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Religions > Atheism |
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"L. Raymond" |
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24 May 2005 02:31:11 PM |
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Talking Walls Haunting |
I need help digging up some info. Eight or ten years ago I saw a show on
American PBS (I think) dealing with haunted places. One segment dealt
with a pub in Wales or western England that was full of ghostly voices
that were actually really there; that is, they could be recorded on tape
players. It turned out to have something to do with the rock the walls
were made of. It was a material that somehow absorbed sounds like a
record player, and over the years it began releasing them, maybe as the
outer layers flaked off or something.
I'm interested in getting the details of this case or any other one like
it. Would anybody be familiar with this and able to give me enough
information to run a web search for the full story?
One of our group's TV producers is putting together a Halloween show
which will discuss so-called supernatural events that have a perfectly
sound natural explanation. If anyone can think of any good ideas, I'd
love to hear them, but hey have to be Halloweenish. He's already
outlined bits dealing with vampirism and witch crazes, and if we can
find the details for this pub thing we'll have a ghost story.
--
L. Raymond
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Talking Walls Haunting |
24 May 2005 04:12:21 PM |
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"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:158x12f0yzy9c.wojx6npaaxzi.dlg@40tude.net:
I need help digging up some info. Eight or ten years ago I saw a show
on American PBS (I think) dealing with haunted places. One segment
dealt with a pub in Wales or western England that was full of ghostly
voices that were actually really there; that is, they could be
recorded on tape players. It turned out to have something to do with
the rock the walls were made of. It was a material that somehow
absorbed sounds like a record player, and over the years it began
releasing them, maybe as the outer layers flaked off or something.
More likely the walls were conducting sound from external sources. :-)
I'm interested in getting the details of this case or any other one
like it. Would anybody be familiar with this and able to give me
enough information to run a web search for the full story?
Well, there's the story of the old Canadian prospector during the Alaska
gold rush. The winters there were so cold that when he struck gold his
shouts of glee froze solid in the air. He kept on working his claim
until the spring thaw. Then he heard these shouts and thought that
somebody had jumped his claim...
One of our group's TV producers is putting together a Halloween show
which will discuss so-called supernatural events that have a perfectly
sound natural explanation. If anyone can think of any good ideas, I'd
love to hear them, but hey have to be Halloweenish. He's already
outlined bits dealing with vampirism and witch crazes, and if we can
find the details for this pub thing we'll have a ghost story.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Even if the grass is greener on the other side,
they still have to cut it.
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| User: "Graham Kennedy" |
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| Title: Re: Talking Walls Haunting |
24 May 2005 04:54:22 PM |
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L. Raymond wrote:
I need help digging up some info. Eight or ten years ago I saw a show on
American PBS (I think) dealing with haunted places. One segment dealt
with a pub in Wales or western England that was full of ghostly voices
that were actually really there; that is, they could be recorded on tape
players. It turned out to have something to do with the rock the walls
were made of. It was a material that somehow absorbed sounds like a
record player, and over the years it began releasing them, maybe as the
outer layers flaked off or something.
I'm interested in getting the details of this case or any other one like
it. Would anybody be familiar with this and able to give me enough
information to run a web search for the full story?
One of our group's TV producers is putting together a Halloween show
which will discuss so-called supernatural events that have a perfectly
sound natural explanation. If anyone can think of any good ideas, I'd
love to hear them, but hey have to be Halloweenish. He's already
outlined bits dealing with vampirism and witch crazes, and if we can
find the details for this pub thing we'll have a ghost story.
You may possibly be thinking of "The Stone Tape", which is
an old BBC drama in which scientists discover that stone can
record sounds and such, and that this is the origin of ghost
stories.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069316/
--
Graham Kennedy
Creator and Author,
Daystrom Institute Technical Library
http://www.ditl.org
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: Talking Walls Haunting |
24 May 2005 07:03:07 PM |
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 21:54:22 GMT, Graham Kennedy wrote:
L. Raymond wrote:
You may possibly be thinking of "The Stone Tape", which is
an old BBC drama in which scientists discover that stone can
record sounds and such, and that this is the origin of ghost
stories.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069316/
This isn't it. It was definitely a pub or inn, not a house, and there
was no attempt at exorcism or trying to make things at all scary. But
now I wonder if this movie didn't give some researcher the idea to try
it for real, or some filmmaker decided to remake it as a
non-supernatural film. *sigh*
This show was playing the background at a friend's house; I wish I had
watched that thing now..
--
L. Raymond
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