LOVE that PBF

This is not the first spooky story I’ve heard about Hocking Hills, having grown up in Ohio. :)

Not saying I don’t believe that something supernatural caused your experiences, but mold toxicity caused by the recurrent water damage can cause visual disturbances, auditory hallucinations, and other things you describe. (I actually think this a lot when I read stories about issues that vanish for people when they…

I wonder statistically which is more common: creepy roommates or sleepwalkers?

Somebody please tell me what makes this one seem more fictitious than others. I just read at least a hundred stories that can be summarized as “I swear I saw a shadow one time,” and everyone is all impressed and convinced and spooked, but then this somehow can’t be trusted? This is a serious question. What are the…

Tears. Love this. Big hugs to you and your Amma. 

Perfect cat name.

Honestly this is what I was thinking, too. Smiling in photos is a more recent phenomenon, so sometimes older photographs look creepy due to our modern expectations. Those look entirely normal to me, in context. (Not the blackface one, though, good lord.) But I love the bonkers ghost antics that don’t phase the cousin!…

Wow, I had not heard of a tulpa. Fascinating! How helpful for you to have the support of a spiritualist community as you navigate this. I’m glad that you and your children are in a safer place now.

Agreeing that every movie theater is haunted, or at least in some way ... charged. I don’t think it’s possible for a room of people to feel strong emotions simultaneously over and over again without leaving an impression on the space energetically. Many years of working in one convinced me of this, with all of the empl…

Holy crap. My heart goes out to the kid who thought, “If I know why, then I can fix it.” Hugs to you both.

Kids are the freakiest! More of these, please!

For the record, this behavior is not explained by bipolar disorder, except perhaps as one of many disorders this person may have been struggling with simultaneously. (I just don’t want everyone who reads this to think that people with bipolar disorder or dissociative identity disorder are prone to torturing dogs and…

Thank you for your legit hyphen usage and your conscientiousness re: “cruising.” 

Always befriend the lunch ladies. Your mom’s advice about having friends of various ages is solid. Nicely told!

Maybe hallucinations caused by mold toxicity? I prefer the spooky explanation,s though.

I don’t know about progressive scouting orgs for boys, but I know of a few gender-inclusive scouting orgs: Baden-Powell, Navigators USA, and Spiral Scouts. As far as I can tell, Spiral Scouts is the most progressive. Most people I know (Boston-area homeschoolers, so admittedly not a representative sample of any…