One of the things I mentioned about it, was that it materializes, stands still for a second or two, covering almost the entire wall next to me, then speeds off rapidly to the right.
From “Shadows And Shadow Beings,” by Long Island Paranormal:
“The shadow usually doesn’t show any signs of arms or legs. Shadows seem to have the ability to move at great speeds. They can be seen standing still then quickly accelerate out of view.”
“When seen with the naked eye they are often seen indirectly. That is, it’s rare to look straight on at a shadow. Rather, they are seen off to the side of direct vision.”
“2-Dimensional Entities – Some have theorized that shadows are only 2 dimensional in structure (they have length and wide but no depth). It is theorized that shadows can only be seen when looked at by right-angles (i.e. 90 degrees or close to it profiles). When viewed straight on or from directly behind they can not be seen because they have no depth (thickness). When a shadow seems to appear and disappear it might just be turning from side profile to head-on and visa-versa.”
Other notes of interest that relate to the video from LIPI’s article:
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Tall 5-6 feet, sometimes 7 feet (check)
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Very black - “Blacker than black” (check)
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Looks like they are wearing a long black trench coat and a large brimmed hat (looks more like a long dress or coat and some sort of hat - it’s just a big mass with no real definitive shape - but it’s got sharp lines and grows)
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Silent - they make no noise as they move but movement is clearly known (yes, and the video doesn’t record any foot steps).
Note: When the camera swings back around, a small shadow briefly pops into the picture near where it left the camera before, but is much smaller and lower. That is my one point of concern with the video, but, it could simply be the same phenomenon, or someone else’s shadow. The difference? It came into and back out of the picture this time, earlier it materializes and grows, you don’t see a shadow moving into the picture at all first - which is what “should” happen.
Watch the Middletown Shadow video again if needed, to see what I’m referring to. All of the above was part of my reasoning, when I posted it. Unfortunately, regardless, that video requires a bit of faith or trust on your part, and an understanding of the circumstances at the time. Watching it with little thought or explanation, it would be easy to dismiss. In fact I did the first time I saw it as well.
I don’t know what it is, just know that I cannot explain it or recreate a shadow in IR under those circumstances, and a bright orb follows it, coincidence? Dunno, but it adds up I suppose.
Nirvana, ghosts or none of the above
RICHARD HOLLOWAY
SIX FEET OVER: SCIENCE TACKLES THE AFTERLIFE
Mary Roach
Canongate, £14.99
NEXT to the existence of God, the existence of the soul is one of the most contested topics in philosophy. Are humans entirely material realities, fleetingly gifted with consciousness, but destined for oblivion at death? Or is there a ghost in the machine, a soul that goes marching on long after our bodies lie mouldering in the grave?
There are almost as many claims about the nature of life after death as there are religious traditions. Do our souls get constantly recycled or reincarnated into other life forms, as the Hindu tradition maintains, until we achieve the kind of perfection that guarantees us final release into Nirvana?
If we reject reincarnation and opt for the Christian doctrine of one unique soul per person, “here for a season, then above”, as the hymn puts it, what is the precise nature of the “above”? Is it a state that precludes contact with those who are left below, or are the departed able to get in touch with us at séances, even if only to inform us that they like the oak-veneered units we’ve chosen for the kitchen? And can we prove any of this?
If you are interested in these questions, this is the book for you. Mary Roach tells us that it is “for people who would very much like to believe in a soul and in an afterlife for it to hang around in, but who have trouble accepting these things on faith. It’s a giggly, random, utterly earthbound assault on our most ponderous unanswered questions. It’s spirituality treated like crop science.” Giggly it certainly is, sometimes irritatingly so, but it is also engaging, thoughtful and, finally, a serious study of the question.
During the year it took her to research the book, she spent a week in India with Dr Kirti S Rawat, director of the International Centre for Survival and Reincarnation Researches, who investigates claims of reincarnation, most of which seem to come from village children aged three. Roach neither scoffs at, nor is she persuaded by, these claims. Still on the hunt for proof, she explores attempts to weigh the soul, investigates the nature of ectoplasm, enrols at a college for mediums and speaks to an expert on near-death experiences.
She asks herself if her year among the evidence-gatherers has left her believing in anything she didn’t believe before: and says it has. She believes something an expert in near-death experiences told her. She asked him if he believed these experiences provided evidence of life after death. “He answered that what he believed was simply that they were evidence of something we can’t explain with our current knowledge… It’s not much, but it’s more than I believed a year ago.” You may or may not agree with her conclusion, but you’ll enjoy the way she reached it.
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I’ll have to pick this one up soon, if it’s availabe in the states.
Karen is the author who spent time with us at the Middletown investigation, and who also interviewed myself for inclusion in her book, along with Mike Palmer from P.I.N.K..
By BROOKE ALLISON
Monday, July 9, 2007 9:49 PM EDT Print this story | Email this story
Hayswood Hospital. The historic Washington Opera House. Phillip’s Folly.
As teenagers, many local residents may have found themselves walking near these Maysville buildings on Halloween night, both hoping that something would appear floating in a window or banging on a door, and frightened that it would.
Now, these experiences are being captured in the pages of a book, currently in the works, about allegedly haunted areas throughout the tri-state. Karen Laven, author of the book yet to be formally titled, has chosen to include these three well-known historical landmarks in her collection of first-hand accounts of the paranormal.
Laven stumbled across Maysville late in the book’s formation, and found herself drawn to include the area.
Leslie has interesting as well as plausible definitions and explanations, but most of it is simply run-of-the-mill, well-known and unverifiable stuff (but what isn’t in this field right now?). As always click on the headline above to read the full article. This interview is taken from a Russian paper in Pravda.
I felt it worth posting due to the fact she is honestly the first person I’ve seen mention a direct relationship between activity spikes or appearances, during the holidays, or even connecting oft-repeated real life activity with residual paranormal activity. (coming home from work every day at 2pm etc..,)
Here in my Victorian era home, the activity so far has been the highest around Christmas, in particular a few days after. But it lasted well into February and March, in a much more apparent fashion than it has since April (it now being July 9th, 2007).
Yet this (November through March) is also when the electro magnetic field in the atmosphere is strongest (unless someone corrects me, I believe that is scientifically true).
So I am unsure, and will probably never know, if the activity pattern is tied to Christmas, the atmospheric conditions, or both.
Any ways, just got me thinking and I’d recommend the little interview from a Russian paranormal investigator’s perspective. She is not an “evidence harvester” like myself and those we work with, I assume.
There’s a reason even big and burly men won’t walk through the darkened hallways of KSWT-TV alone at night. It turns out there’s some interesting characters at the local TV station who aren’t exactly on the payroll, partly because they don’t work there, but mostly because they’re dead.
“It’s an energy, an imprint that’s left over. Emotions do have a tendency to be left behind,” he said. “Sometimes spirits are a left over. They’re caught in a loop.”
Austin speaks with experience because he’s seen spirits - and UFOs - all his life.
“I could also take off into a whole other realm of what I’ve heard called ’shadow people,’ possible interdimensional travelers.”
But how about hearing from the experts? The Sun arranged for Yuma Spirit Hunters to spend a recent evening poking around KSWT with their funky equipment to see if they could find anything - and they did.
