from tumblr superstar fmtownsmarty!!!

my ENTIRE PROJECT has been worth it JUST FOR THIS STORY.

it even comes with a picture, and i can’t help thinking that danemartin needs to heed this tale with care!!!

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1. Hey, here’s one that I’ve had a hard time describing to people, as it definitely has too much setup, but here goes:
   
   At some point in highschool while wandering the halls, I encountered one of those corkboards they keep outside classrooms that had a bunch of student-made nametags (not totally sure why these were in a highschool, i assumed it was leftover from a summer program for younger kids, or something similar). Among them was an extremely stretched/pixelated cut out of Casper the Friendly Ghost, probably printed from a lo-res jpeg, with the name “Deborah” written across it (very neatly, probably by a teacher) in fat, blue crayola marker. Being an idiot, I found this extremely funny so I took it off the board and eventually put it up on the front of my bedroom door.
   
   Some night about a year or so later I was awake in bed trying to fall asleep, and happened to glance at the door, which was opened all the way so that it was almost parallel to the wall. I noticed that in addition to the blurry faint-white outline of “Deborah” that was usually visible in the dark, there was a second identical one hovering in mid-air, about a foot away from the door but on the same plane (so like, a few inches in front of the wall, does this description make any sense?) Anyhow, I was staring at it for awhile not knowing what the hell was going on and repeatedly blinking/rubbing my eyes/etc, but it just stayed there hovering. Eventually I gave up trying to convince myself that it was a shadow or that I was imagining things, (I tried shifting positions in bed, and adjusting the window shades to see if it was light reflecting off something, but the thing stayed in the same position) and resignedly accepted that something weird was going on. At some point through all this it occurred to me that the combination of the “regular Deborah” outline and the “phantom Deborah” outline kind of looked like two blurry eyes in the dark. Being at a loss as to how I should be reacting to this, I (sort of jokingly) winked at it and after a few seconds the “phantom Deborah” like, disappeared with a sort of collapsed, shuttered effect and then reopened. Y'know, like it was winking back at me.
   So the “phantom Deborah” stayed floating there for the rest of the night, I spent the next few hours staring at it, too freaked out to get up and inspect it more closely. Eventually I fell asleep, and since then I’ve tried a few more times leaving the door all the way open to see if it would happen again, but it never did. I guess inevitably it could have been a dream, but I almost never remember dreams and my recollection of this seems way too detailed for me to fully buy that explanation.
   
   Anyway, that was probably the spookiest thing that ever happened to me. Sorry this was so long and poorly-written. Sorry this reads like a bad forum post.
   
   Hope all’s well and that the recovery is going ok.
   — fmtownsmarty