Ghosts are well known for hanging around their old homes, places that they remember most for whatever reason. This wasn't a problem that most people noticed, what with them being incorporeal and unconcerned with what the living were doing, to an extent at least. Sure, the odd poltergeist made its appearance and was left to its own devices as the inhabiting living moved out as quickly as they could but for the most part this still wasn't an issue.
Then something happened, we still don't know what. Some kind of catalyst for the biggest rise in poltergeist activity since the Bell Witch Haunting came to the media's attention. Then cases went from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50 and are still rising.
Most homes are utterly uninhabitable by the living, whole cities have become lost to unseen figures and their anger. The worst of it isn't that we can't see them to defend ourselves, it's the messages they leave. It's that they are our grandparents, our siblings, our old teachers and neighbours who know us by name and hate us for living while they are not.
Whatever started their anger is still growing and with it we are forced to isolate ourselves further and further from our old habitats. Anywhere where humans could have lived or have lived is likely to develop poltergeist activity within an average of three days if there are living people present.
Our solution thus far has been to head to the near uninhabitable places, near to volcanoes, far out on the ocean, high up in the mountains, anywhere we struggle to remain in one place. The more we move about the less poltergeists can track us.
I've been out on the ocean since my grandmother came back and skinned my cat right in front of me before using his blood to tell me I'm joining her soon. Jokes on her, this boat hasn't stayed still for almost a year now and it's never been quieter out here. So painfully quiet at times but any time I feel the urge to go back to land I just remember that day and - surprisingly enough - the urge fades.
Then something happened, we still don't know what. Some kind of catalyst for the biggest rise in poltergeist activity since the Bell Witch Haunting came to the media's attention. Then cases went from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50 and are still rising.
Most homes are utterly uninhabitable by the living, whole cities have become lost to unseen figures and their anger. The worst of it isn't that we can't see them to defend ourselves, it's the messages they leave. It's that they are our grandparents, our siblings, our old teachers and neighbours who know us by name and hate us for living while they are not.
Whatever started their anger is still growing and with it we are forced to isolate ourselves further and further from our old habitats. Anywhere where humans could have lived or have lived is likely to develop poltergeist activity within an average of three days if there are living people present.
Our solution thus far has been to head to the near uninhabitable places, near to volcanoes, far out on the ocean, high up in the mountains, anywhere we struggle to remain in one place. The more we move about the less poltergeists can track us.
I've been out on the ocean since my grandmother came back and skinned my cat right in front of me before using his blood to tell me I'm joining her soon. Jokes on her, this boat hasn't stayed still for almost a year now and it's never been quieter out here. So painfully quiet at times but any time I feel the urge to go back to land I just remember that day and - surprisingly enough - the urge fades.
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