Time Zone / Twilight Zone
November 17, 2007 by Douglas · Leave a Comment
I guess you can rationalize just about anything – case in point: The Witching Hour. Yeah, supposedly midnight is suppose to be the Ground Zero of supernatural phenomenon, etc. Well ladies and gentlemen I finally have come to the conclusion that I simply don’t buy it.
Oh, I may be wrong, but if I am then we are talking about the paranormal world being pretty damn anal-retentive. Let me first state that if I were to pass to “the other side” I would be thrilled to be in Heaven and skipping around eating all the midget sized Circus Peanuts my heart could possibly desire, and telling knock-knock jokes with Jesus. The flip side to this however is as follows:
So here you are on the other side of life and are a spirit. You wanna cause mischief and since you are malicious, yet predictable, you decide to do all your really rotten stuff at midnight. Hopefully you are wearing your watch in the ghostly realm – because wouldn’t you look silly doing your ghastly ghostly and ghoulish behavior at the wrong time… or to simply be tardy.
Wait just a moment there, Spooky. It’s daylight savings time. Did you jump forward or fall back? And I hope your wristwatch is the latest Casio synchronized version – or maybe you have a killer ghost PDA to tap into the Internet and get the latest download from the atomic clock. Starting to make sense? Riiiight! Time is all relative to who you are and where you are – right!? I think if paranormal crap is going to happen, its just going to be flat out random.
I was thinking about this after the last few nights of having to bring my dog outside to take a wiz. Both times the clock read exactly midnight, while we walked out the back door. Then I realized the clock on the stove was off by about 4 minutes. If we DID see anything peculiar, I’d have to dismiss it being a spirit-world thing… I mean there is surely any number of reasons or causes for my name to be written in blood across the kitchen wall.
It’s these kinds of things that give me peace of mind. While I certainly believe in the devil and demons – I do not put much stock in ghosts and other things. Okay, that’s a lie – I do believe in ghosts. But I don’t put any faith in specific timing for weird phenomena to happen. If you could chart it and schedule it, it wouldn’t really be so weird would it? Unless it were a schedule for getting British people to dentists on time – scary stuff!
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