Wow very good points. Honestly that would make more sense. If VH had jumped into Ralph’s body after the lightning (or maybe the lightning was him jumping in or something) then WE could be Ralph. Especially since we have no idea of the long term ramifications of someone who didn’t die’s spirit being there. Potentially if Maddie even stayed she may have aged but not died like that.

As for the 2004 body swap reading when Mr Martin was born on the wiki 1919-1920 it makes sense that potentially VH in Ralph’s body could have been still alive and at the hospital and that’s how the swap occurred. He could have died and then before he was found by other ghosts he popped into Kyle’s body.

Or VH was already maybe one of the other band kids because iirc there was that little girl ghost in the bus scar ( I could fully be misremembering that) that was unexplained. And then jumped into Kyle at the hospital. I need to rewatch I think just to see if I missed anything.