Science Mysteries: Weighing Human Souls – The 21 Grams Theory

Dr. MacDougall conducted the same experiment on 15 dogs.  The experiments showed no change in weight following their death.  MacDougall concluded that this may signify only humans have souls.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: History's Mystries
By Jim H | January 27, 2010

On 10 April 1901, an unusual experiment was conducted in Dorchester, Massachusetts.  Dr. Duncan MacDougall was going to prove that the human soul had mass, and was therefore, measurable.

Dr. MacDougall conducted this experiment on six dying patients who were placed on specially made Fairbanks weight scales just prior to their deaths.  Dr. MacDougall’s intention was to weigh each body before and after death to determine any differences measured by the delicate scales.  The patients were selected based upon their imminent death.  Two patients were suffering from tuberculosis, 5 were men and one was a woman.

In the company of four other doctors, Dr. MacDougall carefully measured the weight of his first patient prior to his death.  Once the patient died, an interesting event occurred.

Suddenly, coincident with death, the beam end dropped with an audible stroke hitting against the lower limiting bar and remaining there with no rebound. The loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce.

    Dr. Duncan MacDougall

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