You're right about the arbitrariness in choosing among various explanations of the unseen world.  But that's precisely my point.  I contend that the Connie materials are problematic only if you are pre-committed to one set of theories among other possibilities.  By my thinking, there are no logical problems harmonizing the Connie crap with what is already there.  That would be a weak position if my explanation of the unseen world in this situation were a ridiculously idiosyncratic construct, full of special pleading.  But I don't think it is.  It hangs together well enough and accords with a lot of general principles found in ghost lore.  You're correct to point to things like the GH's language and the ages of the women in the portraits as potentially problematic data that must be explained by any theory, but if such things can be accounted for with one plausible construct and can't be accounted for with another, well, I figure a tie goes to WDI Wink