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Re: Seattle: Bad Land
by Monolycus on Feb 19, 2002 - 08:23 PM
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I am afraid that I have to disagree here. If I am reading you correctly, you are suggesting that the difference in energies is entirely quantitative, but if this is so, then there exists no difference between a sacred place and a basement that fills someone with an inexplicable feeling of dread except the reaction of the observer. I maintain that the "energy" of different places affect people in (statistically speaking) the same ways because energies are qualitatively different.
The Miami Valley energy you used by way of example might help illustrate what I am talking about. Apart from the fey activity in some of the less accesible regions of the Narrows or Glen Helen (and even those have caused some people to feel inexplicably creepy), the areas of concentrations in the Miami Valley affect the majority of visitors in negative ways and are *very* localized (in the case of the Johnny Moorehouse grave in Woodlawn Cemetary it is only a space of less than square meter).
If these areas were simply concentrations of higher-than-usual but essentially neutral energy, we would expect to see an admixture of reactions to it along a positive to negative spectrum. In the Miami Valley sites,at least, this is emphatically not the case. Whether the sites inspire evasion or pilgrimages, the motivation behind the reaction is nearly invariably that the site has some "badness" that has been attached to it. You could make the argument that there are higher numbers of persons in the area that are encounter-prone than there are in others, but this does not explain why traveller's to sacred sites do not experience the same quality of experience that they do when they visit "haunted" areas.
Unfortunately for my earlier statements about how bad human activity "scars" a landscape, the specific sites in the Miami Valley each have "stories" about the production of the negative energy which are impossible to verify. The stories attached to Jacoby Road in Greene County, "Frankenstein's Castle" in Kettering, The drowned teacher at Stiver's Elementary School, the Victoria Theatre and others have all appeared in various publications and have been attested to by authorities such as police and firefighters... however, in not one of these instances can death certificates or newspaper archives be found to substantiate any of these "histories". Still, even if the attributions to them are not entirely accurate, the fact that these stories exist at all indicates that it is accepted that it is human activity and not the areas themselves that are to blame.
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