Are Paranormal Ghost Apps for the Phone Real?

Photo taken at Shoalwater Bay area.
@noni1959 (11902)
United States
January 5, 2026 2:57pm CST
Paranormal ghost apps claim they can detect spirits using your phone, showing radar screens, ghost images, or messages from “ghosts.” While they may look convincing, there is no scientific evidence that these apps actually work. Phones don’t have the ability to detect paranormal activity, and most results are randomly generated. These apps can feel real because fear and expectation make our brains see meaning where there isn’t any. In reality, they are made for entertainment and fun, not real ghost hunting. Some people have strong beliefs, and can have psychological impacts like paranoia. There is no proven evidence. How do you feel about this app or even the Ouija board? I personally will not mess with them. Photo I took near Tokeland, WA Shoalwater Bay (Willapa Bay.)
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@DaddyEvil (165042)
• United States
5 Jan
The apps say they're for "entertainment purposes only". A lot of people love playing with them, anyway. I do believe in ghosts and have seen/heard some really bizarre things... but not by using some app. I won't mess with a Ouija board, though.
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@noni1959 (11902)
• United States
6 Jan
I am making plans to go stay at the Tokeland hotel about 15 miles away because it's claimed to be haunted. I'm not sure when yet, but want to go soon. It's said there is a friendly ghost named Charlie and a ghost cat.
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@DaddyEvil (165042)
• United States
6 Jan
@noni1959 Oh, that would be really cool! I stayed with a friend at a house she's renting several years ago. I was sitting in her living room talking with her and her daughter around 9 pm one evening when the locked front door opened, closed, and footsteps could be heard crossing the front room, going slowly up the stairs, across the landing and into the bedroom at the top... My friend told me that happens once in a while. The next night, it happened again so I followed the footsteps upstairs and into the bedroom. I saw the covers flip back and then the bed sag, like someone sat on the edge of it. I heard two thumps, like boots being removed and then the covers on the bed humped up like someone was crawling in bed. The covers stayed like that for a minute and then flattened out again. That was the bedroom I stayed in while I was visiting them. I made sure I wasn't in bed early and that the ghost had gone before I climbed into that bed.
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@DaddyEvil (165042)
• United States
15h
@noni1959 Your hubby would have made me mad by saying it was a fish tank... Pretty used to make me mad here. I woke up a few days after we moved in and saw someone (I thought it was Pretty.) sitting on the side of my bed watching me sleep. I asked what she was doing and the ghost got up, walked to the closed bedroom door and walked through it without opening the door. I told Pretty what happened and she claimed I was losing my mind. The next day, I woke up and stepped into the hallway between our bedrooms and Pretty's door was partly open and somebody was sitting at her computer. Then Pretty walked up behind me and asked what I was doing... I asked who was sitting at her computer. She looked and said nobody was... I looked again and nobody was there. It was a young-ish woman wearing a dress with sleeves like they wore in the 1940s. (I had to look up clothing styles until I found the type of sleeves on her dress.) Finally, Pretty saw her, too, and stopped saying I was going insane. She's still here and still watches me. Sometimes while I'm asleep or when I'm cutting up veggies in the kitchen. She stands in the corner where the waste basket is and I can see the waste basket through her. If Pretty comes into the room, the ghost disappears.
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@AmbiePam (109542)
• United States
5 Jan
I think people are making money off total bunk. People sure know how to convince themselves things are real. No way am I messing with an Ouija board though.
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@celticeagle (184032)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Jan
Lovely picture. I don't think much of this paranormal app thing. I would think that a psychic or whatever would have to get a feel for the place and through a phone doesn't seem like a good way to do this. But a lot of psychics do over the phone interactions and are said to be accurate.
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@noni1959 (11902)
• United States
6 Jan
I was reading it has random AI built in. The Ouija works by ideomotor effect. I still wouldn't mess with one.
@JudyEv (368681)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Jan
I would never mess with any of these things. To my way of thinking it's too dangerous.
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@noni1959 (11902)
• United States
6 Jan
It's way too dangerous. It was patented by a lawyer and inventor and from what I remember, began calling it the Ouija after the board spelled out the name during a seance and his sister-in-law helped name it.
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@Deepizzaguy (117028)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
5 Jan
Due to my religious beliefs, I avoid the app you mentioned or Ouija boards.
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@noni1959 (11902)
• United States
6 Jan
That is a good call. I walked into a store in Newport, Oregon that had oddities. Soon as I saw the boards, I walked out.
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@Deepizzaguy (117028)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
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@Akutza90 (398)
• Semarang, Indonesia
5 Jan
The application that was released as a ghost detector is a big lie. And they just take advantage of it and make it an application business so that people will download it.
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@noni1959 (11902)
• United States
6 Jan
there is no way it could with the phone technology but many still believe it.
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@Akutza90 (398)
• Semarang, Indonesia
6 Jan
@noni1959 that's what is called good business.hahaha
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@LadyDuck (490240)
• Italy
6 Jan
I am sure that those apps are SCAM. Those apps lack scientific evidence and only rely on entertainment value rather than investigation.
@JESSY3236 (21316)
• United States
6 Jan
I never used that kind of app or an Ouija board. I used to want to try out the board, but I have been chicken to try it.
@LindaOHio (210113)
• United States
6 Jan
I think it's total hoo haa. I have a Ouija Board and had a really creepy experience with it. I haven't used it since.
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