Ghosts In The News

I'm always wary of celebrities and their 'haunted houses' or 'ghostly encounters'. For me, they come under the same umbrella as celebrity weddings - something that tends to happen when a celebrity hasn't been in the news much lately but is going to feature on Strictly or some other programme and therefore needs the public to remember who they are. Something - a wedding in the family, a suddenly haunted room about which the previous occupants apparently had no idea at all, complete with a 'sensing something'.... all these things seem suspiciously well timed, in as much as they DON'T happen to people who have fallen out of the limelight because they have retired from the business.
 
catseye said:
I'm always wary of celebrities and their 'haunted houses' or 'ghostly encounters'. For me, they come under the same umbrella as celebrity weddings - something that tends to happen when a celebrity hasn't been in the news much lately but is going to feature on Strictly or some other programme and therefore needs the public to remember who they are. Something - a wedding in the family, a suddenly haunted room about which the previous occupants apparently had no idea at all, complete with a 'sensing something'.... all these things seem suspiciously well timed, in as much as they DON'T happen to people who have fallen out of the limelight because they have retired from the business.
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They feel like the opposite to me; as it's always a risk to talk about such things and invite ridicule, they sound sincere.

I don't follow celebrities in the magazines etc so haven't seen the paranormal bandwagon in action.

However, Ann Diamond and that coffin in the house she was viewing with her mother, who sat on said coffin, after they'd been let into the property by the late owner in person... :omg:
 
DrPaulLee said:
I'm catching up with stuff after my wife was taken ill with the lurgy. She's better now and I caught a mild bout
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Carry on feeling better! :group:

We spent most of Christmas day wheezing and asleep under two duvets on the sofa while the TV did whatever it wanted. I have vague memories of The Queen's Speech but as it must have been Charles, I think it was part of the general disconectedness.
 
Sorry for not understanding the science but is it likely, or not, that ghosts actually could appear reflected in glass, mirrors (and so on)?
 
Steven said:
Sorry for not understanding the science but is it likely, or not, that ghosts actually could appear reflected in glass, mirrors (and so on)?
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I'm going to be awkward and pick on your use of the word 'appear'.

It implies a viewer for the image to appear to.

And it's definitely possible for ghostly images to appear to viewers; whether or not their brains are responding to scientifically verifiable visual stimulus, however, is quite another point.

We have an extremely powerful imagination, a forbidable memory for images, and a highly excitable pattern-recognition system—the possibilities are immense.

Which is not to say that anything ghostly viewed as a result is necessarily 'all in the head'; it could well be that what are traditionally thought of as apparitions are the subjective interpretations of objective phenomena caused/left/generated by other consciousnesses, past, present or even future.
 
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