{"id":396,"date":"2006-10-31T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=396"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:24","slug":"a-southern-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"A Southern Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grim-reaper.jpg\"Have you ever met a ghost?<\/p>\n

I haven’t (as far as I know). But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. My friend Jeff believes he has met some ghosts and offers up some sobering thoughts and Halloween<\/a> reflections on these denizens of the afterworld in his essay, “Stumbling in Endor.”<\/a> I felt a shiver or two running up my spine (at least I think<\/em> that’s all it was) when I read this, and I bet you will too.<\/p>\n

With its storied tradition of gothic tragedy, it figures the South would produce more than its share of tortured souls wandering the earth in search of redemption and release. And that’s just counting the ones that are already dead.<\/p>\n

On this All Saints Eve<\/a>, give these matters some consideration as you hide from The Reaper<\/a> and thumb your nose at Death. And if you have a good ghost story to share, then by all means, please do.<\/p>\n

Boo.<\/p>\n

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