Been at odds with the dark for some time...
I've always had a love/hate relationship with the dark, from pretty much as soon as I could walk until the age of 12 I would sleep with the landing light on, the big light and a lamp shining in my face. Now I've since learnt that the dark can play tricks on you, but there are some experiences that just don't seem to go away.

On Boxing day, around 1991, I was 6 years old and being the close knit family that we were, my parents and my aunt, uncle and their kids did what many would do at that time of year: Go to the pub from 3pm until closing time. I remember very little of the actual time spent at the pub, just that once it got dark, we all sat out in the pub garden for many hours.

That is when I saw it. In my mind's eye, the huge oak tree that was sitting in the beer garden opened up, as if it had a door, and out rolled a huge boulder a la Indiana Jones. My cousin was stood next to me, and before I could even say a word he said "did you see that?!" of course shortly after that we both freaked out and went to our parents, who were around the corner from us, as we returned with reinforcements in our parents, there was of course, nothing there. I would've dismissed it as nothing had my cousin not seen it also.

Later on in life I also had various experiences in the woods by my friend's house, such as seeing a red light off in the distance through the trees, knowing that the forest pretty much stretched far enough in the direction that there should be no light. Of course, we had rigged up a home made bong, made with a pringles tube and were ripping it enough that any experiences at that time are pretty much suspect.

Sorry for the length and lack of funny. Its my first post here.
(Spackles Made sexual advances in your general direction on, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 19:30, Reply)