Hi. I'm 34, and I've always believed in ghosts. I've had a few experiences in my life, few of them particularly scary to me, but significant
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Huh. I never knew that about Emporia. Wish I had. I'm a sucker for demonology books. (I just like to read about it; I have no interest in trying to contact anything.)
I don't think your friend was fated to die. I think whatever you contacted killed her or drove her to suicide, how ever you want to look at it. If someone thinks you have the power to tell their future you can say whatever you want to and count on their patterns of behavior seeing it out based on the information you've given. Like you said, she "learned" she would die before she was seventeen and began living a lifestyle more or less guaranteed to make that happen. Had she never contacted that monster she probably would have been fine. Don't play with Ouija Boards, kids.
Where in Kansas did you grow up if you don't mind my asking? I come from McPherson.
I lived in Topeka until I was 8, and then spent the rest of my childhood in Salina. I kind of casually knew some debate kids from McPherson. I was a high school debater and that pretty thoroughly sucked up my social life. It was always a fun tournament, but I found the high school very disorienting. I was always lost there. (this would have been 1992-96).
When I was a kid, Nicole's experience scared me a lot, this was before she died. As I've grown up, I've mostly thought it was sad. I've never used a board since though, and don't intend to again.
It is a very sad story and I'm truly sorry you had to experience losing a friend like that.
I was on the debate team during the 92-93 school year so it's very likely that you and I have met each other. Debate was fun but I found out quickly that it wasn't really where my talents lie so I chose not to stick with it. I did better in forensics. You're not wrong, it was a pretty disorienting school. Even after four years I could still find myself going into the wrong section if I wasn't paying attention.
I've always felt that she would be alive now if she'd just never got that message. It scared me as a kid, but as an adult I just think it's sad.
Yeah, we still get the occasional light on that we knew we'd turned off, but the water thing has never happened since Mom told him to stop, so either we're both nuts, it really was Uncle Dale, or it was something else that still thought the reasoning was sound. I've always thought it was a kind of funny story.
I've always thought it was kind of funny. The water thing was never really scary to me, though it was kind of irritating when it was happening. We were all so sure, that Grandma was doing it.
Thanks, about Nicole. That was half my lifetime ago, but I still can't help but think if we'd never done anything that stupid, her life would have been really different.
I rarely meet anyone from Kansas online either. It's a pretty amazing section of books (assuming they still have them all this is information almost a decade old). There wasn't much that was new and current, but it was amazing the sheer amount of stuff there was, and most of it was demonology.
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I don't think your friend was fated to die. I think whatever you contacted killed her or drove her to suicide, how ever you want to look at it. If someone thinks you have the power to tell their future you can say whatever you want to and count on their patterns of behavior seeing it out based on the information you've given. Like you said, she "learned" she would die before she was seventeen and began living a lifestyle more or less guaranteed to make that happen. Had she never contacted that monster she probably would have been fine. Don't play with Ouija Boards, kids.
Where in Kansas did you grow up if you don't mind my asking? I come from McPherson.
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When I was a kid, Nicole's experience scared me a lot, this was before she died. As I've grown up, I've mostly thought it was sad. I've never used a board since though, and don't intend to again.
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I was on the debate team during the 92-93 school year so it's very likely that you and I have met each other. Debate was fun but I found out quickly that it wasn't really where my talents lie so I chose not to stick with it. I did better in forensics. You're not wrong, it was a pretty disorienting school. Even after four years I could still find myself going into the wrong section if I wasn't paying attention.
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Yeah, we still get the occasional light on that we knew we'd turned off, but the water thing has never happened since Mom told him to stop, so either we're both nuts, it really was Uncle Dale, or it was something else that still thought the reasoning was sound. I've always thought it was a kind of funny story.
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Thanks, about Nicole. That was half my lifetime ago, but I still can't help but think if we'd never done anything that stupid, her life would have been really different.
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