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Residual hauntings are apparitions that are are always viewed repeating the same motions or scenes.

Etymology

Restligeist is a German word from restlich (residual) and Geist (ghost).

Description

Much like a video tape, residual hauntings are playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory phenomenon which are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a common event of a person or place, like an echo of past events. Some pretend that there is no intelligent ghost, spirit, or other entity is directly involved.

Loop

Alleged residual hauntings often center on moments of intense emotion: someone's beheading, a great battle, a murder, or even a celebration. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, who was always seen moving down a hallway with a lantern in her hand is a famous residual haunting.

Theories

Residual hauntings are usually considered as a visual play back of a past event that has been imprinted on the area or building and is replayed back later when conditions are right. Since everything is made up of energy, the theory is that some of the energy from an event can be recorded by certain materials and played back when the energy is released just as a mere video recorder.

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. The subject was explored in Peter Sasdy's 1972 television play The Stone Tape, written by Nigel Kneale. The popularity of the programme has led to residual haunting becoming known colloquially as the Stone Tape theory.

Sources

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-Aka : repeated actions, residues
+'''Residual hauntings''' are apparitions that are are always viewed repeating the same motions or scenes.
-Description : A ghost that is trapped in a continuous loop. Many apparitions are always viewed repeating the same motions or scenes. Usually these ghosts pay little or no attention to the observer and go through the motions of the event that occurred in the past.
-Time :usually such phenomena occur at regular dates
+==Etymology==
+''Restligeist'' is a German word from ''restlich'' (residual) and ''Geist'' (ghost).
-Records : 1000+
-Location :wherever happened brutal deaths
+==Description==
+Much like a video tape, residual hauntings are playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory, and other sensory phenomenon which are attributed to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a common event of a person or place, like an echo of past events. Some pretend that there is no intelligent ghost, spirit, or other entity is directly involved.
-Theory : usually considered as a visual play back of a past event that has been imprinted on the area or building and is replayed back later when conditions are right. Since everything is made up of energy, the theory is that some of the energy from an event can be recorded by certain materials and played back when the energy is released just as a mere video recorder.
-Famous : The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, who was always seen moving down a hallway with a lantern in her hand.
+==Loop==
+Alleged residual hauntings often center on moments of intense emotion: someone's beheading, a great battle, a murder, or even a celebration. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, who was always seen moving down a hallway with a lantern in her hand is a famous residual haunting.
-Veracity factor : 5/10
-[[Category:Ghosts]]
+==Theories==
+Residual hauntings are usually considered as a visual play back of a past event that has been imprinted on the area or building and is replayed back later when conditions are right. Since everything is made up of energy, the theory is that some of the energy from an event can be recorded by certain materials and played back when the energy is released just as a mere video recorder.
+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. The subject was explored in Peter Sasdy's 1972 television play ''The Stone Tape'', written by Nigel Kneale. The popularity of the programme has led to residual haunting becoming known colloquially as the Stone Tape theory.
+==Sources==
+*{{Wikipedia}}
+*{{Monstrous}}
+[[Category: Ghosts]]