#18 Spook

I really dig her style, and I'll confess I went into this half hoping she'd had some amazing discovery. Because if she'd believe it, I'd believe it. The way she comes at it the perfect mix of curiosity and skepticism. This lady knows how to mix a fun attitude and Occam's Razor.

I just like how she treats all these people of varied backgrounds with some degree of dignity, even if they've been judged by history as being outright frauds, like the ecto-plasm producing mediums who bilked dozens and tied up major university researchers. There's always a cocked head and wry grin way to look at these peculiar characters.

She kind of sums it up at the end. It's a question of what you know vs. what you believe. Based on what she saw, so far there hasn't been a way for science to know that there is any kind of afterlife. But it almost seems like it's a non-choice to believe that there's something, more of an effort to believe that there isn't. Sure this is mostly in the face of apocryphal evidence, strange stories someone has told you that they swear happened to them or someone they know, eerie feelings you get somewhere without necessarily knowing it's got a haunted reputation, the kinds of things that have a convoluted but still probably scientifically based explanation. The feeling that there's something hovering around just past the edges of what has been explained so far in measurements and statistically significant results. There's no shortage of really neat things inside those edges, and we shouldn't discount any of it because there might be something past those edges, but somethings are more fun to leave unexplained. And shit, if this is it, why not have fun.

As she put it "The debunkers are probably right, but they're no fun to visit a graveyard with."

Amen, sister.