Whoah. Eerieness!!!

[oneirophrenia]

Driving home from work tonight, through rainslicked streets and pitchblack forests, I passed by the old Greek Orthodox Church in New Salem, a town right over the hill from my house...and behind it, I suddenly noticed all the many strange, flickering lights in the blackness--like constellations shaken out of the sky and dumped behind the church. It took me a moment to recognize what they were: candles on the graves in the Orthodox cemetery on the hillside behind the church.

Now, that in and of itself is a rather spooky--candleflames sputtering in the raindrenched night--but here's the kicker.

The pattern the lights formed is this (roughly):

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For those of you who don't know...it's the symbol I use as shorthand for "Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos," so I don't have to write out the whole name constantly on CDs and stuff!!!

I actually pulled over in the church parkinglot and *stared* for about twenty minutes--getting nicely soaked in the process--because I was literally dumbfounded. I almost wrecked my damn car turning around to witness it. I WISH I had a functional camera, because I would've taken 100 pictures of it....Hopefully, the lights will still be mostly there tomorrow so I can stop and maybe take some photos tomorrow night.

Biz. Arre. That's all I can say. I feel all shivery and weird now.

I think the Other Gods are definitely giving me a heads-up here....

[Ahhh, goddamnit....LJ elides all the spaces necessary to make my little piece of spooky ASCII art look right. BASTARDS!]

Comments

[beeporama.livejournal.com]

Use "pre" tags, or if you're HTML-deficient, check the "don't auto-format" box.

[eolh.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't think the "don't auto-format" box would help, because HTML removes extra spaces by default when rendering the page (unless the "don't auto-format" just inserts a <PRE> tag). The way to get around that is to use &NBSP; which will force it to insert a space. Or use <PRE> as you suggested.

[eolh.livejournal.com]

That's the symbol that you use as shorthand for Nyarlathotep? Pervert!!!