Ghost stories
October 26, 2023 at 7:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2023 at 7:12 am by Fake Messiah.)
Well, it's that spooky month yet upon us. Surprisingly, while reading Patrick Stewart's new autobiography, I came upon a ghost story about his haunted house in LA that prompted me to open this topic. I mean, do other people have ghost stories?
Stewart's story was that he came back home one evening and could smell something roasting in the kitchen. Yet the stove was not even turned on, and the oven was cold and empty.
Then his son was alone one evening and the books suddenly flew across the room, as if thrown with great force. The incident scared him so badly that he left the house and returned only when he knew Patrick would soon be home. He would never again spend a night in the house alone.
Stewart also heard noises: the sound of voices coming from an empty room; and the sound of footsteps on the stairs when nobody was using them.
This prompted him to move away and rent the house and then the new tenants, a family, who then called him and described experiences similar to his. Their daughter even saw a shadowy male figure standing in the hall, just at the foot of the stairs.
But the house got exorcised one night as the mom of the family was trying to take a nap: she got so sick of the disembodied voices and footfalls on the stairs that she screamed, "Whoever you are, fuck off and leave us in peace!" The disturbances stopped at that very moment and were gone forever.
Stewart's story was that he came back home one evening and could smell something roasting in the kitchen. Yet the stove was not even turned on, and the oven was cold and empty.
Then his son was alone one evening and the books suddenly flew across the room, as if thrown with great force. The incident scared him so badly that he left the house and returned only when he knew Patrick would soon be home. He would never again spend a night in the house alone.
Stewart also heard noises: the sound of voices coming from an empty room; and the sound of footsteps on the stairs when nobody was using them.
This prompted him to move away and rent the house and then the new tenants, a family, who then called him and described experiences similar to his. Their daughter even saw a shadowy male figure standing in the hall, just at the foot of the stairs.
But the house got exorcised one night as the mom of the family was trying to take a nap: she got so sick of the disembodied voices and footfalls on the stairs that she screamed, "Whoever you are, fuck off and leave us in peace!" The disturbances stopped at that very moment and were gone forever.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
