MADISON, Wisconsin: When scientists wrote in a recent issue of the journal Nature that they could induce phantom effects - the sensation of being haunted by a shadowy figure - by stimulating the brain with electricity, it made perfect neurological sense.
One could even argue that the existence of such sensations explains away the so-called supernatural. In fact, as The New York Times reported, the researchers promptly concluded that ghosts are mere "bodily delusions" -
electrical misfirings and nothing more.