Paranormal researchers call this repetition of a “stone tape theory” from the past and speculate that the “energy” of a person or emotions are recorded or absorbed in the stone of a building. It is then said that it “plays again” for those who are sensitive to it when the atmospheric conditions are the same or on the birthday of the event.
Since remaining chases represent nothing more than a reflection of the past, you cannot communicate with them. The visions seen are not aware of their environment. They cannot communicate with you and are not aware of your presence.
The basis of the theory is that emotional or traumatic events, such as resisting death, can be recorded and stored as an analogue video recording in the surrounding stones and stone of the building. This would be due to magnetic components in rocks, making them similar to nature as a video tape, which is also magnetic.
Talking about strong and energy does it all sound rather scientific, but is there a real-life proven science to support this theory?
The reason that the concept of stone tape is often mistaken for science is because it has the word ‘theory’ in its name, but even this is used incorrectly. In the scientific world, a theory is something that has been proven and tested, such as the theory of relativity.
Steen Tape is a concept, an idea or a conviction, it is not proven. Therefore, if you have your science hat on, it would be more accurate to call the “stone tape hypothesis”.
The other problem with the name is the idea of stone tape itself. A normal magnetic tape, such as an audio cassette or video tape, is not a solid mass of magnetic material. It is a reel with a linear current from the start of the tape to the end. The data, whether it is audio or video, are recorded and played with a set speed determined by how quickly the tape moves over the recording head.
This stream of the tape over the head gives the recording the dimension of the time. If someone speaks for a minute in a band recorder, a minute tape goes over the recording head. When the recording is played, it lasts a minute.
It is clear that a stone does not have this property. So even if the human body were to spit out large amounts of energy that could be caught by a stone, there would be no time of time.
In the classic example of the appearance of a monk that ran through a room and passed through a wall where there used to be a door, it was when this event took place, maybe 30 seconds, but all the energy from the event would be dumped in the stone without a linear direction or time.
Therefore, if the energy was released and played, the supernatural repetition would take place at the same time in that series of events at the same time and immediately. It would look like a series of monk that appears a fraction of a fraction in a flash.
The other problem with stone tape theory is the energy source. Not the type of energy that paranormal researchers talk about, but real energy. To show the human eye, there must be a source of energy.
The most basic example of this is where the sun is the energy source. It shines light on the earth, the light touches a tree. A part of the light is absorbed by the tree and some bouncing, when this light enters our eye, we see an image of a tree. If you are a ghost hunt, then the energy source with which you can see your environment is a flashlight that has stored energy in the form of a battery with chemical potential.
A stone can also absorb energy. When the sun shines on a rock all day, the rock gets warm and even when the sun has gone, the rock will slowly radiate that heat over time. If the rock has enough energy, it can even broadcast light – think of melted rock or lava.
This illustrates a valid point. The melted rock just radiates a glow or constant light, it does not project the sun that moves through the sky in the course of a day.
In a cold, dark basement or castle, the stone where the building exists will retain very little energy in the form of heat. Without an energy source it cannot play again or project something that is stored in it.
So there is clearly no hard science that supports stone tape theory, and our current understanding of how the universe works, refers the stone tape theory, but can there be an explanation that goes beyond science?
Well, this is always a possibility. You cannot refute something that is not measurable, but you should not come to the conclusion it exists, unless you can offer the proof that it does.
If this psychological energy can be stored in a stone, it may be possible that that stone releases it, not as a visible appearance, but as a psychological projection. This can explain why some people see spirits when others don’t, because they are more in harmony with that specific environment or psychological energy in general.
The problem remains, even if psychological energy exists, there would be no way to record an event in a linear way that makes it possible to pass time, and playing would be an eruption of psychological energy, but perhaps the subconscious brain can cope with the increase in psychological input and understanding.
The bigger problem is that after the energy has been released, it would be gone. Perhaps if enough energy has been recorded in the stone, it could play a few times, but in the end that energy would be up and the stone could no longer play its memories again.
This is where stone tape and real magnetic tape differ. Despite paranormal claims that stone and video tapes are comparable, tires do not store any energy, they are only changed by the recording head in a way that can be decoded and played later. That is why a tape can be played time and time again.
The theory is further apart if you realize that ghost hunters do not limit the stone tape theory to only stone, many also believe that other natural materials such as wood, the ground and even water can contain memories. It is part of a wider theory called “Place Memory”.
Holding and soil-retaining memories are understandable as a hypothesis because they are static at a location, but water makes no sense. Although running water is often said that the paranormal activity evokes, it is difficult to understand how this could work in terms of stone tape theory when the water molecules in the liquid flow or evaporate to be replaced by other molecules.
Just like many paranormal concepts, stone tape is not a tried and tested theory, it is a conviction that has been devised to explain the behavior of some specific types of ghost parties.
