It’s been a solid month and five days since I’ve been able to flood my keyboard with thoughts about strange events, but luckily I’m officially done with finals, graduation, and my first college degree. (For some reason I thought it would feel a little more exciting…) Anyway, I’m now ready to take on summer and spend it filling my brain with ghosts, ghouls, aliens and Bigfoot. I’m going to be planning an expedition to go ghost hunting with a few friends of mine to a well known haunted hotel in central-easternish Minnesota, and am probably more excited for that than I was to walk across the stage at my own graduation. I am also excited to announce that while I was at first weary about having to find a dreaded summer job to fill the gap between one school ending and the other beginning, I am lucky enough to escape the cliche of lifeguard or camp counselor and spend my entire summer fixing up my parents very beat up house and taking care of my second youngest nephew. In other words, I have a new goal to avoid minimum wage customer service jobs forever. Because they’re soul sucking and terrible.

NOW. Back to the paranormal stuff….

I have tons of stories to throw up here, but because of my schedule I haven’t been able to yet. Hopefully I’ll get around to that eventually. What I really wanted to do with this post, besides update my non-existent readers on my life, is talk about something I’ve been hearing about a lot lately through various sources which I think it relatively interesting. It seems that once a theme pops up in one place, it catches on everywhere else, too. Today that theme happens to be tulpas. As a basic run-down, these are entities that are essentially created out of human thought, either intentionally or unintentionally. Of course this popped up in the recent January reboot of the X-Files, in the episode titled “Home Again” (which I , like many other die-hard fans, REALLY hoped would reconnect to the infamous season four episode two episode titled “Home”). “Home Again” followed an evil tulpa that goes around gruesomely murdering officials involved in relocating (or preventing the relocation of) homeless people off of the street for their own benefit, created by an artist whose mental energy accidentally brought the “Band-Aid Nosed Man” to life. The artist was played by Time Armstrong, which made me pretty much adore the episode no matter how ridiculously named the monster was, so it was pretty great. After seeing this, and hearing about these things in a number of other places such as internet articles and podcasts, I went ahead and did some research. One site I found described an entire process for creating these entities, complete with naming them and teaching them to speak. Others warned against the practice completely, claiming nothing good can come of toying with the idea. While I’m not completely sold on the belief that it’s possible to create something out of nothing, the entire phenomenon seemed to me very closely related to one other common topic in the paranormal world, which is poltergeists. While there are some obvious differences, the idea of creating a powerful energy, something strong enough to manifest in the physical world, in your own mind, is both intriguing and ultimately a little terrifying. Now that I have been freed of my college-student responsibilities, I intend to finally dig through all these books on my shelves and cram in as much weird knowledge as I can, but for some reason, I have a feeling I’m going to end up scouring amazon for even more books, probably about tulpas. Does anyone else know of any obscure little creatures that would make for good summer reading? Or have any personal experiences with tulpas? I feel that the possibilities for them are endless, but then again, I feel like the possibilities for a lot of things are endless, too.