Question by Meilien: Non paranormal explanations for “cold spot” in room?
There is a regular ordinary room. It used to be a bedroom but is now a family den.
For some inexplicable reason there is a section of the room that is 2 deg C colder than the rest of the room. The cold section is the exact size and shape of the bed that used to stand there (There’s a book shelf and a gaming chair there now). If you move a thermometer (digital, or mercury) into the cold sport it will drop in front of your eyes, but if you move it an inch to the side (outside of the cold section) it will go back up again.
If you use a thermal imaging camera (Local hardware store that rents them out for nighttime wildlife tours) you can see the cold spot clearly. And it’s the size and shape of the bed that use to be there.
The wall behind it is an internal wall that backs on to a heated room, and it’s not cold to the touch. A smoke candle shows that there are no droughts in the room (The windows are double glazed and sealed, there is no AC and no vents of any kind).
The cold spot is in direct sunlight a lot as it’s south facing.
The floor under the cold spot feels the same tempreature as the floor in the rest of the room (It’s shag carpet). There is a heated kitchen under it, the same as the rest of the room (No cold spots on kitchen ceiling or in kitchen). There is no crawl space under the floor, and no cold water pipes or anything that might cool the room down.
Strangely, an infrared thermometer doesn’t register the cold spot at all, it just reads the wall behind it (which is normal tempreature). But it does register that anything put inside the cold spot is about 2 deg C colder than when the object is outside of the cold spot.
I’m familiar with the paranormal explanations (I’ve never seen a ghost, and I think that the supposed hauntings that you see on TV bunk) but what are some non paranormal explanations?
Nothing “bad” ever happed in the room. Nobody ever died in it or anything. The house is a new build, less than 5 years old and nobody else ever lived there before. The bed was new, too. It’s now in another room, and it seems perfectly normal. No cold spots or anything. The land that the house was built on is perfectly ordinary land. It’s not Indian land, or anything like that. Before the house was built it was just scrub land. And there is no record of anything “bad” having happened there.
Spot has remained cold for the last 3 months, ever since the bed was moved. The tempreature difference between it and the rest for the room is constant day and night, summer and winter.
Moving the bed back does nothing. Still cold.
How is it even possible to use a mercury thermometer incorrectly? You put it in the cold area and watch the level drop, you move it out and watch it rise.
Same for a thermal imaging camera designed for tourists. There’s an on/off button and a zoom control. That’s it.
Best answer:
Answer by Boz
You know – I’ve been looking into this for some time – the physics of what people think is ghosts or the paranormal – I have an idea that there is a quantum mechanical explanation for the kind of thing that you are describing though I don’t know how it works. It maybe that somehow the environment is able to “remember” energy of an object that has been there – rather like how a videotape plays back video – this makes more sense to me than “ghosts” or the paranormal – see below
Also check out the MIT guy “US” answer to the following question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmYdRcatqTvDYKxgFO0Lc7bsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091218115705AA8KpWB&show=7#profile-info-KqttDM5raa
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