WHEN visiting the site of a haunting, many modern ghost hunters still take
along a medium who can point out the often invisible entity. Once the quarry has
been spotted, the sleuths aim their sensors—anything from thermal imaging
cameras to Geiger counters—to see if anything is measurable out there.
While these ghost hunters are an eclectic mix, including physicists and
psychologists, not to mention dedicated parapsychologists, it is unusual to see
a neuroscientist getting in on the act. But then it’s not your average
apparition that intrigues Peter Brugger. His targets are out-of-body experiences
and doppelgängers, phantoms that…
