The Earliest Roman Ghost in Britain


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Just some drunken Brits mistaking kilts for togas.

Most “ghosts” seem to be associated with particularly famous or traumatic past events. It’s rare to have people claiming to have seen, for instance, the ghosts of a gaggle of bureaucrats heading out to lunch in DC.

I’ve often thought it may turn out that particulary traumatic events somehow reverberate in time, leading to the occasional visual hint of an event that occurred well prior, or an individual no longer alive.

Most are likely just the wishful thinking of a particularly active imagination, though.

“Beach spent a few aimless minutes looking for evidence for Roman ghost sightings in Britain prior to 1904 and came across two unsatisfactory comments – can anyone do better...” I CAN!!!

“The ghost of the Roman emperor Caligula, who had been assasinated and quickly cremated, haunted the Lamian Gardens, where his ashes were entombed until rites befitting an emperor were held. (He, or some other ghost, also haunted the theatre where Caligula was murdered up until the structure was destroyed by fire.)

http://books.google.com/books?id=-PZbVzAaZcAC&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=caligula++come+back+as+a+ghost&source=bl&ots=E9IL-txPG9&sig=jXzSNFdRNvyLdB6AHnY5Jhs1dLQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BroLT7yOH6ersALosIjmBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=caligula%20%20come%20back%20as%20a%20ghost&f=false

“His body, (Caligula’s) was conveyed secretly to the gardens of the Lamian family, where it was partly consumed on a hastily erected pyre and buried beneath a light covering of turf; later his sisters on their return from exile dug it up, cremated it, and consigned it to the tomb. Before this was done, it is well known that the caretakers of the gardens were disturbed by ghosts, and that in the house where he was slain not a night passed without some fearsome apparition, until at last the house itself was destroyed by fire.”

http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/01/18/caligula-tomb-silliness/

Thanks Beowulf9.

:’D

Another old-school joke.

Two Irishmen were on the ground.

One fell off.

Thanks RC.

Note: this topic is from 01/07/2012.

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While a student at Gettysburg College, I had an encounter with what would seem on its surface to be the ghost of a confederate officer.

I can't and won't definitively say it was a, "ghost," but that would certainly be the easiest explanation.

I do believe that just as some people seem to have pre-cognitive abilities, seeing events before they occur, some people may have post-cognitive insights that could reveal some after image of events that had already taken place.

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I've never had what I could call a paranormal experience, but I have read many books over the years, that has led me to believe that all those people who have shared their experiences, can't all be lying. The first book I ever read about true hauntings was written by Hans Holzer. It was titled: "Ghosts I've Met," and I found it in a little lunch shoppe across from where I was working back in 1965. After that I read just about every book the man published.

Last year a new TV series started called "The Holzer Files." His daughter Alexandra appears on it, and each week they revisit a place that her father previously investigated. Holzer had two mediums he relied on when visiting these places. One was the British Medium Sybil Leek, and the other was Ethel Johnson-Meyers. They were the two who featured prominently in his books. He recorded every investigation he conducted, and I believe he also filmed some, and took photographs. The episodes that have been featured on the show, I remember reading about those same investigations in his books. The second season of the program started last night.

I had a “haunting” experience that lasted over a month, either a fit of temporary insanity or a bonafide Demonic assault. I heard shouts from downstairs when upstairs and heard shouts from upstairs when downstairs, saw objects move on their own, woke up feeling someone caressing my hair or pulling the blanket off of me, and finally climaxed by getting grabbed while in bed by an unseen, growling/hissing foe.

A prayer sent it off and stopped all the other phenomena in the house.

I've had similar experience. What prayer did you say? 🙏

I've had similar experience. What prayer did you say?

Nothing fancy. When I was getting grabbed and growled at, I still didn't want to believe it was actually happening. I started to try to say to myself to not be afraid, that it was all in my head, but when I tried to speak, what spontaneously came out was: "THE LORD IS MY SHIELD!", and the spirit (or hallucination) let go and departed. That was the end of the whole problem.