A look into Residual Hauntings and Timeslips
~Written By Cassandra~
Most of us believe that ghosts confirm that there is life after death. A person dies, and must move on right? Those who do not move on, and choose to remain, haunt a place. Often the hauntings go on because the ghost cannot leave as he is looking for retribution, revenge or wishes to attend to unfinished business.
Now if you all take the sightings reported and were to classify them, you would end up with very few sightings that refer to an intelligent type of haunting, which would be what I described at the beginning of this article. The most common type of hauntings that we come across describe residual hauntings, which are not the ghost itself, but actually an imprint of the ghost re-enacting a scene. So, the stories we read are about an entire battle coming to life before our eyes, as if it were happening at that moment, for example, or of a murder being executed before our very eyes, or the last moments of a person before he faces a violent death. We also can come across stories that tell us of ghosts dressed in period clothing going through everyday tasks and seemingly moving through walls. In most of these cases, the ghost seems to lack legs, as if standing on the floor of a place that has previously existed. I have also run into explanations of how residual hauntings are impossible. This involves the electromagnetic spectrum and how matter absorbs it. According to this, we cannot leave an imprint on our surroundings. However, in order to accept this, I would like to have read the explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum and how certain quartzes or metals, such as iron, are affected by it. I have not been able to find this explanation on the net yet. I do believe that quartzes or limestone, granite and iron have a lot to do with residual hauntings. It is a hypothesis, sure! But it is a step towards trying to explain something that people continue to experience frequently.
Now let’s take a look at time slips. Time slips are also a hypothesis that is out there. The fact is that time is not linear, and this has been proved. So, it is natural to be able to come up with a number of hypothesis to try to explain certain anomalous phenomena. Time slips have been put into books and movies for some time now. Nobody knows for sure why time slips happen, but there are some pretty bizarre stories on the net about them. Most include interaction with people from the past, who are wearing period clothes and who actually talk back or acknowledge your presence. Most of the people who witness the time slip often report that they feel funny, sounds seem to be absent or muffled, or that they really seem to have stepped into the past as the scene they witness before them does not exist in the present. They know this because they have even returned to the place where they saw this and the houses/buildings/people have seemingly vanished without a trace. Others also report that sometimes the time slip does not show them a scene, but a person. One of these cases involves a clerk at a bookshop. This old man even sold the two women some books, but when they returned the next day to look for him, they discovered that this man was gone and according to the clerk there, had never been seen before. I’ve also read story in a paranormal magazine about an old man appearing in Disneyland, where he gazed at everything in awe. The person who noticed him, even approached him and gave him his remaining tickets so that he could visit the rest of the attractions. Much to his amazement, some time after, this man identified the lost stranger as Alfred Watkins, who had studied ley lines and had published a book about them in 1925. The problem was that Mr. Watkins had died long ago and this man had seen and talked to him in 1980! (Fate magazine, April 2008 issue)
What about time slips and ghosts, I hear you ask. Well, I have this theory about ghosts. What if the ghosts in question are NOT ghosts but the ACTUAL people who somehow interact with the people in the present? In this case, WE would be the ghosts!!! Does this seem too far-fetched to you? Well, recently on an episode of Ghost Hunters, they actually caught some pretty interesting EVP’s that actually may confirm this theory! Click the link below to look at what they caught. Note that the quality of the video sucks, as this is a recording of the TV screen monitor. For a clearer video, click on the second link, but this second link also includes the beginning of their second investigation which is not what I want to point out here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVvEVpr8l20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkX0LntF-8
Notice that the ‘princess’ who is the ghost that is apparently speaking to them, cannot see them, but seems to hear them perfectly. This is especially significant since they do not see her at any time, only hear her when playing back the audio. Time slips refer specifically to visual rather than auditory. So can we consider this example to confirm the theory mentioned above? For now, I would say it confirms that these time slips do seem to occur and in these cases we may very well be disembodied voices to the past human being if it is auditory, and appear as ghosts to them if it is visual!
Fascinating stuff isn’t it? We may very well be the ghosts that we think we see!
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Wow, Cassandra, this is great stuff to think about! I’ve thought a lot about the “energy” properties of different stones and rocks myself, but you’re right, it’s hard to find info. Either there haven’t been studies done in this area, or they didn’t show anything. But I’ve met a lot of people (usually in jewelry) who have told me about the different energies of stones, and I actually tried on a $300 garnet, aquamarine, peridot, citrine, amathyst necklace that made my head spin and tingle! (No, I didn’t buy it.) So I do believe there is some truth to that.
