Beneath the Poet’s House

by Christa Carmen

“The Stone Tape Theory is the speculation that ghosts and hauntings are analogous to tape recordings, and that mental impressions during emotional events can be projected in the form of energy, ‘recorded’ onto rocks or other items, and ‘replayed’ under certain conditions.”

“Anyway,” Lucretia capitulates, “the last major nineteenth-century idea associated with the Stone Tape Theory is psychometry, the belief that it’s possible to obtain knowledge about the history associated with an object through physical contact with it.