Sunday, March 04, 2007
Haunted History
I went on a Ghost Tour Friday night. The tour bus was cast in a eerie green light and bedecked with Halloween garlands and "Scream" decorations.
The stories were facscinating. Heartbreaking, such as the tale of the nursemaid at the Spanish Governor's Palace in the early 1800s, who was bound, gagged and thrown down a well as her young charges watched in horror. Or humorous, such as the 90-year-old prankster who teased a biker couple at the Bullis House Bed & Breakfast.
I'm skeptical. I've seen too many things that can't be attributed simply to coincidence. But I draw the line at "ghost photos" (our guide shared several of them at the last stop). To me, they're either evidence of careless photography, or seeing what you want to see -- like finding shapes in clouds, or as Wilson Bryan Key did, finding the word "sex" in liquor ads.
The effort bore no fruit, however, as I found that it was not a how-to guide.
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