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Let us put it in this perspective...SOMETHING HAPPENED which effected the observer both emotionally and intellectually to a greater or lessor degree. The fact that someone thought it was note worthy enough to mention and relate indicates that it was unusual, out of the ordinary where it can not be attributed to the usual suspects.

The question who is to doubt the life experience of a person with a otherwise sound mind? The question then becomes what was it? When you separate out all the usual suspects of rationality then you are left with it being unknown. You then have to go farther afield in your explanation as to what caused that experience. Then you have to ponder the possibility of ascribing it to what the collective memory of man (the data bank) has ascribed it to over the millennium. A ghost.

The consistency of people's perceptions over time weeds out the chafe...silly notions fall by the way side over time, like Disco...or Phrenology.