I'll Make You A Believer
I’m a skeptic. I never have been known to believe in ghosts, because that would be an admission of believing in God or some higher power. My friends get highly annoyed by this. They’re all one way or the other, as far as I know. The truth is that I simply don’t know if God exists or not, but I think that’s alright. Ghosts? I don’t know. It’d be pretty cool, wouldn’t it?
What brings up the subject? My Mom and sister rented this documentary called, “America’s Most Haunted Town.” It’s about New Hope, Pennsylvania. They got this one lady who is like Sylvia Brown (you may have seen Brown on the Maury Povich or Montell Williams show) and she actually walks around the house and talks to these ghosts and gives tours of these haunted homes and hotels. They’re all very elegant places, mostly very old places that people died or were killed in.
The documentaries show footage of “ghosts.” None of them look like actual faces. They all look like steady flashlights. I won’t go so far as to say that it’s all a hoax, but I wouldn’t be surprised. People are always trying to pull off some great con to make money off of other people. It makes me a bit angry, because they give “ghost tours” and have gift shops and things like that. Reminding myself that the town of Salem does the same thing helps a little bit. I’d be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t ever buy into the shit, because I have.
That isn’t even something that gets to me so much, because everyone needs to make a living. What bothers me is how people can go in and be curious but extremely disrespectful. John Edwards seems to me to be one of those people. I don’t believe in him. Why is his TV studio haunted? How come the good people in New Hope, Pennsylvania can get digital pictures and video, but John Edwards can’t even get a Polaroid? All he can do is talk to them. Anyone can say they’re talking to ghosts and write books about it. James Van Progh (sp) apparently has the same gift as Brown and Edwards. He seems less full of it. He’s claimed to of had his gift ever since he can remember. Edwards never realized his gift until he was in his twenties, and not doing so well in college. No one can ever prove him wrong, but no one can ever prove him right.
I hung out with Bethany Davis around the beginning of the summer, and I can’t remember what we did the whole day, but we played pool in her basement and later that night Casey and Josh came over. Anyways, we decided we wanted to be scared that nite. There’s this road that we call the “long dark creepy road,” and it’s not so scary anymore, just a lot of fun to go down and hang out around. It seems to change everytime we go down it. Anyways, someone had a Quiji board, and we decided we were going to use it that nite. The scariest place we knew was the road, so we went down there. We tried talking to spirits or ghosts or orbes, whatever you want to call them….Obviously, we got a hold of nothing. As far as we all know, nothing in Midland is haunted. Because of this fact, I didn’t expect to see or contact anything. None of us really took it so seriously, but we were respectful. We got nothing. This brings me to another point. Quiji boards are a lot of fun to kill time and play around with, but don’t take it too seriously. I know that after we did all that stuff, the next day, Casey was cursing me for not believing in whatever it was he was expecting to show up. He’s a good guy, he respects the dead and followed the rules. I wish I was capable of all that. I think I’d like to try it again, as long as we go to a real good place.
A.J., D.D.
What brings up the subject? My Mom and sister rented this documentary called, “America’s Most Haunted Town.” It’s about New Hope, Pennsylvania. They got this one lady who is like Sylvia Brown (you may have seen Brown on the Maury Povich or Montell Williams show) and she actually walks around the house and talks to these ghosts and gives tours of these haunted homes and hotels. They’re all very elegant places, mostly very old places that people died or were killed in.
The documentaries show footage of “ghosts.” None of them look like actual faces. They all look like steady flashlights. I won’t go so far as to say that it’s all a hoax, but I wouldn’t be surprised. People are always trying to pull off some great con to make money off of other people. It makes me a bit angry, because they give “ghost tours” and have gift shops and things like that. Reminding myself that the town of Salem does the same thing helps a little bit. I’d be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t ever buy into the shit, because I have.
That isn’t even something that gets to me so much, because everyone needs to make a living. What bothers me is how people can go in and be curious but extremely disrespectful. John Edwards seems to me to be one of those people. I don’t believe in him. Why is his TV studio haunted? How come the good people in New Hope, Pennsylvania can get digital pictures and video, but John Edwards can’t even get a Polaroid? All he can do is talk to them. Anyone can say they’re talking to ghosts and write books about it. James Van Progh (sp) apparently has the same gift as Brown and Edwards. He seems less full of it. He’s claimed to of had his gift ever since he can remember. Edwards never realized his gift until he was in his twenties, and not doing so well in college. No one can ever prove him wrong, but no one can ever prove him right.
I hung out with Bethany Davis around the beginning of the summer, and I can’t remember what we did the whole day, but we played pool in her basement and later that night Casey and Josh came over. Anyways, we decided we wanted to be scared that nite. There’s this road that we call the “long dark creepy road,” and it’s not so scary anymore, just a lot of fun to go down and hang out around. It seems to change everytime we go down it. Anyways, someone had a Quiji board, and we decided we were going to use it that nite. The scariest place we knew was the road, so we went down there. We tried talking to spirits or ghosts or orbes, whatever you want to call them….Obviously, we got a hold of nothing. As far as we all know, nothing in Midland is haunted. Because of this fact, I didn’t expect to see or contact anything. None of us really took it so seriously, but we were respectful. We got nothing. This brings me to another point. Quiji boards are a lot of fun to kill time and play around with, but don’t take it too seriously. I know that after we did all that stuff, the next day, Casey was cursing me for not believing in whatever it was he was expecting to show up. He’s a good guy, he respects the dead and followed the rules. I wish I was capable of all that. I think I’d like to try it again, as long as we go to a real good place.
A.J., D.D.