Comment: There is not much known about the event or about Christian Drane, so we can offer nothing more than a speculation.

Tom Lethbridge, a distinguished naturalist, archaeologist and author of the book Ghost and Divining Rod, conducted among other things extensive research of the 'event memory imprintment' phenomena.

As described in the SOTT forum thread:

"[...]Some years later, Lethbridge and his wife went to the seashore to collect seaweed for their garden. As he walked on the beach, he again experienced the sense of depression, gloom and fear descending on him. Resisting this influence, Lethbridge and his wife began to fill their sacks with seaweed. After a very short period of this activity, Lethbridge's wife, Mina, came running up to him demanding that they leave saying, "I can't stand this place a minute longer. There's something frightful here.[...]"

The next weekend, Lethbridge and his wife again visited the bay. Again, as they stepped onto the beach, the same bank of depression and gloom enveloped them. Mina led him to the spot where she had experienced such an overwhelming sensation that she had insisted on leaving the place. At that spot, the sensation was so powerful that they actually felt dizzy. Lethbridge described it as being similar to having a high fever and full of drugs. As it happened, on either side of this spot were two streams of water.

Mina went off to the cliff to look at the scenery and suddenly walked into the "depression" again. She actually had the sensation that something or someone was urging her to jump off the cliff! When she had brought it to the attention of Lethbridge, he agreed that this spot was as "sinister" as the spot on the beach between the streams.

As it turned out, nine years later, a man did commit suicide from that exact spot. Lethbridge wondered if there was some sort of "timeless" sensation that had been "imprinted" on the area via some sort of "recording" principle. It seemed that, whether from the past or the future, feelings of despair were somehow recorded on the surroundings, in the very atmosphere, it seemed. The only question was, how? Lethbridge believed that the key was water.