Salem Curses

 

After I decided start studying about Salem Witch-hunts, I got many documentaries online and started working on a notebook about this, so, in one of these documentaries I heard people saying that some spots in Salem were haunted by the ghost of those who perished during the witch trials, but one legend in particular, attracted my attention: The curse of Giles Corey.

I wrote everything down on a paper to start researching about this when I get back home, I need be fast right now.

I love haunting tales and everything, and once I am a bookworm, a real bookworm, I cannot get tired of this.

I wish the Blair Witch was a real story, the movie was so well made, that I could swear it was, I even tried to find the book about the Blair Witch, mentioned on the movie, but obviously… it doesn’t exist (frustration), so I am basing myself on things that actually happened, like the witch trials.

The sure if, ghosts exist or not, if haunting is possible or not, I will only have when I die… but stories like this always attract the attention and brings a good reading time.

Can animals see Ghosts?

 

Well, I am divided between believe or not in Ghosts.

I believe in reincarnation, therefore this Ghost thing wouldn’t make sense, but the truth is that sometimes I feel strange things, like cold without reason, or something really strange, strange feelings like someone is behind me, the other day the energy went off and I felt scared, wondering if something would show up, maybe because some people say it is related and we put that in our head.

But for me, one of the most bizarre things is when you have a pet, and your pet stares at something you cannot see.

I know this myself, for I have a 2 year old cat, and she does that many times, mainly at night.

The first time I saw her doing this, it was night, and I was writing on my computer, with my back turned to the room, which door was open.

my cat was on the table, and suddenly she started staring at something with the eyes wide open.

I thought it was funny at first, and even tried to play with her, I called her name and waved my hand, but she didn’t stop staring at whatever she was staring, that was when I felt really strange.

Nothing could deviate her attention, her eyes were really wide open, like when we see something we cannot take our eyes off.

Like I said, my back was turned to the room, so I took a deep breath and slowly I turned my head to see what she was staring at.

I remember I was really nervous, and then I saw nothing.

In that moment I didn’t feel relief, because she was still staring with all her attention, but there was nothing there, I was about to stand up and go to another side of the living room, forgetting my computer and everything, when she looked at me and went down of the table like nothing had happened!

Cats are funny creatures, so different of dogs, mysterious and complex, they may lick you at a minute and bite you at the other, so I started wondering if my cat was screwing me around.

I convinced myself that she did that, and then I took a deep breath and went back to what I was doing.

That was the first time she did that, the second time, it was no different, I was with my back turned to the room, which light was off there, writing on my computer and she did the same thing.

Immediately I remembered the first time and I thought: Right, she is screwing me again… but that didn’t take the same sensation that I felt the first time, and again, I got scared of turning my head around, but I did, and nothing was there.

I am an animal lover, and I love my cat, she is funny, tender, playful, but I hate when she does this kind of thing.

I must say the scariest moment when she did that, it was still at a night, when I found a link on twitter for a Japanese horror comic named: Bong Chong Dong Ghost.

This coming I read a girl writing :” If you saw this, you know what real fear is”, and that attracted my attention, and I decided to check on it.

I had to idea what was about to come when I checked the link, and while I was doing that, my cat started doing what she liked doing: staring at nothing, but once she had done that twice previously, and nothing was there, I ignored and kept what I was doing.

I was scrolling down and down in he comics and the first scare came, it wasn’t a big one, but also wasn’t something pleasurable, I was laughing at that and thinking: How is that so scary?

My cat was still doing that, and I kept scrolling down… that was when came the real friend and what I wasn’t waiting for, and in that moment, with that horrible thing on my screen, my heart beating so fast I thought I would have a heart attack, and my cat still staring at nothing, I sent it all to hell, stood up and ran to the kitchen.

There are many links to this comic: I didn’t save the original one, because I was scared shitless and swore to myself that no more I would check it again, but you can easily find on Google, the original one is one of these Asian web pages.

I suggest you to be prepared, because you have to go really fast and it is a real scary and crazy coming if you are not prepared.

The comic itself says WARNING, SCARY COMIC, but I didn’t take that serious.

 

I don’t know if ghosts really exist and if where I am there is one, that my cat can see and I can’t, but surely isn't something nice to deal with this.

Even if you don’t believe it, the way your cat looks at “that” with such attention to the point of nothing distracting him or her, ends up making you feel nervous and wondering,

When I had a dog, my dog never did that, so cats are really special and different animals.

Here is a link to a post about this, I am reading this right now: http://paranormal.about.com/cs/trueghoststories/a/aa111703.htm

Losing the limits?

 

I asked myself few times about this.

The reason to that led to this question is because of some things I have been doing lately, like for example:

1) Just think about Halloween

2) Collect graveyard dirt

3) Spend a lot of time researching about Salem Witch Trials

4) Downloading documentaries about witches and etc.

5) Too much Tim Burton movies

 

I see myself as a full darkness daughter, creature, whatever, Halloween, as you know, is my favorite date ever, the only one I celebrate, the only that has a meaning for me.

I think all the time about buying pumpkins and carve them, without care if its Halloween or not, only to decorate my home, I also think about just using candles in my house, forget the electricity and just use the candles, I don’t feel interest on TV anymore, unless if I am watching some movie or documentary about the themes that I like, I would like to fully isolate myself, The only problem for me is that I am an internet-addicted.

I always liked to go at cemeteries, but usually I would just go there and take a walk, pictures (That I will show someday), sit down and think, but lately I started doing more than that, I started picking fallen leaves and dirt from the graves.

Many people go to the cemeteries, some take the dogs for a walk or the kids.

It is an old Jew cemetery, really old, so people see that more as a park, than cemetery.

I like to go deep in the cemetery, like, the end of it, where we find big wall graves, monuments, etc., not many people go there, so I feel a lot better there.

I never cared if someone would notice me taking some dirt, I wonder if I cross the limits by doing this, but then I hear myself say, like: “Crossing the limits? Hey, it’s not like you are opening the graves and stealing things”.

The funny is that I am a Supernatural-Fanatic, at least until season 4, and I saw many times reference to graveyard dirt and I started thinking about it.

I am collecting it now.

You know… Halloween is everyday for me, just like Tim Burton once said, and I agree with him.

I love Tim Burton, he turned my childhood into something more interesting with his movies, the first one I watched was The nightmare Before Christmas, I think in 93, when it was released, I remember going to rent the movie, and I ate hot dogs while watching it, or ice cream with cake… good times.

After that, I started getting fully interested for him and his movies, even though there are some I never watched.

I wanted to paint my walls black, hang orange and green wreaths on my walls, put some carved pumpkins around, buy a caldron, some old fashioned brooms, candles everywhere, incenses… that would be great.

I just wear Goth outfits, so related to dressing I wouldn’t have problems, the deal is that I live with my mother, and she wouldn’t like such thing, but related to how I get dressed is no matter for her.

I don’t like the world nowadays, I don’t like this century and the people, I wanted to be on Old Salem, even with everything that happened, I match more to that time, I identify more.

I would be picked as a witch… but I don’t care.

Life is too short for you to pretend to be something you are not and don’t do things you like for fear of how others will label you.

They are always going to label you, it doesn’t matter what you do, just like some of you may be labeling me already, but that’s fine.

I don’t have reasons to ignore my inner wishes, I embrace it, it makes me feel better, it is who I am.