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340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Puzzle to Solve When You Have a Ghost Experience

Skeptics try to explain what's going on when people have anomalous experiences. Often they come back to this idea that they can feel it or sense it, but they don't have any sensory evidence. So sometimes I call that the presence paradox. You've got to kind of think, well, actually, how does that even make sense? How would we take a psychological framework and try and understand that particular question? Right.

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