Ghostly Girl

So what do we think of the black eyed Girl from Cannock Chase?

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/10...ack-eyed-child-in-family-photo/?ncid=webmail2

Not the first report from there either.

Went there when I was a kid, felt kinda spooky then

 

Reminds me of the kid in one of the old low budget horror films from Friday night Fright Night on the telly (I think it followed on from Hammer House of Horror). There was one story where a little girl, who had drowned in a pond in some woods while playing, kept trying to lure her brother to his death so that she'd have someone to keep her company all the time.

Fact or fiction, I find these things quite sad. If its fiction, it shows a desperation to find something more, an inability to recognise everything we have thus making us see emptiness instead. If its fact, it shows that even in death, some people can't move on and choose instead to dwell on the negative and repeat it over and over. Either way, it makes me a bit sad to think about these things.

 

Heard something I couldn't explain in a big old house once, sound of a little girl outside the bedroom door about 2 in the morning

Same story had been told in the house 30 odd years earlier when it was a girls school, met a lady who went to school there.

 

Im from cannock and it's rubbish. It's only come to the forefront as a blokes releasing a book. They're also trying to do ghost tours around the forest at night but the ghosts supposed to come out in the day!

 

I think it's a boy

 

There is a bit of road not far from me that was frequently the scene of a crash. Its on a sort of S bend, and cars would often swerve violently on one of the bends then go through the fence. The common theme was that usually nobody would be hurt, but would be very shaken up to the point of being completely distraught. Apparently when the coppers would turn up at the scene, they would often find the driver outside the vehicle frantically searching around the car, looking for the young woman they were convinced they'd run over.

 

It's rubbish, as with any ghost story.

We are energy condensed to mass, when we die there is nothing and on goes the carbon cycle on this Pale Blue Dot called Earth.

I don't mean to offend anyone.

 

We can't know that though, too many unexplained things happen. I love ghost stories!

 

I think it's just that we can't explain them yet.

 

When we don't understand something, we might call it magic. When we do understand it, we might call it science, but the phenomenon is still the same. Science is just the pursuit of understanding of magic. If you light a bonfire, photons will hit the atoms in the matter, exciting them enough to make their electrons wobble on their orbit of their nuclei, thus release more photons, which in turn bombard neighbouring atoms. The energy trapped in the matter is released as a torrent of photons which we call fire. Understanding this doesn't change the magic that is fire. Same applies to anything else. Finding an explanation doesn't automatically destroy the magic.

 

That's all well and good but one person's magick might be another person's scientific fact, it's all perspective I guess.

 

That's what I'm saying. Science is just the study and ultimate explanation of magic. Currently, there is (as far as I know) know solid scientific explanation as to how come there is any life at all, never mind sentience, yet we know there is, so that's currently just magic. Sooner or later the boffins will explain it, prove their theories, and be able to reproduce the effects in the lab. Then it will be science, but when you see a new life pop into existence and grow to develop its own character, its still magic. Currently scientists have only unproven theories as to how gravity works and how come our ball of rock doesn't just fly off through space and freeze us all to death. The theories as to why it doesn't are accepted as scientific fact despite being unproven (yet), but the fact remains, we're on a ball of rock that surrounded by vacuum, extreme temperatures, radiation etc, and seemingly no tether to our sun, yet here we are, ok, ticking along nicely. Magic. Science, magic, same thing. Not too many years ago the scientist would have even been branded a sorcerer/magician or practitioner of dark arts. If we stop and consider our every day things that we take for granted for a moment, its easy to see how people could jump to that conclusion. Even something as trivial as switching on the living room light, we know the science, but that doesn't change the fact through a simple action, we immediately fill a dark room with light. Magic. Science. Same.

 

So known facts and unknown magic are identical? Sounds very odd to me.

I think this may be just a semantics thing.

So when we figure that out will it still be magic yet also science but also magic that is now science and no longer magic? haha

 

Yes.

No.