A rather interesting read and different take (or approach) on the residual hauntings idea from a "Ghost Hunters Association" Link does not necessarily constitute acceptance, endorsement, etc, yada, or etc of the site or information contained therein… :)

http://www.sgha.net/articles/residualhaunt.html

Stephen said:

Re the Ghost Hunters Association link: I generally agree with the article. If we were that sensitive to EM, we wouldn't need to own television sets. We could just watch the signals directly!

Yes, it was, and I had to actually go back up and double check the site owners when I was reading it! I would love to see more of this type of thing written by these groups. I wanted to post it to show that not all of these groups jump on the GH bandwagon and that they are such a diverse lot that we are probably often unfair in doing some of the generalizations that we do.

Yes, water is quite interesting…I've dealt with water that had SCs MANY FACTORS beyond what Ghost Lab was dealing with (and which they got rather impressed with)…no ghostly experiences. I think in that thread I also mentioned the conductivity of typical sea water…all we should have to do is casually stroll by the shore and be bombarded by these things!

The time factor for thermal energy is definitely an issue without some renewal source. My experiments after the Fort Mifflin episode, after the Fort Delaware episode (which was the catalyst for me not being over on the TAPS forum anymore lol), and especially after the Belcourt Castle episode showed that very well.

Have the "ghosts" on the thermal footage ever been the same temperature as a normal human? With the way they have the settings? :) But, seriously, yes why the same temp? I don't know, it kind of goes against a lot of the grain…actually it starts out with the notion of them actually catching the shape in the first place given the time of imager they were using.

Capturing the footage with the camera they had indicates that the "ghost" is a solid mass. And pretty close to normal human temperature. Right at that point my first thought would be more "Is this a normal human who is just lost?" than "Sweet merciful burrito, we caught ourselves a ghost!"

Given that the awesomely impressive footage of the figure at Fort Delaware was not shown as a flashback clip for the cadets makes me think they've rethunk that one (although the guide now uses it as an example of a heretofore non-mentioned apparition)

When I think of thermal footage showing something worth a second glance, I think more of what they caught outside the casemate at Fort Mifflin (no not the guy by the stove, but rather the amorphous cool movement)

Learjet said:

And there's one question haunting me (pun intended) are the women on the GH shows instructed to wear certain materials for outer clothing? Because with the IR gear I have, it will penetrate certain types of outer clothing to reveal underwear!

I wonder if they are filming "as is" or "with filters" I think the problem comes more into play "with filters" (IR-Pass) though so it may not be an issue.

Stephen said:

Rev: In my defense, I was going by the TAPS definition of an intelligent haunting. They classify demons separately.

I wonder where they got _their_ definition from? :) If it truly is their own, it's probably one of the only things they've come up with! Not that they've made any efforts toward proving that WAG (doesn't even qualify as a S-WAG) I'd lean toward putting demons in with "ghosts" for consideration (not that we've really defined ghost, either) Afterall, a demon can mimic a ghost (right before it claws your pant leg!)

Actually I'm half-serious there…TAPS does consider them to be two separate things, but apparently they CAN be close enough in nature that one could be confused for the other by the untrained. Cough! Cough!

And does it have to be evil? Rev is correct, the original connotation of the Greek word of demon had no positive nor negative aspect. Since they were considered a type of "spirit" the line between them and "ghost" fades a little.