I went full tilt into the study for a while in high school. People who are empaths are predisposed to reading the emotions and feelings of those around them. Having a gentle and caring attitude is a magnet. I notice things; I imagine TDub and Japh are the same way. When I was at KU I worked to guard the Baker campus, and I saw and heard things all the time. Your paycheck both depended on noticing sound and anomalies, and being brave enough to power through unexplainable things. Some buildings I locked early in the shift and just did a cursory check later. The one I had to walk through every couple of hours was the newest and creepiest. I felt like the spirit there loved to mess with me. So I rushed through, running to the key so I could leave as quickly as possible. One particularly creepy night there was a full lunar eclipse as I hit that building, and the hair started raising on my neck. So, I just checked the doors and short-cut hitting the shift key on the back wall of the stage by opening the exit there. As I opened the door, the key was levitating and waiting for me--jutting out to the back door. I took it and turned the old round clock. I said "Thanks!," shut the door, and ran back to the old pump house where we had our office, too shook to complete the rounds. I eventually got myself together. There had been someone who lived amongst and under the campus, leaving "gifts" to the faculty in the 60s-70s as I understood it. As hauntings go, this was more Japh than Hell House. I had an aunt who was out and out a medium, running a Ouija Board by herself. The most interesting session was the WATCH THE FLAME annotating sequence sequence where the candle jetted up to the ceiling three feet for a second after we had finished spelling it out. The Ouija board had a tendency towards darkness and often would hook folks into playing it with "family" spirits--who were obviously not after taking weird dark threatening turns (predicting family deaths, etc. and basically menacing the household with threatening behavior exploiting weaknesses). Leave the damned thing alone. Unless you are so unperceptive and unbelieving of anything it can't reach through your filters. I always laugh when I see it in the children's game sections of stores.japhy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:25 pm I think ghosts are a form of energy we just don't understand or have a scientific way to explain/measure at this point in time. They can push on a floor and make it creak, they can throw a book in response to a comment, they can open doors. It is more than a visual anomaly.
Long ago I decided it's a rabbit hole I had no interest in going down. I don't look for them, they seem to seek me out.
These things exist at the edge of our remote understanding--but there is some fringe physics that would explain it if we could get around some of the Amazing Randy science skeptics. (I think the funniest thing in the world would be the ghost of the Amazing Randy trying in vain to get through to a medium). Unfortunately so many of these ghost hunter shows are fraudulent farces. People are innately interested in this, and so are vulnerable to Trump types playing "let's pretend."
