Modern-Day Ghosts

SimonBurchell said:
I just came across this in Phantom Ladies: The New Edition by Andrew Green and Alan Murdie, page 77, from Ludlow in Shropshire.

"Dennis Ainsley from Andover was recently making his way to the 17th century Feather Hotel in The Bull Ring when he saw the figure of an 18-year-old girl with long black hair wearing a mini-skirt and, of all things, a transparent ɓlouse, walk "straight through my parked car. I couldn't believe my eyes," he said. On reaching the hotel he told the licensee, Mr. James Falconer, of the amazing incident expecting a guffaw of laughter in response. He was very surprised at the reply. "Oh yes. That must be the same girl who walked through a sports car near here in 1962."
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https://www.witchphotographer.com/shop/ludlow/the-feathers-the-famous-mini-skirt-ghost/

It gets better if you believe this version of events. The Dennis Ainsley incident happened in 1974 and apparently the apparition was of someone still living!
 
Thanks for all the replies it appears there are some ghosts in modern garb, however if they are the souls of the dear departed one would expect there to be a lot more sightings just by looking at the population explosion since the 19th Century, for the record I don't think they are the shades of the dear departed but people are witnessing either a glimpse of another dimension or a timeslip
 
Robbrent said:
Thanks for all the replies it appears there are some ghosts in modern garb, however if they are the souls of the dear departed one would expect there to be a lot more sightings just by looking at the population explosion since the 19th Century, for the record I don't think they are the shades of the dear departed but people are witnessing either a glimpse of another dimension or a timeslip
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It is a good question.

I suppose we live much safer lives nowadays and we are less likely to come to a sudden, unexpected end, unless it is in an accident such as in traffic and there are a good number of modern day road ghosts on record. Yes, the Germans bombed us - and there are plenty of WW2 -era ghost pilots and planes - but we haven't fought pitched battles on English soil for centuries and this could explain why we have plenty of Roman and Civil War ghosts but not so many accountants and Tesco cashiers.

Also we may walk and drive past modern ghosts on a regular basis but we don't notice them because they look like us.
 
Paul_Exeter said:
Also we may walk and drive past modern ghosts on a regular basis but we don't notice them because they look like us.
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I'd say this is most likely. Unless we actually witness someone walking through a wall or vanishing in front of our eyes we would take them as just another person, and you'd have to be watching them for some reason generally even to see them walk through a wall or vanish. How often can we say we really look at other people in modern dress?

And if the 'gradually fading over the years' theory is responsible for the transparent and 'grey lady' ghosts, well, that isn't going to apply to someone who died yesterday is it?
 
I used to work in a card shop in my local town one afternoon near closing time a middle aged woman came in dressed in contemporary clothing I greeted her but she ignored me and made her way to the back of the shop. 15 minutes went by and we needed to close so off I go to tell her we're closing and she's nowhere to be seen there's only one door, which the till I was standing at is next to, there's no way she could have left without me seeing her.
 
catseye said:
I'd say this is most likely. Unless we actually witness someone walking through a wall or vanishing in front of our eyes we would take them as just another person, and you'd have to be watching them for some reason generally even to see them walk through a wall or vanish. How often can we say we really look at other people in modern dress?

And if the 'gradually fading over the years' theory is responsible for the transparent and 'grey lady' ghosts, well, that isn't going to apply to someone who died yesterday is it?
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Perhaps why railway station staff (including forum members) notice ghosts in modern clothing because their jobs require them to be aware of passenger safety
 
Paul_Exeter said:
It is a good question.

I suppose we live much safer lives nowadays and we are less likely to come to a sudden, unexpected end, unless it is in an accident such as in traffic and there are a good number of modern day road ghosts on record. Yes, the Germans bombed us - and there are plenty of WW2 -era ghost pilots and planes - but we haven't fought pitched battles on English soil for centuries and this could explain why we have plenty of Roman and Civil War ghosts but not so many accountants and Tesco cashiers.

Also we may walk and drive past modern ghosts on a regular basis but we don't notice them because they look like us.
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I’m surprised there aren’t more ghosts of air raid victims.
 
There is something different between seeing a group of souls, who probably died years ago, doing their familiar route, and an individual ghost.
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I'm sure the nuns I felt ,have all moved to a much better (?) place,
but it's as if their journey has been recorded on some strange unseen camera, to be replayed to anyone who is slightly psychic.
Something has caught and retained the long gone atmosphere of the place.

I had the same feeling a few years ago , when visiting the old Quaker graveyard in Andover, where I grew up. (Bottom of Old Winton Road.)
I saw the hazy shape of black hatted Quaker worshippers leaving the path from the little graveyard.
Within a year, (not the actual graveyard) everything else had been removed, and a block of flats put up.
I'm sure the vague shapes of Quakers I saw have long gone to Heaven!

By the way, my mum who had lived in O.W.Rd. all her life, suggested that maybe when the graveyard was first used it would have been on the outskirts of the town, discretely out of most people's sight!
 
Robbrent said:
Considering the civilian slaughter in WW2 I am surprised the whole of Europe is not awash with ghostly sightings but alas it's not, that's why I tend to go with the time slip theory for most ghost sightings
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I wonder why we don't get more timeslips into war periods? We have the whole 'phantom battle' phenomenon, but remarkably few accounts of people walking war-torn streets. And when you consider how long regeneration took in some cities after WW2, you'd expect there to be more...
 
catseye said:
I wonder why we don't get more timeslips into war periods? We have the whole 'phantom battle' phenomenon, but remarkably few accounts of people walking war-torn streets. And when you consider how long regeneration took in some cities after WW2, you'd expect there to be more...
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I really don't go for timeslips, for reasons I have given elsewhere. Phantom battles are really interesting though and makes me wonder, like many Fortean phenomena, what on Earth is going on.
 
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