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If you’ve never seen a ghost, you might be surprised to learn what ghosts look like.
As much as I gripe about movies and TV shows misrepresenting ghost hunting, they have freed us from one bit of fiction.
People have (finally?) learned that most ghosts don’t appear as figures in white sheets.
In fact, not all ghosts appear, period and full stop.
In my decades of ghost hunting, I’ve often seen odd phenomena connected with ghosts.
However, I rarely see actual apparitions…
Not apparitions that look like real, live people, anyway.
The ghostly woman at the Spalding Inn carriage house came close. (And I’ve only once seen a ghost draped in a sheet.)
Despite that, I still believe in ghostly phenomena, even when there’s no visible evidence.
For me, other forms of evidence are more than enough. And there’s plenty of that, if you’re open to it.
Keep an open mind.
If you’re a new ghost hunter, decide what you’ll need to experience, to believe that ghostly encounters are real.
Note that I said “experience.” Not a precise, detailed preconception of what you’d need to see, or hear, or feel.
Maybe decide on, on a scale of 1 to 10, how weird an experience would need to be, to convince you a site is haunted.
Then you’ll know when you’ve found it, or – if it just doesn’t happen (or if it terrifies you) – when it’s time to quit.
However, a far better goal might be encountering something odd, eerie, or strange… but impossible to explain.
Is everything odd a ghost?
Personally, I have no doubt that spirits visit our world.
I’m absolutely certain that ghosts – or ghostly energy of people (and sometimes animals) from the past – exist.
Some are more sensitive to their presence than others are.
Perhaps we pass them daily, in broad daylight, and don’t realize it.
(Are they really from the past? That’s a different topic, best for those – like me – who are intrigued by ghosts, spirituality, and how it might align with quantum science.)
But let’s not insist every weird anomaly is a ghost.
(That may be a “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” issue.)
And let’s not hold such high standards for “what a ghost has to be,” that we don’t pursue curious anomalies that might be ghostly energy.
Understand what you’re looking for, because – in ghost hunting – you’re not likely to see an actual apparition.
This short video explains a little more about apparitions.
(See more ghost-related videos at my YouTube channel: Ghost Hunting with Fiona Broome.)
What would you have to encounter or experience in ghost hunting, to feel as if your questions were answered?
And how many “hmm… that’s odd” observations are you willing to investigate, in case they’re important?
Think about this. I mean it.
There’s always more to learn from ghost hunting, whether you’re a skeptic, a “true believer,” or somewhat in-between those extremes.
Hey, Fiona have you ever heard a story about an alien-looking ghost who haunts somewhere in Roswell, New Mexico? I thought that I heard about it on a podcast a number of years ago. I think that it was Binnall Of America, and I believe the guy who was the guest who talked about it was Jim Marrs, but I could be wrong…
Hi, Mark! No, I’ve never heard about him.
I’m not sure why it never crossed my mind that something that looks alien might haunt Earth, especially if their body was in some vault at Roswell. (Well, assuming the legends are true, that is.)
I’ve downloaded this PDF (linked below) and will see what else I can find. (I’m just busy enough right now that I almost said “dig up,” before realizing how tasteless that might seem.)
https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2008/03/p26.pdf
Jim Marrs’ research was usually pretty good, even if I didn’t always agree with his apparent conclusions. (And knowing some of the staff of the Skeptical Enquirer, I know that some of their snarkiness in that PDF article might be pretense. At least one of their staff confided in me that they would actually love to find convincing evidence of ghosts. It’s why they’re sometimes at high-profile ghost hunting events… but lurking.)
Note that I said “apparent conclusions.” What Jim said and wrote didn’t always match what he actually believed, but he did know how to connect-the-dots – sometimes in unlikely ways – to entertain his audience.
I’ll look into this and – at some point in the future – write about it. Thanks for the suggestion!
They’re lying to you, Fiona. Pseudoskeptics would HATE to find actual evidence of the paranormal, because it would show them to be wrong. Never trust a pseudoskeptic.
LOL… I’d believe that about many of them. But one of them… I was convinced. Still am. And that’s why I never mention that person’s name or context… they’d lose their status in a heartbeat. (Alternative: They’d have to backpedal and pretend they were just kidding, knowing that saying that would end our friendship of many decades.)
In public, we disdain each other, more or less. It’s understood. In private – and only in person – we swap useful insights that the other person probably shouldn’t share, but does… Perhaps because we’ve both kept all of this in confidence, and that’s rare in our respective, sometimes-gossipy fields.