Saturday April 06, 2013
Off to see Godzilla... oh wait...
This date was not only a farewell-for-two-weeks of author Kat Klockow, as she heads to Japan for a fortnight, but the one-year anniversary of the announcement of Kat being a new co-host of The Paranormal View.
Possibly due to some bad puns and word-plays I was able to toss in early on, my Internet connection disconnected and I had to reboot, though after discussing some of the ancient monsters and demons, Kat realized CC had also been dropped from the call. Henry began trying calling back me and CC. He connected with CC but couldn't hear her. He didn't notice that my Skype icon would have been off due to my still rebooting.
While Henry endevoured to get CC and me back on the call, Kat discribed the origins of Shintoism.
Once CC and I were back, Kat got back into discussing Aokigahara, the Sea of Trees, also known famously, or infamously, as the haunted Suicide Forest, in which travelers are more terrified of finding bodies, including but not limited to suicides: according to what Kat has been told, two to five hundred people per year literally travel to Aokigahara to commit suicide.
She even got a little into movie culture, both horror and silly movies such as Critorian edition of Godzilla.
Ceiling Cat Barbara Duncan (CC), let us know we had listeners in the US, Finland, France, Canada, Australia and the UK.
She spoke of the author Lafcadio Hearn who translated Japanese ghost stories into English, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Kat spoke of the polite Kappa which love eating pickles and... human livers.
She spoke of invisible ghostly entities called Yokai that simply follow you around, mostly to mock the person being followed. She spoke of the semi-creepy Bakeneko, Japanese spirit cats.
After the second break, we discuss a few Haunted Places in Japan Natsuki Naval Base, with a ghost wandering aimlessly. Henry brought up Kanagawa Naval Base, and its haunting/s, but after a few moments I found the page to which Henry had found these hauntings.
Kat visited Hiroshima 13 years ago, and being American it's rather difficult. She was pulled into the war museum, where it showed how it looked in 1945, then right after the bomb. Many buildings actually remained, the sillouettes of vapourized people on the walls. Statues represented how people who were not vapourized had their flesh melting off. Retelling the horrors Kat's voice couldn't help but crack. She stressed psychics shouldn't visit Hiroshima; there is nearly a constant white noise of ongoing screaming.
Henry reported our next week's guest being Dawn Short
Kat conveyed her website and both her Facebook information and her Miss Grey Resurrection Facebook page.
I provided my Paranormal View hub page on my website, indicating people from there can find the show's official site, that we're findable on Facebook, the official Paranormal View page page, et al, and