ABSTRACT
At Hampton Court Palace, London, in 2003, several days before Christmas, security guards noticed that the fire doors of an exhibition area kept moving, apparently unaided. On one occasion, they saw on the CCTV footage a figure in a sixteenth-century robe walk forward, and open and close them. 1 This is a relatively recent example in a long history of claimed sightings of ghosts at the Palace. What was unusual about this particular apparition is that it was seen and recorded by an electronic device. It is also a recent example of a coalition between spirit and technology that brings together the primordial and numinous with the contemporary and material, and faith with empiricism. This is with a view to providing (in the interests of spirit) evidential proof for the existence of life after death and of worlds beyond the senses, and to demonstrating (in the interests of technology) the all-encompassing reach of science and innovation.
