Zeke Newbold
Carbon based biped.
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So the traditional, one might say, classical way to view the ghost phenomenon is that it (or they) represent(s) the `souls` of dead people who have been unable to `move on` and thus haunt people and locations to complain of this or that or to right some injustice. Thus world literature is rife with just such ghosts, used for the most part as a plot device.
From the Twentieth Century we began to develop a new paradigm from which to consider ghosts - and I would say that it has become the predominant one.
It is that `ghosts` are `recordings` of events from the past. The exact way this would happen is not known and rarely explained, but the idea is that at certain locations - perhaps where there are special types of stone or water nearby -` psychic recordings` can occur when an emotionally significant event occurs. This will then be replayed in the minds or perceptions of those in that location - hence `hauntings.`
We like this idea because we are all familiar with the idea of recorded sound and vision.
However, it occurs to me that if this theory is correct, then there is no reason why the ghost or ghosts should have to be of people who have died. A still living person - say a person involved in a car crash at a certain locale but who subsequently survived - could still become a `ghost`.
So, I'm asking if anyone knows of any ghost cases where the ghost is of a living person or persons.
Just to be clear, I do NOT mean any of the following;
Doppelgangers. I don't know what this phenomenon is, but I don't think it's a haunting of the kind I am trying to describe.
Vardorgers. Again a strange phenomenon where a person seems to appear at a house in advance of their actual appearance Interesting, but not what I'm talking about.
Crisis apparitions. These seem to me to fit the traditional view of ghosts in that they are the appearance, to their loved ones, of someone in the process of dying who subsequently passes away.
Any actual hauntings by an entity later found to be that of a still living person?
From the Twentieth Century we began to develop a new paradigm from which to consider ghosts - and I would say that it has become the predominant one.
It is that `ghosts` are `recordings` of events from the past. The exact way this would happen is not known and rarely explained, but the idea is that at certain locations - perhaps where there are special types of stone or water nearby -` psychic recordings` can occur when an emotionally significant event occurs. This will then be replayed in the minds or perceptions of those in that location - hence `hauntings.`
We like this idea because we are all familiar with the idea of recorded sound and vision.
However, it occurs to me that if this theory is correct, then there is no reason why the ghost or ghosts should have to be of people who have died. A still living person - say a person involved in a car crash at a certain locale but who subsequently survived - could still become a `ghost`.
So, I'm asking if anyone knows of any ghost cases where the ghost is of a living person or persons.
Just to be clear, I do NOT mean any of the following;
Doppelgangers. I don't know what this phenomenon is, but I don't think it's a haunting of the kind I am trying to describe.
Vardorgers. Again a strange phenomenon where a person seems to appear at a house in advance of their actual appearance Interesting, but not what I'm talking about.
Crisis apparitions. These seem to me to fit the traditional view of ghosts in that they are the appearance, to their loved ones, of someone in the process of dying who subsequently passes away.
Any actual hauntings by an entity later found to be that of a still living person?
