by B Branin
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An excerpt from Dr. Spriggan’s best seller “Morbid Memoirs and mega-pixels: Ghosts in the new Millennium.”
We live in an age where technology has turned modern man into gods. Could you believe what people from civilizations like ancient Babylon would think of us? We are able to communicate across the world at a touch of a button. We are able to turn journeys that would take years on foot into a day’s travel.
Despite being so advanced, we still find ourselves fascinated with the unexplainable even though it goes against our new, scientific and logic oriented culture. Every year reports of alleged paranormal sightings pile up and there hundreds of pages of testimony from honest, god-fearing people claiming to have witnessed the paranormal made manifest.
Why?
Is it because we feel that we are indulging in some sort of childish activity that we were suppose to shed upon entering adulthood? Is the unearthly nothing but a vent for some impropriate activity of individuals who “should know better?” Or is it something deeper that compels us to seek out the paranormal? Is there something inside man that yearns to discover the truth of the supernatural?
I suppose it’s not unfeasible to assume that, as descendants of ancient man, we are conditioned on perhaps even the genetic level, to fear the unknown and conjure some reason for it. Why would a goat quit producing milk? Create a mythical creature such as the Broxa, blaming the unknown with the unknown.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps it’s because there is a small cornel of truth to even the most blasphemous lies. Maybe we enjoy seeking out the paranormal and the unexplainable because on some instinctual level, we know and hope that there might be a small cornel of truth to a world beyond imagining.
