Post by Scott M on Aug 1, 2006 0:07:18 GMT -5
Quartz crystals a foundation for some hauntings? It's been posited that ghosts, spirits, or hauntings use electrical energy to manifest. Batteries suddenly going dead at haunted locations is a common occurrence. Strange electromagnetic field fluctuations are also well documented. If they use electromagnetic energy to manifest, quartz could be the source at some locations. Quartz is a common constituent of limestone, granite and sandstone. Quartz crystals have some interesting properties. Quartz is a type of piezoelectric crystal that creates electricity through a process called piezoelectricity when mechanical stress is put upon it. Some types of quartz also have a pyroelectric effect. Pyroelectricity is a generation of an electric charge on certain crystals as a result of a change in temperature. Very small changes in temperature can produce an electric potential due to a material's pyroelectricity. Quartz could be the generator of the electric charge that some ghosts, spirits or hauntings use to manifest at some locations. (Some of the information here was drawn from a thread on the old TAPS board that was lost. Thanks to FlyByNight and Big Rex who posted valuable information that was used in this hypothesis.)