Subject: Ghost

This is pretty neat. Apparently the owners of this house had been seeing images and hearing voices for quite a while. They did some research and found that a lady once lived in the house who lost her husband during the civil war. Legend says that she used to sit at the table and look across the fields in anticipation of her loved one returning home. He never came. So, they say she still waits. They caught this photo of what they claim to be her.

This one was wild and a little spooky once you find the ghost in the picture. It took me a few seconds to find it, but when you do, it just stands out. Like one of those optical illusions.

To save you some time, concentrate around the table. Best not to focus too much on one spot. Look around the table and toward the window.

Click on the link below for the picture. Best to enlarge. For an added touch turn the volume up quite a bit, it's faint & creepy, but the low murmur you hear was what got the photographer's attention first. Be quiet and patient. It might take a few seconds for the image to come into your focus......

Click here:  

http://home.attbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf

Oh my goodness, do I actually see    -     a person of color??? Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Was this a first and last happenstance?

Julia: "David, try to remember...what was on the tape?"

David: "I can't! I can't remember! I can't think! I'm just a stupid kid! AND, I've been...."

Julia: "...stricken by the dumb soap opera character disease???"

David: "Yes!" (Eyes glaze over, drool forms at lips.)

Julia: "GASP!" (Eyes widen in surprised look of shock. She  then gets a look of steely resolve.) "YESSSSSS, this is obviously going around. I must be careful".

David: "Grgggllleeeahhh...."

Julia: "Let me get you a sedative, David."

Did anyone else dig Maggie's groovy threads on Friday? OH MAN, did that take me back in time! I saw it and blurted out "Barnaby Street!" I think she did look cute, and the colors were quite nice. For some reason Maggie gets to be the trendy one.

I just want to set the story straight. Adam is NOT childlike. Babies have more understanding in their eyes. Toddlers may lurch around a bit, but they certainly don't act like that when they are hurt. My bipolar son does a fair Adam impersonation when he is being impossible, but it has taken him 8 years to get that bad. He was much better as an even younger child.  

Now, Adam and his vengeful nature, overiding emotions, and lack of intellectual process to sort out his feelings DO remind me of something. I hesitate to say it because it will sound so bad, and I really don't mean it that way. I used to work with mentally retarded adults and some of them are just that way. Not all by any means, some were just the sweetest people you could meet. But, even one of the sweet ones erupted in Adam-like violence once when he was upset. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Now, that I'm thinking about it, the incident was VERY much like Adam.

Can't remember who used to call her that? The girl is in serious trouble. She ends one episode telling Willie she will NEVER let up on finding out about that terrible creature that she hates so intensely.....then it's like, you know, it was all a misunderstanding, Pop thought he wanted to hurt me. HELLO??? What part of "kill Maggie" do you think Pop misunderstood? Then she actually gets it right and says that it would have been OK if SHE hadn't flipped out and tried to hit Adam with a hammer.

And little Miss "I can't lie to people even to save my life when I'm a time traveler" Winters sure didn't have any trouble lying to Professor Stokes, now did she?

Many thanks to Raineypark and Castlebee for helping me to launch a different aspect of a previous discussion!

Rainey, for me "good horror" is what I enjoy! I think people who don't watch either tend to lump slasher and horror films together. I despise the first and love the second. Give me a scary, sad monster, a vampire, a ghost, or similar creatures and I'm there eating it right up. To me there is a huge difference to being scared or grossed out. Love scared. Seeing "The Others" in the theater was incredibly intense for me and it scared me to pieces in parts. It is now one of my all time favorites! Ditto with "The Shining" and "Fallen" with Denzel Washington. But I also enjoy older or campier horror movies that were not made on any where near as professional a level. Not as much, but I do like them. I haven't seen "From Hell" or "Dracula 2000" yet, so can't comment on them. But a friend from church said "Dracula 2000" was fun and had a very interesting religious quality in it that intrigued me.

Yes, I am a VERY religious Christian. I would EVEN say that God and my faith are more important to me than DS! My kids too, but not much else. (I may or may not be kidding, I'm not sure of it myself!) I actually did struggle with the issue of my horror fixation for a while. I decided-oh, to heck with it, I do love it and it doesn't harm my faith. I think it interesting that horror themes are frequently the only ones that allow mention of God and glimpses of crosses. It seems it is hard to show evil without it's holy counterpoint. I find that a good movie/tv show will often get my thinking on some deep theological points. Not something that I got from "Friends", back when I did watch it.

As for kids, I would protect them from the scariest stuff. The midlevel stuff they pretty much decide for themselves. "The Mummy" was too scary for them, they don't want to watch it. It's there when they think they are ready.  A priest at church was commenting once that he just didn't understand why people let their kids dress up as evil characters at Halloween. I told him that I felt the same as he did, before I had children. (The priests in my church CAN marry, but this one is single). Now, I realize that their understanding of vampires and such is so innocent and I want to let them enjoy that aspect of it. I don't need to bring them to another level of understanding the evil those beings represent, they will come to that when they are old enough. My son was a vampire on Halloween, he wanted to be like Barnabas. I would never ruin that for him for some knee jerk reaction that doesn't really understand children.

SO, enough about ME, what constitutes good horror for YOU?

Ok, who is your MOST irritating DS character?

For me, I have say that Burke Devlin #2, Amanda Harris, Dr. Lang and EVEN Jeb Hawkes get ruled out even though they are mighty contenders.

My #1 most irritating character? You guessed it, ADAM!