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Do we get to choose our Haunt Jaunts if we linger here in the afterlife? Or does the Haunt Jaunt choose us?
I’ve had a fair share of ghostly experiences (like this one), and from what I’ve heard and seen, ghostly haunt spots usually make sense. An old woman haunts her favorite rocking chair. A soldier haunts the battlefield where he died. A librarian haunts, well, a library. While the presences of ghosts may well be a shock to many, some of the places they frequent aren’t much of a surprise.
Then I read Courtney’s post on Thoughts About Ghosts, and this comment stuck out:
Where will he end up haunting? Or what?
I’d never thought about whether I would stick around as a wisp of postmortem vapor, but this made me wonder. If I did, would I choose the location, or would it choose me? If I could, where would I pick?
I thought about home, of course. Sure, there’s attachment. But would I want to spend endless years floating around, dust bunnies I couldn’t chase driving me crazy and mostly unable to interact with my old surroundings? Maybe freaking out the ones I’d loved? Not really my personality. No. I was going to have to haunt “out.”
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Next, I considered the library. Being both a writer and an avid reader, this seemed a natural. A common hot spot for ghosts, rumor has it, and indeed, the stacks at my local library–which is over 100 years old–seems to host some unexplained phenomena. What better place for someone like me?
Then I realized a big potential drawback. Can spirits interact with volumes, flip pages? Would I be stuck floating around books without being able to read any? I’d have to rubberneck over patrons to catch a few paragraphs here and there. Not a very appealing thought.
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Then it hit me. The movie house! I’m a huge movie buff, after all, and these would be stories I could watch whether or not I could manipulate my environment. And not just any movie house, no. Give me a mega super duper multiplex to haunt, with thirty screens’ worth of different movies at any given hour. Yep, that might even keep me busy enough to resist most of the temptation to mess with visitors. Maybe the occasional plucky employee. So yeah, I think the movie theater.
Where would YOU haunt…or where wouldn’t you?
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Lisa Logan is a romantic fiction author and editor for Eternal Press. Visit her blog at http://authorlisalogan.blogspot.com.
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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I would haunt the girl's locker room. I know, I'm bad. Fifty lashes with wet pasta.
A. R. Braun
Lisa, what an awesome post! This just totally demonstrates the creativity and talent I was talking about in my blog award post. And it's such a fun question! A. R.'s answer is HYSTERICAL! (And twisted, yes, but still funny!)
Hmmm…
If I could chose where I could haunt, it'd have to be someplace by the sea. Maybe a B&B with some other colorful ghosts, or maybe a fort of some kind. (Wayne's convinced he was a soldier in the Civil War, so maybe somewhere where his old spirit lingers…)
Great entry! I can't say where I would haunt but I can tell you where I wouldn't…any High School facility! That was bad enough the first time around. 😉