Persinger M A
Percept Mot Skills. 1985 Feb;60(1):59-65. doi: 10.2466/pms.1985.60.1.59.
Transient and very localized geophysical forces are hypothesized to be a major source of phenomena that have been traditionally labelled as haunts and poltergeists. They would be generated by increasing tectonic stresses and would display electromagnetic and gravitational characteristics. Materials would be influenced according to their physical properties. Dielectric materials would respond differently from conductors. Organic semiconductors, of which the human being is an important subcategory, would be affected as well. The conspicuous overlaps between (non-convulsive) complex partial epilepsy and many episodes of poltergeists and haunts are expected in light of the direct stimulation of the observer's brain by the transient, intense magnetic fields and the liability of temporal lobe structures. Implications and some general predictions for the distribution of these phenomena in time and space are discussed.
据推测，短暂且非常局部的地球物理力是传统上被标记为闹鬼和吵闹鬼现象的主要来源。它们由不断增加的构造应力产生，并会表现出电磁和引力特征。物质会根据其物理性质受到影响。电介质材料的反应会与导体不同。有机半导体（人类是其重要的子类别）也会受到影响。鉴于瞬态强磁场对观察者大脑的直接刺激以及颞叶结构的易损性，预计（非惊厥性）复杂部分性癫痫与许多吵闹鬼和闹鬼事件之间会有明显重叠。本文讨论了这些现象在时间和空间上分布的影响及一些一般性预测。
