No, it’s like trying to prove to a blind person that there are different colors of light, which can be done by showing them that different types of light heat different surfaces differently. They can’t see light with their eyes so they can’t see differences in its color, but they can measure them and make predictions about them because light is an objective phenomenon, it’s part of our shared material reality. All humans are blind to ultraviolet light, but we know that it exists.
Ghosts aren’t like that. You can make unsupported claims about ghosts, but you can’t demonstrate their existence. Because they aren’t objective phenomena that are part of shared material reality.
Sure. They record a phenomenon. That phenomenon is people mistaking bumps in the night and drafts and afterimages and internal monologue for something else. The subjective experience of ghosts is well attested. The objective existence of ghosts is well refuted.
A psychiatrist doesn’t say “that is cultural blablabla”, they say “And how does that make you feel?”
I disagree. We have millions of spaces across the world where all manner of measurements are being taken constantly. We have hours of video footage, motion capture, temperature readings, sound recording and locating, electromagnetic sensors on various parts of the spectrum.
All this monitoring has produced nothing like what we’d expect to see from a material phenomenon as widely reported as ghosts. That lack of evidence combined with the regularity of reports suggests a subjective phenomenon, like a misattribution, rather than an objective phenomenon like a disembodied spirit acting on the world.
Again, misattribution. We can create out-of-body experiences in the lab.
This would be striking evidence if it were ever observed.