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Posted: 01-07-2008 11:45 Post subject: Touching ghosts

Does anyone know of reports of someone actually touching a ghost? I don't mean brushing past or being knocked/pinched/hit by a poltergeist, but actually getting hold of a ghost. There are numerous reports of people feeling a presence but I am wondering if there are any that state that there was firm contact (gripping the ghost, not the ghost gripping the person).

If so what was the result?

Posted: 01-07-2008 18:34 Post subject:

I've heard of ghosts touching people, but never a person grabbing hold of a ghost. I'd imagine they'd vanish like a burst bubble if you did that.

Posted: 16-07-2008 18:05 Post subject:

in the Morton case, reported in Apparitions and Haunted Houses by Sir Ernest Bennett, as case number 51, Miss Morton writes that she tried to corner a ghost, but it disappeared. From my own, small, childhood experience, I would think that most people who see ghosts have a great disinclination to touch them.

Posted: 17-07-2008 00:15 Post subject: touching ghosts

No, I've never heard of anyone touching a ghost ... I rather gathered that was the whole idea: that they are non-corporeal.

Sogna, just wanted to say:

Posted: 17-07-2008 02:40 Post subject:

Well there's Julie Harris in The Haunting! hah

Posted: 22-08-2008 02:52 Post subject:

Tilly50, what prompts the question (if anything)?

Posted: 22-08-2008 13:50 Post subject:

There have been so many reports of ghosts touching people throughout history right up to the present day ghost hunters on TV. People have claimed to have been pinched, slapped, scratched, gripped, etc. It all seems to be one way, they can touch us but we appear to be unable to touch them, how come?

I have not had any personal experiences that prompt me to ask this, except the impression of somebody sitting on my bed when I was a child. It was assumed by my family that this was a ghost, but he felt solid enough to my feet through the bedclothes.