For the Love of Supernatural Mystery

[thedeadlyhook]

Got a letter from Grandma M yesterday, with an interesting note about the Channel 4 archeology dig programme, Time Team, on the near-York town of Nether Poppleton. Spent a bit of time picking around that site this morning - ye gods, what a fascinating project to conduct nationwide, having people pick through their backyards just to see what relics might turn up. Of course, if you did that in the States, you're more likely to come up with '70s beer can pop-tops and the occasional plastic toy than Roman glass or Medieval flagstone, although in our neighborhood in SF I'd be scared to dig - heard too many tales of relocated cemeteries and ghosts in public libraries. Brr.

Never seen a ghost myself. Had some mysterious slamming-door issues when we first moved into this apartment, although that later turned out to be weird air flow issues, suction yanking the doors closed, like Backdraft without the fire. Creepy enough, though, at 1:00 am in a new place.

Oh, Sci-Fi Channel. Sometimes you know just what a body needs. All-day Night Stalker-thon. Praise be.

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[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Eeee. That sort of thing scares me. I find it hard to be cynical about these things after hearing these kinds of stories.

I had a coworker once that had a very active ghost, one that threw things - heavy things, like her leather jacket, sailing across the room. Freaky. And then they did an exorcism, and got an even freakier ghost after that, as if the removing the first ghost let this other, more ominous one out that appeared as dark shape in the hallways, like something out of Halloween. And another coworker described ghost sightings on her famliy farm in Chile. People that were there one mintue on not there the next. Brr.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I hate that you can't edit comments. All the bold text is kind of a mistake there, obviously.

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

Yipes!! I know I can never look at myself, alone in a house, after watching one of those "real life ghost stories" on the teev, where every time this woman brushed her teeth, she would see the ghost in the mirror.
Interesting (though incredibly unsettling) that the exorcism brought on another ghost. You don't hear about that!

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

There's this very famous old made-for-TV movie called The Stone Tape, by Nigel Kneale, I believe, on this very topic. Super-creepy. The idea of removing one layer of haunting can uncover something... older. Shudder.