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A Hampton Court Ghost

Why the heck did they have the guy close the doors? I would have had fewer things to argue with if the damned ghost wasn't worried about the heat bill.
 
Darwin'sGoat said:
Why the heck did they have the guy close the doors? I would have had fewer things to argue with if the damned ghost wasn't worried about the heat bill.
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Makes better theater. He could kick the doors to make them mysteriously open, then appear, close the doors, and vanish. On the other hand, if he was seen to open the doors, what does he do then? Go out, still in costume? Or turn around and go back in like Punxatawny Phil on Groundhog Day? :D
 
Ed said:




Have you, Clancie, ever experienced an hallucination? I have a few times, once due to sleep deprevation, once during illness and a couple of times due to the aftereffects of anesthesia and once during a grieving period. ...
My feeling is that leaping to paranormal rationales for these type of things says more about one's belief system than the events themselves.
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Agreed. In 1997 my oldest son, at age 19, was killed in a three-car collision. For about a year thereafter, I dreamed, constantly, and very intensely, that he had been sent back to me by "them," and that we did not know how long he was going to be permitted to stay. I have a strong emotional attachment to these dreams and miss them; it was much like having my son again.

But I know they were a product of my mind, and not really him coming back. People who fed me supernatural nonsense about how to contact him, or be with him, were only hurting me. I need empirical evidence to believe things about the physical world, and there is no such evidence for life after death, or for an individual asserting existence after death -- including the dead coming back to visit the living. I WANT there to be some such evidence, I WANT to see my son again. But there just is no evidence to sustain my hope for what I'd prefer to be true.
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Pffffffttt! Could it be a hoax?

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13347671

~~ Paul
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Interesting..... although I'm still baffled as to why even that image got so much attention...... I mean, I can appreciate a good fake ghost photograph, but this one really did look like nothing buy a guy in a sort of creepy cloak........ it didn't seem ghost-like at all, and I am missing why people keep saying it looks like a ghost. Maybe it's just because I assume a ghost should look sort of transparent or floating or something...... but this doesn't look otherworldy at all.

Btw, I'd still like to hear this from another source...... from looking at http://www.paranormal-investigation.com/ they don't exactly strike me as "credible" (i.e. they sell things like ghost and spirit detectors on their site)

-Elektrix
 
I'm a bit curious about the way the door alarm had gone off on other occasions. Does anybody know whether the attendants are allowed to smoke in the building?
 
wayrad said:
Makes better theater. He could kick the doors to make them mysteriously open, then appear, close the doors, and vanish. On the other hand, if he was seen to open the doors, what does he do then? Go out, still in costume? Or turn around and go back in like Punxatawny Phil on Groundhog Day? :D
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You don't think it would have made for better theater if:

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The doors get thrown open.

The ghost appears *boo*.

He dramatically throws his arms to the heavens, skellington fingers clenched into fists. A silent scream escapes him.

Then with a swirl of terrycloth he spins and stalks back into the castle.

Shortly thereafter the security guards show up in the doorway, scratching their heads and hamming it up.

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Closing the doors was just sloppy and dumb looking.

Hey Hampton Court people, the next time you do this one, feel free to use my script free of charge.
 
Darwin'sGoat said:


You don't think it would have made for better theater if:

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The doors get thrown open.

The ghost appears *boo*.

He dramatically throws his arms to the heavens, skellington fingers clenched into fists. A silent scream escapes him.

Then with a swirl of terrycloth he spins and stalks back into the castle.
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You mean, like "AAAAUUUGGGHHH! THE SUN!!! NOOOoooooooo..." ?

Or "D*mn! I forgot my keys AGAIN!"?
 
Next time they do this, Hampton Court should hire a head juggler-- it would add a little entertainment to the video-- of course, I'm sure they didn't have anything to do with the sighting.
 
The fire doors appear to be blown open, and then pulled closed. There appears to be some indication that a recent fire caused some new ventilation work to be done. (Is there more than one Hampton Court that recently burned due to smoking in bed?)

Several years ago I worked on validating air pressures in a cleanroom. It is amazing the kind of weird things that can happen in a ventilation system when it malfunctions. We were working on a blower unit in a plenum above the room, and opened this little two inch plate: a huge air wave traveled around the entire room below us, lifting ceiling panels as it went around the room (each one quite heavy). Dropping two to the floor. Fortunately nobody was hurt.

We stopped playing with the vent really fast, scared the [hamburger] out of us...
 
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