Here's something for all you ghost hunters to consider.
Ghosts are dead people, but they're still people. Many of them don't understand their situation, so they're confused and scared.
Put yourself in that position. You're alone in a house, and suddenly hordes of people arrive, with armfuls of electrical equipment. They're shouting to each other, setting up mysterious gadgets, then they come looking for you.
"Come out!" they shout. "Show yourself."
Each of them carries something that might be a weapon, for all you know. You can't see them clearly, but you know they're hunting you.
What would you do?
Is it any real surprise that these ghosthunters find nothing? That they console themselves with pictures of dust and recordings of mice scratching in the walls?
If you wanted to sight a rare animal or bird, you'd set up a hide and keep very, very quiet. You wouldn't barge into the forest with floodlights and cameras, shouting and demanding the animal come forth. You wouldn't really expect the animal to step out and pose to be photographed, would you?
Treat ghosts as shy, neurotic, terrified people.
That's what most of them are.
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Perhaps the living are merely ghostly intruders into their world. And who's to say whose realitiy is realer?
Reality is what you see. If what a ghost sees is different, we might not regard that as reality, but they would.
One of Alistair Crowley's most famous quotes runs :
"Reality is an illusion, but it is an illusion difficult to get rid of".
Funnily enough, quantum physics is increasingly tending to agree.
Bwcïod ydy jyst 'n choffadwriaethau yn d bacia
That might be an imposter, or it could be my brother. He is fluent in five languages, but has never said anything worth hearing in any of them.
If that's you, Remus, don't visit me.
Dyna'r problem gyda Chymro Eidaleg - dw i ddim yn gallu deall eu sillafiad!
Indeed. I couldn't agree. Mainly because I have no idea what you're saying.
Here's one for you Rom!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html
Headline:
Mysterious red cells might be aliens
I covered that one back in March - check the archives. Since then, it's been seriously debunked by others.
Hey Rom!
What's your take on this Ghost Hunting Guide?
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/85000/85214/1/print/85214.pdf
I've seen a few of these: they are almost universally useless.
One thing they all have in common is the advice to 'protect' yourself from the ghosts they encounter. They say nothing about how to protect the ghost from a band of marauding, shouting maniacs who have capture and condescension in mind.
Particularly telling is this one's reference to ghosts as 'it'. Ghosts are people, not things, and the readers of such guides will get the same response from a ghost as they'd get if they came into your house and referred to you as 'it'.
When I'm dead, I certainly won't talk to them.
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