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How do you recognise a ghost?

How do you recognise a ghost?

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5 Responses

  1. Englishpsychic says:
    February 19, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    Re: How do you recognise a ghost?
     I have never seen a ghost, but I think if I should see one, he/she would be a bit transparent, have a glow around him/her, and maybe look like what he used to just before he died. I got this description from what I have read in books. 

  2. Mysteryshopper says:
    February 19, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Re: How do you recognise a ghost?
    [quote=Englishpsychic] I have never seen a ghost, but I think if I should see one, he/she would be a bit transparent, have a glow around him/her, and maybe look like what he used to just before he died. I got this description from what I have read in books. [/quote] Can I ask which books? Having investigated many ghost sightings, the overwhelming majority report a perfectly normal solid, non-glowing person. That’s why I am interested in how people KNOW they are looking at a ghost.

  3. Ian Topham says:
    February 19, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    Re: How do you recognise a ghost?

    I agree with Mysteryshopper that when interviewing witnesses most people describe solid looking individuals and they only tend to realise that they may be ghosts after they do something unusual, such as vanish.

    I know when I saw my ghost at Muncaster it was a black silhouette and it walked straight toward and through me.  I must admit I knew it was wierd from first glance but it only really started to sink in when another investigator confirmed that they had seen it.

  4. markjones1970 says:
    February 20, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Re: How do you recognise a ghost?
    Lots of the ghosts I have seen I can see clear as day from my peripheral vision. When I turn to look at them full on they just disapear. To me, that’s pretty obvious, when I’ve seen their faces and clothes, they appear solid, then disapear, that they are a ghost.

    Another ghost I saw, which looked like just the bottom part of a dress (that’s all that was visible) was grey, like it was made of smoke, but it didn’t have fading edges, like smoke does as it disipates. It was like the smoke was in a container, but the contianer was invisible. There was a defined shape to it, but was see through and misty. It swooped past me at close range, across the floor. Way too fast to actually be smoke. No trail was left either.

  5. BaronIveagh says:
    February 20, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    Re: How do you recognise a ghost?

    I agree.  Almost all cases I’ve had where I interviewed witnesses also had a very real, solid quality to them, though some reported something ‘off’ about the person, such as a vanish or walking through a wall/closed door.  I would say that the easiest way to tell it’s a ghost is it doing something that a person can’t physically do. 

    Since the thread seems to be starting in this direction a bit: at least in my experience, these things have degrees of rarity:

    1) Common (has been reported and/or recorded frequently with credibility): Strange lights, unexplained sounds, cold spots, small items moving, mists or fogs.
    2) Uncommon (has been reported or recorded infrequently with credibility): visible apparitions, doors opening and closing on their own.
    3) Rare (unusual event, recorded and reported rarely with credibility): Apparitions interacting with witnesses, large scale apparitions (trains, carts, groups of apparitions such as a battle reenactment), large items moving on their own
    4) Near Unique (few credible reports exist, but some do): Timewarps (entire visible area or room reverts to an earlier state), genuine ‘malevolent entities’, really large items being moved (entire house shaking, refrigerator or other large appliance being moved from one spot to another.) violance (blows or scratches from unseen beings)

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