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Over the years I have seen many strange apparitions. Halloween is only a few days away and it feels like a good time to write about them.

As a child I had two imaginary playmates. Playmates that were always in my backyard. The first wore a white sailor’s uniform. The second wore a sailor’s work uniform, which was blue jeans and blue shirt. I did not know about uniforms of course, or what they were, but the youngest man told me. There was a third figure, but it stayed out of site, and the two men told me not to go looking for the third figure. I do not know if it was a man, woman, or something else. I could tell it watched me sometimes, but I never tried to talk to it, or go see it there in the woods.

They would walk out of the woods into my back yard, or sometimes they were already standing out on the grass. They never stood, say in the picnic table, the clothes line pole, or walked through them. It never seemed odd to me as a child that these two men were always there. Or that they would talk to me, and I could talk to them. They also never played with me, just told me things and talked with me. Occasionally, they would tell me it was time to go into the house, but never anything of importance.

They went away after a few years, and I never knew why. I remember waiting for the snow to melt, and the ground to dry up, so my parents would let me play on it. I went out in the yard, and waited for them to come out and play with me, but they didn’t show up. I was kind of sad, my only friends had left, and I had no one to play with. I made it through not having them around without any lasting effects.

There were the vampires, demons, and ghosts that every person sees at one time or another in my life. I have seen three figures crouching in a bedroom all in western dress from a previous period. In England one morning, I drove in my car behind a woman riding a bicycle up a hill only to have her disappear on the back side of the hill. This with the road sunk six or seven feet below the cornfields’ on both sides of the road! There was a ski trip with a black dog with boar tusks sticking out the sides of its mouth, on the very top Mammoth Mountain. This was February, and there was over twenty feet of snow on the ground, not to mention six thousand feet of altitude from the nearest car, and miles from the nearest house! There were other sightings over the years, but enough of this for now.

What is most interesting about every apparition I have ever seen, is the forms they have taken on. There was never any Alien, any Chucky, or Freddy. They were all things I have either seen in person, picture, or imagined. As I grew through the monster phase so did what I would see, as they changed back into human form, with the exception of the dog and a few others.

I know that anything I see will always be what I have seen, or imagined. Not because I am seeing what really is, but because what it is either projects itself as something found in my memory, or my mind changes what I see into something that I can comprehend. I think that for whatever it is I may see, it is easier for it to take an image from my mind and project that image. I think this may be true from both an energy conservation standpoint, and my comprehension ability. I can not see what I have never imagined. I know we have much more to fear from flesh and blood human beings than anything that appears and disappears.

The next time something appears in front of you, do not get scared - get curious - unless it is Halloween, then RUN!

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