Had a great dress rehearsal last night. One of my favorite parts was being outside where the audience is milling around before they go in. I ask people if they've ever had an "intense paranormal or supernatural experience." A surprising number of people have. Sometimes I have them write their story on an index card for our collection, sometimes I ask them if they'd agree to be interviewed later about their story, and sometimes people are willing to tell me, but don't want to share it any further than that (which is fine).
Last night's interview story was a doozy -- I just have to share it here. I asked my friend Kelly the question and she said: "Yes, I've been hagged."
She was sleeping in a dorm room in North Carolina, and she woke up to the sensation of someone or something sitting on her. She shut her eyes and waiting until the thing went away. The next day she called her boyfriend to tell him about it, and a friend of his explained: certain old-lady widow ghosts, or "hags", like to sit on people who are sleeping in the rooms they haunt. The remedy is to pee in a cup and put it under the bed, and the hag will go away. Kelly tried the remedy and it worked.
Oh, the gorgeous inexplicableness!
Amy