🗿 stormbreath 2/1/20 (Mon) 14:15:98 #44573901
Welcome back to Parawatch Monthly Discussion. For those unfamiliar with the concept, every month the Parawatch Staff Team goes looking for posts, threads and comments that we find to be strong evidence of the supernatural and proof that the otherworldy exists. Whether you accept the truth that they are putting forward or simply enjoy them as narratives, we hope to shed light on some of the most interesting and chilling stories that the site has to offer.
This month's theme is: Road trips.
Travel is inherently frightening. You've left the safety and comfort of home and gone outside into the greater world. As we all know, the outside world is frightening, scary and often confusing. We can hardly know what is really out there.
There are many reasons that an individual might be compelled to travel. Perhaps it is pilgrimage — the spiritual journey to get somewhere else. Perhaps it is exile — you no longer belong where you started. Perhaps it is duty — there is some obligation to you at your destination. Perhaps it is mere wanderlust — you simply wish to stretch your weary legs.
In all of these cases, you find yourself torn from the familiar and thrust into a world of unknowns. You know your house, your town, your neighborhood. But at a certain point along your travel, you cross into a place that is unfamiliar. A moment where you fall out of your world and into another. Where you are no longer simply in one location, but in another.
If I were Rod Sterling, I might say you had crossed into the Twilight Zone. Regardless of the humor in the situation, I feel the metaphor fits.
For the average American today, travel can take multiple forms, but the most alluring of these is the road trip. Here you find yourself encountering the outside world and running into all of the actual horrors of the outside world. For many, it is an inherently frightening experience.
You can never really be sure of what is out there.
This month's chosen threads: