Taxis and ghosts

"Three ghost girls in a taxi" by Rayne

A regular job such as a taxi driver is one of the most strangest with it's encounters with the paranormal. While many taxi drivers have a lot of interesting experiences, there are some with scary memories with ghosts. I shall post some of the stories from taxi drivers and also stories of taxi drivers. 

There is a story that might either be based on a true experience from a taxi driver or it's a Creepy Pasta. The story is about a taxi driver who collected three girl passengers on a road in the city at night. They were young women who had flagged him down, and told him to take them to hospital. One of the women had severe stomach pains. The taxi driver drove to the nearest hospital, and the two other women told the driver to quickly get a doctor and they wanted to stay with their friend in the taxi. After entering the hospital the first person he spoke to was a nurse, who agreed to go and check up on the sick woman in the taxi. However, once the nurse had gone out to look, she didn't see any sign of the three women. Instead, she found only human remains in the back seat of the taxi. It turns out this belonged to three college girls who had all died in a fatal road accident, at the same place where the taxi driver found them. 

Another story on Facebook about a taxi driver who chose to be anonymous. He was finishing his shift and it was almost midnight, when a woman flagged his car down. He reconsidered picking her up, as she was all by herself so late. In his good nature he would offer her a free ride. She wanted to go to "Dimsdale Avenue off Wart Street", which he recognised as a place near where he would refuel his taxi sometimes. The drive itself was awkward as the young woman seemed very quiet and distant. Despite this, she seemed very ill looking and her eyes were very blank. When he dropped her off at the place, he noticed the graveyard there. The woman commented about herself being dead, before exiting the taxi. The unnerving experience didn't end there because the taxi driver found out that a young woman who was recently buried in that same graveyard looked exactly like his strange passenger he met that night.

While phantom hitchhikers are very common, nothing is more regular as the ghost passengers in Ishinomaki, Japan. There are countless stories of taxi drivers picking up ghosts, who look like very real living people at the time. Yuka Kudo, a sociology student of Tohoku Gakuin University researched the subject after chatting to hundreds of taxi drivers in Ishinomaki. The place itself became extremely haunted soon after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster killing thousands of people. The ghosts were wearing winter season clothes, who hailed taxis and asked to go to locations that disappeared during that horrific disaster. Many of these ghost passengers were confused and didn't realise that the places they want to go to have now gone, while some disappear into thin air., Some of these ghostly passengers become aware of being dead soon after the taxi drivers tell them their destined locations no longer exist. This is why a lot of these type of ghost stories are sad and not scary.

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Symbolism of Snow White

The famous story "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by the Grimm Brothers has a lot of symbolism. While there are lots of articles about it, they focus on other tales and stories with a similar theme instead of the story itself. These are not just children's bedtime stories and also many people associate them with Disney films. The symbols in "Snow White" includes the poisoned apple, the number seven, the number three, mirror, glass coffin. The number three appears a lot. Snow White's mother wanted a child, and she was thinking about it when she accidently pricked her finger on the sewing needle. This is a symbol of conception. Three drops of blood fell onto the napkin she was sewing. She made a wish for a daughter to have three things, to be as white as snow with hair the colour of ebony and lips red as blood. White symbolises innocence and purity, even with the divine. We're told red means blood. Ebony is linked to the wood, as ebony trees are lucky and for protection. Later we learn she has a baby girl named Snow White and her wish was granted. This magical queen died in the traditional story, and was replaced by the stepmother, who became evil and cruel. Earlier on, and in some retellings, the first queen died and was reborn as the evil queen such as rebirth that again appears. Now the wicked queen tried to kill Snow White multiple times in the original story. The huntsman is ordered by the queen to kill Snow White and return her heart in a box. After Snow White flees and takes refuge with the home of the seven dwarfs, the evil queen learns about this and she attempts to kill Snow White again with three methods. Each time, she wears a disguise, first as a peddler woman selling laces, which she tightened around Snow White's waist and secondly she visits selling pretty combs that makes Snow White pass out. 

