We are all aware of the many different types of 'ghosts'.........
Residual/Recording ghosts are the most common and appear to be going about their daily rountines. The following story from Toms web site is an account of this type of spook ~

'It's strange how many ghosts seem to re-enact the things they carried out when they were alive. Many years ago, people in a certain district of Liverpool reported hearing the whistle and humming of the milkman during the winter mornings. Nothing strange with that you may think, except that the milkman in question had died three years earlier, yet many people - including the man who replaced the deceased milkman - all heard his distinctive whistle and singing for a number of weeks.
Another case of a phantom that went through its old pre-death routine was reported here in Liverpool in the 1970s. In December 1978, the new owners of a semi-detached house on Childwall Valley Road - a young couple named Jayne and Kieran - thought they had finally found their dream home. The neighbours found the couple, who were both in their twenties, very agreeable, and an elderly man who lived next door even helped out with the decorating. The man's name was Billy Ellison. Billy was stripping the wallpaper in the front room late one evening, when he saw a woman in a dark green dress come to the window. She startled Billy, and he almost fell off the ladder.
The girl was very pale-faced and had long reddish-brown hair. She ignored Billy and glanced through the windowpanes. Before Billy could get a proper look at the woman's face, she moved away, back into the darkness. Billy looked out the window and saw no one. Just the empty front drive in the moonlight. The gate was closed, yet he had not heard the visitor close it. Later that night, Kieran and Jayne returned from the local pub and Billy told them about the lady who had visited. Billy assumed she had been a friend of the couple, but neither Jayne nor Kieran knew anyone of the stranger's description.
On the following night, Kieran was fitting a carpet in the front room, when he suddenly heard someone tap on the window. At first he thought it was Jayne, but he glanced up and saw a girl aged about 21, smiling at him through the windows.
'What do you want?' he asked the night visitor.
The girl burst into tears and said, 'Simon I knew you'd come back.'
Then she moved away like a blur. She seemed to flit away like a leaf in a gale.
Understandably, Kieran was shocked. He told Jayne about the ghost, and Billy, who realised he had seen it too the night before. As the three of them stood in the front room, they all noticed a woman's shadow on the drawn curtains. Someone was standing outside. Billy bravely pulled back the curtains, and there was the lady in the green dress. She was standing there, wringing her hands with a sad expression.
'Oh my God!' Billy exclaimed, and the figure was suddenly not there.
Billy said he recognised the phantom. It was the ghost of a girl named Moira, who died in a car crash in Liverpool in the late 1960s. She had been engaged to the man who lived in the house now occupied by Kieran and Jayne, and his name had been Simon. That wasn't all. Billy said that Kieran was a dead ringer for Simon, and he conjectured that the ghost of Moira had perhaps mistaken him for Simon, who now lived in West Kirby.
The ghost was seen on two more occasions. At seven in the morning, the postman saw Moira standing outside the house, peering through the front window, and on Christmas Eve, she put in her last appearance, which was rather poignant; because on that last occasion, the ghost was seen to wave towards the house before vanishing - but for good.........'

*puts Super-Sceptic Hat For Girls on*

This seems to be a recording-type sighting, a vibration or energy absorbed by the surroundings and 'played back' when the atmoshperic conditions are good.............or am I terribly wrong ????



Love to hear your comments and thoghts!

Hammy x x x

I'm convinced of the recording type of ghosts, too, Hams. But is it just a coincidence that the young man looked like Simon? Was the elderly neighbour fitting the description of Kieron to match his recollection of Simon?

And if it isn't a coincidence, and the ghost was drawn to their physical similarity, that suggests a surviving intellect, doesn't it?

Recording type ghosts are probably the most easy to understand. Rather like a video recording, what has happened in a place can possibly be retained in the atmosphere, and re-appear under certain circumstances. 150 years ago the mere thought of recording an event on to a piece of tape, and replaying that incident at will would have seemed highly fanciful to say the least, so if it can happen by manufactured means, why not naturally.

A ghost sighting a friend of mine reported a couple of years back, not too far from Liverpool (all the rage there these days it would appear!), involved the ghost, a solid form rather than transparent, walking past him and a few work colleagues, up the stairs, a few inches above the surface, and out at the top striaght through the solid wall. Apparently this section of wall was once a doorway that was blocked off, and the stairs had at one time been reconstructed, maybe with slightly lower risers than were before. This sighting, from a staunch non-believer, seems to back up the theory.

If it were a recording ghost, wouldn't what these people saw be a "recording" of something that actually happened? It seems to me, that if she was engaged to simon, then she never would have had to stand outside the window and yell to him. I think this sounds more like a wandering spirit that may not know she died, and instead thinks it was Simon who passed.

Yeah, this story sounds more like a spirit recalled by the right circumstances as opposed to a 'recording' type of ghostly image, recorded images don't interact with their human witnessess.