Ghost Hunters - Episode 2 - Spirits of the Civil War

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On the one hand different witnesses report these battlefield ghosts doing the exact same thing, in the same order and in the same location, seemingly trapped in a loop. Much like a home movie being played from start to finish, over and over again, with no deviation.

However, psychic mediums in other episodes of the series claim to make contact with apparitions from other battlefields, and are able to substantiate these claims by giving names, dates and other information that can be substantiated by historical research later. These “conversations” between psychics and “spirits” in which such information is passed on does suggest that ghosts are at least partly conscious and self aware, even if this is only in a limited way. Real memories and emotions are there, but these appear to be snapshots of important experiences in the deceased person’s life. But how could this happen?

Because hauntings are often associated with historical events such as battles, which would have triggered extreme levels of anxiety, fear and anger in hundreds of people before they died together in a short period of time, it has been suggested that intense primitive emotions can trigger such psychic recordings or echoes on the physical environment.

The extreme emotions of the people that died somehow generating an energy that is absorbed into physical objects like underground stones or the bricks of buildings.

So what witnesses are seeing when they see the ghosts of Civil War soldiers are actually the memories of people that died during or shortly after the battle that have been absorbed into the environment.