Friday, June 30, 2017
Deep thinking
Wandering through old movies on Youtube, ran into "The Creature from the Haunted Sea." Nice poetic atmosphere, but how would that work?
A house or tomb has walls, so it can be securely haunted without the haunt-field escaping. Think Faraday shield.
A sea, by definition, is not a closed body of water. It's more like a region within an ocean. (There are a few exceptions, but they're misnamed. The Sea of Galilee and the Salton Sea are really lakes, not seas.)
How does hauntation remain confined in a region of the ocean? Why isn't the haunting diluted by inflowing unhaunted water from other parts of the ocean? Why doesn't it flow out to haunt the rest of the ocean in an attenuated way? Are there spirit dams or weirs** around the haunted region, invisible to ordinary sailors? If so, why isn't EPA agitating to breach them?
** A spirit weir would be an ectoplasmic reticulum.
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Later: I thought I was being creatively stupid, then remembered that the Ghost Hunters As Seen On TV always carry little hauntation field strength meters, presumably controlled by finger pressure. Nothing new under the stupid sun.
Labels: Alternate universe, coot-proofing
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