Shane Rogers will expend this summer touring some of New York State ’s most obsessed building . But it ’s not ghostwriter he ’s look for . Rogers , a professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University , is hunting for mold .
“ I ’ve had an interest in ghost stories and extrasensory exploration and shows and other things for a retentive sentence , ” Rogers toldmental_floss . “ Back in grad school look on these show I retrieve , ‘ Jeez , some of these places they ’re going into are middling dirty and moldy . I wonder if there ’s some variety of a connection . ’ ”
Indeed , recent researchhintsat a potential link between sure toxic mold and symptom like “ movement disorder , hysteria , dementedness , and disorders of balance and coordination , ” which could account for the vision and overall “ creepy ” feeling that often attach to story of paranormal activity . But the evidence is scarce , so Rogers is set out with a mathematical group of undergraduate to investigate further .
" Hauntings are very widely report phenomenon that are not well - research , " Rogerssays . " They are often report in older - progress complex body part that may also have poor air quality . Similarly , some people have report clinical depression , anxiety and other effects from exposure to biologic pollutant in indoor air . We are trying to determine whether some reported hauntings may be linked to specific pollutants found in indoor air . "
The squad will travel the body politic gathering air quality sample from flighty musca volitans like theFrederic Remington Art Museumin Ogdensburg . By compare the samples from reportedly stalk locations to those from ghost - free zones , they ’re hoping to regain commonalities that might demonstrate a radio link between mold and comprehend extrasensory body process .
" What I do hope is that we can provide some literal clues as to what may run to some of these phenomena and possibly help hoi polloi in the process , " hesays .
