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.

Comments

[kathyh]

Channel 4 archeology dig programme, Time Team, on the near-York town of Nether Poppleton.

It was on last week and was absolutely fascinating. They discovered a previously lost Tudor mansion while looking for other things. A Tudor mansion is difficult to lose but Nether Poppleton managed it! It's a really excellent programme.

[magista.livejournal.com]

Nether Poppleton. Hee. I love English place-names. Sounds like a fascinating show.

Mostly Native American artifacts here, I suspect. I did hear James Delgado (Sea Hunters) speak about some of what he's excavated in SF, though, and there could be more there than you think. He was describing how many ships, abandoned by their gold-seeking crews in the 1840s, were turned into floating hotels or warehouses or businesses - only to end up partly burned and then covered over with earth after the great fire. 1906, wasn't it? He told the tale of one excavation of an entire hull of a ship well inland from the current bay shoreline. Cool stuff.

Mmm... Night Stalker. ::walks away whistling::

[elisi]

Like kathyh I watched that too! Well most of it. (And everyone loves Baldrick... I mean Tony Robinson!). We actually used to live in York, and I'm sure we went past Nether Poppelton fairly frequently. Although name-wise I always loved Upper Poppelton.

[riani1.livejournal.com]

Night Stalker??? My late-Friday-night college friend??

And I'm at work, dammit.

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

Never seen a ghost myself.
The house I lived in London had one. Although I never saw the ghost, one of my flatmates did. As well, there was this terrible, sad feeling which permeated the house. You could get very depressed, very easily for no reason if you were alone in it. Strange.
the Channel 4 archeology dig programme,
I can never get by: "I have a cunning plan!"

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I love Time Team.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

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

OMG, my thoughts exactly. Sci-Fi may have cancelled "Farscape" but sometimes they know what the hell they're doing, not to mention what we desperately crave.

[makd.livejournal.com]

What? a Night Stalker marathon on the Sci-fi channel? See you later....