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In the terminology of [[ghost hunting]], '''residual hauntings''', also known as '''restligeists''' (German [[loan word]] from ''restlich'' meaning "residual" and ''geist'' meaning "ghost"), are repeated playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory phenomena that are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a routine event of a person or place, like an [[echo (phenomenon)|echo]] or a replay of a [[videotape]] of past events. Ghost hunters and related [[paranormal television]] programs say that a residual haunting, unlike an [[intelligent haunting]], does not directly involve a spiritual entity aware of the living world and interacting with or responding to it.<ref>[http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ghost-lab/about/glossary-of-terms.html ''Ghost Lab'' Glossary of Terms]</ref> |
In the terminology of [[ghost hunting]], '''residual hauntings''', also known as '''restligeists''' (German [[loan word]] from ''restlich'' meaning "residual" and ''geist'' meaning "ghost"), are repeated playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory phenomena that are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a routine event of a person or place, like an [[echo (phenomenon)|echo]] or a replay of a [[videotape]] of past events. Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans.<ref>Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt</ref> The spirits aren't actually present during the haunting but the energy is.<ref>Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt</ref> This energy typically arises a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit.<ref>Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt</ref> This why people who experience residual haunting hear screams or any type of sound.<ref>Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt</ref> Ghost hunters and related [[paranormal television]] programs say that a residual haunting, unlike an [[intelligent haunting]], does not directly involve a spiritual entity aware of the living world and interacting with or responding to it.<ref>[http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ghost-lab/about/glossary-of-terms.html ''Ghost Lab'' Glossary of Terms]</ref> |
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One of the first to promulgate the hypothesis of residual haunting was [[Thomas Charles Lethbridge]] in books such as ''Ghost and Ghoul'', written in 1961.<ref>Green, ''Nigel Kneale/Peter Sasdy: The Stone Tape''.</ref> The subject was explored in [[Peter Sasdy]]'s 1972 television play ''[[The Stone Tape]]'', written by [[Nigel Kneale]]. The explanation offered in the play is that light waves are recorded in the walls of a building when they interact with brain waves associated with fear, and the recorded images are reproduced when triggered by brain waves from a fearful observer. The popularity of the programme has led to residual haunting becoming known colloquially as the "[[Stone Tape]] theory." |
One of the first to promulgate the hypothesis of residual haunting was [[Thomas Charles Lethbridge]] in books such as ''Ghost and Ghoul'', written in 1961.<ref>Green, ''Nigel Kneale/Peter Sasdy: The Stone Tape''.</ref> The subject was explored in [[Peter Sasdy]]'s 1972 television play ''[[The Stone Tape]]'', written by [[Nigel Kneale]]. The explanation offered in the play is that light waves are recorded in the walls of a building when they interact with brain waves associated with fear, and the recorded images are reproduced when triggered by brain waves from a fearful observer. The popularity of the programme has led to residual haunting becoming known colloquially as the "[[Stone Tape]] theory." |
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In the terminology of ghost hunting, residual hauntings, also known as restligeists (German loan word from restlich meaning "residual" and geist meaning "ghost"), are repeated playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory phenomena that are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a routine event of a person or place, like an echo or a replay of a videotape of past events. Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans.[1] The spirits aren't actually present during the haunting but the energy is.[2] This energy typically arises a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit.[3] This why people who experience residual haunting hear screams or any type of sound.[4] Ghost hunters and related paranormal television programs say that a residual haunting, unlike an intelligent haunting, does not directly involve a spiritual entity aware of the living world and interacting with or responding to it.[5]
One of the first to promulgate the hypothesis of residual haunting was Thomas Charles Lethbridge in books such as Ghost and Ghoul, written in 1961.[6] The subject was explored in Peter Sasdy's 1972 television play The Stone Tape, written by Nigel Kneale. The explanation offered in the play is that light waves are recorded in the walls of a building when they interact with brain waves associated with fear, and the recorded images are reproduced when triggered by brain waves from a fearful observer. The popularity of the programme has led to residual haunting becoming known colloquially as the "Stone Tape theory."
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