City of Ghosts
Oct. 11th, 2013 05:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agt_spookyI had so much fun last night! Got this flyer in the mail the other day advertising this program at the local library called City of Ghosts a "paranormal performance" by local historian William Pack. (http://www.williampack.com). It was a full page write up and it sounded really cool so I signed up for it, as there was a limit of 20 people.
It was this small room and all the lights were off except for these two orange spotlights that were shining up at the front. There was creepy music playing and a backdrop of a dark red velvet curtain with black lace. Very atmospheric!
William put on the most amazing performance for an hour and a half. He told what were basically interactive ghost stories, with audience participation, as it turns out he's also a slight of hand magician. He would start off a story then pick someone to come up and help him. And I'm telling you, I don't know how he did 90% of this stuff. It was like watching a mini version of David Copperfield!
I was lucky enough to get picked along with another woman and two men. It was a story about trick or treating. We were each given one of those "Hello My Name Is" badges and we were to write down any kind of Halloween costume. He went to the back of the room so he couldn't see what we were writing. Since we were talking ghost stories, I wrote down Casper the Friendly Ghost. He had one of the guys collect the badges and shuffle them up then put them face down on this little table. William then said that he would be able to correctly guess what everyone had written down. And I'll be damned if he didn't! By just us saying Yes or No or simply standing there in my case, he correctly identified all of us. Not only that, but the last guy left he didn't even look at the badge and told him what he had written down. And he was right! It was freaky! Not only that, but then he had us each pick up a treat bag at random. He said that the problem when people went trick or treating with him that only one person came back alive, and it was always him. We opened up our treat bags and sure enough we had ALL picked the "poisoned" candy bars and the last bag left on the table, for William, was the "non-poisoned" one. How the hell could that have happened when we all picked at random?? LOL!
He did other cool things, other mind games with the ghost stories that always left us laughing with "how did he do that??" At the end we did a seance, with all of us holding hands and trying to contact the spirit of this woman who was murdered back during the Depression. He had various objects of hers on the table, and with him sitting in the front row, first her photo tipped over and fell off the table and all the lights went out. Then the lights came back on and there was writing on this chalkboard that hadn't been there. Then this bell started ringing. Then he took this white handkerchief out of this wine glass and there was a "blood" stain on it when it had been completely white when he put it in the glass. SO. FREAKING. COOL.
The flyer summed it up best - "It's thought-provoking, funny and a little scary. It's a haunted house in your seat."
I couldn't agree more. :-)
It was this small room and all the lights were off except for these two orange spotlights that were shining up at the front. There was creepy music playing and a backdrop of a dark red velvet curtain with black lace. Very atmospheric!
William put on the most amazing performance for an hour and a half. He told what were basically interactive ghost stories, with audience participation, as it turns out he's also a slight of hand magician. He would start off a story then pick someone to come up and help him. And I'm telling you, I don't know how he did 90% of this stuff. It was like watching a mini version of David Copperfield!
I was lucky enough to get picked along with another woman and two men. It was a story about trick or treating. We were each given one of those "Hello My Name Is" badges and we were to write down any kind of Halloween costume. He went to the back of the room so he couldn't see what we were writing. Since we were talking ghost stories, I wrote down Casper the Friendly Ghost. He had one of the guys collect the badges and shuffle them up then put them face down on this little table. William then said that he would be able to correctly guess what everyone had written down. And I'll be damned if he didn't! By just us saying Yes or No or simply standing there in my case, he correctly identified all of us. Not only that, but the last guy left he didn't even look at the badge and told him what he had written down. And he was right! It was freaky! Not only that, but then he had us each pick up a treat bag at random. He said that the problem when people went trick or treating with him that only one person came back alive, and it was always him. We opened up our treat bags and sure enough we had ALL picked the "poisoned" candy bars and the last bag left on the table, for William, was the "non-poisoned" one. How the hell could that have happened when we all picked at random?? LOL!
He did other cool things, other mind games with the ghost stories that always left us laughing with "how did he do that??" At the end we did a seance, with all of us holding hands and trying to contact the spirit of this woman who was murdered back during the Depression. He had various objects of hers on the table, and with him sitting in the front row, first her photo tipped over and fell off the table and all the lights went out. Then the lights came back on and there was writing on this chalkboard that hadn't been there. Then this bell started ringing. Then he took this white handkerchief out of this wine glass and there was a "blood" stain on it when it had been completely white when he put it in the glass. SO. FREAKING. COOL.
The flyer summed it up best - "It's thought-provoking, funny and a little scary. It's a haunted house in your seat."
I couldn't agree more. :-)
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Date: 2013-10-15 11:09 pm (UTC)