Post by rebecca on Mar 17, 2009 22:54:15 GMT
I've got another crazy question I hope people will weigh in on. I dreamed about half of a great ghost story and I hope I can think of a way to finish it. This is inspired by a book of stories at work, and my friend Erin (who's reading it) was with me in it.
To make it brief - because I'm tempted to go into all sorts of detail - there is a ghost in the house next door. You always know when the ghost is active because the door flies open and it's filled with a bright light. Erin and I were going to go out and try to research the ghost (a very RPG thing to do) but when we're leaving, the door flies open and the light just explods. She says "let's do it now!" and thinking that this is a guaranteed time something would happen, I follow her in. She gets halfway up the steps and all this noise starts from above, so she turns around and runs back down, followed by the ghost, who appears to be a fifty-ish woman, although she keeps changing between that and appearing much older, like phasing back and forth. When she runs down she throws a sack of some kind between us into the vestibule. We're all screaming at each other, terrified of one another, and I realize the ghost is solid and just start slapping the s**t out of her just because of my fight-or-flight response. She isn't aggressive back - just seems really in pain, from me and from...whatever made her a ghost, I guess.
So eventually we get done yelling at each other and Erin and I leave. Then walking past the neighbors' house, the woman and her son start talking to us about the ghost, which they seem to know something about. The son tells us that next time, we need to grab the sack she threw and bring it out of the house and we'll know everything.
And then I woke up.
So my question is, what's in that sack??
That's where you come in.
To make it brief - because I'm tempted to go into all sorts of detail - there is a ghost in the house next door. You always know when the ghost is active because the door flies open and it's filled with a bright light. Erin and I were going to go out and try to research the ghost (a very RPG thing to do) but when we're leaving, the door flies open and the light just explods. She says "let's do it now!" and thinking that this is a guaranteed time something would happen, I follow her in. She gets halfway up the steps and all this noise starts from above, so she turns around and runs back down, followed by the ghost, who appears to be a fifty-ish woman, although she keeps changing between that and appearing much older, like phasing back and forth. When she runs down she throws a sack of some kind between us into the vestibule. We're all screaming at each other, terrified of one another, and I realize the ghost is solid and just start slapping the s**t out of her just because of my fight-or-flight response. She isn't aggressive back - just seems really in pain, from me and from...whatever made her a ghost, I guess.
So eventually we get done yelling at each other and Erin and I leave. Then walking past the neighbors' house, the woman and her son start talking to us about the ghost, which they seem to know something about. The son tells us that next time, we need to grab the sack she threw and bring it out of the house and we'll know everything.
And then I woke up.
So my question is, what's in that sack??
That's where you come in.