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I'm unable to find a thread on Daylight Apparitions, and thought it would be nice to have a repository for such reports.
The two most famous examples, alas, are fictional - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel from Henry James' THE TURN OF THE SCREW.
However this famous story was apparently based on a genuine haunting personally known to the Archbiship of Canterbury (Bishop Benson, the father of horror-masters E. F. and R. H. Benson) and related by him to James. It would be interesting to know if daylight ghosts figured in the original account.
There's also the 93rd Psalm, with its plea for protection from the pestilence that wastest the noonday. I've never been certain whether this refers to physical disease (which like ghosts is normally associated with the night) or with daytime fiends.
One of my favorite web postings concerns a woman here in south-west Ohio (too close! too close!) who worked the graveyard shift so slept during the early afternoon. She had her bedrooms windows covered with thick cardboard and heavy drapes so that the chamber was pitch-black even during the daylight hours. According to the witness, this attracted the attention of a leathery-winged demon.
There are shadows even at noon and always dark places inside each of us.
The two most famous examples, alas, are fictional - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel from Henry James' THE TURN OF THE SCREW.
However this famous story was apparently based on a genuine haunting personally known to the Archbiship of Canterbury (Bishop Benson, the father of horror-masters E. F. and R. H. Benson) and related by him to James. It would be interesting to know if daylight ghosts figured in the original account.
There's also the 93rd Psalm, with its plea for protection from the pestilence that wastest the noonday. I've never been certain whether this refers to physical disease (which like ghosts is normally associated with the night) or with daytime fiends.
One of my favorite web postings concerns a woman here in south-west Ohio (too close! too close!) who worked the graveyard shift so slept during the early afternoon. She had her bedrooms windows covered with thick cardboard and heavy drapes so that the chamber was pitch-black even during the daylight hours. According to the witness, this attracted the attention of a leathery-winged demon.
There are shadows even at noon and always dark places inside each of us.