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So, I'm really big on "what if" scenarios, and I'm writing a story (devolping into a novel?0 in which the public at large is made fully aware of the "fact" that there are places in the world that are indeed haunted. Some spirits are your friendly neighborhood Casper variety, and others would sooner throw you down a flight of steps than let you share "their" home.
The proof comes not in some goofy/funny Ghostbusters-esque fashion, nor in any pseudo-scientific method where muffled, indiscernible voice and video recordings, along with the intuitions of psychic investigators, make up the entire body of evidence. I'm talking news cameras catch someone being mauled and tossed around like a rag doll by some spectral, translucent entity and every expert in the field studies it until his/her eyes are ready to fall out without finding a trace of fakery. And this, in turn, for unknown reasons, causes observable supernatural activity worldwide to spike.
So, story's in development, I like where I'm taking it so far, but just curious how you guys think the world might respond in light of such a development. Sure you'd have your die-hard skeptics (more than could probably be reasonably expected actually), but despite that, society would have to adjust. Not just people's beliefs, but all sorts of little things you don't even think about. Real Estate Agents, for instance, would have to fully disclose that "hey, by the way, this house is CRAZY haunted. But when you check out that view from the master bedroom, it won't even matter."
What do you guys think? How does modern civilization respond?
The proof comes not in some goofy/funny Ghostbusters-esque fashion, nor in any pseudo-scientific method where muffled, indiscernible voice and video recordings, along with the intuitions of psychic investigators, make up the entire body of evidence. I'm talking news cameras catch someone being mauled and tossed around like a rag doll by some spectral, translucent entity and every expert in the field studies it until his/her eyes are ready to fall out without finding a trace of fakery. And this, in turn, for unknown reasons, causes observable supernatural activity worldwide to spike.
So, story's in development, I like where I'm taking it so far, but just curious how you guys think the world might respond in light of such a development. Sure you'd have your die-hard skeptics (more than could probably be reasonably expected actually), but despite that, society would have to adjust. Not just people's beliefs, but all sorts of little things you don't even think about. Real Estate Agents, for instance, would have to fully disclose that "hey, by the way, this house is CRAZY haunted. But when you check out that view from the master bedroom, it won't even matter."
What do you guys think? How does modern civilization respond?
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