Stone Tape Theory: Residual Hauntings or Pseudoscience? | 321
Hysteria 51
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all heard of things that go bump in the night, but what if they are just recording of past events echoing through time? That is the heart of the Stone Tape Theory aka residual hauntings and this week’s topic. Is it an honest to goodness natural phenomenon, or just pseudoscience trash for people to cash in on. Speaking of trash, CBot plays the trailer for his new movie (it sucks). Brent tried to pass the term arch cocksman off as if it is normal (it isn’t). And KYLE proves once again that he is the moral compass of the show (and that is just sad). All that and more on the podcast that has never caused a residual haunting, but we do have some karaoke tapes that are pretty haunting in their own right – Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s sources:
Books
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age | Theodore Schick & Lewis Vaughn
Ghost and Ghoul | Thomas Charles Lethbridge
The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries| William Denton & Elizabeth M. Foote Denton
Videos
The Stone Tape (1972) - https://youtu.be/y03R-jiAo1o
Websites
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape_Theory
Polymath - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
The Haunted Walk - https://hauntedwalk.com/news/the-stone-tape-theory/
Mama Mia - https://www.mamamia.com.au/stone-tape-theory-ghosts/
Psychometry - https://www.britannica.com/topic/psychometry
Bleeding Cool - https://bleedingcool.com/tv/the-stone-tape-revisiting-bbcs-obscure-classic-ghost-story/
Spooky Rocks - https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/spooky-rocks/?fbclid=IwAR0Gos53iKeoHXgkdFAjvs0yGfSZH-09zrlTK7NBJ7AVjacqkpc3X3_-lbs
The Ghost in my Machine - https://theghostinmymachine.com/2020/03/09/how-does-it-work-the-stone-tape-theory-residual-hauntings-and-the-deep-influence-of-memory-and-emotion/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Kevin from The Sad Times Podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | On Sad Times each week, we invite guests on to tell stories about some of the most difficult |
| 0:14.3 | times in their lives. |
| 0:16.2 | Our goal is not to solve, diagnose, or fix the difficulties, but to have real, sometimes |
| 0:21.2 | humorous, as much as possible, conversations about the sad times we all share. |
| 0:26.8 | We'll not always discuss these times remain universal, and we hope in here in the stories |
| 0:31.9 | of others you find yourself feeling a little less alone. |
| 0:34.6 | Please come join the conversation at sadtimespodcast.com or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:40.7 | That's Sad Times Podcast, a subsidiary of Omni Sad, brought to you by the human condition. |
| 0:47.2 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 0:49.2 | From city to setting an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:52.2 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 1:04.2 | This is hysteria 51. |
| 1:08.2 | The truth is out there, but you won't find it here. |
| 1:13.2 | They're coming for you. |
| 1:14.2 | Look, that comes one of them now. |
| 1:18.2 | Welcome in hysteria nation to an audio show about audio events from Goose. |
| 1:29.2 | You want a prize or almost? |
| 1:30.2 | If you'd said audio one more time, then sit and you might have won a prize. |
| 1:34.2 | It sounded like you were trying to pitch some dumb movie idea or audio drama or some shit. |
| 1:38.2 | What? |
| 1:39.2 | Well, I wasn't. |
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