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Do Gravediggers See Ghosts...

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Zinjanthropos Offline
...are the exact words I typed into the Google Search Engine. I truly expected to find literally hundreds of pages of eyewitness accounts from those closest to the action. Yet there was next to nothing. I did find an interview with a Chicago gravedigger, 

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17...ave_digger

here's an excerpt:

 "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

Have to ask myself, who's words are more trustworthy, those of a gravedigger or believers in ghosts? I would have thought that the gravedigger should be the first person anybody considering ghost observations might ask. Apparently it isn't done or the answer is not what someone might want to hear.  Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.
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RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Apr 18, 2017 03:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: ...are the exact words I typed into the Google Search Engine. I truly expected to find literally hundreds of pages of eyewitness accounts from those closest to the action. Yet there was next to nothing. I did find an interview with a Chicago gravedigger, 

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17...ave_digger

here's an excerpt:

 "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

Have to ask myself, who's words are more trustworthy, those of a gravedigger or believers in ghosts? I would have thought that the gravedigger should be the first person anybody considering ghost observations might ask. Apparently it isn't done or the answer is not what someone might want to hear.  Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.

for statistical purposes one must avoid qualitative bias on data as a predjudicial filter.
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Magical Realist Online
(Apr 18, 2017 03:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: ...are the exact words I typed into the Google Search Engine. I truly expected to find literally hundreds of pages of eyewitness accounts from those closest to the action. Yet there was next to nothing. I did find an interview with a Chicago gravedigger, 

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17...ave_digger

here's an excerpt:

 "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

Have to ask myself, who's words are more trustworthy, those of a gravedigger or believers in ghosts? I would have thought that the gravedigger should be the first person anybody considering ghost observations might ask. Apparently it isn't done or the answer is not what someone might want to hear.  Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.

Why would ghosts hang around their dead body when it was being buried? Would you?
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C C Offline
(Apr 18, 2017 03:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: . [...] here's an excerpt: "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

[...] Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.


I recollect a chapter in the one of the old, first series of Foxfire books which pertained to Appalachian ghost stories. Some of those backwoods storytellers likewise remarked that there are no ghosts or that they didn't believe in them.

These were the people that Hollywood and the Pacific / Northeastern coast cultures depicted as ignorant "hillbillies", and predatory troglodytes molesting city-slickers in "Deliverance". Contrast to the potpourri of New Age, spiritualist channeling interests and belief-cliques which those elite socialites entertain and support. A situation of the Sophisticated Flakes calling the Snake Handlers outré.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
(Apr 18, 2017 05:33 PM)C C Wrote:
(Apr 18, 2017 03:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: . [...] here's an excerpt: "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

[...] Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.


I recollect a chapter in the one of the old, first series of Foxfire books which pertained to Appalachian ghost stories. Some of those backwoods storytellers likewise remarked that there are no ghosts or that they didn't believe in them.

These were the people that Hollywood and the Pacific / Northeastern coast cultures depicted as ignorant "hillbillies", and predatory troglodytes molesting city-slickers in "Deliverance". Contrast to the potpourri of New Age, spiritualist channeling interests and belief-cliques which those elite socialites entertain and support. A situation of the Sophisticated Flakes calling the Snake Handlers outré.

You know how it goes CC, rule is a lack of evidence is not considered evidence. For whatever reason and no matter how hard you look, finding nothing when you're looking for something doesn't mean it isn't there. I think they call it 'keeping an open mind'. A belief does not require evidence as long as it remains so, therefore it is exempt from the rule.
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RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Apr 18, 2017 08:57 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Apr 18, 2017 05:33 PM)C C Wrote:
(Apr 18, 2017 03:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: . [...] here's an excerpt: "Do you ever see any ghosts?" I get asked that all the time.  But there's no ghosts." 

[...] Gravediggers should be dominating the ghost sightings tote board, but they're not, it's the only thing paranormal about the whole ghost sightings experience.


I recollect a chapter in the one of the old, first series of Foxfire books which pertained to Appalachian ghost stories. Some of those backwoods storytellers likewise remarked that there are no ghosts or that they didn't believe in them.

These were the people that Hollywood and the Pacific / Northeastern coast cultures depicted as ignorant "hillbillies", and predatory troglodytes molesting city-slickers in "Deliverance". Contrast to the potpourri of New Age, spiritualist channeling interests and belief-cliques which those elite socialites entertain and support. A situation of the Sophisticated Flakes calling the Snake Handlers outré.

You know how it goes CC, rule is a lack of evidence is not considered evidence. For whatever reason and no matter how hard you look, finding nothing when you're looking for something doesn't mean it isn't there. I think they call it 'keeping an open mind'. A belief does not require evidence as long as it remains so, therefore it is exempt from the rule.


if the answer is "beleif" then their concept of the paranormal is in fact a religious beleif.
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