Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings

Photo: Kinnitty Castle, Kinnitty, County Offaly, Ireland. Photo credit: Sarah777 at Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Jennifer Ouellette. Ars Technica – April 27, 2026. Research article: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

The next time you walk into a purportedly “haunted” house and sense a ghostly presence, consider that those feelings might be due to vibrating pipes, mechanical or climate control systems, rumbling from traffic, or wind turbines, rather than anything paranormal. That’s the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. All of those are sources of infrasound. Scientists have long sought to find logical explanations for alleged hauntings. In 2003, for instance, University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman conducted two studies that investigated the psychological mechanisms underlying supposed “ghostly” activity. […]

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