Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
No, I think the ghost boy is very happy as is, no need to take it... Hm, oh? Oh, hm. I am informed the ghost boy would be very happy to help her change.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
Are we sure it's a boy?
Looks a lot like a young Barbara.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
One of two things is happening here:
1. That is a "reflection" of Barbara from her last visit.
2. That is (or, more scarily, was) one of Barbara's relatives.
1. That is a "reflection" of Barbara from her last visit.
2. That is (or, more scarily, was) one of Barbara's relatives.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
2 is kinda what i thought...
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
Very polite though
Dear, don’t bore him with trivia or burden him with your past mistakes. The happiest way to deal with a man is never to tell him anything he does not need to know. L. Long
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
I said that.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
Yes, and I acknowledge that.
She's a still . . . because she still looks like Barbara.
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She's a still . . . because she still looks like Barbara.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
The interaction makes this a parallel universe haunting rather than a stone tape haunting because recordings don't interact.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
Or, a same-universe time loop haunting.Opus the Poet wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:23 am The interaction makes this a parallel universe haunting rather than a stone tape haunting because recordings don't interact.
Some folks posting on the main site have suggested that the young child is Barbara... specifically, Barbara at age 4. Remember the odd incident she reported: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/only-others/
We may be seeing the "other side" of this incident... Mindy may be the "lady with the lantern" that young Barbara met in the old mansion. If Mindy gives the child a berry tart (and Mindy did bring some to this event, in commemoration of Barbara's childhood experience) it'll be strong confirmation of these readers' hunch.
Bud had confirmed that there are no World Grid anchors anywhere near the mansion, and so the rip-between-alternate-timelines sort of anomaly that trapped Daylla doesn't seem very likely here. However, this location is apparently at an intersection of ley lines... maybe wormholes between different moments in a single timeline are possible in such place?
If so it would mean that there are at least three mechanisms for creating "ghosts"... stone-tape recordings of events (memories being replayed), alternate-timeline leakage and crossovers, and wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey folds within an individual timeline.
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Re: Just A Shadow 2019-11-08
The wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey stuff would only happen if there was a police box of some sort nearby.
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