Ghost
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 3 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Cross-cultural overview of the concept of ghosts, the history of belief, the varieties of phenomena reported, and the standard naturalistic explanations (pareidolia, sleep paralysis, infrasound, expectation, electromagnetic fields).
How this source is used on the map
Catch-all reference for the broad ghost claim; pair with apparitional-experience and parapsychology entries for the specific phenomenology and lab-history strands.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
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