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@Lil_VampireCJ
Cool. I wish I had some sort of paranormal activity where I lived.

Trust me, you’ll think the opposite if you did. XP
You’d struggle a lot with restless nights as well as a lot of mental stress & paranoia. Depends if its demonic or not, luckily this one isn’t demonic, only poltergeist.

@Lil_VampireCJ
I’m not religious but I believe in paranormal 100%.
You must be terrified.

I am not religious either, you don’t need to be religious to believe or see in spirits/the paranormal. However some of my other family members are spiritualists. :)

I am not scared by the paranormal as I’m used to it all especially with how much I’ve studied and experienced paranormal. Its more like a nuisance to deal with that keeps trolling you IRL more than scary tbh lol.

@Lil_VampireCJ
So you’ve seen apparitions or just heard weird knocks and stuff?

Yep, however most appearances of paranormal are hard to spot/notice & mostly get picked up by cameras; especially when enhanced lighting.

@Lil_VampireCJ
Ah so you’ve placed cameras and stuff around to catch it?

Yeah, I’ve worked with groups before too. Some haunted places already have motion cameras set up or to use when visiting.

@Lil_VampireCJ
I’ve never experienced paranormal stuff.

Probably for the best & to keep it that way.

@Lil_VampireCJ
I guess xD I wouldn’t mind experiencing it once.

All my house has is a marble that rolls up and down the hallway sometimes. Can’t see it, but you can hear it roll up the wood floor, between your feet, and up the hallway and back. And the usual “people are talking in the next room but you can’t quite figure out what they’re saying” and when you go there the room is empty.

Also guests who’ve stayed late or over night have said there is a ‘woman in white’ who walks through our woods at night.

Also there’s this mother fucker.

That’s not quite what he looks like, it’s more what his shadow looks like. But his shadow is him, and just looking at him kind of hurts. So … kind of like this?

I’ve tried drawing him from memory, but this is as close as I can get. The dark needs to be … darker? Like, the outsides of the dark curl into the inside of the dark where it’s darker.

Scares the shit out of me every spring the first time I mow. He’ll be hiding in a shadow of a pine tree, then when I get right next to him he’ll rip loose from the tree’s shadow and dash across the lawn, followed by snakes slithering along to catch up. Last spring I didn’t stop fast enough and hit one of the snakes, which sucks. I hate it when that happens.

Normally I put out some Scotch for him, and he quiets down. But, other than that he almost never shows up … except it seems he and the raccoons have some sort of perpetual war going on. At least, that’s what it sounds like at night, or when we’re smithing.

Other than that, he hardly shows up. But, being that he’s a shadow in a shadow unless he’s running across the lawn, it’s hard to know where he is and when.

So, not really haunted, except by that weird marble. And significantly less haunted than some of the places I’ve lived. That’s for sure. Everything here is happy and gets along for the most part.

Basically, the place came with more than the usual number of ‘things that also live here’. Probably because it was built in the 1800’s. And the ground around here was never tilled. So … springs, rocks, hills and quiet places in the deep woods abound.

Yikes thats some scary stuff.

@Lil_VampireCJ
What kind of spirits do you think you have?

@Ciaran
My house is out in the country surrounded by woods and farmland. I’m not sure yet if it haunted, as all my experiences have been purely auditory so far. But sometimes I’ll hear someone walking on the roof. And sometimes I will hear whispering at different parts of the house. One time I even heard a voice that sounded like it was talking on a hand-held radio. In all of these instances no one was ever there. If my house is haunted I don’t really get the sense it’s by anything malevolent. Although I do have an attic that has never been opened since I have moved in here. I’m thinking it’s best if that remains the case.

What is your favorite novel?

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
To Green Angel Tower.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Use Of Weapons by Iain Banks.

@Ciaran
Oooh, that’s one of the best, also Player of Games.

@The Smiling Pony
All of my yes. I re-read them every few years.

What’s the drunkest you’ve ever been?

@Goku Black
Waking up in the bathroom and my dad asking if I’d learned anything. I didn’t, because I had no idea what I’d done or where I’d been. You?

@Goku Black
Drunk enough to not be able to sleep because everything is spinning and the only way to not feel like I’m in a whirlpool is to keep a leg over the side of the bed and plant my foot on the floor and just lay there for an hour.

Haven’t been drunk like that for a decade or so. The half-hour or so of “top fun” drunkness isn’t worth the next 2 hours of “I think I’m dying”. Nevermind hangovers; have rarely had any, but they kind of ruin a full day.

@TheGamerPainter
Don’t do streaming services, and don’t have anything to switch from.

@Ciaran
Uncontrollable urge to party in my hotel room. This was about 6 years ago in Pocatello, Idaho when I bought an alcoholic beverage not available in Utah…because good booze is sometimes impossible to get in Utah.