Finally the queen disguises herself as an old woman selling red apples. Apples are symbolic of love and wisdom. A poisoned apple is the opposite, it symbolises death, destruction and jealousy. In myths, apples are forbidden fruits, such as the one in the Garden of Eden, banishing humanity after eating it, then the Apple of discord in Greek mythology that some believed started the Trojan War, in Norse mythology are the apples of goddess Hel that are also apples of death. In Celtic legend a man was turned into an apple and a young woman ate it and became pregnant, resulting in the birth of a hero. Snow White takes a fatal bite and isn't woken up. It's not clear how much time passed as she's buried in an open glass coffin so everyone can see her beauty. The prince arrives and manages to wake her. First of all, he accidentally knocks over the coffin, but soon this changed to him kissing her. There is the kiss of life with the jolt of awakening, bringing Snow White back from death.

The number three is symbolic of life, death and rebirth. It's believed to represent the divine aspect of triple gods and goddesses, and the number three appears in Christianity as the Holy Trinity, while other religions have the sacred number three, including rituals and acts done in threes. This figure 3 in the story represents those things especially life, death and rebirth of Snow White as she returns from the dead three times. The red apple that kills Snow White, is the same colour as blood that helped create her. Also her blood red lips biting the red blood apple is the connection. The prince kisses her on the lips to wake her, dislodging the piece of apple from her throat, undoing a spell. In a sense, the apple was the queen's weapon and it failed because Snow White was reborn. It's believed that the main characters represent good and evil, which is the powerful message we find in the story. Number seven is another sacred number that appears a lot, as there are seven dwarfs, who become the guardians and protect Snow White. It's considered to be a lucky number. There's 7 days of the week, seven chakras, seven colours of the rainbow, seven sisters stars and seven wonders of the world. 

That was my view on the symbolism of Snow White. I shall do more on other fairy tales later. Check out reading more on a similar topic: Book The Wisdom of Fairy Tales by Robert Meyer

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Cryptid story short

There is a mounted head of a strange creature that has been on display in a public house for well over 200 years.  It's named Egopantis, which was hunted down in the 18th century after a long time of frightening local people living in the area. It happened in the village of Shirley, Massachusetts, when this large creature from the nearby woods appeared. It often roared and threatened people until Captain Nathaniel Smith shot it. The head of the egopantis was put on the wall of the tavern, and it still remains there to this day. It can be seen at the Bull Run Restaurant. And still today no one knows what it really is exactly. 

To read more visit Grunge article HERE

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Cryptid news May

AI generated image source Pixabay

 

To be really honest, there's been a lot of new cryptids being reported but I have just been hand picking the main articles to feature here once a month. So it's May and already there's been yet another story coming from Loch Ness. 

A Canadian family on holiday in Loch Ness saw something in the water near Urquhart Castle, that looked like a head. It appeared dark coloured and soon swam over still with its head visible, but then it went under and vanished. I'm not altogether sure what it is, but this could be anything. When people visit the Loch Ness site, they always expect to see a monster in the lake, but this means taking pictures of anything that moves there, which may turn out to be driftwood, a duck, seal or even a snake. I'm not saying this picture isn't of the Loch Ness Monster, it could be anything and even something else unknown. Link on Twitter HERE 

Also on the subject of the Loch Ness Monster, the group running the Loch Ness Monster Centre have invited NASA to search for the unknown creature in the lake! More info of that story found HERE at Sky News.

Meanwhile in England's South Down's have been scary reports of a biped hairy monster, described as a "Bigfoot" type that was heard growling. Mike Brown was among the fishermen who encountered it and said: "I felt incredibly on edge and it was a feeling I can honestly say I had never experienced before or since. It really was as if something was watching me and I was not welcome." Another eye witness named Michael Brindle heard growling, then saw a very large entity running at speed on two legs. He then said "The hairs on my arms (stood up)." Find this story at the Daily Star HERE.

Also an article posted by the Hertfordshire Mercury about a dogman/werewolf sighting in Hatfield Park, by Colin Keelty who reported it HERE . 

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