- Thailand (RCN) - Residents of the Phi Phi islands and
the Khao Lak coastal region were drawn to the beach by the laughter and
songs of tourists, only to find silence and darkness.
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- One cab driver claimed having taken a tourist and his
Thai girlfriend to the airport and later, upon looking in the rear-view
mirror, realized there was no one sitting in the back seat.
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- The people telling such stories -- compiled by the AFP
news agency -- agree that they are more frightened by the ghosts of the
thousands killed by the tsunami than by the notion of a new tidal wave.
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- A security guard at a small shopping center in Patong
quit his job after having heard a foreign woman crying for help all night.
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- Such tales of wandering souls have multiplied, such as
the one of the foreign woman who wanders the beach at night, calling out
for her missing son.
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- The Thai population is on the superstitious side. They
believe, for instance, that large trees harbor spirits.
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- They also have a "spirit house" in some corner
of their homes or gardens, believing tha daily offerings of food and beverage
keep all paranormal manifestations at bay.
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- Mental health experts have explained that the appearance
of this cultural factor among tsunami survivors shows the exent to which
they were traumatized by the event.
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- "It is a sort of mass hallucination that shows the
extent to which the population was traumatized as they continue sarching
for the missing, after having seen so many corpses, and after talking about
nothing but death," said psychologist Wallop Piyamanotham.
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- Added to this is the fact that untrained individuals
suddenly found themselves collecting horribly mutilated bodies from the
beaches, or handling decomposing cadavers in the immense makeshift morgues.
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- The trauma, explained Dr. Wallop, began to manifest itself
more or less four days after the Decemebr 26 tragedy.
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- Many claim being unable to rid themselves of the stench
of death, or eliminate from their minds the unbearable images they witnessed.
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- Like many others, Napaporn Phroyungthong, manager of
a Patong bar, says that he is "very scared" after having been
in the Baan Muang temple, where hundreds of corpses were placed.
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- "I believe in ghosts. The tsunami arrived so quickly
that the foreigners didn't understand what happened to them. They still
think they're on vacation and on the beach," he said.
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- http://noticias.canalrcn.com/noticia.php3?nt=17156
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- Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Planeta UFO
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- Comment
- From Eugenia Macer-Story
- 1-16-5
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- In the late 1980s, I had a similar experience to the
experience of ghostly tourists partying as described to the Inexplicata
article. I was sitting on the side porch of a house then under rennovation
with the man who had inherited the house from his parenrts. It had previously
been used as a guest house and rental property but was then empty. We clearly
heard people enter the house from the front door and go up the inside steps,
laughing and talking. We assumed it was the contractor and I wanted to
meet him. i stood up and opened the inside porch door in a jovial mood.
But no one was there. We looked upstairs. No one was upstairs.There are
parts of the Woodstock area which have an unusual "time strange"
quality. Apparantly--to my thinking--people who had rented the house once
held a party there or were happily social there.
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