Generally speaking - in my life, the only thing that goes bump in the night is my bed after I've had a feed of Guinness and my bottom is tooting a merry tune all night long, much to the disgust of my missus.
However, as much of a sceptic as I am in general, I do have a weird fascination with the paranormal.
Now lets not go nuts here, I don't go to seances and I don't think Derek Acorah is in any way NOT taking the piss when I watch ghostwatch on the sci-fi channel. But I do think that there's things in life that no matter what, we just can't explain.
Some people may be so convinced they've seen ghosts or things of that nature, and scientists might say "well you've clearly got a chemical inbalance in the oul' noggin there" mind you, any scientist who uses the term "oul noggin" isn't to be trusted.
And I suppose we as a race have a way of rationalising things away and once we get a fairly normal explanation we're happy enough to get on with our lives. But who is to say that the millions of people worldwide who have claimed to have seen something weird are not partly telling the truth?
There's a smashing website called Shadowlands.com full of peoples ghost stories that I read when I want either a good laugh or a chill put up my spine, and of course, it attracts many madsers, but there was some stories that seemed so genuine - boring even - that you had to think there was truth in them.
I love a good scare, horror films and ghost stories are a great way to pass the time, and the more extravagent the better - I've done my share of oujii boards and have only ended up with someone (usually me) taking the piss, but I've never personally been scared by something supernatural, and hopefully I won't be, but I certainly would never discount the possibility of some sort of paranormal goings on in life.
Ghosts are probably the easiest thing to imagine being real, all this talk about frankenstein and werewolves and vampires etc.. are merely matters of folklore and fiction but somethings spirit that's alive after the body has long since died is totally a probability, lets face it - most of us believe in a heaven or a hell - or something other than a blank nothing after we snuff it, so why not ghosts?
I've heard some cracking stories in my time, most of which coming from old Ireland and things that happened well before we became the heaving metropolis that we are now, and of course, peoples imaginations, superstitions and such were not as tainted as ours today, but it would be something I hope doesn't die out completly.
I'd be a big fan of the urban legend too - the escaped mental patients and all that, anyone have any thoughts on this?
Oh - and I said I'd mention Goths too - bunch of makeup wearing cunts.
there.
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Energy. Think of how much energy it takes to run a human body. How many AA batteries is that? A feckin' lot. Now, energy doesn't just cease to exist - it gets transformed from one state or place to another. In the case of the human body, one is left with few assumptions as to the destination of the energy transfer. My thoughts? One word: "Woooooo!"
Well now. If any of you have read Bill Bryson's "Short History of Nearly Everything" (or is it Brief History ?) you might remember him talking about atoms. He said that our bods are made up of all these billions of atoms and when we die, they just fuck off and "become" something else. So, our bodies are made up of loads and loads of atoms that used to belong to OTHER dead people !! Do they have a memory ? Is this where Deja Vu comes from ? Do I have a piece of someone famous in me ? (I'm gonna stop right there)
Lads, your insight is fanterrific.
a little weird..
...but i guess that's what that post was all about.
good to see we're reading off the same hymn sheet.
I reckon we get together a load of the scariest ghost stories ever and stick em in a short story book.
"This is how much it will cost to send Katie to college Johnny"
wwwooooooo!!!
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