The Afterlife is Just a Bunch of Gobba-Lobba-Ob
• Skeptics & Atheists
From a review of Mary Roach's Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife:
... She checks out the "ectoplasm" -- a fetid swathe of gauze that once played a starring role at seances -- archived at Cambridge University's library. She attends a crash-course medium school, where a fellow student eerily describes the recent death by alcoholism of a friend of hers. She wanders around the Donner Camp Picnic Ground (which, yes, really exists) with a large microphone in the company of a dozen electronic voice phenomena enthusiasts, trying to pick up any voices of the unfortunate cannibalized dead. She records sounds all right, but their meaning is wide open to interpretation: "I heard a rapid, metallic 'gobba-lobba-ob.' " ...
A skeptic's search for proof of afterlife 'Spook' applies science to the realm of belief