With Halloween on the horizon, our minds turn to scary
things. Ghosts. Ghoblins. Running out of candy with a half dozen teenagers at
the door wielding toilet paper and eggs.
Eeek!
As a girl, I was terrified by a poem in a creepy book my
older sister owned. A line in the poem
read “Something lurks upon the stair, something that is – and isn’t – there.” The idea of something bordering two worlds
gave me the heebie jeebies! At a slumber party in 3rd grade one of
my friends told a “true story” featuring a moth-man that landed on top of a
moving car and peeked in through the windshield at the teenagers inside. That
story scared me so much I had to leave the party and was deemed a wimp forever
after. I was also frightened by a Starsky and Hutch episode in which a murderer
killed a dancer. I was taking ballet lessons at the time and was sure I’d be
the next victim.
As a teenager, I went through a horror movie phase and also read
everything Stephen King had out at the time. I then started college and realized that finals,
dormitory food, and dating college boys were far more frightening than anything
in a movie or book.
As an adult, I saw The Blair Witch Project and it scared the
crap out of me! I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the ceiling
fan hanging over my bed looked like those creepy things the kids in the movie found
around their campsites. I had a hard time going back to sleep!
Not long ago I went to Marfa, Texas, a place known for its “Mystery
Lights” that occasionally appear out of nowhere in the desert. Nobody has been
able to determine their origin or predict their appearance. Though the lights
didn’t appear the night I was there, I experienced a sudden and inexplicable sense
of terror as we drove by the old jailhouse on the town square. It felt as if a cinder block had been placed
on my chest. That’s the one and only time I’ve had an experience like that.
Were my nerves just on edge due to the mystical environment? Or was there more
to it?
What scares you? Have
you had any weird experiences that could not be explained?
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2 comments:
I've never had an experience quite like that but I've never been able to watch Titanic all the way through. Every time the ship starts sinking I end up having a panic attack. But weirdly, it's only when I watch that particular movie about Titanic.
I am a wimp. A huge wimp. Yet every year at Halloween we drag out Rose Red and watch it on DVD. Every time I know something bad is about to happen, I find an errand to run in the kitchen. *g*
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