If ghosts represent some sort of residual human electro-magnetic energy that survives bodily death, is it possible that they can manifest themselves through the circuitry of household electrical devices?

Bernie and Sylvia Howard suspect that their Farmington, Maine, home has a ghost. They have, they indicate, watched the ghosts on their television.

Sylvia related the following strange account:

"It began in 1984. Bernie and I, along with two of our friends, were watching television in the living room,. All of a sudden, the picture changed. We were watching a movie, when suddenly an elderly woman's face appeared on the screen. The face had a strange bluish glow, and it stared at us from the screen for about thirty seconds. Then it was gone, and the movie came back on. At first, we thought it was some kind of (signal) interference.

"About twenty minutes later, it happened again. The face reappeared and filled up the entire screen. This time, Bernie switched to another channel. When he did, the old woman's face was on that channel, too. Then he flipped through all the channels, and she was on every single on. She stared at us for about another minute or so. Then, the face vanished, and the regular (television programming) came back on.

"At this point, we still wondered if it had been some sort of signal interference. About two weeks later, though, it happened again-and on a different television set. This time we were in the bedroom. We had gone to bed, and the bedroom television set was off. About 2:00 A.M., Bernie woke up. He noticed a strange bluish glow coming from the corner of the room; somehow, the television had turned itself on. Bernie woke me up and pointed toward the television: that same old woman's face was staring at us from the screen. We flipped through all the channels, and she was on every one of them. Bernie shut off the set and became very upset. So did I. We really didn't know what was going on.

"The next morning we called a television repairman. He had no clear answer for what was happening. Then, four days later, I woke up at about 5:00 A.M. and noticed the old woman's face staring at me again from the television screen. I screamed, Bernie woke up, and then the screen just went black.

"About a half hour later, while we were sitting in bed discussing the situation, the television screen began to glow blue and the old woman's face appeared again. We just sat there in terror, staring back at her, when suddenly the woman's lips began to move. She was trying to say something, but we couldn't hear her voice. We just saw her lips moving. We have no idea what she may have been saying.

"And after that, we never saw her again. The face stopped appearing as suddenly as it had started. We've talked about the situation over and over. It has left us confused and (shaken), because we have no idea what any of it means. All we can guess it that we saw some kind of ghost projecting itself through our television set."