A fan fiction by Kate-chan 91
Disclaimer: While this story is mine, I don't own Danny Phantom.
Kate-chan 91's tidbits (A/N): The actual start of the fanfic (and authors notes won't come until it actually starts, but I think this was pretty important to type) will be in the next chapter.
Ja Ne!
Kate-chan 91
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Part 0 Introduction: Paranormal Activity Across the Ages0000
"Lord, make me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." –Psalm 39.4
From the dawn of time, man has believed and debated whether or not the earth is a more spiritual place than initially thought. After all, they use myths, legends, and stories to explain unknown phenomena before it's clearly explained. For example, until science proved our little hypothesis wrong, it was assumed the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, which caused the deaths of one-third of Europe's population in the 1300's, was an act of God, punishment even. (As it turned out, dirty living conditions and infected fleas and rats (among a couple other things) contributed to the spread of the fatal disease.) Despite the powers of science and medicine, there are still some things that are yet to be completely debunked; one of the many unsolved mysteries is the subject of ghosts.
According to the dictionary, the word "ghost" is defined as, "A disembodied spirit, a soul or spirit of, a shadow or… spirit of any kind." The process of creating a ghost is varied: one may experience a painful, unexpected (or in some cases both) death where the subject's life is often cut short, the case in which someone died and still doesn't know his or her time on Earth hasn't expired or the person was obsessed with a material possession in life and is still connected to it in the afterlife. Other explanations abound, but these are often the causes.
While most ghosts double as flashbacks or discharges and are usually quite harmless, lasting for only seconds at a time, there are still those that are thought to exist to harm. Usually these types of ghosts are forms of demons or anything that wasn't even human long ago, but there are ghosts of pirates, murderers and the occasional tortured spirit that allegedly have come back from beyond the grave in means of scaring us (literally) to death. One such spirit was the infamous Bell Witch from the town of Adams, Tennessee whom supposedly is the only ghost in United States history to actually cause the death of a person.
In addition to these types of spirits, curses sometimes exist where people expired or negative energy collected over time. An example of this type of "haunting" is a lone round pillar in Augusta, Georgia. Since the pillar was used in selling slaves, legend has it that either a minister or a particular slave placed a fatal curse on it. Time and time again, attempts to remove this cursed pillar for construction reasons have been unsuccessful, and the curse was apparently effective as people have gave up the ghost shortly after even briefly/accidentally touching it. A particular unlucky victim of its wrath includes a truck driver who crashed into it; he was found dead at the scene though it was shown to be a mild collision.
Despite the possibly authenticity of some reports of these ghosts, the mystery of them as a whole is still widely debated. Is there really an afterlife or even life after death? You decide.
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