Halloween and
watch out
for a curse!
So what does Halloween mean to you? To me it's a time for people to ponder the reality of whether or not ghosts and goblins may truly exist?
With all the t.v. shows that run specials of the Eerie, bizarre, strange, and unbelievable how can one deny the possibility of something really happening?
For us it turns into a busy time of year with a huge amount of requests! Some requests aren't the "can you please help us we are being haunted", But rather :hey I'm from a paper writing an article can you please help us?
We have had numerous requests such as these types through the years, But this is the first year I decided to agree and participate! Yes against all my beliefs of the limelight I actually said yes!
Well not so fast! My yes turned into a planned phone conversation that ended up not happening due to where I was at the time, with no cell reception, in the white mountains where I was looking into a possible case! So oh boy, I messed that up! So I contacted the gentlemen and explained the situation, So we made another date to do the phone conversation, no biggie! Well once again I ended up in a situation where I was tied up and missed the call again! OH MAN!
Needless to say I felt horrible, But this was not the whole story by a long shot! First off I usually don't like getting involved with interviews and what not, But here I had actually agreed, So yes this was a big thing for me!
Well wouldn't you know we had the craziest week after I received this call which I agreed to! First off we had three calls from people with issues within a 24hr period! The day after the call from the gentlemen my car broke down! Need I go on with the way this story is going or is the picture getting clear? Sheer craziness was in the works, and believe me it went from bad to unbelievably horrible!
I won't go into the rest of the bad luck that ensued, But trust me the interview never happened! I had tried calling the reporter and tell him if he was still interested in talking with me I was available on this day like right now! Call while I am here at this very moment before something else terrible happens!
Needless to say I never got a call! Do you believe in being jinxed, Cursed, or just plain bad luck? Well I'm a living example! I have been my whole life!, and this was a reason why I felt I was a chosen one to have the things happen to me as they did, by being haunted!
If a person were to sit down and listen to me tell the story of all the bizarre bad luck things that I have had happened to me in my entire life they would probably wonder how I had never contemplated Hara-Kiri!
Well I probably had some thoughts, but I found a way of dealing with it, and it's called, dealing with it! That simple! I just say yup, Right up to par! Then I go on doing what needs to be done!
Halloween to me is a time to relax and accept my fate, but it's because it's Halloween so this is what's normal and this is why these things happen!
So oddly enough this is why I look forward to this time of year! Just like a child looking forward to Christmas, Halloween is what I look forward to in order to put my life into a normalcy state!
Cursed to some is nonsense! They think it has something to do with some kind of VooDoo, Or some Pagan ritual!
No it isn't! Some are like a magnet and these type of bad events take place on a very uncomfortable amount of occasions, and this I know for a fact, So this brings a slight amount of comfort!
Though who really knows? maybe somewhere in time I had a family member piss someone off that was a Pagan witch and that person performed a ritual where they cursed the family line!
Curses are an interesting topic, and one that fits perfect with Halloween in my eyes. When one looks into stories of witchcraft and Halloween It's usually something to do with a scorned witch who performs some type of hex, or curse upon the person!
Many curses we hear of are those of misfortune that dealt with things like a bad crop, or a well running dry!
The real scary thing is there are a lot of people in this world that are truly fearful of anything to do with curses! Such as a cursed object, or a cursed place! There are places that are supposedly cursed where the local people refuse to go to, or partake in whatever it may be.
There are stories of places like an Island being cursed where for hundreds and hundreds of years people will refuse to go to, or have anything to do with!
Why is it that people fear this so much? Well maybe because of events happening due to a so said curse that by sheer coincidence, or is it really possible!
Some of the more famous and heard about type curses are those of the Egyptian tomb curses. Warning all that if they enter a curse will be placed on them!
There are some to this day that will not violate these warnings! Would you? Really would you take a chance and enter a place that was telling you to stay out or you will die? Remember you can't take it back and say, Oh boy I won't do that again!
I believe some things are sacred and therefore I will avoid it, or them! I do believe in curses, but only because of my own bad luck. I believe for whatever reason I am cursed! So yes there are certain things I will, and will not do despite the rewards and possible redemption!
A do not trespass sign isn't placed there to give you the option, it's put there for a reason! If you decided to risk that warning a whole slew of things are possible from that point out! Such as getting shot, being arrested, getting arrested and being shot, or possibly getting hurt because the sign was there because of danger, and the type of danger maybe one that could be fatal!
I suppose the best way for a person to interpret these signs is by the wording and your blind faith! BE WARNED! Take it for what they're worth because there is a reason, and enter at your own risk!
There is a recent case that has been brought before us, and it's one that is right along this topic of curses.
The particular case is one that is common folklore or urban legends in many states. It's of a hitchhiking female that if you don't give her a ride she will end up appearing in your back seat in which it will cause you to have an accident along with your death!
This can be interpreted as two different type curses. The curse of the women being stuck here for eternity, or it could be a curse for the person that refused to pick up the female in which it will lead to the person's death!
No matter what, it is a story of a warning which may lead to a curse like proposal! If you venture down this particular road at night this may happen!
As well as if you don't do what the female hitchhiker wants, It will lead to your demise!
So therefore the sign there is don't get yourself in a risky situation of where you may be tempted to pick up a person you don't know!
This particular legend is dated back to the 1800's and originally was of a women in an accident with a horse and carriage where she was tossed off in an accident and decapitated!
So that story was if you were on the road late at night you may encounter a headless women in white and seeing her is what will lead to a fatality for you as well as others with you!
The sign for this story is you should not be on this road at night because it is dangerous! Again if it is true wouldn't this all be in the curse category? I imagine! The morale is that the danger is real and if you don't see the obvious signs, well then you're going to pay the price!
With dealing in different types of hauntings we find objects that can be the cause of the haunting. Some call these objects cursed! As well in voodoo the subject can curse a particular thing which can supposedly lead to all sorts of misfortunes!
There are methods that are available to deactivate, or neutralize the object, and then at times the best solution is to just lock the object away so nobody will handle it again!
Is there any pure truth, or actual evidence that curses are real and true? Well I suppose it depends on who you ask , and I bet that there are a few out there that would swear that YES! No questions about it!
My own thoughts are yes! I believe things can be possible and in the case of a curse I suppose it's how you interpret it, as well as define it!
Some things can be chalked up as just plain bad luck, but when it goes above and beyond one has to wonder!
So the next time you may be in the area of Downeast Maine in the vicinity of Catherine's Hill and you happen to see a woman hitchhiking at night (possibly headless) will you stop and offer a ride? Well you know the consequences, so I'll let you decide your own fate!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
From all of us here at
The Society of Paranormal Research in Maine!
