Silly Supernatural Stuff
An Essay By Kate Garoutte-Smith, circa 1995
GHOSTS exist. Sometimes they are an echo of a life once lived, an imprint
on a house or a place. Sometimes they are created from the minds of people
withg extrasensory abilities that they weren't even aware they had (some
poltergeists), sometimes ghosts are there for people that want to see them,
and sometimes they are actually the souls of people whose physical bodies
have died and are either unable or unwilling to go on to the next step.These
have all been explanations given for ghosts. And I don't think that any
*one* of them are true. I believe that they are all true, depending on
the situation. Oh, another explanation given was that some poltergeists
are demons, but I have a little more difficulty with that one, probobly
because of it's xian connotations.
VAMPIRES. I'd like to believe that they exist, like in the Vampire
Chronicles, but that desire stems from the romanticized notions of vampires.
They're dark, dangerous, yet alluring. Youth and immortality. Cool. :)
I think, from things I've seen and read (nonfiction), that there are people
who can be described as vampires due to various medical conditions, but
as for folklore and myth, while there is some basis in reality (most folklore
and myth has a basis in reality), the stories are just that-stories.
WEREWOLVES. Again, like vampires, there are people who, due to various
medical conditions, could call themselves werewolves, and the folklore
and myths are based on these people, dating back to a time when medicine
was not as advanced as it is today.
BIGFOOT/LOCHNESS/YETI: I believe that all these creatures exist or
have existed.
ALIENS: I think it is absolutely, utterly EGOTISTICAL and IGNORANT
of any of us to think we're the only intelligent life in the universe,
and almost as egotistical and ignorant to think that there aren't civilizations
far more advanced than we are, advanced enough to travel to our planet
from distant planets. The existance of aliens is something that I accept
as fact. Whether or not every alien story I've heard is true is another
story, but I think many of them are. Who they are, what they want, I don't
know. But they DO exist.
XIAN MIRACLES: I think that some are legitamite, but like vampires
and werewolves, the folklore and myth have overshadowed the truth. And
I don't think that they exist for the reasons xians think they do.
TO BE CONTINUED...?
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