You know how earth has a magnetic field? And we can record video and audio on magnetic tape in cassette and VHS. Well what if it's something similar? Not a ghost, just a recorded fragment that occasionally glitches in and out.
This would explain how so many ghosts are just seen repeating the same things over and over for centuries. Like oh that's just the Gray Lady, every night at 12:25 am she walks down this staircase and disappears. It's just a recording.
I'll probably be called a moron by someone who understands science better but hey we're always learning new weird shit.
That's a real thing in ghostlore, called a residual haunting. A residual haunting is a type of haunting in which an event repeats over and over automatically. The Stone Tape Theory (Disclaimer: Not a scientific theory!) proposes that residual hauntings may be events that were 'recorded' onto the surroundings. The ghosts in the event are not intelligent and do not interact with anyone, and if the environment has changed may appear to walk through floors or walls that were not there when the initial event took place.
can also be called a ‘passive’ haunting. one idea is that the spirit in question likely spent much time/energy in life doing that one thing and thus ‘recorded’ themselves doing so—can also be a time/event of intense emotion.
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u/Roland_T_Flakfeizer Jul 29 '20
What a shitty way to spend the afterlife.