Dr. Duncan McDougall, a young doctor and entrepreneur particularly interested in parapsychology, tried to weigh the human soul in 1906. Worked at a major hospital in Boston, which allowed him to observe the death often in those years before the advent of wonder drugs.
- If there is a human soul leaves the body at death, there should be a weight loss --- he reasoned.
One day, placed a bed in a delicate platform adapted to a precision balance and settled there, in turn, many were sick with tuberculosis rampant.
Then saw the death of six. Upon expiration, the balance showed a sudden decrease in weight from ten to fifteen grams. Following a similar operation carried out on animals and eventually announce:
- There has been minimal weight loss for animals. There is therefore a substance of the human soul.
The fact was broken in the first pages of newspapers. When the result of the experiments was known to colleagues Dr. Macdougall, there was a general reaction of shock.
- Admitting that there was a loss of weight at death, does not mean that the soul left the body - one of them proclaimed.
However, no one else has submitted convincing theory to explain the phenomenon.
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