Georgia Ghost Hunters

There are so many theories about apparitions, that I could sit here and type for eternity about them. But I am only going to talk about a few in general.

1.They are idea patterns or etheric images produced by the subconscious mind of the living, with or without the cooperation of the agent.

2.They are the astral or etheric bodies of the agents.

3.They are an amalgam of personality patterns, which in the case of hauntings are trapped tragic events in a psychic ether or psi field of a given site.

4.They are personas, or vehicles through which the “I-thinking consciousness” can take on temporarily visible form, and experience and act. Personas may represent either the living or the dead, may or may not be “fully conscious,” and may exhibit a personality structure, perhaps in part fictitious (as in the case of mediumistic control spirits).

5.They are expressions of an individual’s unconscious needs: externalized projections of unresolved feelings of guilt, or the embodiment of an unconscious wish.
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Crisis Apparitions

These are apparitions which appear during an agent’s moment of extreme crisis, particularly death. The apparition usually manifests to the agents loved ones or others with whom the agent has close emotional ties. Most crisis apparitions seem to have the purpose of communicating ti the living that the agen is dying or has just died. Some gesture to show their fatal wounds. Crisis apparitions appear both in waking visions and in dreams.

Apparitions Of The Dead

The majority of these cases also involves close emotional ties, in which the dead appear to comfort the grieving, or to communicate information pertaining to the estate or unfinished business of the deceased. After his death Dante appeared to his son and guided him to where Dante had secreted the last cantos of his Divine Comedy. The son was not aware of their existence. Apparitions of the dead may appear years later to loved ones in times of crisis.
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According to a study of major features of apparitions published in 1956 by Hornell Hart, an American sociologist and psychical researcher, and collaborators, there are no significant differences between apparitions of the living and of the dead. Some apparitions seem real and corporeal, with defineable form and features, and if, human, clothing. Other apparitions are fuzzy, luminous, transparent, wispy and ill-defined; some are little more than streaks, blobs or patches of light.

Apparitions appear and disappear suddenly, and sometimes just fade away. They both move through walls and objects and walk around them. They can cast shadows and be reflected in mirrors. Some have a marionette-like quality of limited gestures and movements, such as calling the attention of the percipient to a wound on the ghostly body, while others are more fluid and communicate verbally. Some are accompanied by sounds, smells, sensations of cold movement of real objects in the percipient’s environment.
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