Lorraine Sheridan

The Monika Encounter: A Mixed Methods Study of a Techno-Based Ghostly Episode

Spiritual Psychology and Counseling June 1, 2025 Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, Giovanni Caputo et al. 1 citation

Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S) characterizes recurrent ‘ghostly episodes’ as an interactionist phenomenon emerging from people with heightened somatic-sensory sensitivities that are stirred by dis-ease states, contextualized with paranormal belief, and reinforced via perceptual contagion and threat-agency detection. We tested the applicability of this psychological model via a three-part,...