GHOSTS & THE PHANTOM LIMB SYNDROME THEORY

By: Shyan Chapman 06/15/2004

 

          One theory on Ghosts that I found interesting is the "Phantom

Limb Syndrome" theory. Phantom Limb Syndrome is a real disorder where people who have had an arm or leg removed claim they can still feel their limb. Not only could they still feel it, but they also claim to have sensation, like numbness or burning, as if the limb were still hurting or suffering some sort of long-term damage from the injury.

 

          Well losing an arm or leg is something most people do not readily know how to deal with when it is amputated. The same can be said about loved ones that have been around us throughout our lives, when they die it is something we may not readily accept, or deal with right away. In the same sense as "Phantom Limb Syndrome" some people claim to see and hear their loved ones, even sense their presence as if they were in the room and had never left. Like a limb, they were taken, amputated from life. Though they are gone, it is as though they left an imprint upon the face of the Earth that can still be felt, not only by those who knew them.

 

This accounts for people, who buy new houses, or rent very old houses, claiming to see translucent figures though nothing can be seen upon second glance. They claim to feel their touch again though there is no hand or smell perfume, though there are no fumes. Some cases have even strangers who live in a new home where someone died seeing the deceased in dreams.

 

          The Term "Phantom Limb Syndrome" has been around since the

Civil War, while the symptoms have been around since before Christ. There is really no cure for it that I know of. Maybe a little something for the burning or numbness in the Phantom Limb but that is just a temporary relief.

The same may not be said for the symptoms of seeing a Ghost, not without further study into the phenomena, which has been ignored to a great degree by mainstream science.

 

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Edited by David Chapman 06/16/2004