Stronger Every Day Greenwood Mayor Mark Myers Fights Parkinson’S Disease ‘With Determination, Support and Boxing
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You're opinions of what's really happening behind trapped at home – you’re needing human the scenes: “For those whose experience of contact – it's comforting to think that there's Vote for Pro-Life, Conservative Republican self-isolation involves what they believe to a supernatural agent here with you.” be a ghost, their days are punctuated not Are these visitations only perceived, or just by Zoom meetings or home schooling, Dollyne Sherman! the real deal? but by disembodied voices, shadowy figures, Fitzpatrick reasoned that one can ar- misbehaving electronics, invisible cats cozy- gue that the ghost puttering around in your ing up on couches, caresses from hands that kitchen is not only there, but that it's always aren't there, or in some cases – free-float- been there. Maybe you're what's changed, ing, full torso vaporous apparitions. Some of she said. Or maybe you're listening more these people are frightened, of course. Oth- closely in the greater quiet all around us. ers say they just appreciate the company.” John Tenney would agree: “Perhaps we're According to one survey, 45 percent of just now starting to notice that the world is adults believe in ghosts, while another found a little bit weirder than we gave it credit for.” 18 percent have seen or had an encounter She recounted the story of Patrick Hinds, with one. Paranormal researcher, and for- who one recent night woke up around 3:30 mer host of the TV series Ghost Stalkers, a.m. and went to the kitchen for a glass of John E.L. Tenney, said in 2019 he received water. Sitting at the table was a man in his an average of two to five haunted house re- 50s, wearing a worn World War II-style uni- ports every month. That has now increased form. Hinds noticed the cap on his head.