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The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Started conversation Sep 17, 2017
Wow! Nice one, FWR. Really??? You saw him? And others had seen him?
Who was he, then?
Is this real, or a fictional event? Either way, its amazing writing. Great account!
'Like a swarm of noisy steaming mechanical cockroaches' great line.
A bit like something my hero Karl Hyde (Underworld) would write.
My mother saw ghosts, wandering around in our childhood home. . I never met them. The Cavalier and the Lady on the Window Seat. She would break off in conversation to chat to them. Seemed quite natural to us as kids.
Gladys Simmons from the village also saw the Lady on the Window Seat. Mind you, she'd been on the whisky.
Another lady from my parents village told me how her son had cycled through a horse. Like, there was this horse standing in the middle of the road, and he thought he was going to crash into it, 'cos he was going downhill, fast, but luckily it was a ghost horse and he went straight through it.
You never know, do you?
The mysterious night shift
FWR Posted Sep 18, 2017
The ghost horse seems popular with bikers around the country, must be a lot of them mooching about! (Ghost nags not bikers)
There were several sightings of the coachman back in the day (probably more but people were reluctant to admit it), London Road was obviously the main route out of town for coach travel - there's a new coach station there today but a modern horse powered fleet - and that time of the morning he would've been going to work to get the horses etc ready for the trip south.
Thanks for reading
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 18, 2017
How extraordinary. The coachman. Just when we think we have reality defined, it confuses us again. I like that. Mysterious.
Really?? About the ghost horse. . The mooching phantom. Perhaps some sightings are just urban myth, road legend. Maybe a biker once did actually speed through a ghost horse, and the idea spread.
I guess there's sightings and sightings. I do know that those who have seen ghosts get very fed up, furious even, if you accuse them of having an over active imagination, being prone to hallucinations, or other such things.
Its funny, some aspects of sightings. In victorian times it was all about faeries, then later the almond eyed alien took over from faeries, sort of a collective waking dream state. ?
No! No! I never said anything.
Exit pursued by a phantom bulldog which devours sceptics. Slaver slaver, gobble gobble. byeeeee cactuscafe.
The mysterious night shift
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 18, 2017
Sic 'em, phantom bulldog.
It is the Post's firm position that phantoms do occur - but not all witnesses are reliable. FWR, for example, is an A-number-one unimpeachable witness, whom we will back with conviction. As was my late uncle, who had an encounter with a revenant. (A relative, no less.)
On the other hand, there are bogus sightings, often made in good faith.
Take, for example, the person who wrote a book about ghosts from the US Civil War. Among other examples, they cited the one where they saw a ghost in Confederate uniform standing by the side of the road near an old battlefield. As they approached by car, the soldier vanished... They gave the date and time for verisimilitude.
A man wrote in to apologise to the ghost hunter: he was the 'ghost'. Apparently, he and his re-enactor friends were camping in the field, and he got up in the night...anyway, when the car startled him, he lost his balance and fell into a ditch...
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 18, 2017
What?? Sic 'em you say?? hurrumph.
(Returns as a phantom herself, after the encounter with the bulldog.)
Great story.
Very decent and noble of him to apologise. .
I've experienced picking up energies from a place, usually where something bad has happened. Very scary. That is kind of like a phantom, it seems very real at the time, also on checking I've found that things did happen there. I'm glad I don't get the visuals and the audio to go with it.
Having said that, there's good energies too.
Like Glastonbury Tor, there's a good energy there.
Even though really bad things happened there, with Abbot Richard Whiting.
Perhaps there's layers.
Layers?
Layers of energy, so the bad layers can be healed by the good layers.
Or not.
Probably not.
I'm going now. Back to where people like me come from.
Interesting debate though
I wonder if walls and bricks and structures store energy, kind of like an essence, a residue?
The mysterious night shift
FWR Posted Sep 18, 2017
Confederate soldier haunted my dreams for a while, trawl through the Post for that story, ghost dogs, ghost horses.....wait til I send DG the possessed pigeon story!
There are indeed more things in heaven and earth!
Off to measure Opie up for a foil bonnet
The mysterious night shift
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 18, 2017
Possessed pigeon...what next?
I agree, CC: I think structures with perdurance do store energy. Did you know William Golding could do psychometry on archaeological finds? He told a story once about digging up English middens. He also had a weird insight at Thermopylae, I believe it was. He wrote a story called 'The Hot Gates'. I thought it explained a lot about his writing, which I admire.
I also agree we don't know enough about what these experiences are to be dogmatic and definitive about them - but it's good when we talk about them.
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 18, 2017
The possessed pigeon is a classic FWR masterpiece in the making.
Perdurance? Good word.
Meaning? (checks) Permanence. Ah OK.
Interesting about William Golding.
Psychometry? (checks). Kind of like reading objects? Like getting an insight, a message, from an object? Really?? If I'm right. How amazing.
All rather wonderful really. I do like a mystery.
Drinks hot chocolate and thinks about possessed pigeons.
The mysterious night shift
FWR Posted Sep 18, 2017
I shall endeavour to do it justice....mind you, anything that features a character named Michael Joseph Mary Imaculate O'Driscoll may be worth it...totally made up name , but the pigeon and what follows is true...honest!
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 18, 2017
How can anyone resist a name like that.
I believe you, that the rest is true, especially the pigeon bit.
Sort of. A bit. Erm ..OK ...definitely.
The mysterious night shift
Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' Posted Sep 18, 2017
I find I can hardly wait for this opus to appear.
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 20, 2017
Me too.
Today I told a pigeon in the park about the possessed pigeon. Not out loud of course, more like telepathically.
It reckoned that FWR was onto something, and that he should be listened to at all times.
It also reckoned that I should eat more chocolate. I think it really was a psychic pigeon, so I went and purchased a chocolate bar which was very nice.
End of quite stupid posting, but hey, h2g2 is a poetic place.
The mysterious night shift
FWR Posted Sep 21, 2017
I met a guy in Paris once who swore the pigeons could communicate with him telepathically, but I think that was more red wine than chocolate CC!
Sadly I've let myself down again, started writing a very short piece about the possessed bird and have once again started an epic....but it was a very convoluted tale!
The mysterious night shift
cactuscafe Posted Sep 21, 2017
I love it. Nothing like French red wine to open up the portals to life's secrets.
Hmm. Perhaps my pigeon really was psychic. I'll go find him today, thank him for the choccie.
Excellent! An epic! One can't be too brief when it comes to convolutions. Is there such a word? Convolutions.
The mysterious night shift
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 21, 2017
And it will be worth the wait. I've only got through section 1, and I'm hooked.
FWR: h2g2's answer to Tom Holt.
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