Graveyard Faeries
Oct. 8th, 2011 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headWas discussing this with Paige last night while we watched a relevant episode of A Haunting, so figured I might as well make a post about it.
Hypothesis: Some graveyards are 'haunted' by a faerie.
I have heard a lot of personal experience stories in graveyards with a very similar pattern. It goes something like this: A person or group of kids or paranormal investigators sneak into a graveyard at night. They hear sounds, feel 'creeped out', but don't leave. It escalates to noises - children's laughter, abrupt screams, and so on. If they stay longer, it escalates to 'light' physical contact (gentle pushing, grabbing, and so on) and/or visual apparitions, often many different ones that seem unrelated. There is often a pervasive feeling of 'evil' at this point. They run out of the graveyard.
The general conclusion seems to be that they accidentally angered a whole army of ghosts, plus a demon or two. It seems more likely to me that, especially considering how established this pattern is, it is one entity - or perhaps a small group working together. The intention also seems to be more to scare them off, than to harm them.
So, my guess would be this is some sort of common territory-defensive pattern. Discuss??
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Hypothesis: Some graveyards are 'haunted' by a faerie.
I have heard a lot of personal experience stories in graveyards with a very similar pattern. It goes something like this: A person or group of kids or paranormal investigators sneak into a graveyard at night. They hear sounds, feel 'creeped out', but don't leave. It escalates to noises - children's laughter, abrupt screams, and so on. If they stay longer, it escalates to 'light' physical contact (gentle pushing, grabbing, and so on) and/or visual apparitions, often many different ones that seem unrelated. There is often a pervasive feeling of 'evil' at this point. They run out of the graveyard.
The general conclusion seems to be that they accidentally angered a whole army of ghosts, plus a demon or two. It seems more likely to me that, especially considering how established this pattern is, it is one entity - or perhaps a small group working together. The intention also seems to be more to scare them off, than to harm them.
So, my guess would be this is some sort of common territory-defensive pattern. Discuss??
P.S. I have a fic/fandom journal now too, it's at
owlofowls. I kind of assumed none of you guys wanted to read my terrible fic but there it is if you are interested c: although there isn't anything up yet.
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Date: 2011-10-10 07:02 pm (UTC)I've always just thought that there are spirits in graveyards. Which, when I really think about it, doesn't make a WHOLE lot of sense. Why would a spirit be attached to their physical bodies in any way? You'd think that they would be drawn to a place or living person. I don't know.
Never really thought about it I guess. Way to make my brain crank into gear lol