The Work Room

[poliphilo]

I have moved my computer into the big central bedroom- formerly the Temple, now the Work room. There it is, on the horizon, beyond the village of Scyldvik.

Ailz and I will be working together. See how pleased she is.
 

 

She says she she used to think I was quiet. She hadn't realised how much I talk to myself.

Neither had I.

This is the room in the house most likely to be haunted. Alice used to swear (in the  days when it was her bedroom) that there was something in residence in the  big corner cupboard. And just the other night Ailz's computer turned itself on all by itself.

Don't look at the stuff on the floor. We're going to pick it all up- honest we are.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Now, if a ghost were to go to the trouble to turn on a computer (no easy feat if it's like mine, which requires a strong push on a button), why wouldn't he type a little something?

Wouldn't that be nifty?

"Man, it's hot down here!" or "Who are you people? Get out of my bedroom!"

Maybe you could leave the ghost a list of instructions on how to use Word.

If he can push that button, he can type. It doesn't take nearly as much strength.

Assuming he has some kind of fingers.

But how else could he have turned on Ailz's computer?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There have been stories about strange images appearing on untuned TV sets- I wonder if there are comparable stories about computers? I'm not aware of any.

Ghosts have an affinity with electricity- you'd think they'd have mastered computing by now.

But then again they don't seem to have the strength for any sort of sustained affort. They throw everything into one effect- an appearance, a rapping on a bed-head, and that exhausts them for the evening.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I don't see how a ghost could turn on my computer without pressing hard on that button, no matter how much energy he had.

What's the hardest thing a ghost can do? I guess turning lights on. Does that involve the light switch, or is it just a jolt of energy that heats up the filaments? If that's the case, then how is the light turned back off?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ghosts do seem to be able to manage simple physical tasks- turning door knobs, throwing plates across the room- that sort of thing.

How they do it is another matter entirely.....

[creakiness.livejournal.com]

I saw something about a guy who who point a video camera towards a TV, with the cameras output connected up to the same TV creating a sort of hall of mirrors effect, and then record it. He would find images (one of a face) on the tape when he went through it frame by frame.