any ghost stories or weird stuff you experianced in NM?

[cleofus1]

this is something i posted in the lounge...but it does apply here too!




I was working in downtown Santa Fe. I was doing the late night shift at one of the oldest radio stations in town...

i deadlocked all the doors and turned off most of the lights...i sat down to do my shift and drifted into the zone...the music was playing and i was getting into the big band era music...frank Sinatra faded away and django Reinhardt began to caress his gypsy guitar...

suddenly i heard a huge crash! i freaked out...no one here but me...no one hear but me...no one here but me...i kept thinking as the hair stood up on the back of my arms...

i jumped up out of my seat and ran the course of the radio station...it is a very small radio station and i easily checked every nook and cranny...there was no place for anyone to hide...

the last place i checked was the teletype room...there on the floor in the corner lay the steel bar we used to rip copy...just laying there...i kept thinking this must be some sort of joke...i know it couldn't just fly across the room on it's own...i walked across the room and picked it up...it was heavy in my hands...very heavy...so i put it back on the teletype and went back into the control room...

i sat there shaken...but making the effort to get into the music again...the Andrew sisters began to sing Elmer's tune...and again...a huge bang in the other room! i couldn't get up because i was right in the middle of a segue...it seemed to take forever for the next song to start...as soon as it did...i flew out of the on-air control room straight to the teletype room...sure enought...the steel bar was across the room...in the corner....in the dark...and the station was quite as a tomb...

[cleofus1]

1. i used to walk around at night

in many parts of NM...in the arroyos of Santa Fe...along the highway near chimayo...pojuoque...the pueblos...sometimes in the pitch dark...sometimes in bright starlight...sometimes in the dark i could see the silhouette of something struggling to coming out of the ground...but when i reached the spot where i saw this shadow there was nothing there...

i kept thinking..prairie dogs...

lots of magic there...

[pie]

2. What is the origin of the magic?

[cleofus1]

3. good question pie

as near as i can remember...magic is the residue of god's hand...

not the christian god in this case...but the dieties and demigods and magical beings of the pueblo people...

[Last Lemming]

4. Classic poltergeist (poltergiest?) stuff

At my job we have a haunted elevator--late at night--doesn't matter which floor your on, just start walking toward the elevator and the doors open (not classic poltergiest stuff-poltergiests are distructive.)

[cleofus1]

5. that sounds very eerie...

modern scary....