In 1907, Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts, decided to try and prove the existence of the soul . All he needed was some people willing to die under his supervision, and some dogs. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The Scottish doctor, for reasons he didn't take time to note down, believed that the soul had physical mass and thus it should be possible to weigh it. He had the imagination to believe that a piece of soul magically departs your body when you die, possibly to live in a heaven-like place for eternity, but thought it unrealistic that this couldn't be weighed like a bag of flour. He decided the best way to prove his theory would be to weigh somebody at the precise moment they snuffed it, and then

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