escargot said:'Did you notice what Tulip tree was wearing?'
'No, but it sure needed ironing!'
:laughing: :blush: :wince:
My worst nightmares coming true.
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escargot said:'Did you notice what Tulip tree was wearing?'
'No, but it sure needed ironing!'
This reminded me of Doppleganger Child.Tulip Tree said:This is an odd theory, but...
While some apparitions might be recordings, others spirits of the dead and still others manifestations of enities that have never been human, I have also read that some might be us having an OOBE while dreaming or meditating.
Perfectly reasonable - like on the Ghostly recordings of Horrific events thread, IMHO it's misleading to try and ascribe one blanket explanation to an entire range of phenomena. Each case must be examined on it's own merit, so all of the above may well apply.Tulip Tree said:This is an odd theory, but...
While some apparitions might be recordings, others spirits of the dead and still others manifestations of enities that have never been human, I have also read that some might be us having an OOBE while dreaming or meditating.
Frustration?GNC said:I read a report in a book a few years ago about a vicar who felt he was embraced by a naked woman when there was nobody to be seen in the room.
alb said:My first guess would have been that such things do not happen. Maybe they were involved in a near miss with another vehicle (ran it off the road) - then reported the 'sighting' after feeling guilty and going back for a look. (NB - this quote from a post that's now part of another thread - stu)
Well, you could say that about 90% of the stuff in this place, for a start...Peni said:In the absence of the original police reports or a reliable news story, though, all theories are hot air.
Define good data though - a first hand account is only wonderful if you trust the source. And then again, even if you believe the source to be of good character, what if you just don't believe the story and believe the teller deluded?Peni said:Good data is wonderful when you can get it.
Because it was about a naked ghost, probably. But, as it's Xmas, and I'm feeling generous, I'll split the Christine Skubish posts off into a thread all of their own .alb said:...why on earth have these threads been merged? The Naked Ghosts thread was generic, speculative and did not require specifics -- whilst the 'Christine Skubish' thread is specific but the (ahem) facts are open to much doubt. IMO it doesn't serve as an example of the original thread. Doh! 2 differently interesting threads murdered.
stu neville said:Define good data though - a first hand account is only wonderful if you trust the source.Peni said:Good data is wonderful when you can get it.
Familiar Spirits: Sexual Hauntings Through the Ages, Colin Waters, 1993, photos and line art, biblio., 174 pp. $16.95 HB
Not quite as titillating as you might think, this book could be titled, "The Naked and the Dead." Tales of ghostly rapists, panting spirits, lewd goblins, incubi and succubi. Five nude ghosts dancing around Trafalgar Square, a beautiful ghostly streetwalker who turned into a hideous hag, a pathetic pregnant spirit of a murdered girl.
MrRING said:Think about this - if a ghost is a person's soul or essence, why does it manifest with clothing? Is it a deep seated shame of the human body? [/i]
No. As I addressed this same issue on another thread here earleir today, MOST ghosts seem to crisis phenomena which are "hallucinated" by the witness/experiencer. NOTE: by "hallucination" I most certainly DO NOT use the word in its extremely limited modern sense of "delusional" but rather in its 19th Century currency of "mental construct.")
The witness perceives psychically that X has died and his (her) brain then responds by creating a perfect image of X, He (she) sees X as clothed, never having seen X naked.
LordRsmacker said:Naked???
Has anyone made a gag about having the willies put up them by a ghost?
Um, OK, I'll get my coat................
MaxMolyneux said:LordRsmacker said:Naked???
Has anyone made a gag about having the willies put up them by a ghost?
Um, OK, I'll get my coat................
I believe someone already took your coat.
we... may have spent quite a long time confusing ghosts with the just plain old-fashionred reanimated dead.
OldTimeRadio said:MaxMolyneux said:LordRsmacker said:Naked???
Has anyone made a gag about having the willies put up them by a ghost?
Um, OK, I'll get my coat................
I believe someone already took your coat.
Of course. We're taking up a collection of them to clothe poor, naked ghosts.