sort of set the tone for the whole trip

[foxtongue]

The Knights Inn hotel in Kamloops was a very special kind of disaster. The staff were perpetually off the premises, the phone didn't work, the alarm clock was broken, and half of the light-bulbs were burnt out.

As a bonus, the main hall was one of the spookiest rooms I've ever been in, which is saying something, as I used to spend nights over in an abandoned hospital. It smelt of burnt talc and rotting dust.

Neat, hey?

Comments

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Abandoned hospital? Anything weird happen there when you stayed over?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Weird like what? It was like staying over in any other abandoned building, but structurally a lot more safe.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Ah, ghosts and stuff.

Abandoned hospitals are like kryptonite to me.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm an empiricist. I'm so lacking in spiritualism I'm like an anti-ghost.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

So if you saw a ghost, you'd integrate it into your set of experienced stimuli, or would you explain it as something else? Or what about other people who have seen ghosts? Is there room for assuming that they experienced something that you haven't?

I'm not-not-not, so-very-not attacking the idea of empiricism as a valid worldview, I'm just curious how these things fit in (or if they're even a consideration).

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

The way I figure, the world is full of things where we don't know how it works. Chromosomes, for one, electrical anything in the brain for another. Proof that a floaty bit of light-stuff is what's left of a dead pattern would be very neat, but until there's proof, it's a floaty bit of light-stuff that's hypothesized as being part of a dead person but as well could be something wacky to do with sunspots. Or whatever.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

The fact that I just tiredly typed "pattern" instead of "person" says a lot about the inside of my head.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I like it.

And that's a little bit about how I think of ghosts; I'm pretty sure there's something weird happening which I can't explain, and which current science doesn't account for, but I'm not convinced that it's the murdered previous residents of the house, blah-blah-blah.