it didnt take long for my dad to jump on the “lets write a book” bandwagon, cuz the next day he gave me the name of a city in montana he felt would suit my requirements of beautiful, solitary, and not a whole lot going on… the place looks amazing pa, good job i say to him, after checking it out on google… he kind of mumbles something back to me then walks away… my dad is so funny, always putting on this gruff exterior when inside hes filled with molten marshmallow…
my friend vicki is meeting me to get my hairs done at the avenue, downtown york… i have not seen vicki for a couple of years, yet thanks to facebook weve become better friends than we ever were in high school… it was through fb, i learned she has a ghost hunting hobby… i say hobby because she doesnt charge for her services… strictly for fun… although hanging with dead people is not my idea of fun… hey to each his own… however, i did think it would be fun to see if the avenue, one of the oldest buildings in york, may have some stubborn spirits hanging in the attic, or basement or the rafters… wherever ghosts are known to hang… it wasnt too long ago, if vicki suggested any ghost hunts in my tiny hometown, she may be the one to hang…
while york may not be considered a forward thinking community, repuclican, they have come a long way since i lived there… jan, another good friend and owner of the avenue, was all for it… hell ya, lets do some ghost hunting she says while im in the chair, hair covered in foils… omg… talk about scary, i say when i take a look at myself in the mirror… vicki enters, we play catchup then vicki tells the captive audience of me, nick b, jan, jackson, harper, chanel, wolf, grizz and paige how she got into chasing spirits, then explained all the equipment she uses to indicate if there are spirits in the vicinity…
i am of the belief that i am made up of energy and that when my body falls apart the essence of who i am, my energy, will go wherever its supposed or most likely not supposed to go… ive never seen dead people, however i do find it probable that a person whos passed to the wherevers, energy may still be floating around… vickis instruments, approved by james van praaugh himself, send out alerts when they detect a high energy field… once vicki is alerted to a spirit, she asks that this spirit turn on the flashlight she has sitting in front of her… to alert her of its presence… theres a bit more, but thats the gist of it…
vicki must have scared everybody off cuz it was just me and her and my boys alone at 10pm hunting ghosts in a dark scary basement… oh why did i agree to do this… i will never get to sleep tonight.. we start off pointing the energy indicators throughout the basement, nothing there so we move upstairs… one of the indicators starts indicating away, telling us we found a good spot… vicki sits down, turns her video camera on, and asks whatevers out there to turn on the flashlight… we sit, nothing… she asks again.. nada… vicki and i talk for a few minutes and i ask her about something or other when the lights above us flicker on and off… i get all excited and say omg did you see that… she asks the spirit again to show itself.. seconds later, it flicks on and of again… and we have it all on tape…
now many may argue that it could have been any number of things… they can argue away all they want… i was there, i know what i saw, we have it on video, so there… i dont believe ghosts come back and chop us up with chainsaws, or any other sharp objects, but i do believe that everything that exists is made up of energy… to me it makes perfect sense that some energy sticks around for whatever reason while other energy may be in hell… nobody knows… however, if im one of those energies who happens to stick around, you can be damn sure ill be passing on that info to your grandkids, grandkids…
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