10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Ghosts Are Real

4. The Testimony Of Dr Peter Fenwick

Peter Fenwick is a respected neuropsychiatrist (read: proper smart brain doctor), which means that you can believe his theories on near death experiences and the afterlife more than the story from your Nan about how she saw a ghost one time when her oven was leaking carbon monoxide.

Dr Fenwick has decades of experience in understanding human behaviour and the brain, working in hospitals and psychiatric wards across the UK. In his book The Art Of Dying, he makes the argument that the brain and the mind are two separate entities, and upon death they become very much separated. Which is pretty much what Hameroff, Penrose, and Staff were talking about a few years ago, to a similar sort of reaction.

Fenwick himself was just as skeptical about near death experiences when he first read about them in 1972, but he was inspired to begin his own research after one of his own patients came to him with the sort of compelling stories spiritual oddballs give about "stepping into the light", speaking to dead relatives and all that. One of the things that has most caught his eye - in studying over 300 examples of near death experiences, in people who are very ill or actually dying - is that so many of the experiences were similar, in people from all sorts of backgrounds, cultures, and belief systems.

His biggest interest is in cardiac arrests, where the heart stops and - presumably - the brain stops working too, since there's nothing to keep it going. The fact that people still have "experiences" during these instances to him proves that consciousness and the brain can exist independent of each other, which in turn suggests the theory of hauntings and ghosts that Quantum Mechanics give. It's not so much a person's soul trapped on Earth, but a consciousness without a shell, given free reign to...appear in photographs and knock things over, we guess?