bones-and-struts:

therobotmonster:

the-real-seebs:

crescellerose:

vampireapologist:

the most fucked up thing about married straight couples in paranormal reality shows is that the husband is almost always the skeptic and the wife will be like terrified to exist in her own home and she’ll beg her husband to believe her and she’ll be crying every night and he’ll straight up look at the camera and be like “I don’t know I guess I just thought she was imagining things.”

like this is beyond belief in ghosts what it comes down to is one member of these couples was so distressed they were in tears nightly or at least weekly, BEGGING their partner to listen to them, and their partner was like “whatever this’ll blow over.”

how does your relationship survive that?? how are these people still together?? if my wife came into the room crying and told me she’d seen bill watterson, author of acclaimed comic calvin and hobbes, manifest in our kitchen and tell her he didn’t like our wallpaper, I’d like. obviously have some questions. but I’d fucking address her distress and take steps to make her feel better lmao???

these husbands are all garbage and they feel justified bc they weren’t the “crazy one” who believed in ghosts.

they were the good, logical,  “sane” spouse who did rational and good things like, completely and purposefully ignore their partners’ growing and life-altering distress for months.

reblog if you want bill watterson, author of acclaimed comic calvin and hobbes, to manifest in your kitchen and roast your terrible choices in wallpaper

this post caused [reads smudged writing on hand] bill watterson? to physically manifest in my house

As a skeptic, I find these kinds of scenarios just as irritating, because in my book, and those of the skeptics I associate with, the idea is that one doesn’t doubt there was an experience, its what that experience is that’s in question. “I don’t doubt you saw something, but saying what it is will require investigation” and all that.

If anything, the skeptic is the one who should be pushing for them to go to a hotel for the night, because carbon monoxide poisoning produces the effects of a haunting. 

So if your spouse, who is spending more time at home than you are, is reporting scary inexplicable shit, then the first place a skeptic’s mind is going to go is something in the environment causing it. Probably carbon monoxide, but there’s all kinds of gases and molds that can cause hallucinations, not to mention infrasound if the acoustics are just right. Regardless, anything that can cause you to see Bill Watterson materialize in your kitchen is probably dangerous, and the solution to that problem, be it a legitimate ghost or an infestation of ergot in the wallpaper, is to leave the dangerous area until the problem is identified and dealt with.

None of the creepy stuff from hauntings is really stuff you’d want to ignore even with its mundane causes. Even if it does come down to a 100% ‘in your head’ kind of thing, that means the house is causing a sharply negative psychological reaction and you shouldn’t stay there. 

I’d totally dig the reverse film, though. Believer spouse is too stubborn to be chased out by the ghost, while the skeptic spouse is pulling their hair out because they’ve bought this money pit that just develops one problem after the other.

In my 10th grade English class, we we’re put in groups and assigned a house-based Gothic horror story project of original short story, coordinating illustration, and presentation. My group’s story flipped the gender roles, with a high-strung, haunted husband and pragmatic skeptic wife. It was fun.