To haunt means to hang around, frequent, visit regularly…think of favorite stomping grounds…a rendezvous or hang out place (I created this casual list after haunting my favorite thesaurus a time or two. :-)
Howdy! I’m Larissa Lyons and every second Saturday, I’ll be blogging on “World Hauntings & Paranormal Places”—those beyond the United States and Canada. That’s still a lot of territory, and while I’ve amassed info on haunted inns, castles and estates (especially across Great Britain and Ireland), and several books on ghosts and creepy occurrences throughout the globe, I think it might be fun to focus on a different type of “haunting” at first…
Where do ascended masters like to hang out? Where can you go to see a fairy ring? Do spirits frequent Stonehenge? What about Easter Island? (I confess to never even hearing of Easter Island until seeing Mr. Lyons reading an article on it over the weekend!)
Since that seems the logical place to start, I’ll get right to it. Located in the South Pacific ocean over 1200 miles away from its nearest inhabited “neighbor” and west of South America (Chile, to be specific), the tiny, remote island is famous for its 887 carved statues. (Note the white dot on the Wikipedia-provided graphic–thanks wiki!)
Called moai and carved from native volcanic rock, the largest of the statues weighs in at over 80 tons (gulp) and is well over 30 feet tall, and it’s said not one is identical to another. The how and why of their creation remains a mystery though it’s been speculated extraterrestrials placed them here (we’ll have to see what Shelley thinks of this theory!) or that each represented a specific deity or god. While there’s no shortage of information about Easter Island–so named due to its discovery on Easter Day by a Dutch explorer in 1722–populating the web, the most extensive data I ran across is thanks to the Easter Island Statue Project.
So…is Easter Island haunted? Do sheet-shrouded specters hang out at the base of each statue, waiting to screech Boo! at unsuspecting visitors? Not that I could find. Though “dangerous” ghosts known as akuaku reputedly inhabited the lands in the past, and one theory of how the giant stone monoliths were transported from the quarry–the carving site–to their locations throughout the island involves mana or spiritual power “walking” them there, the paranormal beings that may have once existed or helped create these fascinating statues aren’t making themselves known at present.
What about you? How great are your geography skills? (Stop laughing at that one…if it weren’t for pretty maps, I’d be hopelessly lost!) What paranormal places or hopefully haunted sites throughout the globe would you like to learn more about?
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Larissa Lyons thinks brownies should be an official food group and prays nightly for a house fairy to appear–one who’ll keep the house clean.
While she waits, you can read about her penchant for Roaring Rogues and sexy cowboys at her website, and her attempts at healthy baking at her blog, Larissa’s Lair.
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