And some believe that a ghost sighting is a result of a "time slip." Albert Einstein proved that time is non-linear, making this theoretically possible.
Also, energy cannot be destroyed only changed.
Whether your a skeptic or believer ghost stories are a constant source of fascination.
There are just too many reports of ghostly phenomena to be ignored throughout time.
As a child, teen, and adult I've had my share of "paranormal experiences" and I do believe that ghosts exist AND-- can interact with the material world.
This is October, Samhain, (Sow-in,Sah-vin). It's the season of darkness where the misty veil between the worlds is thin.
It marks the end of the third and final harvest. A day to commune with & remember the dead. It is also a celebration of the eternal cycle of reincarnation.
Samhain, (Halloween or All Hallow's Eve, October 31), is the most coveted Sabbat by the Wiccan & many Pagan religions AND one of my very favorites;} A true time for Witches, and witchcraft itself; a time for dimensional openings & workings.
Ghosts, haunted houses, possession, vanishing people, ships, Ouija boards... To feel a "icy cold chill" as you walk past a graveyard late at night. OOOOOOOooooie!
All these strange phenomenon that heightens the senses into the "AAAAHHHHH" mode.
So as every year around at this eerie time, we will be taking our annual haunt to "AAAAHHHH-VILLE."
This next trip brushing up against the "other side" will take us to Manistee, Michigan for a haunted tour on the Ghost Ship the, USS Milwaukee. I'm not familiar with the whole story (but I soon will be).
What little I know is the haunt in this tragedy was the night of January 12-13, 1917 the USS cruiser Milwaukee attempted to free a submarine that had been beached. The plan was to tow the sub during high tide using thick steel hawsers connected to the stern of the ship with the sub. Well..........
The inexperienced commander of the Milwaukee dismissed warnings from the Coast Guard & the skipper of the submarine. He just wasn't qualified for this sort of mission.
So because he did not use wise discernment, his errors & hubris pride, the ship was lost---and now there're said to be 95 ghosts haunting this ship. We'll soon see....maybe.
Next stop through Niles, Michigan a cemetery with a old, wrought-iron arched gateway called Silverbrook. A witch is said to be buried there. The story goes is if you happen to be there at the right hour of the night, her screams can be heard through the chapel at the center of the cemetery. :0
Last, the Stairway to Hell, in Lake Forest Cemetery in Grand Haven, near the Civil War burial section.
The legend goes "that when a person is buried in the cemetery, the soul of that person goes to the bottom of the stairway. The "person" then walks up the stairway.
As they approach the top, if they are meant to go to heaven, a beautiful white light will appear: the "doorway" to heaven.
If the soul gets to the top and the white light never appears, they are doomed to turn around and walk back down, knowing that hell is waiting for them at the bottom???!" I truly hope this IS a folklore.
Although the stairway itself is paranormally active. Unexplained geomagnetic disturbances & temperature drops have been recorded on it.
And maybe if there's time left before homebound, "The Tunnel of Trees and Devil's Elbow."
"A winding stretch of M-119 covered with a copselike enclosure of interlocking tree branches so dense that in places car headlights turn on automatically even on bright days."
Strange lights and unexplained occurrences here have cause the place to be regarded with caution. The indigenous people "The Ottawa" name actually means, "where the spirits live."
"But like many similar indigenous place-names, it fell victim to the white man's almost substitution of "devil" for "spirit" in translation."
Nevertheless, the Tunnel of Trees is a mystical area, and people of all cultures feel it. Some say they would "highly recommend against driving alone down the Tunnel of Trees, its quite spooky."
Some also say that when driving just past the Devil's Elbow their car goes haywire and the engine cuts out then the electrical systems turn on. Strange.
So across the moors we will be off soon to "AAAAAHHHHH-VILLE" somewhere in Michigan. Maybe not so much like the moors of England, or Scotland in Sir Arthur Connan Doyle stories.
Nor the tales of macabre; the chilling, thrilling works of Edgar Allan Poe, but off making our own this Samhain.
Fear comes in all shapes and sizes. The supernatural can evoke the most powerful response no matter what we think we see or what we dont see...what we think we hear or dont hear.
It will loom large in our memory soooooo, if I were YOU.. I would keep the night light on when YOU go to bed, or else-----
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ;}
HAPPY SAMHAIN
