The Stone Tape: First Impressions
Still in the seventies, and still dominated by the twin contemporary questions of Science and the Supernatural, I come to one of the highest-rated ghost stories ever. I’m actually rather surprised that I have never seen The Stone Tape before, in fact I am writing this on my first viewing. This is the Christmas ghost story which famously gave its name to one of the major theories of modern quackery, which I’m glad to see was actually first published in 1961 by C.T. Lethbridge, always a good source for pseudo-science and quackery: ' The Stone Tape theory is the speculation that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts ">ghosts and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunting ">hauntings are analogous to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_recorder ">tape recordings, and that electrical mental impressions released during emotional or traumatic events can somehow be "stored" in moist rocks and other items and "replayed" under certain co...