h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Excellent! Maybe you can hold a blessing ceremony, now you know who it is...

I was told the names of the ghosts in my works kitchen by a clairvoyant that worked in the hospital, I've tried looking for them in records but no luck yet

When do they date from? Would records be easy to find?

Unfortunatly the hospital is 250 years old so records aren't that easy to find but I did find out that the site the kitchen is built on was the Lunatic Asylum exercise yard, which makes sense as to why it's a 'hotspot' if this was the place a lot of the souls found happiness it would be the place they'd come back to

Do I believe in ghosts?

No.


Have I ever seen one?


Yes.

Eyewitness testimony, including my own, is about as reliable as my grandfather's bowel movements.

I've seen lots of UFO's, too, including having bits of memory of an alien abduction experience, but careful thought and observation have demonstrated clearly (during the sighting) that the UFO's were all airplanes or helicopters and (in hindsight) that the 'abduction' memories are a pastiche of other memories.

I've experienced nothing and seen no evidence elsewhere that would lead me to believe that either ghosts or UFO's require any sort of 'otherworldly' explanation.

That's odd, anhaga... Do tell! I am intrigued.

Tell? I thought I did.

Ah, yes, but not in enough detail, that I've seen... Alien abduction as well, I am just getting more and more interested! (Especially in why you think that you didn't actually experience these things...) I really want to know!

Now, now. I didn't say that I thought I didn't experience them -- I said that my experiences needed no 'otherworldly' explanation. As for details: I'm a sky addict. I watch the sky constantly. I live right under a flight path for an airport. There's another airport a little farther south. There's a police helicopter and there's an air ambulance. There's a military base to the north. I've spent the last twenty years working outside. I've seen a hell of a lot of bloody strange things in the sky and I've taken the trouble to wait and watch the strange things and every time I've been able to work out that what seemed for a long time to be absolutely incomprehensible, what seemed to behave in a way no earthly thing could behave, suddenly became obviously something exceptionally ordinary.

As for Alien Abduction: everybody has the material in their head to construct such memories; but there is absolutely no evidence that anyone has ever actually been picked up. I can clearly see in my mind's eye right now the alien machine that picked me up in a clearing out behind my parents' house. Of course, it's crap. It's Nomad from the old Star Trek episode 'The Changeling'. But the memory has all the 'reality' of a whole lot of memories I have of that house, but I know that a whole lot of those memories are crap, just like a whole lot of everybody's memories are crap.

As I mentioned, eyewitness testimony is as reliable as my grandfather's bowel movements. Memory is reconstruction.

That's creepy!

The first step on the road to enlightenment is to realize that your memories are, in all likelihood, crap.

That's what's creepy. Most of my memories are real. I mean, I hope they're real?!

DeDEdeedee deDEdeedee deDEdeedee *twilight zone music*

Ah, anhaga, I have to disagree with you about memory. It's possible to get details wrong about relatively unimportant things (or even very important things in a fraught situation), but not all memories are cr*p! By and large, most memories are perfectly reliable, as can be verified by other people who were there, diaries etc.

Although it is strange the details that *do* turn out to be wrong. I could have sworn that my father was buried in his work clothes, I *knew* I'd seen him dressed that way in his coffin, but my brother who was there told me he'd actually been wearing a suit. Over 30+ years, my memory had put him in to the clothes I was used to seeing him in all my childhood. (But then, my visual memory is notoriously bad, because I can't visualise and can't remember the face of someone I don't see every day - instead, I remember what they look like in photos. Result - if I don't have a photo of someone, I can remember their voice, their actions, but not what they look like...

If you can be abducted by aliens is it possible to be alienated by abductors?

Apparently grandpa saw a UFO once. Everyone put it down to him being tanked up as usual... until it was all over the news the next day!

no and no, but I accept that there are things we can't explain yet, just don't feel the ghost explanation holds up

I've seen a UFO but I expect theres a logical explanation
a bunch of drunk and stoned teenagers aren't exactly reliable witnesses after all

You've seen a Blackberry Cat? Oh, details, please! I've never seen one.

New Amityville movie coming out, tsk tsk.

I've seen plenty of UFOs. Not being a planespotting anorak, I can't identify them.

RF