We here at Spectral Review have always seen ourselves as a middleman of sorts – pointing the casual person interested in the paranormal to the real people who are doing serious thinking in the paranormal field. Most of these casual people have been exposed to the paranormal field via popular TV shows like Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State and the numerous ghost themed TV shows on many cable channels. Even though it sometimes is not obvious to the viewer, the main goal of these shows is to entertain..

Not that being entertained is a bad thing, but if people are interested in the paranormal they would benefit from the thinking of folks whose main goal is not to entertain, but to search for knowledge.

With that in mind, we present to you the BSPHI (Buckeye State Paranormal & Haunting Investigators) newsletter. We reprint it here with permission from BSPHI.

BSPHI: Presbycusis Phenomenon

Hello fellow Ghost Hunter and welcome to the first newsletter from the new BSPHI mailing list. Bear with me while I learn this new software, I promise they will get better with time.

In this issue, I want to discuss presbycusis. One of the most asked questions that I get while giving presentations is “Do children see more spirits than adults?”

In my experience this is a true statement- they do experience more paranormal events. One theory is that they see and talk to ghosts more because they are still young and have not had their brains conditioned by adults to think that spirits are not real. However, there could be a possible scientific explanation. Let us look further at a phenomenon called presbycusis.

According to the University of Virginia, “Presbycusis is the gradual loss of hearing that occurs as people age. It is a common disorder associated with aging. One in three older adults over age 60 has hearing loss. Half of people over age 75 have hearing loss. Presbycusis usually occurs gradually, with some people not immediately aware of the change.”

What does this mean? It means that the younger you are the more frequencies that you can psychically hear. One of the best examples of this is a ring tone that teenagers use on there cell phones called the mosquito ring tone. By using this ring tone, they can hear friends calling, however, adults cannot. In contrary, businesses use this ring tone to keep teenagers from loitering. The business will blast these sounds out over loud speakers to make it uncomfortable for the teens while the adults are undistributed. We have a You Tube video posted that also demonstrates this sound.

Is this a possible reason why children are more susceptible to hearing spirits? Perhaps; but it does prove that there are always sounds around us that we cannot hear. Maybe we are just not tuning into the correct frequency… not yet.

I always welcome comments or question. Feel free to contact me at the email address below.
Gene
gene@bsphi.com

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