Which certainly lends a plausible explanation as to what these might be, if this was genuinely a timeslip. Evidence of what these 'phantom' buildings could be.
On a side note, interesting that a power pylon is now situated here. Sorry to go off at a bit of tangent here, but I can think of a couple of road ghost cases which also had electrical pylons nearby to the sites where things were experienced. I believe there are pylons running close to one of the places on Blue Bell Hill, Kent where drivers have encountered the 'ghost' of a girl, walking in front of their vehicle.
That wouldn't account for the 1800s sightings, of course. But still.
Certainly plausible physical evidence of a former property, then. It would be interesting to consider archaeological exploration at these sites, but I'd imagine that would be quite difficult to justify or arrange. Where's Time Team when you need them!
So what is the 'Michael' line. Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I'm curious to know. Is this like a Ley Line or Templar trail or something? While I'm kind of inclined to think that most of these concepts are largely hokum I don't discard them entirely. Nor do I write off the possibility that something artificial disrupting the natural energy of a geographical area may be responsible for creating phenomena such as Time Slips or Ghost sightings.
When you think about the sheer amount of background 'noise' we create these days it's pretty heavy. Electricity, radio waves, phone lines (copper and fibre optic), mobile phone signals, wifi signals. These are all things which aren't supposed to exist in a natural environment but which we do now have flowing through much of the Country.
The A15 Road Ghost accounts are one of the first Fortean things I came upon which actually made believe that the seemingly fantastical could be plausibly real. In that case too the local area was plausibly being disrupted by an outside signal. The junction where the majority of sightings have been experienced are literally down the road from RAF Cranwell. The signal from RAF Cranwell was string enough that when This Morning attempted an outside broadcast on the junction in the late 90s, they had to go to the next town over. Because that signal interfered with their own broadcast.
Can we say conclusively that a signal like that might not be interacting with something in the environment nearby, and causing some kind of time echo of a man walking out in to the road, to be recalled from centuries past? I don't find that notion implausible.
Where I also see a very loose parallel with Rougham is that the figure has not *only* been seen at that one road junction. One of the accounts from the 90s was from a woman whose father had worked at RAF Cranwell at some point in the past. She recounted a story her father had told her of a group of RAF chaps returning to RAF Cranwell from a night out in one of the nearby villages. And they were cutting through a field on the way back to the base they saw this figure walk out ahead, and raise it's arm as if warning them to stop. She said the group decided to take an alternate route after seeing that, rather than carry on ahead. She also noted that her father saw the figure again, whilst driving on A15 road years later. Again he took an alternate route.
This is what makes me believe that maybe it's the signal from that RAF base interacting with the natural flow of everyday energy in local environment in an unintentional and unexpected way, causing this echo from the past to reappear. I would say that it is far from implausible that something similar may be happening in Rougham. And while it might be harder to identify what may have caused that in the 1860s, I very much do suspect that this might be what is happening.
Just my take of course.
And unprompted sightings are always the best kind of accounts. Because you know that thy can't have been prejudiced by prior knowledge.
Interesting know that the sightlines have changed. For all we know that house has popped back into being visible more often. But people can't always see it from the road when it does.
