The Paranormal Blog

I normally like to follow-up the Sunday Smackdown feature with something of interest that is positive in nature. Mostly because I consider myself a positive and usually upbeat person ... Life is too short to wallow in negativity ...

But I received an email from an idiot today that actually dove-tails nicely with yesterday's post. The idiot is a freelance journalist and his message went something like this:

"I'm a freelance journalist in Toronto, and I've recently become interested in the history of the Danforth Bridge/Prince Edward/Bloor Street Viaduct, and I'm hoping to pitch an article about ghost activity connected to that structure.

Prior to construction of the innovative Luminous Veil suicide barrier, the Viaduct was second only to the Golden Gate bridge as a suicide magnet in North America. When I lived in that neighbourhood my partner and I witnessed two suicides from our apartment. With close to 500 deaths there must be at least a few ghost stories connected to the bridge, the Don Valley and maybe the DVP, where a lot of jumpers hit.

I'm wondering if anyone in your organization is any kind of expert on that topic."

UGH!!!!! Well naturally I responded politely with:

"I'm sorry, but we do not follow up on any reports that may concern recent tragedies out of respect for the surviving relatives and friends of those who passed on. I hope you understand. To publish "ghost stories" in regards to this particular location would be in very poor taste in our own opinion."

I had to sit on my typing fingers in order not to tell him exactly how HE could become an expert ....

Yes idiot, lets rip open the wounded hearts of people who lost loved ones on that bridge, and publish an article on how the tormented souls of those who passed on there still haunt the bridge. Creep!

SICKENING, and maddeningly INSENSITIVE .......

These types of requests from the media are thankfully infrequent, but I do recall that shortly after 9/11 I was listening to a radio program that featured a US ghost group and the radio announcer had the gall to ask his guests when they would be heading out to ground zero! The announcer figured the scene of such mass death would be great to investigate. Just before I switched the dial, I heard the shocked silence of the ghost researchers ... followed by their polite explanation that this would be highly inappropriate ......

Posted By Sue Darroch