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uberreiniger ([personal profile] uberreiniger) wrote2003-10-10 02:27 am

Letters from Silent Hill

This entry should at least make [livejournal.com profile] yaqui feel better about where he works.

First of all, I cannot stress enough just how much a person should NOT play any game in the Silent Hill series before they come to work alone in a huge, empty, dark building at night. Second of all, my luck with working at places associated with death and mayhem seems to continue to grow.

You've all heard my story of the haunted steel mill, right? Well, I've found out some interesting things about my current workplace tonight. Now I know this isn't necessarily the safest neighborhood of town, but it's far from the most perilous. However, it appears to also be a bermuda triangle where bizarre events can happen and then just disappear. Take for instance today where a deranged gunman threatened a crowded bus at the bus stop across the street from us. There were police cars and helicopters, ambulances and news trucks galore. Yet not one peep of this massive occurance has appeared on local airwaves thus far. Or how about the time long ago when one of the ladies who works here, (office just down the hall from me, in fact,) went out on the building's patio to smoke only to be greeted by the site of a DEAD BODY hanging from a tree just a few feet off our property. An apparent suicide, but nobody here was ever able to get more information despite it literally happening just yards away.

Perhaps most interesting of all was the time when an abandonded baby was found in the dumpster behind our building. The child was taken to the hospital a block away to be cared for. When the involved parties returned to the hospital the very next day to check on the little tyke, there was no record of it and no one working there knew anything about the child. It was as though it had never existed.

All this is in addition to what I learned a few months ago about the ghost who allegedly haunts the creek which runs behind the other building I work at, (itself a popular corpse-dumping site - the creek, not the building.) A ghost who I may or may not have had an unconscious encounter with.

Lucky for me we live in a Rational Age of Science where everything can be explained, neh? Otherwise, I might actually begin to get worried.

[identity profile] stitchedsutures.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
i tried playing silent hill for a bit over a year ago in denver. i sucked at it, but i did do the dumb thing and play it alone in the dark. I'm sure it humors candace to come home to see her big tough bug killing roommate run up and say "oh i'm so glad you're home.. i'm freakin myself out over this video game" hehe.

[identity profile] uberreiniger.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's nothining. One night I played it for about ten hours until I about 5:00 in the morning. (I got really stuck and had to start the whole game over from the beginning.) This happened to be on the morning of the first Monday of the month. Guess what they do in Manhattan, KS on the first Monday of every month? They test the tornado sirens! To top it off, a thick fog decided to roll in during the night. So I wake up from a Silent Hill binge to the wailing of sirens and the world surrounded by fog. I was literally going "Oh shit, IT'S REAL!!!" until I realized what day it was. Suffice to say, I felt like a dumbass. But looking back, it was kinda cool!

[identity profile] anirishspitfire.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
That certainly *is* interesting. Sounds like where you work is haunted left right and center. I have to come visit you some time and we can do a little spiritual investigating ^.^

[identity profile] uberreiniger.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
A visit from you would be worth a hundred hauntings, my dear. I look forward to it.

You're right!

[identity profile] yaqui.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I DO feel better!
P.S. Looks like my RenFest plans have changed. I'll be going on Sunday now. I forgot I agreed to work Saturday for a friend of mine.