In this case it’s true. I’m procrastinating hardcore right now, and whereas I should be trying to put a dent in my 50,000 word novel due by the 30th of this month, I’d thought I share a couple of photo’s I’ve been meaning to post instead.
First, a silly little story. About two weeks ago I was chasing around my roommate Hilary with the book “Communion” by Whitley Strieber. She’s been having a rough time with ghosts and spectres in our house, (she’s says a pervy spirit mumbled something to her in our downstairs bathroom) and I told her that the thing that helped me the most was actually confronting all of those same things that keep her up at night. For me, the thing that brought me the most relief was finally crackinf open this 80’s classic UFO novel. Ever since I was very young I had found the image quite troubling. I mean, look at it!!
She didn’t sound very interested in my technique, which was fine – but on a whim I actually started chasing her up and down the stairs with the book in front of me and her screaming and trying to avert her eyes. I know, I’m a jerk – but it was all in good fun, I swear.
Anway, the karma came back to me pretty quickly and I got a dose of my own medicine. As her last defense she picked up her astronomy book and used it to swipe away at my hands – and in the commotion I noticed the picture on the cover. It stopped me dead in my alien-face chasing tracks.
I instantly stepped back and took a breath. Is that Philip K. Dick’s VALIS sattelite on the cover? You’ve got to be kidding me!? What are the chances that it would appear at that moment – other than to relay a message and shield poor Hilary from my insensitive attack?
I couldn’t believe it: so I told Hilary that I though the cover of HER book was creepy, and she said matter of factly, “yeah, I know. That face is so wierd!”
Which confused the hell of out me. “Face? FACE?! ”
That’s when she points out the ghostly profile on the cover.
hey, you never told me your house is haunted!!!!
we should launch an investigation! check for evps! take a zillion digital snaps in the dark!
JP -
It’s a pretty recent revelation. What’s funny is that this is the first time I feel really comfortable in a house – so I find it a little hard to believe. But Hilary swears that she’s heard things in the bathroom. Brett said the closet in his room opened on its own (this is when he was staying up all night cause he kept having these dreams of a little girl scratching his arms. Seven in a row!). We got two phone calls in a month period, one of which I experienced, where a metallic sounding voice kept repeating the names of two of the girls in our house.
I’ll try to think of some more things – but for the most part I feel like the house doesn’t really have that kind of energy. Although I guess Miranda found a jar full of nails buried in the backyard, which is supposedly connected with witchcraft?
What’s evps? Are those the orbs? What’s it called when you leave a tape recorder on to pick up white noise?
“What’s it called when you leave a tape recorder on to pick up white noise?”
that’s evps! ;) “electronic voice phenomenon.” here’s a whole bunch of examples:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/parainvestigator/Evp/EVP.html
the nails thing sounds familiar. i think it’s actually a curse! does she still have the jar? were they rusty? was there anything else in it?
The house IS hanted. But only half of the house. And NOT the side of the house that Garrett’s bedroom is. The side of the house that the kitchen and downstairs bathroom and computers are.
PS. I figured out how to stream your blog. or something. Anyways, I am subscribed to it
yeah, we’ve totally got to investigate.
think you can pull yourself away from second life long enough for a ghost investigation, garrett? i’m totally serious . . . .