Meetings with phantoms and ghosts are one of the oldest paranormal phenomena. Some people do not believe in their existence, others claim that they see phantoms constantly. Who is right, and can you really see the phantom?
A phantom (ghost, incorporeal substance, from French fantôme) is an optical vision, a collective image of an object, both existing and once existed. What do phantoms look like and why do they arise? It is believed that the phantom exists in the imagination that generates its essence, so it can be represented in different ways.
How to recognize phantoms?
A phantom differs from a living creature only in indirect signs, in particular, it moves silently and weightlessly, passing through real objects, has a fixed look, does not feel emotions, cold or heat, the floor does not creak under it and the grass does not bend.
Phantoms behave in a special way: either copy the mobility of the original, or act independently of it. The former are called doubles and exist as long as there is energy recharge. No recharge - no phantom. When a phantom exists at the expense of other sources of energy, besides imagination, it is considered a ghost, often tied to the energy of a place that for this reason cannot be left.
A ghost is a phantom that does not depend on the original, and at the same time is capable of exerting a physical effect on all objects of our world, except for the person himself (for example, to move things). A phantom can be seen only in the gloom (twilight) or at night, that is, in the absence of the sun's rays, which distort the composition of the air at the molecular level.
