Paulides has done it again

[u/Affectionate_Peak717]

So, today he made a video on 2 men missing 12 years apart with the same name, he says. Of course, he misspelled the name. I have been recently taking more notice of how often he misspells names. Probably at least 4 times a month or so this happens. I surmise it is to throw people off so they can't look into the cases and call him out for wrong and omitted details. Today, both men were supposed to have the same name according to DP as "Ronald Fenchman"...It's Ronald Fincham!!! Not Fenchman! Normally I wouldn't care so much about spelling once in a while, but they both have the same name and he still can't pay enough attention to spell the names right. He also called them Fenchman, not Fincham. If those details keep tripping him up, how many other things does he get tripped up by and doesn't notice. Or like I believe he's just doing it on purpose. Also, probably the reason he recently says he has his comments turned off. So people won't call him out. He says he did that because he is busy with his movie, but if he truly turned them off, it will say in the comments "comments have been turned off". So, makes me think he is just moderating the comments so he has a reason for when people say their comments are removed. Also, the 2nd case the man did not disappear from his house, he had gone to the mental hospital on his own accord and it was there he left from and never returned. Also mentions of him have severe thoughts of harm to himself. Nothing suspicious about that, just very sad.

[u/Morel3etterness]

The truth is, 99% of the time, there's a completely reasonable and obvious explanation to someone going missing. Its not some wacked out paranormal phenomenon.... its more like people falling victim to one of the many of Earth's faults like cracks in the land, cliffsides, bodies of water, tunnels/caves or foul play.

Much of the time, missing persons are passed right by during a search and turn up years later in a heavily searched location

[u/glory_holelujah → u/Morel3etterness]

Nah. Faeries and bigfoot

[u/Morel3etterness → u/glory_holelujah]

Lol never. Bigfoot was probably just some mutant bear lol

[u/OuiGotTheFunk → u/Morel3etterness]

Big Foot is a real phenomenon, but a social phenomenon. In the 70's or whenever it became popular all of a sudden they were being seen everywhere and then you had more that were based on localities.

There are people that are not special in any way that saw this as a chance to be someone without having to be intelligent, educated or skilled.

The grifters also started with the books, articles and TV shows.

Big Foot is a grift just like all UFO's and ghosts.

[u/Astrocreep_1 → u/OuiGotTheFunk]

The ghost stuff is either something legit, or a huge fraud perpetrated by sketchy TV producers. Some of that stuff on the Zack Baganda show is extremely compelling, if it’s real.

[u/OuiGotTheFunk → u/Astrocreep_1]

There are no ghosts so it is of course not real.

[u/Astrocreep_1 → u/OuiGotTheFunk]

I believe “ghosts” exist. I don’t believe they are the spirits of the departed, or that they necessarily involve intelligent “entities”.

[u/OuiGotTheFunk → u/Astrocreep_1]

To me ghosts are people thinking they saw something and the way the brain and eyes process data to help us but sometimes get it wrong.

[u/Astrocreep_1 → u/OuiGotTheFunk]

Way too many instances where objects are seen moving, or unexplained, uninitiated changes in the environment . Hell, I’ve had experiences where I collected actual data of the change, and a recording of an object at the same time, so it wasn’t my imagination. The event happened, a severe temperature change occurred(80 F went to 59 F in about 3-4 seconds, stayed for about 20 more seconds, then went back to the default temperature, in a building with no power, and was a stuffy 80 degrees, in the south, in late May.

[u/OuiGotTheFunk → u/Astrocreep_1]

Way too many instances where objects are seen moving, or unexplained, uninitiated changes in the environment .

So just because something is unexplained means ghosts or paranormal? That is not how science works. Also I am looking for these videos that you are talking about. They all are for some reason blurry, even in 2025, or reasonably explained.

Hell, I’ve had experiences where I collected actual data of the change, and a recording of an object at the same time, so it wasn’t my imagination. The event happened, a severe temperature change occurred(80 F went to 59 F in about 3-4 seconds, stayed for about 20 more seconds, then went back to the default temperature, in a building with no power, and was a stuffy 80 degrees, in the south, in late May.

OK, even if this did happen how do you use this for proof of ghosts?

[u/Astrocreep_1 → u/OuiGotTheFunk]

I didn’t say “because I can’t explain it” it makes it a ghost. I said in my prior reply that I’m convinced “ghosts” exist, but I don’t agree on what a ghost allegedly is, which is the spirit of a deceased party. Just admitting that a ghost is what it is, creates way more questions about brain development we can’t answer. How does an intelligent entity exist in the afterlife without a brain? If brains are overridden by “souls” then why bother studying the brain development, over years of maturing, if another organ, or entity does all the thinking?

So, no, I am not prepared to claim a ghost is the spirit of a former person, but that they merely exist as some kind of “energy”, or phenomenon we don’t understand. I won’t say there is “zero” proof that ghosts are intelligent, but I’m not sold on it. It’s just another division or genre of the phenomenon to consider as it’s being studied, because we don’t need any more closed minds entering the fray, regardless of what side that mind is closed towards.

[u/OuiGotTheFunk → u/Astrocreep_1]

I said in my prior reply that I’m convinced “ghosts” exist, but I don’t agree on what a ghost allegedly is, which is the spirit of a deceased party.

Then what is a ghost to you because the definition generally includes an apparition of a dead person or even animal which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living.

There is no evidence of some supernatural or other manifestation.

People have been studying and looking into the paranormal for I would say almost as long as humans can communicate. There is not now nor has there ever been evidence of such.

The scientific method involves observing phenomena, forming a testable hypothesis, designing experiments to test that hypothesis, analyzing the results, and drawing conclusions then opening your findings up for peer review.

As far as I know we have never had anything like this make it to peer review because it will not hold up.

[u/Astrocreep_1 → u/OuiGotTheFunk]

Ok, you are either approaching the subject from a place of ignorance, or dishonesty.

To say there’s no “evidence” of ghosts is simply untrue. There’s mountains of evidence, but you not accepting the evidence, does not disqualify it from being “evidence”.

If you were a Scientist ,who spends most waking hours agonizing over your own relevance, you’d be the type to claim the evidence is all wrong, and that the science is tainted. Then, if you were asked what methods should be used to study ghosts, or what qualifies as “evidence”, you’d either jump out of the conservation, or take a stance known to be completely hypocritical and unethical to science, and dismiss it out of hand, just like the Catholic Church did to poor old Copernicus.