tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post3297471764254772178..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Something wicked this way comes.... by Dawn FinchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80393836456335368182015-04-08T00:00:38.361+01:002015-04-08T00:00:38.361+01:00Sounds like a fun way to scare yourself. :-) We do...Sounds like a fun way to scare yourself. :-) We don't have any fourteenth century farmhouses here, haunted or otherwise, though goodness knows our history of the last couple of hundred years is blood soaked enough.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73996508972007189012015-04-07T15:36:19.400+01:002015-04-07T15:36:19.400+01:00I once ran a roleplaying game in which a newly-wed...I once ran a roleplaying game in which a newly-wed couple moved into a haunted 14th century farmhouse, while we were, just the three of us, in the 14th century farmhouse in which the story was set. When they wanted to investigate the cellar I took them down there and described the strange noises they heard.<br /><br />There's a shamanic technique where you take a walk at twilight and purposefully hold the strange things you see as undefined. You may otherwise think that odd shape lurking over there is probably an old tree-stump, but you don't go to check and you allow yourself to believe it could be something else.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09799125598133377058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-70271802405166260422015-04-07T09:47:33.574+01:002015-04-07T09:47:33.574+01:00I'm about as psychic as the average potato, bu...I'm about as psychic as the average potato, but friends and family have told me their stories in such a matter-of-fact way that I don't immediately reject them. Like one who complained she couldn't get any sleep because of the child ghost who kept bothering her. "In the end, I had to hang a blanket from the corner of the bed for her to play with," she said. My nephew complained of seeing ghosts in the daytime - and was not happy about it. We had a visit from Meredith Costain, who launched her book on ghosts on the same day I launched mine about spies. She said she was psychic and declared there was a cold spot in the gardening section of our library! As nobody had ever died there during the library's forty-odd years, I had to assume it was not correct, or at least not as far as I knew, but at least one of our students steered clear of the gardening section after that! :-)<br />There are plenty of ghost stories in Australia, but we just don't have the sort of blood-soaked ghost story tradition you have over there. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-51327095501462328592015-04-07T09:44:46.950+01:002015-04-07T09:44:46.950+01:00Splendidly spooky!Splendidly spooky!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-10668049423235790222015-04-07T09:17:33.499+01:002015-04-07T09:17:33.499+01:00That's a great picture. :-)
My own view of gh...That's a great picture. :-)<br /><br />My own view of ghosts goes something like this:<br /><br />1. Ghosts are real.<br />2. Ghosts are all in the imagination.<br />3. Points 1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.com