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Unconscious Mutterings 296

   Posted by: Yoggie    in Memes, Unconscious Mutterings

  1. Hearing :: impaired
  2. Aggression :: therapy
  3. Charged :: battery
  4. Traveler :: motorhome
  5. Hydrate :: your body
  6. Detox :: your body
  7. Qualify :: for a loan
  8. Prison :: Break
  9. Frontal :: lobe
  10. Pep talk :: football

 


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1. Who is your favorite author?
F. Paul Wilson

2. What is your favorite book/series?
Repairman Jack series

3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
FBI Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast of the novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

4. Who is a book character that you envy?
Again Agent Pendergast.

5. Which book do you wished you lived in?
None of them, they all seem too scary for the real world.

 

Friday Five


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From Examiner.com article 101 Signs That You’ve Encountered A Ghost

101 Signs That You’ve Encountered A Ghost (continued)

52. You see unusual things reflected in glass objects.
     Ahh! Oh wait, that is just me before my morning coffee.

53. You record voices of people who weren’t present on a tape or digital recording device.
     I told the kids to turn down the TV.

54. You answer your phone and the voice of someone you know that has died speaks to you.
     I wish they would change that answering machine message.

55. Small, flashing lights zigzag around the room.
     That is what I get for changing the light bulb with the switch still on.

56. The television set goes berserk for no apparent reason.
     Have you seen the crap that is on TV? No wonder it goes berserk.

57. Light bulbs blow out on a regular basis.
     That is what I get for buying bulbs at the dollar store.

58. The phone rings with a different ring tone that it’s not programmed for.
     The J-Horror movie Phone (aka Pon).

59. Abrupt mood swings or changes in a person’s character only in specific areas or in places thought to be haunted.
     Does my kids’ rooms count? I think they are haunted by the ghost of not cleaning the room.

60. You feel frozen to the spot for a short amount of time.
     Yeah, but I thought that was a pinched disk… at least that is what the doctor said.

61. Visitors to your home often complain that they feel uncomfortable, couldn’t sleep well or heard and saw things they couldn’t explain.
     Describes how my kids act at night when it is bed time.

62. People in your family are consistently having nightmares.
     I was told my kids are nightmares.

63. You hear tapping on the walls.
     My kids not wanting to go to bed.

64. You’ve seen what appear to be red eyes in the darkness.
     Luckily it was just me staring at the mirror after not getting any sleep.

65. You’ve awakened to see misty people standing around your bed.
     And they say, “Daddy, I’m thirsty.”

66. There’s blood running down the walls.
     After I cut my hand on that can.

67. Unexplained whistling.
     I will find that hole in the wall one day.

68. You have visions of how someone died as you’re falling asleep.
     Yeah, the guy who turn in front of me and then slowed down to a crawl.

69. If you have a rocking chair, it rocks by itself.
     And the string tied to the back of the chair has nothing to do with it.

70. An entity tries to harm you by holding a pillow over your face.
     My wife after repeatedly telling me to stop snoring.

71. You hear pages of books or newspapers turning.
     I said go to bed!

72. You’re filming a family event and an apparition appears in the footage.
     Turned out it was the smoke from the BBQ pit.

73. A ghostly voice threatens you.
     She told me to get my cold feet off of her or she would push me off the bed.

74. You feel someone breathing on your shoulder or neck.
     I know how to warm up a pie. I don’t need you to look over my shoulder while I do it, hon.

75. You wake up to find odd marks or scratches on your body that wasn’t there when you went to sleep.
     Honey, the cat had another nightmare last night.

76. Black marks suddenly appear on the walls of your home.
     And it had nothing to do with the child holding a black marker.

77. You’re alone in the house, and you hear a door slam in another part of the house.
     Then I fixed the door.

78. You hear scratching sounds from behind the walls.
     Dog wants to go out.

79. A candle is suddenly blown out when no one is near it.
     Note to self, don’t put candles next to the air vent.

80. You’re driving down the road, see someone walking on the side but when you look back at them in your rearview mirror, no one is there.
     And then the door closed on the house by the road.

81. You’ve seen objects levitating in the air.
     I am Magneto.

82. You’ve been levitated into the air.
     And I am floating about Nicole Kidman before I’m rudely awaken.

83. You’ve woken up because your bed is violently shaking.
     Well, when your wife wants sex you don’t say no.

84. Papers are jerked out of your hands when no one is near you.
     My wife didn’t believe it either when I said that about the bills and the trash can.

85. A glowing cloud hovers in the room.
     Did you have to use all of the hot water in the shower?

86. The air in certain areas of your house may feel heavy or stagnant even though you try to freshen it up.
     Two words… cat box.

87. You become sick with an illness that the doctor can’t diagnosis or treat.
     Pretty much my whole life.. so I’ve been haunted my whole life!

88. You lock a door or window only to find it unlocked or vice versa.
     So, instead of the kids unlocking the door to let the dog out, I should be blaming a ghost?

89. You see apparitions while touring a battleground or graveyard.
     Unfortunately, it turned out to be Mr. Whimple trying to scare all the homeowners off the land so he could buy it all and sell it at a profit to the developers. Damn meddling kids.

90. You’re shopping and turn to look at a person nearby you and discover they don’t have a face. You blink, look again and they’re gone or they disappear right in front of you.
     The associates at Wal-Mart.

91. A woman or man walks up to you in a public place, gives you what seems like a message and then disappears.
     Process servers.

92. You look up at a house from street level and see someone standing in a doorway or window when you know that no one is home or the home is empty or abandoned.
     Lost process server.

93. You see a single light and hear a train coming down the tracks when the tracks are no longer in use and the train never really goes by.
     And the train comes down the other tracks.

94. You hear someone breathing in an empty room.
     Me during an asthma attack.

95. The radio in your car turns on or off by itself.
     So it wasn’t that giant spaceship that was over my car?

96. You hear screams or ghostly activity at specific times every day – usually at night.
     The altercation concerning baths every nigh.

97. A “lady in white” is seen walking down your hall or steps.
     That’s no lady, that’s my wife (you should have seen that one coming).

98. You see a dark colored mist that forms inside and takes the shape of a person.
     What happens when I walk to someone without my glasses on.

99. The batteries in your flashlights, cameras, phones etc drain very quickly when in areas that are thought to be haunted.
     Dollar store batteries.

100. You wake and feel a pressure on your chest that doesn’t have a medical reason.
     Damn, that cat is heavy.

101. You sit down in a chair and it feels like you just sat in someone’s lap – but the chair is empty.
     And that was the last time I gave someone a lap dance that is 100 pounds lighter than I.


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