The Paranormal Blog

One of the most COMMON arguments from so-called sceptics about why ghost sightings are nonsense is because ghosts are seen "clothed"... and then, according to the sceptics, we'd have to acknowledge that "clothes" have a spirit...

...to which I ask, "Who said ghosts are definitively spirits?"

Also, is it possible that ghostly sightings match what the witness "expects" to perceive? I have seen cases where this was not quite the case... for example...

One woman at Old Fort York in Toronto was certain she'd seen a "ghost" because he was in a soldiers hat (shako... she called it a "tall stove-pipe top hat) of the Napoleonic era and all, but she also told me that she was "suspect" of this sighting in her own eyes as the fellow was most definitely dressed in green... and everyone KNOWS for certain that the British soldiers at York wore scarlet red and Americans wore blue during the more nasty history of the fort!

http://www.glengarrylightinfantry.ca/kit.php

...and...

http://tinyurl.com/greentunic

Whoops... These two regiments are not TERRIBLY well known in Canada (the red-coats are far better known...) and the interpreters and re-enactors at Fort York are usually bedecked in red tunics (The King's 8th and IMUC) so it's unlikely that the witness saw a "modern" person... or would have made the connection of "green coat" and "soldier" at York.

Anyway, getting back on track...

Why are ghosts clothed?

In my eyes, it doesn't "prove" there's no such thing as ghosts because of the logic hole... it simply asks another question...

Speaking of naked, and clothes, and such with Spring almost sprung its time to go on my annual diet that always fails...I'm seriously starting to consider a diet pill to help with the results.....