Hadrian's Wall was born of conquest and resistance.Now a much loved national monument, it was a scene of much violence.Ghosts are associated with it, two in particular standing [or rather floating] out.
The area of the wall is famed for its dark night skies, so Stuart Murray, an amateur photographer, went with friends one night to photograph the northern lights. They got a photo, but not what they went for. In the darkness a figure loomed up. At first they thought it a sheep,but there was something not quite right, so they moved to investigate, only to find that soundlessly the figure had disappeared. Take a look at the photo in this link.
express.co.uk/news/weird/721114/ghost-sighting-roman-soldier-hadrians-wall
It appeared in one camera shot and shows a crested figure with a shield shaped like a legionary scutum, though a little too small for a legionary shield. But there is an anomaly, for the figure has its shield on the left arm, whereas the Roman legionaries bore it on the right. The figure is clearly illuminated from some source. A horizon is faintly visible in the background. This figure is probably not faked, but it does not show a Roman legionary, though it might show one of the foederati. As the forts on the wall continued to be homes to garrison troops and their families long after the legions left, the figure could date from the post-Roman period.
The wall contains forts separated by milecastles, with turrets for four troops in between. The fortifications are said to be sites of paranormal activity. One such site is Milecastle 42, Cawfields, where a soldier appears floating above ground, his feet at the height to which the wall used to reach, sixteen feet to be precise. He has been seen so often that he has been given a name and a legend has developed around him. Read the following link, but don't believe the legend.
archaicwonder.tumblr.com/post/101376263844/haunted-hadrians-wall-milecastle-roman-fort
Arbeia, a partly reconstructed fort in the coastal town of South Shields, has been the scene of sightings of Roman troops. Some sightings have been in the Lookout Inn near the fort.
The forts were places where men lived in fear of attack and often suffered violent deaths from rebellious Britons and marauding Picts. In such places many people died unhappy deaths. Small wonder then that paranormal activity occurs there. I will use their own language, Latin, "Requiescant in Pace" [Let them rest in peace.]
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To my knowledge there have been no hauntings attributable to foederati families.
It's particularly intriguing in your third paragraph, under the subheading Hadrian's Wall, where you remind us of the wall forts as serving as continued homes for the foederati and their families after Roman legions were withdrawn.
Would there happen to be any hauntings that appear to be conducted by, or involving, foederati families?
I believe her, because the sighting fits into a common, well-known pattern.
The trouble with stone tape is that stone is everywhere, so why does it only record in a few places? Electricity might play a part, but what? I must reiterate what I said previously, we do not really understand the world around us, and we don't fully grasp our own human nature.
Indeed but I think that lots of these Roman sightings which are located near stone may be connected to Stone Tape theory and natural electricity.
What do you think about my friend's roman ghost experience?
I did not invent the stone tape theory, but I know it. The truth is that if anyone says that we know how the world works he is deluding himself. And we don't fully understand what happens in the afterlife. From Christ we got promise of eternal life, but no comprehensive theory.
Big Bro,
My friend was driving up to Durham a few years ago and ahead of her approaching from the left through a field was a Roman soldier. She abruptly applied the brakes and watched him march across the road ahead of her into the field on the other side of the road where he promptly disappeared. He was in full rig and at first she had thought he must be coming home or going to an event day. But he disappeared.
She is a highly intelligent, non fanciful PhD in History and also Theology. She wasn't imagining or making this up. It really happened. She has never forgotten it. I told her about your " stone tape theory "
love it . great article
I suspected that what you say is the case, but I thought that time distortions needed to be mentioned, as some people believe in them. The universe is a strange place, stranger than we know and maybe stranger than we can ever know.
I am familiar with space warp and with time dilation, but time warp other than being part of the time-space continuum eludes me, so I looked. I find no real time warp, although the current modern ideas change rapidly. Even if it would be a topic, time does not flow in the negative direction, so I doubt time warp could be satisfactory.
I don't think that there was any solid substance to the apparition, any more than a thought of a metallic object is metal. It is conceivable that what we experiencing in some instances is thoughts that survive either despite their thinker's death or in their spirit. Or are we getting brief glimpses through a distortion in time?This could explain the animal ghost
Memory traces could explain why some ghosts are non-interactive. We are not there for them and anyway we are not dealing with persons, just thoughts.
Having looked at the ghost image I did not think it a reflection, for I discerned a vague face and the shield arm was to the left of it. .