A Stone Tape Haunting
In both cases described above, events that occurred at the time have been recreated for modern day (or people not long after in the Edge Hill case) witnesses. This would appear to be what's known as a stone tape style haunting.
A stone tape haunting is said to occur when such events as a battle, a murder, or an event of high emotion is alleged to imprint feelings and motions into the very fabric of the land, and these events are then recorded to be replayed later when the condition of the atmosphere, or the land is right. If a certain person is able to pick up on these emotions, it may be played specifically to them, someone like a psychic medium perhaps.
In most cases such as these, the apparitions are unresponsive, and will just replay what happened to them at the time the recording was taken. They can not even really be called real ghosts as they are not really spirits, but just images that eventually, and in most cases will fade away over time.
The amount of time it takes for them to fade away may depend on a number of conditions such as the scale of the event (in both cases above, large scale battles), or the type of ground, underlying rock or fabric the recording is made into. No one really knows what causes these events, and considerably more research needs to be carried out before anyone can say for certain, but one thing that's for sure about paranormal investigations is, one question answered, creates a whole load more to work out.
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