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Cellar Scribblings
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 19, 2020, 01:36:06 pm ---Thanks for keeping us up to date! Be sure to log in some relaxation time during your stay-cation!
I had a fall in late July as I was climbing out of my pond after cleaning it. I thought I was all healed up but in mid-August when I went to Europe, I either reinjured it or put too much stress on the injury, which seemed to be in my left hip or pelvis. I was hobbling around much of the time in Europe until we went to a spa in southern France, where I "took the waters". I had several pain-free days, but started to hurt again as we hiked through the Dolomites. Finally, when we wound up our trip at the beach in Sitges, the pain went away completely. I'm not climbing into my pond anymore this year, it's too slippery (and cold now).
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I will always make sure I take relaxation time, so no worries! :)
I'm sorry to hear that you reinjured yourself while on your trip. Hip/back/pelvis injuries always seem to take a while to heal. My arm where the abrasion is was fine, so much so that I forgot about it, and when I showered today, the water softened the scab, and I rubbed it off when I dried with my towel, and that was not fun. It looks ugly again, but I put some Neosporin on it, and it's healing up again.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 19, 2020, 03:15:47 pm ---OMG, they had a dead body in the cellar? :o
Good thing they were away only for a weekend.
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Yes, I can only imagine what would've happened if they had been gone a full week or so. It would not have been pretty.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 19, 2020, 03:50:39 pm ---Your coworker's story is pretty horrifying. But I'm impressed that she turned to you for a sympathetic shoulder.
As a non-believer, I would say she's probably safe from ghosts. But some states require home sellers to admit on the disclosure the house is haunted.
I thought that was ridiculous and told me editor I would just say no. "Well! If you want to break the law!" my editor scoffed. He's not the brightest.
The reason we were even talking about it was because I had written a Halloween story about places around here that people believe to be haunted. Some of them were like, "I heard a door slam upstairs and nobody was up there so it must have been a ghost." I'm supposed to put that on my homeseller's disclosure?
But to be honest, some of them were pretty specific and hard to shrug off. One guy had a bedroom in his house where a ghost kept popping up and trying to lure people to fall down the back stairs. He always left behind the smell of cigar smoke. So the guy made that room the guest bedroom. And whenever a guest would stay there, the next morning they'd report the same thing, including the smell of cigar smoke.
For appropriate sound effects, here's the opening of a scary soap opera I used to watch after school. It was kind of like a normal soap opera, except the characters were vampires and witches and scary things happened.
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Oh, I'm a believer. I don't think it's a frequent event, hauntings and such, but I believe they do occur.
However, I do have a sense of humor about it. One day at work we were discussing buying homes, and I told everyone that before I buy a home, and do any inspections, that I would do my own inspection. I would go in with a group of kids, aged 6 - 10 and tell them "go have fun" and let them play in all the rooms for a few hours, let them have lunch, and then play some more. When they're all done, I'll ask them what they think of the house.
If any of them tell me about "the funny person under the stairs" or "scary lady in the closet", I'll know not to buy the house. :laugh:
serious crayons:
I'm told some ghosts are nice, though. In my story, I said the Minnesota ghosts were mostly "Minnesota nice," which has various meanings but is often sort of a backhanded compliment meaning Minnesotans are superficially friendly. The best description I've ever heard was "The grocery store cashier greets you like she's your grandmother but your next-door neighbors of 10 years don't invite you over to dinner." That's exactly right.
Anyway, the ghosts were mostly benign.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on October 19, 2020, 05:11:34 pm ---Oh, I'm a believer. I don't think it's a frequent event, hauntings and such, but I believe they do occur.
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I seem to remember something about zombie children from Roundup. ;D It was at the place with the three-legged dog. (Twelve years ago. ... :( )
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on October 19, 2020, 05:11:34 pm ---Oh, I'm a believer. I don't think it's a frequent event, hauntings and such, but I believe they do occur.
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Then you might enjoy Hereditary, the movie my son and I watched the other night. The film was creepy, no doubt, but -- I won't give anything away, but the scariness involved things (not ghosts) I don't believe in. I tried to be a good sport for my son's sake, because he liked it. It got a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. But I'm not scared by paranormal things.
While looking it up on RT, I came upon a list of the 10 scariest movies ever. Of the ones I've seen, I found almost none of them scary. Rosemary's Baby was on it, which I liked although it does involve some paranormal activity. But Roman Polansky is a good director and it is creepy as you gradually discover who all is in on it. But probably my favorite is Psycho, which involves nothing paranormal whatsoever. I mean, it might be unlikely, but nothing that happens in that movie couldn't theoretically happen in real life.
However, if movies are too real -- if they're about home invasions, for example, or anything you might possibly read about in the paper -- they're too scary for me to watch. And I really don't like torture porn like Saw. Yuck.
There's a series going on now called Lovecraft Country. It's based on scary stories by H. P. Lovecraft, who I guess in real life was a notorious racist. The characters in the movie area all Black, and it's set in Jim Crow days, so the plot involves attacks by racists as well as monsters, like the ones Lovecraft wrote about. I watched a few episodes and kept wishing they'd skip the monsters and just focus on the Jim Crow days stuff.
Jeff Wrangler:
Psycho is one of the best movies EVER. Once I saw it for the first time, I never miss it if I can help it.
"A boy's best friend is his mother." :laugh:
Good movie for Halloween season.
I remember Dark Shadows, though it came on too early in the afternoon for me to watch after school. Kate Jackson was in it, IIRC.
I like movies about extraterrestrials--books about them, too.
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