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(Repost) Nineteenth Minor Spirit of October: Earthquake Boy
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Nineteenth Minor Spirit of October
Earthquake Boy
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
The stories all go the same way. Just before major earthquakes, people recount seeing a silent pale child in a upper story hallway of the skyscrapers in which they live; a boy who vanishes when approached. In San Francisco, the stories include the detail that he is dressed as i he was from the start of the 20th century.
People speculate that it is the ghost of someone who died in the 1906 earthquake, and who appears just before earthquakes to warn people. Similar stories show up Los Angeles, Japan, Italy- wherever large cities are built in earthquake prone areas.
They’re all nonsense, of course.
I mean, ghosts don’t even work that way. They can’t see the future. The answer’s much simpler than that.
You see, the spirit serpents that manifest as long cracks in the earth, mentally twitch before they wake up and cause earthquakes. These cause powerful psychic waves, that are focused by the metal frameworks of skyscrapers into a form that humans can briefly see, and then our primate minds interpret them as children. It’s just a quirk of our neurology.
See? Perfectly straightforward and logical.
So don’t worry. That kid you just saw wasn’t a ghost.
Nineteenth Minor Spirit of October
Earthquake Boy
Instead of Inktober, I'm doing a spirit a day for October.
The stories all go the same way. Just before major earthquakes, people recount seeing a silent pale child in a upper story hallway of the skyscrapers in which they live; a boy who vanishes when approached. In San Francisco, the stories include the detail that he is dressed as i he was from the start of the 20th century.
People speculate that it is the ghost of someone who died in the 1906 earthquake, and who appears just before earthquakes to warn people. Similar stories show up Los Angeles, Japan, Italy- wherever large cities are built in earthquake prone areas.
They’re all nonsense, of course.
I mean, ghosts don’t even work that way. They can’t see the future. The answer’s much simpler than that.
You see, the spirit serpents that manifest as long cracks in the earth, mentally twitch before they wake up and cause earthquakes. These cause powerful psychic waves, that are focused by the metal frameworks of skyscrapers into a form that humans can briefly see, and then our primate minds interpret them as children. It’s just a quirk of our neurology.
See? Perfectly straightforward and logical.
So don’t worry. That kid you just saw wasn’t a ghost.