Hello, I am Robert G. Male. Welcome to WraithStop™. Here you will find links that I think are of interest. Furthermore these are links that I want to keep track of because they have given me either ideas or some other form of inspiration for my writing. Links are listed in order lowest to highest both in the date they are given and the order in which they appear (meaning: read them from the bottom up for a certain day's list). Some of these sites may require you to sign up for free. Without further ado, the links...

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August 24, 2010

• There is a lot of good fiction fodder in this article that is (obviously) not limited to tunnels closed off (imagine getting in from a missed entrance), torture passed off as cutting edge research, recorded emotions, haunting sounds (who needs EVP when the dead are vocal), not mentioned but fires might randomly start. Real people definitely should not do it, but slipping past security or bodies found when the next patrol comes by but somehow they should have been seen by the previous patrol.

August 3, 2010

• This article defines and discusses stone tape theory, a way of explaining residual hauntings--that is, where the haunting is unintelligent, repetitious and appears only under certain conditions--that boils down to a location can record events and play them back later, multiple times. The theory is useful itself for fiction and fits within the terminology of parapsychologists of either stripe if it is presented as fact, which in reality it isn't yet. Inaccurate as it is the idea that the theory stems from a piece of fiction leading to life imitating art is intriguing as well, if of limited value.

July 27, 2010

• Ghost towns are always fascinating. Some sort of business should be made of tours for the best of these places. Even though it would take away the mystique of the urban legends that swirl around them it would be worth it, make policing them more meaningful. People want to go there, want to see the ghosts. Cults up to no good in these places would put a damper on the tourism though, or vice versa. The last page mentions motion-sensor triggered lights and puts me immediately in mind of the House of Wax remake. There also talk of ghosts, evil entities, and cults.

July 13, 2010

• Let me start by saying I love the movable panoramic shot at the top. The article is very interesting for a few reasons. First is the image of people hearing strange music emanating from a locked church in the middle of the night. There are a couple dated ideas, that bear some thought. First is that children are too timid to do anything as brazen as break into places and mess around in the night, especially spooky place like a dark church--this is 1892 afterall. Second is the mistrust of a respected man being out on the street at that time of night to hear the mysterious music. Is this one an American thing? 1888 saw the Jack the Ripper killings and while many may have been of ill-repute people were about at night in the cities, consider though the history of segmented sleep. There is also the gathering of people looking to hear the music repeat another night.

July 6, 2010

• The second paragraph is the most direct to why I chose this page. I had read before of the "first sleep" and "second sleep" and the activities taken in-between. What is missing here is talk of knitting circles and other chore groups during this time. What is added is an interesting look at the rise of beds (in part literally) in and about paragraph 15. Sleep clothing (or lack is covered) as are pests and sleeping in paragraph 17 and elsewhere. This is just the sort of information that can make for a much more interesting historical account and give room for different kinds of horror scenarios that have a distinctly different feel than those of modern times. The dark rituals and shenanigans that were likely done during the in-between time, with none the wiser, make it worth it alone.

June 29, 2010

• This lengthy article looks at the theories around the discovery of skulls from a larger brained hominid. The first page contains a reference that these individuals resembled to some degree the grey aliens. A race memory that can be attributed to people's false regression recollections of abductions is worth some mileage just as it is that an alien-seeded, or even hybrid race failed to measure up to human evolution. What happens when the aliens return and see the failure? Page two looks at what the difference in brain size could mean. Funny, they could have been more imaginative authors. The multitasking thinking would have its advantages. The last pages adds an ability to consider multiple possibilities and outcomes, perhaps something along the lines of the planners from TV's Dark Angel, or a limited scientific version of the psychic ability in the movie Next. The entire idea could be put to excellent use in a hidden enclave story, or a hollow Earth setting.

June 8, 2010

• I've been tracking a documentary revolving around this urban legend. It's fascinating (as an observer with nothing invested in the area) that an urban legend became essentially real for this locale, even if in a different manner--a near matter of life imitating art. I would like to note the real horror of just how short the jail term is for such inexcusable behaviour. The controversy over the documentary mentioned in the second link also bears some thought. Immediately a Blair Witch comparison is made, except with part of the story being 100% verifiably real and with that the accompanying pain of the families involved, it brings about more possibilities/angles to consider for a story to be built upon the ideas and conceit of this situation/legend and real crimes. If nothing else the controversy side of it (and even my own disclaimer here in this article) illustrates the implications, elements, and other aspects an author needs to consider for such a piece of fiction as might be borne from the Cropsey legend.

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