OK, let's talk about fear and reality. I've come to the conclusion that the worst terror is to have your concept of reality torn out from under you by something.
A few nights ago when we did all the drive-by firecrackerings, we spent part of the time in a section of woods next to our old high school. Fifteen years ago, a student killed himself out there; some other people have gone back there since then and ended up dead and injured. One of the high school's teachers is widely believed to be psychic; she says that she can sometimes sense his spirit. A close friend of mine isn't immune to this; he's had very vivid dreams about the ghost. It was like 10 PM, so we figured that it was dark enough for weird shit to happen. We went back into those woods, and stayed there for quite a while, looking for anything out of the ordinary. I did see one odd thing; there were a bunch of tadpoles in the water making very small ripples, but that isn't it. From deeper in the water, there came a very large ripple, as if someone had thrown a rock into the water, but there wasn't anyone else there. My only thought is that something fell off of the tree that hung above the ripple's location, but there didn't appear to be any nuts growing off of it; it was not a branch that was there, but a large section of trunk. The underbrush was so thick that I ended up getting stickers all over my legs; having Wookiee hair is not necessarily a good thing. But obviously we didn't run into any evil spirits, as I'm posting this now.
I went to sleep that night mostly rested, but a VERY unusual occurrence happened just this morning. I was driving to TCU for some freshman business, and roaming around looking for a parking space, when I suddenly heard someone say "Are you there?" It sounded like a voice coming from a phone, and it seemed to be coming both from the radio and from the backseat. It paused for a few seconds, and then it was like "Hey Josh, are you there?" I hit the brakes SO FAST. After I regained my senses, I tried to think of what could have happened. I looked around for my friends' cell phones, but they weren't there. I called and confirmed that they had them. I was listening to the radio at the time, and I don't think random voices were part of the lyrics; if anyone in this area was listening to 102.1 The Edge this morning around 11:00 AM CST, did you hear anything? I think the DJ's name was Josh at that time; some idiot probably made an error on the phone, but it was in the middle of a song. Nevertheless, it was pretty shocking at the time.
