I caught a very interesting post over at MindHacks about the Australian Journal of Parapsychology and its article on PTSD in murdered people. In other words, ghosts.

Post-traumatic stress disorder in ghosts? Why not?

With a title like “Psychological phenomena in dead people: Post- traumatic stress disorder in murdered people and its consequences to public health” You can’t help but to think about this being a glorified Ghostbuster-type of research, but in actuality the research aims to gather and plot the psychological phenomena in ghosts. I’m interested in seeing how they plan on conducting this research and what we can learn on the psyche of those victims of a murder.

Can consciousness project outside of the human mind when we go through a traumatic experience like that of a murder? Could this lead us to explain cases of “evil” poltergeist phenomena?