The mothman prophecies and the boy with the itchy anus...
Jesus - remind me to stop testing the paranormal. I nearly shit myself in the street this afternoon!
Have you read the Mothman Prophecies? I`ve not seen the film but am coming to the end of the book. Essentially its supposed to be true and includes such concepts as paranormal experiences all being hallucinatory rather than physically real,and induced by some ill defined intelligent entities operating on another reality. They always seem to know what the author is thinking too. And the second relevant detail is endless reports of encounters with odd looking dark skinned people who the witnesses usually find difficult to describe later (Ie the men in black in UFO cases)
Right then, I was thinking about all this wandering back from the supermarket when a lad turns into the road ahead of me..I`m trying to get a better look at him and realise there`s something strangely non-descript yet odd about his olive skinned face in profile..was he disfigured or perfectly normal? I couldn't honestly say what it was...So the obvious association leapt to mind, whimsically...maybe this is one of these "non-people" described in John Keel`s book, come into existence because I`m thinking about it.
The idea is further exacerbated when he, now 20 or 30 feet ahead of me passes four lads coming in the opposite direction and I`m consciously checking to see if any of them glance at him or they move to avoid each other, but they just pass each other with perfect precision and not a glance. THERE WAS NOTHING SUPERNATURAL ABOUT THIS!! It just helped keep the whimsy in my mind.
Finally when he starts pulling at the arse of his jeans to scratch himself and I realise I myself have been walking along with an itchy squelchy arse which I haven`t been able to scratch because my hands are full, I give myself free rein to test the matter. I WAS NOT BEING SERIOUS!
He`s 30 or 40 feet ahead of me and I say IN MY HEAD "Ok, if you`re a creation of my mind, and can read my mind, scratch your head now. My head is itchy [it wasn`t by the way] so scratch your head now." Jesus in heaven, my stomach turned over and my heart leapt out of my mouth when he did exactly that dead on cue!! I decided to not test it again...and he never scratched his head again until he finally disappeared in the distance. So he wasn't just lousey.
But God I got a fright when he "obeyed" me!