I used to hear breathing like that coming from the closet of one of my old apartments. It was a loft-style apartment, so the breathing would kind of echo around the whole place, but it very definitely originated from the closet.

... I spent a lot of nights downstairs on the sofa in front the TV, is what I’m saying.

P.S.…

I believe you. We’ve experienced enough weirdness that whenever we hear stories like yours we don’t discount them. The breathing thing resonates with me because I distinctly recall a couple of instances when my husband and I were in bed, just talking companionably. During a lull in the conversation I heard deep, even…

Aaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!! It was ghosts! Unquiet spirits! They were shocked you could "sense/hear" them! Eeep!

The first few lines of this read like copy from the J Peterman catalog.

We did both and I am glad I went to Pompeii for the sheer size of it, but Herculaneum was more interesting and there was barely anyone else there when we went (we also went this week and it was not tourist high season which helped too)

An abandoned colonial-era coastal resort in Djibouti. On the edge of the sea, at the end of the world, falling to pieces, sparse desert vegetation and blowing sand slowly reclaiming its space. It looked like a Chernobyl village, furniture and luggage and carts and plates all in use one second and abandoned the next,…

Holy sh*t that is incredible and terrifying in equal measure. As grim as this sounds please keep us updated on the latest burning smell. I truly hope it amounts to nothing and nothing bad happens.

Aw hon, sounds like you got suckered in by a covert Baptist youth group. All the talking in “tongues,” weeping, shaking and lord knows what can be standard fare. My MIL loves it and is always trying to pull it off during service at less “expressive” churches, to their chagrin. Divisive, and definitely alarming to the…

Burn it all down

Y’know, I honestly somehow didn’t expect a story with that headline to be worse than it sounded, but... wow. What the fuck?

Here we go again. Rape being treated like it’s no big deal and not worthy of significant punishment. I feel not only for their current victims but for their inevitable future victims.

The judge called the case a “tragedy of society”

Have you seen Jesus Camp? This is just how Evangelicals are. It’s disturbing as hell. 

Does she know? Does she know?

Also Stabiae and Oplontis. Ostia is also really cool in contrast as it is a port that naturally came to an end, rather than one that was ended by a violent event.

The Breathing in the Attic

Let me preface this by saying I don’t believe in ghosts. I believe there is a reasonable explanation for what I experienced. I just don’t know what it could be.

I grew up in an old house. The kind with high ceilings and big windows and lots of creaking. We had a full attic, filled with…

Note for tourists: Herculaneum > Pompeii

Pompeii ranks as my all-time favorite (i.e., most impressive) tourist site ever. It’s not hard to walk through it without disturbing so much as a pebble, so WTF people? That said, I did put a very small rock in my pocket that I have in a special place and I swear to Jezebel and all my sisters on this site that I will…

My dad committed suicide ten years ago now. Just over a year ago, I was running errands near where he used to work - I spent a lot of time there as a kid, he and my mum job shared and it was a notforprofit and very social and family oriented. The organisation isn’t in the main part of the building but there’s still a…

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