notes and asides
a couple of years ago i ordered a book from amazon uk because said book hadn't yet been published here and i was very impatient. ever since, i get emails from amazon uk trying to entice me to shop them again by making such unbeatable offers as "12% off 'puppies and kids together: a guide for parents' by pia silvani. oh joy! i've been waiting on that one... is that what they want me to say? cos i always just roll my eyes and hit delete.
it's no secret round here that i've been reading up on metaphysical matters the last month or so. mostly on ghosts though a little wicca stuff too. anyway, i was nearly growing bored with ghosts- most theories out there are pretty lame and you can only read them and roll your eyes so much. seriously! though i have a personal history with ghosts, i haven't had a bone fide encounter in YEARSSSSS. so i was very interested to hear about my grandfather's encounter recently. his and my grandmothers house is the home of my first ghostly encounters, however over the years the house has seemed to have gone dead. so to speak. when i lived there last, about two years ago, i didn't experience anything at all.
so at any rate, my grandpa is asleep in bed and my grandma is also alseep next to him, with her bedside lamp on. he says all of a sudden he woke to find himself sitting straight up with no recollection of moving himself vertical. he looked over to his left and there on my grandma's side of the bed was a woman in a green dress. she was walking from the wall to the open doorway and turned to look at my grandpa as she did so. he watched her silently as she walked towards the doorway and disappeared. he said she looked so real he searched the house afterwards to make sure she wasn't an intruder. of course he found nothing.
the night before i heard this story i was in nat's basement studio by myself playing with my ipod when i saw person-shaped shadows on the wall in front of me, which would mean someone would have been moving directly behind me. i turned around, having not recalled nat coming into the very small room. of course i was alone. i blamed my eyes and went back to what i was doing just to see the shadows again, as if someone were moving behind me. i looked again, and saw nothing. now i was pretty aware and watched for them but they did not reoccur. as a side note, i've heard footsteps outside this same room while i was home alone before.
it's no secret round here that i've been reading up on metaphysical matters the last month or so. mostly on ghosts though a little wicca stuff too. anyway, i was nearly growing bored with ghosts- most theories out there are pretty lame and you can only read them and roll your eyes so much. seriously! though i have a personal history with ghosts, i haven't had a bone fide encounter in YEARSSSSS. so i was very interested to hear about my grandfather's encounter recently. his and my grandmothers house is the home of my first ghostly encounters, however over the years the house has seemed to have gone dead. so to speak. when i lived there last, about two years ago, i didn't experience anything at all.
so at any rate, my grandpa is asleep in bed and my grandma is also alseep next to him, with her bedside lamp on. he says all of a sudden he woke to find himself sitting straight up with no recollection of moving himself vertical. he looked over to his left and there on my grandma's side of the bed was a woman in a green dress. she was walking from the wall to the open doorway and turned to look at my grandpa as she did so. he watched her silently as she walked towards the doorway and disappeared. he said she looked so real he searched the house afterwards to make sure she wasn't an intruder. of course he found nothing.
the night before i heard this story i was in nat's basement studio by myself playing with my ipod when i saw person-shaped shadows on the wall in front of me, which would mean someone would have been moving directly behind me. i turned around, having not recalled nat coming into the very small room. of course i was alone. i blamed my eyes and went back to what i was doing just to see the shadows again, as if someone were moving behind me. i looked again, and saw nothing. now i was pretty aware and watched for them but they did not reoccur. as a side note, i've heard footsteps outside this same room while i was home alone before.