Spookdaddy
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The mention of Strines reservoir and a discussion on landscape and culture on other threads has reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to bring up for ages.
Although not much of a fortean nature has ever happened to me I am very sensitive to that vague notion we tend to call the “atmosphere” of a place. Reservoirs, it always appears to me, possess their very own and very powerful atmosphere. I have always found these bodies of water to be melancholy places with a distinct sense of something out of kilter with reality. In the past I always reasoned that a large part of the latter was due to the fact that even if we had little knowledge of landscape and how it was created we almost instinctively know when something is out of place. A man made lake and say an inland Scottish Loch may have a lot in common but the latter has been there long enough to affect and be affected by the land around it, the reservoir has no such influence.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of interesting stuff about how relatively mundane elements like electricity and low frequency sound may be responsible for a great deal (although by no means all) of apparently paranormal activity. Now I’m pretty well scientifically illiterate and one thing I’d like to know from the more scientifically fluent people out there (you reading this Rynner?) is what electrical/magnetic etc influences, if any, a large body of standing water might have on the area around it and could those influences affect us. It seems pretty obvious that sound is affected in many ways but are there any less obvious influences that might explain the eerieness that surrounds these places.
Also am I right in assuming that other people find these places a tad unnerving? I live in a hilly upland area with lots of reservoirs and enjoy the countryide a great deal but there is always a certain intangible unease that settles over me near a reservoir.
Do reservoirs attract more than their fair share of strange events? Slightly to the north of where I live Woodhead, Howden, Derwent and Ladybower certainly seem to collect weird phenomena. Of course it could be the place itself has always been that way - reservoirs are often situated in lonely upland areas with an atmosphere of their own, but I can’t help feeling that the addition of large unnatural bodies of water stirs something up.
Any thoughts/information/stories?
Although not much of a fortean nature has ever happened to me I am very sensitive to that vague notion we tend to call the “atmosphere” of a place. Reservoirs, it always appears to me, possess their very own and very powerful atmosphere. I have always found these bodies of water to be melancholy places with a distinct sense of something out of kilter with reality. In the past I always reasoned that a large part of the latter was due to the fact that even if we had little knowledge of landscape and how it was created we almost instinctively know when something is out of place. A man made lake and say an inland Scottish Loch may have a lot in common but the latter has been there long enough to affect and be affected by the land around it, the reservoir has no such influence.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of interesting stuff about how relatively mundane elements like electricity and low frequency sound may be responsible for a great deal (although by no means all) of apparently paranormal activity. Now I’m pretty well scientifically illiterate and one thing I’d like to know from the more scientifically fluent people out there (you reading this Rynner?) is what electrical/magnetic etc influences, if any, a large body of standing water might have on the area around it and could those influences affect us. It seems pretty obvious that sound is affected in many ways but are there any less obvious influences that might explain the eerieness that surrounds these places.
Also am I right in assuming that other people find these places a tad unnerving? I live in a hilly upland area with lots of reservoirs and enjoy the countryide a great deal but there is always a certain intangible unease that settles over me near a reservoir.
Do reservoirs attract more than their fair share of strange events? Slightly to the north of where I live Woodhead, Howden, Derwent and Ladybower certainly seem to collect weird phenomena. Of course it could be the place itself has always been that way - reservoirs are often situated in lonely upland areas with an atmosphere of their own, but I can’t help feeling that the addition of large unnatural bodies of water stirs something up.
Any thoughts/information/stories?