I wonder if your time slips theory would also be a cousin to multiverse theory? In our house, we occassionally have strange occurrences we cannot explain, and we just chalk it up to bumping into another ‘verse’ similar to ours, but different, that may move or change something, or cause us to see or hear odd things. This would all be great stuff to study!
Red, I’ve never heard of the multiverse theory before but it does sound fascinating! And now that you have mentioned it, will definitely look for it! You should write about all the stuff that happens in your house! I would love to read it all! 😉
I live with my wife and son in a very old, quite large, English Georgian house – I bought it in a dilapidated state and have nearly finished the renovation works – It had a succession of owners prior to me and I was surprised when the last owner accepted a very low offer.
From the first week that we moved in we have witnessed an old woman sitting on the sofa in broad daylight, disembodied conversations, overpowering smells of baking bread and rich old fashioned tabacco, strange localised mists in rooms, shadows walking passed doorways and; – whilst cleaning my teeth in one of the bathrooms, I turned around to be confronted by a man in 1930’s style very worn working clothes who was as shocked to see me as I was to see him – I jumped backwards behind a door in surprise and when I looked back he had gone…(all the doors and windows were locked from inside and a thorough search revealed nothing). A plumber installing a new bathroom alone in the house had a conversation with an older woman he assumed to be my mother and who was very confused at his prescence and the work going on – All doors and windows were locked at the time and mother did not match the description and was at work 20 miles away – He did say that he thought her clothes very out of date and that the temperature dropped significantly whilst she was present – He was a Jehovas Witness and consecquently he was most emphatic that it was not a ghost (They don’t believe in them apparently)
Additionally, – most strangely- whilst painting on the landing I turned to see a boy walking up the stairs…My son is only 13 months old but this child was about 7 years old and looked remarkably like him….?
I think there is definately something to the timeslip theory- Many of the experience we have had, have much in common with other descriptions – I’ve been forced to conclude this is what they are as they have no ‘spooky’ connotations and the house it’s self is not creepy in any way – It is mainly built from limestone but does have a significant amount of iron stone in the outside walls.
From experience and some background reading that I’ve been prompted to do, I think there is a difference between residual ghosts and time slips – although not mutually exclusive, I think they are definately separate. – Have you read Ken Webster’s book on his experiences -The Vertical Plane? – It’s out of print now but you can get some copies on Amazon…I think it goes a long way to explianing a few things.
Take Care
Tony
Hi there not had a time slip of my own but found 1 story fasinating in the Michael aspell book called strange but true there is an account of 4 friends going to a hotel in france, were everyone was in old fashioned clothes there overnght stay only cost 25pence! you should read it its good, I have had ghostly expereinces, but no more. pam
I had an unusual Time Slip phenomenon experience when i was a child back in July of 1968 In Fitchburg, Massachusetts on a hot sunny day when I decided to take a walk into the woods alone in my neighborhood to explorer like most kids do The woods were thick and shady.I had to pull off leaves and branches away from my face, hair and body..When i came out of the woods on the other side..I was shocked and stunned of what i saw which I describe as a futuristic neighborhood..The houses and roads look well-advanced, extremely clean, colorful and beautiful.. The roads was not made out of black tar but silvery/white metallic cement that you can see the sun shines right off of it.. It was a clear sunny day. The houses looked well-advanced with many huge windows, colorful roof tops and the street lights look different too.. I have never seen this before and i felt a little bit lost. I can hear a deep humming sound which to me sound like ( AN ALIVE POWER BOX) I am not sure if that was it..I was only there for 6 minutes and there were no people around ONLY ME, the future houses and road. I decided to go back into the woods to tell my mom what i saw..My mom did not listen to me and said, “Stay out of the woods” The next day I snuck out and went back into the woods to find the future place and it wasnt there..It was GONE..I looked and looked for at least an hour NOTHING!!.
P.S….. Before I had my Time Slip experience..On May 1968, I was playing near by woods and decided to go for a walk into the woods until i saw a big tree fire burning. I ran to a near by neighbor and told him…The neighbor ran towards the woods saw the fire was spreading and yelled into the woods “anyone up there?” No one came out of the woods and the neighbor ran to his home to call the fire department and the fire was put out.
I realise this thread may not attract many viewers, but I have been researching the time slip phenomenon for the last 18 months in the context of a local mystery, and would wecome any further accounts of personal experiences. A provisional report on my study is available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhq68yoyszg142y/THE%20ROUGHAM%20MYSTERY%20%282nd%20Revision%29.pdf?dl=0
I think that many of these tales are of genuine time travel experiences although explaining them is going to be very hard.