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Oh, goodness. I had a bizarre work schedule today, in that I went to work but then did not close (THIS NEVER HAPPENS). Just a four-hour shift in the morning/early afternoon. So I got home and went to check a few things online, and then, since I got up at 8 am and didn't get to bed until ... later than I should have, I decided, since I am tired and have half the afternoon and all evening ahead of me, I will take a nap! And I set my alarm clock and set it a few feet away and curled up in a blanket and ... woke up at 8 pm. Ugh! What the hell?
I keep having things I mean to write about but I never remember what they are once I'm actually sitting here. It's annoying.
30 Days of Video Games
( Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure game )
Anyway, y'know. Ghosts. Some people believe in them! Some people do not! Some people, like my father, are very confusing in that they fully admit to having had a ghost encounter and yet still do not believe in them. (Very strange.)
In the basement of my parents' house, for a very, very long time (as far back as I can remember), I did not like to go down there alone! I always felt like I was being watched. It was creepy. Hairs standing up on the back of my neck and all. Didn't like it. Other people would ask about it (without my having ever mentioned it to them) sometimes, if we were ever down there for some reason. One time, my father had a friend over and they were down in the basement, I dunno, playing table tennis or something, and the guy said, did you know you have a ghost living down here? And we were like, well, I guess that explains a few things, anyway, but, no, we didn't know that!
Years later, one of my mother's brothers and his wife were visiting, and she says she is very connected to the spirit world and stuff, and she was down there with my mom once and was like, did you know you have a ghost named Robert down here? And then she spent a while talking to Robert the Ghost. And then someone else did the same thing (also using the name Robert) later, still. And none of these people knew each other, and I know we hadn't mentioned the ghost to two of them (the first guy and the last guy, I suppose my aunt may have been told), and they all pointed to the same area of the basement...
Then, several years back, my parents did two things. One, they got rid of the freezer down there and replaced it with a smaller one. Two, they burned a lot of the scrap wood that hung around in the same approximate area. Now, I never go into the basement if I can help it (creepy-feeling + FULL OF SPIDERS = double avoidance), so I didn't notice for a while, but I was down there once and was like, I feel Not Stared At. ... Weird. Mentioned it to Mom and she said, yeah, I've noticed the same thing. A bit later, unrelated, one of the guys was over again and he said, hey, your ghost is gone. (So either we burned him away or shipped him off with the unsuspecting people who took the freezer. I kind of hope it was burning, because the only reason I can imagine someone haunting a freezer is if they died in it or something, which, uh. KIND OF CREEPY.)
...This is just coming out 'cause I was reading some stuff earlier that basically was one group of people going THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING and the other group of people going WHY CAN'T IT BE GHOSTS SOMETIMES and me just thinking of that and wondering what rational explanation there would be for Robert the Basement Ghost.
I keep having things I mean to write about but I never remember what they are once I'm actually sitting here. It's annoying.
30 Days of Video Games
( Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure game )
Anyway, y'know. Ghosts. Some people believe in them! Some people do not! Some people, like my father, are very confusing in that they fully admit to having had a ghost encounter and yet still do not believe in them. (Very strange.)
In the basement of my parents' house, for a very, very long time (as far back as I can remember), I did not like to go down there alone! I always felt like I was being watched. It was creepy. Hairs standing up on the back of my neck and all. Didn't like it. Other people would ask about it (without my having ever mentioned it to them) sometimes, if we were ever down there for some reason. One time, my father had a friend over and they were down in the basement, I dunno, playing table tennis or something, and the guy said, did you know you have a ghost living down here? And we were like, well, I guess that explains a few things, anyway, but, no, we didn't know that!
Years later, one of my mother's brothers and his wife were visiting, and she says she is very connected to the spirit world and stuff, and she was down there with my mom once and was like, did you know you have a ghost named Robert down here? And then she spent a while talking to Robert the Ghost. And then someone else did the same thing (also using the name Robert) later, still. And none of these people knew each other, and I know we hadn't mentioned the ghost to two of them (the first guy and the last guy, I suppose my aunt may have been told), and they all pointed to the same area of the basement...
Then, several years back, my parents did two things. One, they got rid of the freezer down there and replaced it with a smaller one. Two, they burned a lot of the scrap wood that hung around in the same approximate area. Now, I never go into the basement if I can help it (creepy-feeling + FULL OF SPIDERS = double avoidance), so I didn't notice for a while, but I was down there once and was like, I feel Not Stared At. ... Weird. Mentioned it to Mom and she said, yeah, I've noticed the same thing. A bit later, unrelated, one of the guys was over again and he said, hey, your ghost is gone. (So either we burned him away or shipped him off with the unsuspecting people who took the freezer. I kind of hope it was burning, because the only reason I can imagine someone haunting a freezer is if they died in it or something, which, uh. KIND OF CREEPY.)
...This is just coming out 'cause I was reading some stuff earlier that basically was one group of people going THERE IS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING and the other group of people going WHY CAN'T IT BE GHOSTS SOMETIMES and me just thinking of that and wondering what rational explanation there would be for Robert the Basement Ghost.
