#apparitional experience

[marylandparanormal]

Photograph of apparition taken by Lieutenant Commander Allen Ross Brougham, USNR taken before midnight December 27 1955 on the quarterdeck of the USS CONSTELLATION (1855-1955) sloop-of-war, in Baltimore.  The image was published in The Baltimore Sun December 31 1955  

The image was believed to be an officer, possibly the late Captain Thomas Truxton, USN who was the first commanding officer of the first USS CONSTELLATION frigate (1797-1853)

During the Quasi-War against France, one of his most successful engagements on the frigate USS CONSTELLATION was against the larger and heavily armed French frigate L'INSURGENTE on February 9 1799 in the West Indies

The vessel is believed to be haunted by sailors dating across both versions of the warship

REFERENCE:

Catling, P.S. (1955, Dec 31). Ghost Appears, But Navy Doesn’t Give Up The Ship. The Baltimore Sun, p 24. Permission from Baltimore Sun Media

[theparapsychs-blog]

Apparitional Experience

Have you come across any incident where you felt something not natural around you or haven’t you heard your grandparents telling you about their combat with ghosts? At times, people encounter various situations where they falsely perceive the existence of any living or inanimate object, in scientific language we call it apparitional experiences.

Belief in something which survives even after death is existent in various cultures across the world. Indian society since the beginning of times had narration of such stories, and experiences of several people. But what do u think might actually be the reason of such experiences. Application of modern scientific investigating standards began with the work of Edmund Gurney, Frederic W.H. Meyers and Frank Podmore. Researchers found that sometimes the reason behind such spontaneous experiences would be in many respects from their fictional counterparts in either ghost stories or films or might just be an off shoot of hallucinations.

Apparitional experiences have relevance to many psychological theories, particularly to the top-down and bottom-up approaches of perception and their relevance can be proved with the philosophical theory of direct realism.

[anglerfishtanking]

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