Most Haunted In America

[Kat]

Did anyone watch Most Haunted tonight?
The team was cheering like crazy because of the on-request phenomenon that happened, like the TV going on and off when asked to do so, and the pool balls moving.

They said it was the best time they have had yet! BUT: Here's the thing:
It was supposedly the effects of someone who had died only 5 years previously!
Now, my point is this: they've been investigating these OLD hauntings from like 300 years ago over in England- but not getting a whole lot. It seems that a "fresh" death has more power to react in our dimension. (If you suspend judgement in such things).
That makes sense to me, if that's what was causing these effects. There is actually a theory that "old" hauntings finally do diminish over time - like wearing out a video tape, and gradually the "haunting" stops, only kept alive in people's memory as legend.

[Allen]

Did anyone watch Most Haunted tonight?
The team was cheering like crazy because of the on-request phenomenon that happened, like the TV going on and off when asked to do so, and the pool balls moving.

They said it was the best time they have had yet! BUT: Here's the thing:
It was supposedly the effects of someone who had died only 5 years previously!
Now, my point is this: they've been investigating these OLD hauntings from like 300 years ago over in England- but not getting a whole lot. It seems that a "fresh" death has more power to react in our dimension. (If you suspend judgement in such things).
That makes sense to me, if that's what was causing these effects. There is actually a theory that "old" hauntings finally do diminish over time - like wearing out a video tape, and gradually the "haunting" stops, only kept alive in people's memory as legend.

This makes sense to me as well. I would think the energy would be stronger for a death that was more recent. What you said about the hauntings finally diminishing over time could very well be true. But if so, then we also can't expect to get much activity going on in the Borden house.

[Audrey]

I have read/heard that sudden, unexpected or even violent deaths can leave much residual energy behind as well. I suppose that ghosts can get tired too!

[Kat]

We have a Forum member whose friend's family died in his own lifetime and has heard/experienced ghostly activity around the place where they lived and died.

Even tho "time" is "relative" -in some older hauntings under certain conditions where it's believed the memory is *etched* in the minerals of the buildings- or stored there due to the composite of the surroundings- that replay wears out over time. It is residue spirit rather than "visitation" apparently. That's a main difference.

[Susan]

Kat, which episode were you watching? I just viewed the Whaley house episode this weekend, that was neat, got to see some areas in the house that visitors normally don't have access to.

[Kat]

It was a USO place- I believe in California.
Buster Keaton supposedly was "in visitation."

The guy that died so recently was a long-time employee like a custodian in the present day.

The Whaley House was over a week ago, I think.

[Susan]

Thanks, that episode is still saved on my honey's TiVo, haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I have 4 different ghost shows that he records for me to watch on the weekends; Most Haunted, Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns, Dead Famous, and the show with the TAPS guys, they have new episodes starting soon. Its alot of TV watching to cram into a short amount of time, so, I'm a bit behind.