Dark Sentiments – Day 3
Posted By Randy on October 3, 2010
I am privileged to know a policeman with whom I have shared many a working and non-working hour, occasionally whilst quaffing an ale or ten. Our man is a retired member of the now disbanded Whynacht Security & Survival/Lunenburg – Mahone Bay Police Expeditionary Force who now plies his trade as a crime scene investigator for the esteemed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A better man to draw a chalk line around you you’ll never meet. All this, and his family is famed for the quality of its moonshine. What’s not to love?
He’s told me stories and I’ve witnessed him doing things his wife will never hear from my lips, but I digress. Come to think of it I’ve known her longer than him and a few of the skeletons in her closet know me by my first name (Large) … but I’m still digressing. Anyway, today is his birthday and his very own wife has defined that date to me as “Dark Sentiments – Day 3”. Marilyn Munroe said, “If you can make a girl laugh you can make her do anything.” I rest my case. Today’s post is dedicated to my crime scene investigator friend, and actually also to his wife for having married him, thereby saving all other women from such a fate.
Getting to the point, back when Mrs. LFM and I were dating with benefits, I came across … I became aware of a bit of film that I have never been able to explain. It was created by a young couple who were renting an old house that had been completely modernized except for one little problem – what they believed to be the ghost of a previous occupant. It was usually the wife who actually saw the manifestations, while the husband more often heard whispers and muffled conversations. On only two occasions did they both witness a stooped and black clad woman who appeared elderly, pacing in what was their kitchen, wringing her hands and apparently arguing with someone.
The appearances of this woman were sporadic and unpredictable, but they decided to set up a video camera in an attempt to capture what they were seeing. Well, it worked. What I have for you today is a clip from their footage that proves the couple involved were not losing their collective mind. Watch the vicinity of the kitchen table and pay close attention. Also, turn up your speaker volume because about 33 seconds into the clip the muttering starts.
Without further preamble, view the clip by clicking here and let me know your thoughts.
Recently I have been introduced to the somewhat ” eccentric ” musings of LFM, or I should say the written musings of a somewhat eccentric LFM. I have thoroughly enjoyed following the thoughts and witticisms of an intellect capable of skirting the blade edge of all things good and all things evil. The word skirting is used to imply an inability on my part to place the intellect on either side of that particular blade. Good and Evil being a relative comparative measure to what may be accepted in polite society as the ” norm “. In similar fashion, sanity is a relative comparitive measure to what may be accepted as the norm. We all possess qualities of person that may be described as good or evil dependant upon the state of mind present in response to a given circumstance.
Simply stated, ” most persons suffer from varying degrees of insanity, some hide it better then others, and others still leave no doubt as to its presence “. The question that remains unanswered after having been hooked by the rantings of LFM to the extent that one has taken the time to read all of the current and archived postings … who is the afflicted individual ? Is it the author or the reader ?
I must confess to a certain voyueristic pleasure from having glimpsed into the dark recesses of an imagination that may be described as good, evil, dark or simply measured in terms of varying degrees of sanity. I have enjoyed and looked forward to the ” Dark Sentiments ” and have been thoroughly smitten by Evelyn. To have been mentioned in the most recent Dark Sentiment and posted next to the crack of a pumpkin ass is to have achieved all that is good in life.
Love the blog, looking forward to the next posting …
Martin M
I approve this message.
I knew something was going to jump at me but still you got me! I jumped a full foot off of my chair.
thank-you,
Val
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