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[kimchi_pizza]

Why not? I've had a few sips of soju and got some free time so I'll share a lil story...

My hobby takes me to remote locations around Korea where battles and skirmishes of the Korean War have taken place. One particular place was deep in the country where the scars of fox holes and explosions are still visible. I was slowly hiking up a slight and gradual ridge during a warm, sunny day just like all the other dozens of places I've visited and all was normal.
Except this once.
As I was walking along a long unused trail and stepped off it to the right just a bit and as soon as I did I felt like I had crossed some kind of barrier or wall and I was hit with a most awful rush of feelings and emotions. I guess it was kind of like walking on frozen lake and suddenly falling through the ice. It was that sudden and powerful of a jolt.
The feelings/emotions were a crazy mix of anguish, anger, dread, horror and whatever else I can't even put into words.
I took 3 large quick steps out of it, and just like that. Gone. It was like an area a meter in diameter of...I dunno..."evil" I guess. I didn't think about it too much at the time or look back but kept walking at a faster pace for a short time. I just wanted to put some distance between whatever that was and myself.

Make whatever you like of it.

The place was a little town called Chipyong, about 20 minutes north of Yeoju, where a very important and deadly battle took place called, "The Battle of Chipyong-ni" in Feb. of '51. American and French forces were COMPLETELY surrounded by Chinese and naturally the death toll was horrendous. A mass grave of Chinese was found not far from my little "pocket of ghosties".

That was the first and only time and I still visit places like that. Hope ya like the story.

[sesyeux]

[kimchi_pizza]

[Forever]

[seoulsucker]

[shinramyun]

[Cerulean]

Thanks for reviving this.

[reactionary]

[Kiwigoddess]

anyone else got anything to add to this thread now that I have pulled it up from the dungeon? lol

[plato's republic]

Any other paranormal places in Korea? UFO hotspots? Crop circles?

[sublunari]

One of my younger students, who happens to be among the most boring people I have ever encountered--he doesn't seem to have any strong opinions about anything except the inveterate evil of the Japanese--once told me during one of our sessions together, as I was falling asleep while trying to excite his interest in something, that he had seen a trio of UFOs flying over the 소금강산 mountains in Gyeongju during a rather memorable late-afternoon thunderstorm last Fall. He was driving around with his mom. They both saw them. I believe one was red, one was orange, and one was green. They were as large as houses, and they also had classic "flying saucer" shapes. He says that as soon as he started taking grainy pictures of them on his old cellphone, they seemed to notice, and vanished into a kind of interdimensional flashing powder. His mother refuses to discuss the encounter. She also refuses to discuss anything except the genius of her son.

I had a look at the pictures, and they were no different from any other terrible UFO photos, but I believe he saw something. I told a bunch of my fellow Gyeongjuans about this encounter and learned from one of them that the 소금강산s are the sight of Ichadon's Martyrdom, which is the best story from Korean mythology (in my opinion). It's also serving as the opening of an ebook I'm about to publish on the subject, something I would like to mention on the forum without the thread getting deleted by the moderators...

My suspicion is that my student saw some kind of ball lightning, since the encounter took place during a thunderstorm. This cracked article seems to debunk the idea of ghosts pretty thoroughly, and may also help explain UFO sightings.

I'd also like to add, for the haters, that I've run into two native French people here in Korea. One was an engineer at some sort of really fancy physics laboratory in the outskirts of Busan and another was teaching French at a hagwon or something (I barely spoke to either of them). Haeundae is also teeming with Europeans who are not involved in ESL. So, yeah, there are French people around, though you may not have run into them.

[Scorpion]

How old are some of you people? Ghost stories? Really? You know that when the brain dies consciousness dies too, right? There's nothing left. Or do you believe the spirit of the cow is watching over your shoulder every time you eat a steak or a burger. This whole afterlife silliness is the height of species-ist arrogance. When a chimp is dead it's dead. When you die you're dead too.

Sorry to have to be the adult in the room.

[Smithington]

[rockbilly]

[lemak]