OPINION Tricks of the mind or treated like hell
Gather your children, the childish and those who believe in Halloween. Now, read to them this tale in a darkened room, on a cold, Halloween night by the glow of candlelight.
Once in every generation, in our valley, and only on Halloween night, people begin to have secretive, nasty and wicked little thoughts about themselves or others.
Thoughts that would make you wonder about your own inner workings or make you giggle about your own ghastly behaviour.
Suddenly, people would just start to grin like fools or grow angry and disgusted. In some reported cases wives have been known to beat on their husbands.
This yarn originated from an old aboriginal called Buffalo Blanketing. He warned the first settlers that this beautiful valley can make a person very proud or they may be shunned and banished from decent society.
But the settlers settled, ignored the warnings and took the land by force.
The legend may have died away with most of the Natives, but every now and then the curse comes back to haunt the non believers.
Over the generations people began to see patterns in the disorder. It wouldn’t happen for a long time, then like a snake hidden in the dark, it would strike without warning.
The curse would happen randomly and it only seemed to occur just as the warm winds blew out of our valley.
People also noticed that this obnoxious Halloween madness could happen to anyone, from the highly educated to seemingly innocent toddlers. It could happen to your animals or it could be happening to the person sitting right next to you. Right now! I’d, like you to think of a certain person. Now ask yourself this: do I know what’s going on with that person or do they know what I’m going to do, and is the Halloween curse really true? An I.M.B.S. study was done on this phenomenon and it was found that the old Indian curse may not be just a bunch of hot air after all.
It was found that people in this area have been known to do crazy things on the 31st of October. It was thought that people simply acted out of character because they could hide their true identity under a ghostly bed sheet.
The reporter assumed that alcohol was the main reason for the Halloween high-jinx, but it didn’t explain why children seemed to get so hyper. Even the animals with their heightened senses seemed to know something wasn’t normal — they would hide at the first whiff of trouble.
After further study, it was noticed that our valley is physically situated exactly between two ranges near the bottom of the province.
It was also noted that two things occurred every time people began to get angry or laugh like fools.
The first thing was the San Andreas Fault would start the movement, and that would cause one range to move away from the other range. The second thing to happen was the sound of warm wind as it escaped the valley.
It was later surmised that the cold weather contracted the Earth’s surface and that in turn would cause cracks to form, and it was through these holes that hot smelly gases would escape.
So remember, if you smell something odious this Halloween — just tell people it’s not your Fault.