Episode 69: Scientists Who Believed in Ghosts

Jay walks us through Scientific Superstars who believed in ghosts.

This story contains:

1. Sir Isaac Newton. (Discovered the laws of motion, laws of gravitation, and invented calculus – all while being profoundly interested in the occult!)

2. Carl Linnaeus. (Father of Modern Taxonomy – who had a bit of a mermaid fetish. HAWT!)

3. Thomas Edison. (Inventor of basically everything – may have been working to invent the “Spirit Phone”!)

4. Jack Parsons. (Founding member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab – who was also an acolyte of Aleister Crowley!)

5. Francis Crick. (Co-discovered the double-helix model of DNA – and was believer in a theory called "panspermia." Which basically means that he believed that life was seeded on Earth by intergalactic "sperm" on the tail of some comet or meteor)

Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.