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Which can't be explained by an unfocused eye. They do a lot of speculating to come up with a reason why he could possibly see something out of the corner of his eye. But, that's only the physical part of it. It doesn't explain why he might think that whatever he was seeing was "a figure" and moved like a person.
That's like saying that ghosts can be explained by wearing glasses with dirty lenses, then going into detail about how dirty lenses can cause someone to see something that isn't there, while ignoring the ~~elephant~~ ghost in the room. Except it's even worse because a smudge on your glasses causing you to "see something that isn't there" is really easy to test and barely needs an experiment to confirm it's true. But, low frequency waves causing someone to see something that isn't there isn't something that has been tested. It's pure speculation.
So, pure speculation that low frequency waves can cause someone's eyes to blur in such a way that the corner of their glasses is mistaken as something that isn't there. No proof that has happened or can happen, just speculation.
Then ignoring the elephant in the room that just because someone might not see clearly if their eye is vibrating, that is somehow magically interpreted as a figure moving like a person, which they interpret as a ghost.
There's a humongous jump there from "a certain frequency might cause the eyes to wiggle" to "and therefore that's why he saw a ghost".
I'm not sure I understand. Peripheral hallucinations are a recognized type of hallucination, and hallucinations can involve anything from shadows or flashes of light through to full vivid imagery. It only requires perceiving anything that isn't really there and but it feels real. The patterns or colors you see when you close your eyes are considered hallucinations too.