MorningAngel
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London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane nice and haunted.
London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane nice and haunted.
Since it would be a UK production (they are only asking people for stories) I don't see this happening. I do like the research that Uncanny does on some of the stories.Oh you guys are much more level headed than your neighbours. The reason I mention the USA is because they often come in and take over (generally very loudly) and they are so massive their stories would swamp ours.
I often go on about the Credible Witness books with police having paranormal encounters. I accidentally got the American equivalent first. Big mistake, over reactions everywhere and trying to shoot ghosts!
Made me chuckle and true of certain sections of that society but in their defence it is also the land of Mothman, classic UFO cases, Bigfoot, Dogmen, Civil War ghosts, Jersey Devil, phantom hitchhikers, ghost lights etc etc.Bugger that, screaming septics with a blue rinse.
They will all have been abducted 27 times since Covid, the owls are watching them, they saw 40 ghosts from their cot at age 6 months but fought off several demons at the same time.
However, traditional societies have a more intimate relationship with their deceased ancestors, any fear was/is directed towards hostile enemy spirits.In reference to the 'Ghosts haunting China’s cities' article I posted, but also generally: why is it that people fear the return of the dead (in ghost-form or other)? And does that fear perhaps say more about the living than the deceased? I thinking particularly of ghosts that 'we' have little reason to fear (beloved family members, for example, or the ghosts of people who were generally harmless while living).
I'm sure there are well-researched reasons for this age-old fear - most of which have escaped me - but, even so, it seems a particularly strange and universal terror, even allowing for the dead being a reminder that we are all mortal. In passing: Professor Julian Jaynes claimed that the ancients heard the voices of the dead long after they expired; if true, I guess that could be a factor?
As an American, I felt compelled to correct you. American media always jumps to the most sensationalist.I realise in the US MEDIA there is a tendency to jump to the conclusion of demons
Danny could look into the ghost of the Japanese tsunami:
"Disquieting figures drenched in water were also seen hailing cabs, only to disappear once they climbed into the back seat. And these weren’t one-off sightings — residents all across the hardest-hit cities were reporting such apparitions."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/tsunami-spirits
Danny could look into the ghost of the Japanese tsunami:
"Disquieting figures drenched in water were also seen hailing cabs, only to disappear once they climbed into the back seat. And these weren’t one-off sightings — residents all across the hardest-hit cities were reporting such apparitions."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/tsunami-spirits
I have listened to a few good podcasts on the ghosts of the Tsunami but I’m buggered if I can remember which podcasts they were.Danny could look into the ghost of the Japanese tsunami:
Please try harder, all I've heard is second- or third-hand and it sounds intriguing.I have listened to a few good podcasts on the ghosts of the Tsunami but I’m buggered if I can remember which podcasts they were.
If you have Apple Podcast just type ghost tsunami into the search facility. It brings up a large number of hits, some I recognise, some I am unfamiliar with.Please try harder, all I've heard is second- or third-hand and it sounds intriguing.
he book mentions the now-opened bypass in connection with the property, so it possible that there is some confusion over the purpose of Gordon and the team's visit to this location? They seemed to arrive quickly on the scene, so perhaps they were already in the immediate area?
Good shout.watching brief?
Can I just check if it was also a good fit with his actual expertise? After all, if he is a Beaker People person then he may not have been put on an English Civil War dig, even if he was in the area. @Frideswide will be able to say if I am wrong about this assumption!I have found who I believe the archaeologist to be and he has enjoyed a prestigious career (it is a good fit of name + location). However, I have methodically searched the archaeological records for this particular dig and I can't find it.
Can I just check if it was also a good fit with his actual expertise? After all, if he is a Beaker People person then he may not have been put on an English Civil War dig, even if he was in the area. @Frideswide will be able to say if I am wrong about this assumption!
I searched the County records:Usually yes, romanists do roman, prehistorians do prehistoric... although there is a huge common core of skills and knowledge.
For a watching brief though, you don't know what is going to come up. Most of us can deal with most things. If something like a Sutton Hoo or a Skara Brae or a Bordesley Abby starts to fall out of the landscape then you hope you can get a specialist to do something detailed. Much of the time though you are working against the next pass of the drot and there simply isn't time to do that.
I've also just thought: if the report is for the developers then it may not be easily getatable ( @Steven another techinical term lolol)
@Paul_Exeter have you had a chance to check the Archaeological Data Service?
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
Good shout, but that would have been before her success with 'This Country' and when she was living in a flat and working nights cleaning offices.A great find @Paul_Exeter
I don't know enough about the lady and her work, but is it possible she got confused and meant the birth of her *first* child, possibly pre-2018?
Paul, just do a bloody podcast dissecting this stuff, I have an urgent need to fill my days listening to your amazing research and debunkingI searched the County records:
https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/...4.1524603472.1705849222-2009960052.1705849222
There were a few results for Averham of "Sherds" from different time periods in connection with the relief road project.
I believe "Gordon" to be the late Gordon Young:
"The year 2019 marks 50 years since Nottingham City Council first employed a professional archaeologist. Back in 1969, when Charles SB Young became Field Archaeologist working within the museum service, the City Council began to undertake a number of ‘rescue excavations’ in the city centre, as well as monitoring ground works, in order to record evidence of medieval and post-medieval occupation in advance of major redevelopment schemes."
http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/publications/articles/nottinghamarchaeology.htm
and:
https://www.nottinghamcastleproject...astle-Transformation-Newsletter-July-2017.pdf
It is an educated guess (see above)Can I just check if it was also a good fit with his actual expertise? After all, if he is a Beaker People person then he may not have been put on an English Civil War dig, even if he was in the area. @Frideswide will be able to say if I am wrong about this assumption!