Things out of this world and random creepy things
Mark Shea has an interesting piece up on the paranormal.
Stories like this really interest me. I am not one to run around discerning the spirits binding or unbinding every article in the house, but at the same time the invisible is every bit as real (perhaps even more real, philosophically speaking) than the visible.
I have never "seen a ghost," but I know people who claim that they might have. I know someone whose intuition is just uncanny -- I've witnessed her saying, "Oh, the phone's for you, it's so-and-so" -- in the instant before the phone rang. (It wasn't a set up.) TIme and again her "hunches" have been proven correct.
What about places, and the supernatural influence that can linger on? My husband and I used to pass by a house, in a neighborhood near ours, that just looked creepy. It was one of those sixties houses with small windows, so already it looked like it was keeping a secret, but in this house all the windows were boarded up and lower ones were partially hidden by the overgrown hedges. The rest of the neighborhood is pretty well kept-up, so it really stood out. There were no notices or sale signs for the house. We were wondering what the story was until my husband remarked, "I know what the story is on that house. That's the murderer's house."
Months went by, and then the boards came off the windows. The hedges were removed. The house has new windows, and it's looking much better. Obviously the house was sold and the new owners are fixing it up. We passed by it this weekend and my husband remarked, "I bet the new owners got that place for a song."
I asked, "Would you have bought it?"
"No way. ...Would you?"
"No. ...I can't tell you why. My rational mind would say it would be illogical, but all the rest of me would be saying no way are you buying that house!"
Would you have bought the murderer's house? How about a house where you knew something violent had happened? Why or why not?
