sat here musing on life and the afterlife - it suddenly occurred to me that the room i am in is in fact a resonant cavity - and thus will resonate at a given frequency .
i will have to explain some of this as we go along for the benefit of the less technical - so please bear with me .
any box like structure or container has a resonant frequency - this is particularly used in RF work to form resonant cavities - which have the properties of filters and band pass filters - in other words for a given space of A times B times C- there will be a frequency associated with it + plus sub frequencies + harmonic frequencies - and said container will resonate ( or ring if you like ) at a given frequency - and to a lesser extent at - the resonant frequency and + the resonant frequency - thus it will resonate over a "band " of frequencies peaking at the center or resonant point - with much lower or higher frequencies being rejected and no resonating taking place .
SO WHAT you may ask has this to do with architecture ?? - where are most ghosts reported - ??? - in buildings - and what are buildings - boxes !! - and how often do we actually think about the building when investigating a reported haunting ?? - er like never may be - OK we may say oh it was used as a Victorian work house or some such - or it is 400 years old - but when was the last time if ever you accurately measured a building during an investigation ??
now if you think about it logically the larger the box the lower the resonant frequency - and conversely the smaller the higher ( trust me on this if i have lost you ) - and what is a feature of older buildings ??? - BIGGER ROOMS !! - go to any mansion and you will see rooms that you could probably fit a modern house or flat into - go to a modern house and the reverse is true - go to a house built around the turn of the 20th century and you will find that in general the dimensions of the rooms are fairly standard - for instance they had higher ceilings in those days .
now for the speculation bit :: i have long been convinced that ghosts /apparitions /hauntings ( whatever ) have a LOT to do with frequency - so hows this for a crazy theory ?? - the size of the space is directly connected with the type and age of entity that may be inhabiting or observable in that particular building ................
plus the range of observable phenomena has to be conversant with the age and construction of said building ( box ) - vis you don't see many roman soldiers appearing in a modern council house - conversely you don't see many 20th century people turning up in a 400 year old building either - if you think on it spirits tend to be specific to time periods - conversant with the buildings they are observed in - is this something to do with the building methods and more particularly the dimensions of said buildings ?? ( the rider to this one may be that if a death happens in a 400 year old building ( or some other event that leaves an imprint on the space /time fabric ) then it may be possible for that imprint to remain as it happened in that particular spacial dimension .
with me soo far ?? - good
now some of you may say that this does not follow as buildings get altered over time - true - but if we take it that the size of the rooms at the time of the "event " eg the death or whatever is the important factor - then this could in part explain why entities are seen walking through walls etc - as they are fixed to a degree in some cases by the time /space constraints prevalent at the time of the event and subsequent changes to the "box " have little or no effect
so to sum up ( and bear in mind this is only a theory ) the larger the rooms of a building - the lower the frequency and the older the "particular " entity that is capable of being observed - eg in Hampton court - you are likely to get ghosts from henry 8th (et al ) period as the resonant frequency is correct - where as you are unlikely to get modern entities ( except in the case mentioned previously ) as the frequency of the "box " is correct
conversely - in this house - it is highly unlikely that i would get any entities from prior to its construction as the "boxes " ( rooms ) have a different vibrational "fingerprint " ( read resonant frequency )
now there are of course odd exceptions to this in that in the case of a prior building inhabiting the same space - it could just be that the size of the previous "box" could correlate to the "band pass " characteristics " ( range of possible frequencies ) of the present building - thus permitting entities to be present
so i think we may need to revisit some of the investigations previously done - or start taking note of dimensions of buildings a lot more to see if there is any correlation - if we found for instance that a particular set of sizes of rooms proved to be consistent with reported phenomena - then this may be worth looking at further .
and of interest - those of you following my capacitor ramble may be interested to know that in the smaller rooms of this house the charge received seems to be higher - whist in the larger it is lower - and from past observations outside - generally low or non existent - er has this any thing to do with the resonant frequency of the rooms ??
that's what i hate about this interest - just as soon as you think you have a handle on something - a whole new can of worms opens up
and why the heck did all this pop into my mind this morning ??
more thinks on this -methinks
regards
Brett
( if i have totally lost you on this one my apologies - please feel free to pull this to bits or ask for clarification
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Whenever we are out on location, we only ever seem to get spirits from the early days of the buildings time frame. There is a snag here though, some older buildings have been converted into modern ones (like a mansion becoming apartments). As people live out their lives in a more modern time frame, we have experienced modern spirit in an old building - but only on the very rare occasion! 
