tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post4688907659974234980..comments2024-03-28T20:02:35.777-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Ghosts GaloreOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-43512749009100386742011-12-08T00:24:42.770-05:002011-12-08T00:24:42.770-05:00Your blog is great. I've bookmarked it for fu...Your blog is great. I've bookmarked it for future plagiarism -- I mean, reference.<br /><br />And thanks fir writing.Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-30003837347813405232011-12-07T18:54:50.476-05:002011-12-07T18:54:50.476-05:00Love this blog. Please link to mine at
www.myweir...Love this blog. Please link to mine at<br /><br />www.myweirdthailand.blogspot.com<br /><br />i write a lot about Phii. I live in Sisaket and Bangkok, and enjoy terrifying my superstitious Isaan GF with this stuff. We have had to get a Mo Phii (Thai sorceror) to exorcise the spirits in our apartment.Chang Yaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795706945810029277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-51766364665772111582010-10-31T12:47:42.280-04:002010-10-31T12:47:42.280-04:00Hi, Beth --
No, the vast majority of Thai ghosts ...Hi, Beth --<br /><br />No, the vast majority of Thai ghosts are evil beyond evil. In fact, the most terrifying of all Thai ghosts are mothers who died in childbirth -- they're benign to their orphaned children but vortices of rage for everyone else. In general, people who died by violence come back as vengeful "hungry ghosts" who desire revenge on everyone. "Hungry Ghosts" was, in fact the first title of A NAIL THROUGH THE HEART.<br /><br />We had a Lab who saw those very same ghosts, also in the high corners of rooms. But she saw them only in one house, an amazing old Spanish three-story built in 1921 by Charlie Chaplin, and only in the living room and the room which which I wrote, which was part of the maid's quarters and had been unused for years when I bought the house. After we moved to a new house (literally only 4-5 years old) in Venice, she never saw them again. I may blog about that now that SPIRIT HOUSE is finished.Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-16373240076857679352010-10-31T09:45:13.684-04:002010-10-31T09:45:13.684-04:00A perfect story for the day. Are Thai ghosts all ...A perfect story for the day. Are Thai ghosts all benign? I remember a very old movie, "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"; he was a sea captain who haunted the people who had moved into his home. He wouldn't have been a bad ghost to have around.<br /><br />I don't believe in ghosts but.... We had a dog, a beautiful Samoyed, who was dumber than dirt. Every once in awhile, she would sit as still as a statue and stare up at a corner of the ceiling that connected the kitchen and the dining room. She would do this for about five minutes, a very long time in a dog's life when not sleeping. <br /><br />My children concluded that she could see a ghost that was visible only to animals. That didn't explain why the other dog, almost as dumb, didn't react to the "ghost". My husband thought that if the dog was seeing a ghost it was the ghost of the food that was carried into the dining room from the kitchen, perhaps an olfactory ghost rather than a visible one. <br /><br />Whatever it was, it didn't manifest itself to any of the other dogs we have had; that corner, near the ceiling was special only to her. Her name was "Edna". We always have reject dogs so we didn't name her. Maybe she was seeing the ghost of the person who gave her such a ridiculous name for a dog.<br /><br />BethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com