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Skiing Party

This case might be regarded as little more than a ‘standard’ apparition sighting, if there can be such a thing, were it not for the fact that the apparition seems to have acted in rather ‘unghost-like’ manner and was in fact witnessed by several people together.

In the spring of 1950 in a valley near the Oslo Fjord, several members of staff of both the British and American Embassies in Oslo, together with wives and friends, were out skiing. Amongst the party of eight was Brigadier K. Treseder of the British Embassy who described the event. The skiing took place on land attached to a farmhouse at the bottom of the valley. The day’s skiing was most successful due to the perfect weather and snow conditions. As the evening began to set in the party made its way back to their cars which were parked some 200 yards from the farm. A description of the terrain is important. The brigadier described the road being very straight and giving good vision for as at least half a kilometre in each direction.

Snow covered everything and there was no cover on either side of the road where someone could be concealed. In addition the light was quite good enough for clear vision. First to reach the cars were the brigadier and an American colleague; they were removing their ski equipment when they were challenged in English by a lady with a strong Scottish accent. She asked, if they had been skiing over her land.

The woman was tall, fairly old and dressed in an old-fashioned brown herringbone-tweed suit with a long skirt and a Norfolk jacket; she wore lace-up boots and a flat round cap. She seemed very irate, particularly when the brigadier admitted that they had indeed been skiing over the land behind them which she was suggesting was her land. Having been joined by the brigadier’s wife, the three of them were then given ‘a thorough ticking off’. She regarded them as trespassers and ordered them to leave and never to return.

They were somewhat confused since they believed that in Norway in winter one was allowed to ski freely, but they apologised for trespassing and the lady turned away. Other members of the party, now approaching the cars, were asking what was going on, and the brigadier and his companions explained that the woman was objecting to their skiing on her property. The reply from the other members of the party was, ‘Which old lady?’ In fact at this point no one, including the three who had previously seen her, could see the old woman at all. The road was empty, though no more than a few seconds had passed and the lady could not possibly have got out of sight from the position they were in.

The whole party searched everywhere but could find nothing. Then one of them actually suggested, that they might have been in conversation with a ghost. On the basis that the woman’s clothes had gone out of fashion sometime before World War I. Their curiosity aroused, the party went to the farmhouse where a young couple and their two small children lived. There was no lady living there and they didn’t know anyone who fitted her description.

However, the farm had once been owned by the present farmer’s great grandfather who had lived in it with his wife, a girl from Scotland whom he had married. Unfortunately there were no photographs of her. The farmer also confirmed that they were free to ski on the land if they wanted to. It seems highly unlikely that three people could share an identical and somewhat bizarre hallucination. It also seems unlikely that the ‘ghost’ was of the ‘recording’ type since there seems to have been a very clear interaction between the appari tion and the witnesses.

Even in the unlikely event that the lady had challenged other skiers in her own time who happened to be standing in the very same spot as our witnesses, the explanation would hardly hold since the witnesses would have sensed the lack of genuine interaction. The interaction seems to have been genuine. But was the ghost a projection in to the skiers’ time or were they a projection into hers and at what point did the bridge between times end? Essex | France | Wiltshire | Wiltshire | Cornwall | Devon | Devon | Devon | Essex | France | France | Hampshire | Indonesia | Ireland | Isle of Wight | Italy | Kent | Lancashire | London | London | London | London | Norfolk | North Yorkshire | Norway | Oxford | Oxford | Phenomena | Salop | Suffolk | Surrey | Surrey | Surrey | Unknown | Warwickshire | Wiltshire |