WraithStop™

Hello, I am Robert G. Male. Welcome to WraithStop™. Here you will find links that I think are of interest. Furthermore these are links that I want to keep track of because they have given me either ideas or some other form of inspiration for my writing. Links are listed in order lowest to highest both in the date they are given and the order in which they appear (meaning: read them from the bottom up for a certain day's list). Some of these sites may require you to sign up for free. Without further ado, the links...


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August 3, 2010

Stone Tape Theory: An Exploration
  • This article defines and discusses stone tape theory, a way of explaining residual hauntings--that is, where the haunting is unintelligent, repetitious and appears only under certain conditions--that boils down to a location can record events and play them back later, multiple times. The theory is useful itself for fiction and fits within the terminology of parapsychologists of either stripe if it is presented as fact, which in reality it isn't yet. Inaccurate as it is the idea that the theory stems from a piece of fiction leading to life imitating art is intriguing as well, if of limited value.
  • Tags: factors, ghosts, haunted, location, parapsychology, reality, stone tape theory, theories.