Barnabas', Julia's, Prof. Stokes' return to 1971

[TNickey2003]

When Barnabas, Julia, and Stokes return to 1971, all is calm and Liz acts as if they've never been away.  How can that be when the last time they were all in the present was the summer/fall of 1970, and months had passed since then (during which they were in 1840, and absent from present time)?

Unlike Vicki's trip to the past and return to the present during which present time was suspended, time continued to progress normally in 1970 and 1971.  Accordingly, Barnabas and Julia's absence should have been conspicuous, and their sudden return equally conspicious;  and Liz should not in all logic have behaved as if everything were normal and uneventful.

Also, of course, there is the unexplained absence of Barnabas' I-ching entranced body in the present. How could he have returned from the past in a different way than when he went there? Could it be that his I-ching entranced body suddenly disappeared when he, Julia, and Stokes traversed the Stairway Through Time back into the present?

[IluvBarnabas]

Well since the events of 1840 were changed, that meant that [spoiler]Gerard and Daphne never haunted Collinwood in the first place, so it stands to reason that Elizabeth would act as if nothing unusual happened.
You do bring up a good point about Barnabas and Julia's disappearnce and reappearance though.....Elizabeth
sort of acts that they never went anywhere though, that's what really confuses me.[/spoiler]

But how about the fact [spoiler]no one outside of Barnabas, Julia and Stokes had any memory of the hauntings of Gerard and Daphne since they changed the history of 1840, yet when Barnabas changed history in 1897 and he has returned to 1969, the family all still remember the haunting of Quentin and Beth despite the fact because of the changing of history in that era, Quentin never died although Beth did, albeit under different circumstances. Since Quentin never died, that means his ghost never haunted Collinwood in the first place thanks to the new history of 1897, so the family shouldn't have remembered a thing about either of the ghosts having haunting Collinwood after 1897 either.[/spoiler]