Just in time for Halloween and from the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department we have this tale of hilarity. Rob Gutro is a Deputy News Chief in the office of Public Affairs at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. He writes a number of science stories, like this one on hurricanes or this one on the Gulf Oil spill. But, he also talks to ghosts. I’d like to ask him to ask the dead these questions: “Is climate change dead too? Is heaven green? Does hell use a coal powered furnace or is it nuclear or solar driven?” Inquiring minds want to know.
NASA worker brings a scientific eye to his hobby: Talking to the dead
Medium and NASA Meteorologist Rob Gutro tries to communicate with a possible ghost beneath a bookstore in Baltimore.» LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER
By J. Freedom duLac Washington Post Staff Writer
Rob Gutro was driving to the wake of a co-worker’s stepfather when a ghost began to speak.
“I kept hearing the name Cindy Lou,” Gutro recalled. “I had no idea what that meant.” But he knew this: Once again, somebody who’d died had something to say.
By day, Gutro is a meteorologist who works as deputy news chief at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, communicating the nation’s scientific work to the public.
By night (and whenever else the entities get in touch), he talks to the dead.
“I have an ability to communicate with and understand ghosts and spirits,” Gutro said.
During his off-hours, away from NASA’s advanced technology, Gutro actively seeks encounters of another kind by traveling to haunted houses and other historic sites where spirits might be found.
Sometimes, he said, entities seek him out. So it was, on the way to the wake this summer, that the disembodied voice in the car asked Gutro to deliver messages to his grieving friend and NASA colleague, Cynthia O’Carroll.
Gutro obliged, pulling her aside at the ceremony and saying he’d been hearing the name Cindy Lou. “I believe your dad has come to me,” he told O’Carroll.
She cried.
“My dad used to call me Cindy Lou,” O’Carroll said later. “But the thing that really touched me and made me cry was when Rob said, ‘Your dad said thank you for taking care of your mom.’ Just the way he said it sounded like the way Dad would have said it.”
Gutro is quick to acknowledge that some NASA scientists – and plenty of non-scientists too – approach his work with considerable skepticism. “Some people do think that mediums are crazy,” Gutro said. He shrugged.
There’s no scientific consensus on ghosts and spirits; the word paranormal, after all, means something beyond scientific explanation. But Gutro, who used to work as a forecaster for the Weather Channel’s radio division, insisted that the science behind his experiences with entities is sound.
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h/t to WUWT reader “Bob”
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I take this as conclusive proof that the aliens have landed and are living among us.
I’m sure that he makes people feel better.
Face palm……
We may have to file his one under “smart people can sometimes believe dumb stuff”: my best math teacher was a Velikovsky True Believer…
Next up: “Ouija Boards and Hockey Sticks”
Apparently the folks at NASA to don’t purge heretics after all.
Mod’s – There is an article out from the New York Times’ Peter Applebome titled “Ignoring the planet won’t fix it ”
It would probably be good for some fine discussion along the same lines of “you can’t make this stuff up”.
Do they use a Magic 8 ball too?
“Is the climate warming?”
It appears so.
The “Law of Conservation of Energy” in the 4th non-matter dimension occupying the 3rd?
Let’s send him to Mars on the next satellite to chat about past civilizations — maybe with a Monkey in tow to make sure he eats something. Nah, it would be mean to the Monkey.
One has to wonder about NASA HR and we can throw GISS HR into the pot as well.
It is just a natural thing in a religious sect.
I wonder what the correlation is between believing in talking to ghosts and believing in global warming? I do remember reading somewhere that the ghost believer percent is 39%, but there was a caveat.
James Goneaux says:
October 28, 2010 at 1:06 pm
We may have to file his one under “smart people can sometimes believe dumb stuff”: my best math teacher was a Velikovsky True Believer…
You would have to include Isaac Newton
I knew I stopped watching the Discovery/Learning/History channels for a reason.
*HEAVY SIGH*
Auditory hallucinations are among the most common.
There are treatments available for him, and I am sure that his medical benefits package would cover qualified treatment and therapy.
I can’t believe that this apparently scientifically educated man believes in all this mythological mumbo jumbo, despite the complete absence of scientific evidence. And as well as AGW, he believes in ghosts!
I here NASA is looking for a volunteer to go to Mars and start human colony there, but it is only one way ticket. That chap, their top man Gutro and his dog would be ideal candidates, he could always ask his granddad for a ‘lift back’
That’s another sign of AGW… makes people hear things!
“There’s no scientific consensus on ghosts and spirits; the word paranormal, after all, means something beyond scientific explanation.”
Does this imply that “AGW”, ” CAGW” and/or “climate disruption” could be considered “paranormal”?
I believe one of the lower profile ‘scientists’ at the CRU, UEA, also had some strange beliefs that might have influenced his ‘scientific’ views. Can’t remember his name,my brain is going, and in some constituencies of the U.S. his beliefs may be mainstream!
Here in Germany, we call this “hearing voices” and it’s mostly caused by excessive consumption of skunk, the high-THC dutch marihuana variant. You’d better keep popping antipsychotics the rest of your live; sometimes the voices command you to do nasty things and you can’t switch them off and they keep demanding things…
He may of course had too much of the “other spirits”
Hic!
Isn’t this a bit of an ad hom attack?
Where is the evidence that this in any way effects his NASA job?
I’m not a believer in any of this supernatural stuff; in fact I think it’s evil and gives false comfort to people. But just because someone believes in something odd and does a bit of it on the side doesn’t automatically mean his performance at his primary job is suspicious.
@David UK,
Plenty of scientists are Christians, and there isn’t one whit of scientific evidence to support the central tenants of Christianity, and nobody thinks they are all that strange.
You know, I have zero problem with this. First, it’s a harmless release for a little eccentricity. Second, it takes a certain amount of open-mindedness to take that kind of nuttiness seriously. And who knows, maybe there is something useful to be gained by having a trained mind delving into the paranormal. I seriously doubt it will, but no scientist should be shuttered from academia or blacklisted for entertaining eccentric views.
He could ask some dead people whether it was warm during the Medieval Warm Period. That would be as accurate as using strip bark bristle cone pine tree growth rings.