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May 21, 2024, 8:22 am UTC    
January 26, 2017 11:33AM
I love them so much that I sometimes suspend my disbelief in cases that claim to be factual.
I am not a disbeliever having myself lived in haunted house - granted a very tame haunting. But there are some stories I just don't believe and high on the list are the cases reported by turn-of-the-19th century 'ghost hunter' Elliot O'Donnell. Mind you they are VERY good stories of the Lovecraftian order; he is very big on weirdly shaped non-human apparitions categorizing them as 'Morbus' disease elementals; Vagrarian elementals which he considered survivals of the earliest life on earth; Clangorians which are a kind of elemental that attach themselves to families becoming 'banshees' and the like; and Borrovian which he believes are the apparitions of early men. They are all extremely ugly and horrifying which the occasional exception of the Vagrarian which are ugly but not frightening.
He also has an extreme horror of 'bog oak' by which I presume he means fossilized wood found in bogs which apparently is sometimes used for furniture. Such items are ALWAYS haunted by particularly evil elementals.
And then there are the Tree spirits experienced by those who sleep in public parks. Silver Birches are Succubi but other trees harbor elementals with a vicious hatred of men.
Also his ghost stories almost invariably end with a historical explanation for the haunting which stretches one's credibility to the limit. For example the old abbey whose evil smelling ghosts are conveniently explained just before the family leaves by an ancient book falling open on an account of priest and abbess buried alive for having an affair (Please!)
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I Love Ghost Stories

Roxana Cooper January 26, 2017 11:33AM

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