Is there any chemical you could throw on a ghost that would make it visible...like they did in "Hollow Man"?

Question

Have any scientists tried to come up with something like this?

(You guessed it..I'm watching "Hollow Man"...that's why I thought of this.). Seems like paranormal investigators would try to invent something like this. Seems like we talked about throwing electrical charges on them..but this would be different.

Please don't give the "ghosts don't exist" answer. This is the paranormal section.

Answer 1

boil some water throw it on the the ghost and watch what happens

Answer 2

LOL No, sorry to say but this is an interesting idea I'll like to look into this. I mean we've figured out how to catch ghost's energy sources on radar and camera why not find a product that can make them visible to the human eye right.

And for those of you who think ghosts don't exist I will gladly give you a tour of my old bachelor house in L.A., you will soil yourself in one weekend of sleeping over in there.

Answer 3

Fairy dust!

Answer 4

Anything aerosol would make it visable

Answer 5

Spirits being of their own energy, coming in from another dimension, I doubt very much we have the technology to throw flour, talc or anything for them to appear.

The ones that haven't crossed over yet & are caught between us &the next level, I believe all they do is scatter atom, protons ect in our air space & that is why we can feel them ect.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious…He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed (Albert Einstein]

Answer 6

You've got to be kidding me.

How the h**l do you throw a physical substance on something that is supposed to be non-physical or spiritual? Tell me this question was a joke?

Yeah, I can just see ghost hunters throwing buckets of paint everywhere trying to "coat" a ghost. That's surely going to earn them a lot of business.

This is still the Science & Mathematics category.

Answer 7

Too bad.  This is also the science section.  Ghosts don't exist.

However, if they did, it seems to me that white flour would be a good thing to throw on them.  Flour is fine enough to cling to them easily (unless they're very slippery), it leaves a trail as it falls off, and it might cause them to sneeze, further alerting you to their position.

Answer 8

Don't you think that if there was such a thing as a ghost the situation of a ghost being accidentally being coated with something and becoming visible as a result of it would already have happened?

Answer 9

Unfortunately, there is no known substance that we can use to expose a spirit that is chemical based.  It would make it so much easier to prove paranormal activity if there were.  Recently, the paranormal society that I'm with has tried experimenting with a strobe light.  Ghosts need constant energy to form, so this concept works similarly to the way a white noise box works.  We have had some success with this method, but are still testing it.  I'm sure that as people become more aware and open to the possibility of paranormal phenomena more concepts with be invented that better allow us to understand this field.

April Tichinel

P.O.M.P.S. Case Manager

Answer 10

I don't think that is possible.  All ghosts would be is energy of some sort.  And physical items such as chemicals would pass through energy.

Just as you can not put chemicals on sunlight or x-rays so you could see them.

So my answer would be no.

Answer 11

Holy water

Answer 12

interestingly enough, I have seen a case where during the time a house was being cleansed the ghost was visible for a few seconds.

Answer 13

Having been a Paranormal Examiner since  1980, I wish there was, so we could capture Activity a lot easier....but there isn't.  

Ectoplasm-state energy is in a constant state of flux, so the  aerosol droplets would not have the opportunity to adhere.

Answer 14

In Hollow Man, he's not a ghost, he's just invisible. The reason it works in that movie is because he is still a solid human being.

As for making ghosts visible, I suppose you could leave a glass of Kool-Aid laying around. If they drank it, you'd see a giant color blob floating around.

Answer 15

The guy in "Hollow Man" isn't a ghost, he is just invisible, he cannot go through things, etc...  I suppose you could throw a blanket over a ghost and it would hover there, if the ghost didn't just disappear.  I have also seen things where people put baby powder in places to get ghostly hand prints, but that isn't exactly the same thing.

Answer 16

Kevin Bacon is scaring enough when visible for a start. Just my 2 cents.

But dont they just throw powder on him in hollow man? it works because hes onlyinvisible. Hes still phyically there, you just cant see him. By throwing flour or whatever on him they are able to see his outline in the flour as it sticks to him.

As for ghost, you cant supposidly (i have never) touch them at all, so throwing power on them... well it would just go through them. Cause there not physcially there (i cant spell i know) there in another dimesion or something.

In short no - or nothing that i know of.

Answer 17

No. Ghosts are non-corporeal, and therefore do not respond to chemical stimulus.

Answer 18

i don't think so..

Answer 19

Interesting question!  I seriously doubt it would work, as they don't have physical form for something to stick to.

Answer 20

HAHA... i just watched that Movie...

And No There Is Nothing That You Could Possibly Do This With.