Historical and cultural effects on the ghost experience

[cjr23]

I'm sometimes called a "cultural historian" cos i worked in Cultural Studies and have some postgraduate qualification in that area, and as Dave Woods and others will attest I'm well known for saying that entity encounter experiences are understood through the dominant (or subcultural) cultural lenses - the MAgonia hypothesis if you like - but actually having spent much of yesterday and today coding narratives from modern reports, I don't see all that much difference from say 1894.

Down are crisis apparitions, and death related ghost reports. I see slightly fewer phantasms of the living than I expected. Apparent telepathy related apparitions are also down, but as that was the framework all the early SPR investigators seem to have been examining, no surprise there. No experimental ghosts in this study so far.

Werewolves and other oddities, and ufo's, are up it would seem. Religious experiences about stable, perhaps surprisingly. But on the whole the kind of reports i'm seeing so far would not look out of place in the 1894 Census?

cj x

[scroll33]

Not sure about ghost cars but there are a lot of phantom planes reported across the web and in the media. Considering the number of crashed UFO's and interdimentional beings having been amoung us for thousands of years I think its about time we had a few ghost aliens running around

Ghost Planes of the Peak District
http://www.sheffieldontheinternet.co.uk/ghost.html


Witnesses claimed they ran for cover as a so-called 'ghost plane' appeared from nowhere - and you've seen them too! More...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northeas...00/8359325.stm


There are also curious cases of hearing planes go down without any physical evidence
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa062899.htm