IP: Cellphones Spook Ghosts, Expert Says

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Mark White" <mark_white () eglobal net>
> To: "'David Farber'" <dave () farber net>
>
>
> Monday October 15 8:27 AM ET
>
> Cellphones Spook Ghosts, Expert Says
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011015/od/ghosts_dc_1.html
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phones are killing off ghosts, a British
> expert who has spent years researching the occult said on Sunday.
>
> Tony Cornell, of the Society for Psychical Research, told the Sunday
> Express newspaper that reports of ghost sightings had started to decline
> when mobile phones were introduced 15 years ago.
>
> ``Ghost sightings have remained consistent for centuries. Until three
> years ago we'd receive reports of two new ghosts every week,'' said
> Cornell, of Cambridge in Eastern England.
>
> ``But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years ago, ghost
> sightings began to decline to the point where now we are receiving
> none.''
>
> According to the paper, haunted tourist attractions in Britain could be
> under threat if the number of cellphones continues to grow from the
> present figure of 39 million
>
> Apparently paranormal events, which some scientists put down to unusual
> electrical activity, could be drowned out by the electronic noise
> produced by phone calls and text messages.


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