After countless centuries of eye witness accounts of ghosts, we've managed to gain at least an idea of what they could be: Some form of apparently intelligent energy that shows itself through electro-magnetic disturbances, sharp temperature inversions, and photographic anomalies. We don't have to go so far as to say that all forms of energy with such signatures are "ghosts," but we can start by seeing if such energy signatures even exist in a "haunted" place and, if they do, see if they appear to be intelligently controlled, leading to our hypothesis:
Ghosts are real and can be detected by their intelligently-controlled electro-magnetic and electro-static signatures, effects on ambient temperature, and effects on film emulsion.
The first statement -- "ghosts are real" -- may give skeptics the most trouble, but as most of them will readily reply when asked to prove that ghosts don't exist, "You can't prove a negative." This is true, and scientists thus set about proving positive statements. They don't say, "Dark matter isn't x, y, and z, so let's prove that," they hypothesize that dark matter is x, y, and z and try to gather evidence to prove their hypothesis. In this way, ghosts are our "dark matter," and whether we, personally, believe in them or not is moot: The hypothesis is that they exist, and the Sealed House Project will set out to collect the data to prove this hypothesis right, wrong, or untestable.
Of course, as with any scientific endeavor, we may end up proving nothing more than that our hyopthesis is wrong -- that "unexplained phenomena" can exist without any of these signatures -- at which point, new tests will have to be devised.
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