We have a "ghost" in our house that wears a WW2 soldier
uniform. He can be seen leaning over to kiss his mom on the couch in our
living room. When we first moved in, we thought it was a ghost, but
then we realized it was an imprint. It did make us wonder why ghosts
would wear clothes, below, a noted ghost investigator ponders this:
Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes?
BY TROY TAYLOR
American Ghost Society
Why do ghosts need clothes? No one really seems to know, but it’s
possible that in most cases, ghosts seen wearing clothing are simply
“residual” images – imprints or memories that linger on the atmosphere
of a place like a recording. A ghost of this sort would have no
“personality” and is simply like an old movie that just keeps playing.
But what about ghosts that are not merely imprints? What about those
which are true, traditional spirits who died and stayed behind? Many
researchers feel that ghosts are made up of electromagnetic energy.
This energy, inside of the body, forms what we call our spirit, soul or
personality. Now, science cannot prove this energy or personality
actually exists, yet we know it does. If it can exist inside of our
bodies, then why can’t it exist outside of the body, once the body
itself stops functioning? It’s possible that it does and that this
electromagnetic energy contains our personality and is what we think of
as our spirit.
It has been shown through scientific experiments that exposure to
high levels of electromagnetic energy can cause people to have vivid
dreams, nightmares and even hallucinations. In other words, people are
seeing things as a result of exposure to this energy. If spirits have
any sort of control over the energy they are now comprised of (or even
if their personalities are somehow manifested in the energy), then I
would think it possible for the witness to see the spirit as the spirit
sees itself. If the personality really does remain, the spirit would
visualize itself as it was when alive, appearing as a living person and
wearing clothing.
This could be a totally unconscious effect of the energy on the
living person, or it could be a manipulation on the part of the spirit
itself, perhaps causing the person to see what it wants them to. To
understand this, I suggest that you close your eyes for a moment and
then visualize yourself in your mind. How do you appear to yourself?
Most likely, you were wearing clothing in your imagination. With the
idea that a ghost appears looking in the same way that he sees himself,
this might explain why so many ghosts that are seen are not only
wearing clothing.