched by invisible beings and they suffered from anxiety, having serious headaches and felt exhausted all the time. The house plant withered and soon the wife Mrs. H started to see a woman standing in the house but when she tried to get close there was no one there, she only saw her dark reflection in the mirror. She has also experienced cases where she would feel someone was pressing her neck but while she had these experiences, her husband also did share the same experience, same with her children and domestic staff.
She and her household had suffered from cases of paralysis while feeling strangled or being sat on in a case of suffocating them so why you might want to say that the woman is suffering from a case of schizophernia what about her family members?
Seeing ghost is an experience that has been over 18% of Americans have claimed to have seen and this percentage changes from country to country. So while we might want to say she is having her moment, we should not forget that seeing imaginary patterns is part of our evolution known as paradolia which allows us to see things that are not there like they are.
It is important to say that this family isn't suffering from psychosis neither can we say the entire family is suffering from extreme paradolia but we cannot say that this house was wanted. What if we say that the woman is suffering from sleep disorder where she cannot sleep, as well as sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis can be a scary experience but at the end, it is harmless and it occurs as a result of the brain triggering between conscious awareness and REM sleep.
Although sleep disorder can be scary, when it is combined with sleep apnea it becomes more scary because while there is paralysis, the throat relaxes and blocks breathing which causes a strangling feeling or thought when having sleep paralysis. So we could say that the woman had these experiences when sleeping but what happens with cases when she is awake, and she see a ghost-like structure.
Low frequency sound wave is usually associated with feelings of anxiety, dizziness, and disorientation. While they affect the ears, they affect the eyes causing people to see things that do not exist. Things as simple as fridges, toasters, and washing machines in the house can have this low frequency sound wave and causes this visions. Their house was lit by gas lamps and it was poorly ventilated. They suffered from carbon monoxide toxicity which binds to hemoglobin in the red blood cells, starving the body off oxygen which could also lead to hallucination, dizziness, and fatigue.
This said, personally I have not seen a ghost, and I remember discussing with the Morbid Anatomy supervisor at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) if he has ever seen a ghost in his years working there, and he confirmed that he has never had a ghost experience or anything of such. So maybe you can share your ghost experience if you have had one in the past, I will be willing to listen.
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