#whatsnewalycat campfire

[whatsnewalycat]

whatsnewalycat celebratory campfire

Hello hello hello! For some reason there are over 1,000 of you following me, which is bananas, and I want to do something fun to thank y’all. Because, seriously, thank you.

I’ve been out gathering wood and dusting off lawn chairs, but now I’m ready for you to gather around the campfire. What the fuck does that even mean??

It means I want you to send me your campfire story!

You know the one. The one that comes to mind when people are trading their unexplainable experiences. The one that starts with a disclaimer: “You’re not gonna believe me, but…” That’s the one I wanna hear. Doesn’t have to be a first hand account, it can be a story your grandma told you or something that happened to a friend or a local legend or whatever. I’ll share some of mine, too, if ya want.

Alternatively, you may also submit the following asks for me to answer to:

🔥 fuck marry kill / send me any 3 fictional characters and I’ll choose FMK

🔭 word search / send me a word, I’ll search my WIPs for it, and if anything populates I’ll drop the line it’s in.

🌲 would you rather / send me two scenarios and I will choose exactly one

⛺️ whatever the fuck you want / send me your burning question and I will answer it (can be about my stories, my life, it can be asking for advice, whatever u want bb).

We’ll do these things for 10 days because that’s a lot of fucking days and who cares after that lol. I appreciate participation and spreading the word, it would be neat to hear from y’all 🥰❤️

[littlemisspascal]

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[whatsnewalycat]

Hi and congratulations!! I don't think we've ever crossed paths, but your campfire milestone celebration is a delightful idea I couldn't resist!!

(I took a peek at your masterlist, and it looks like I've got some Frankie and Dieter goodies to read!!)

Okay, I grew up in a haunted house, and so was the first house I bought with my honey, and I was thinking I would tell you a story about one of those houses... but I've decided to tell you about the time my great gra-méré saved me from drowning (on my mother's side), even though she was long dead at the time.

I was no more than 4 at the time, so this is a family story and not remembered by me. I should also let y'all know, it was the 1970s, so when you are like why wasn't someone right on top of a 4 year old near a body of water, or in a personal floation device, or allowed to talk to strangers... That's why. The 1970s , practically the Wild West...

Anyway, my family used to go swimming at Lerner's Pond, it's a sandy pond with pines all around, and the pond had a large dock shaped like an H.

I was in the shallows as a pre swimmer, and my dad was playing with my older siblings, and my mom was on the blanket talking with my grandmother (on my father's side), but she was counting her babies as she chatted, she saw Dad with my brother and two sisters swimming and playing and I was not far from my dad playing in the sand and chatting with a couple of grown ups who were sitting by the waters edge.

She looked away, chatted a bit. Then, as my mother describes it, something like an arm came between my mother and grandmother, pointing, and her grandmother's voice said urgently, 'Hazel is over there!'

The force was so strong that my mother's head snapped way from my grandmother's to look where "the arm" was directing, and all she saw was two little arms waving languidly in the water. She got up like a shot, jumped over a blanket with a couple adults sitting on it and ran into the water grasped the two little arms and pulled me straight up. She said I was looking up at her from under the water completely calm.

And when I came out I was calm, because the world was a smaller place back then, and weird as hell my pediatrician was at the pond that day, and checked me over. He confirmed that there was no water in my lungs and seemed fine. The couple I had been talking to were mortified, as I had been just talking to them and I was only a few feet from them. Apparently, because I wasn't thrashing and splashing in a panic no one was the wiser thinking the languid waving was playing or otherwise went unnoticed. (It is since then that people have put out many a PSA of the ways drowning can look-and its not all panicked spashing, and more often not).

Well, when my mom told me the story, I asked her what I said about what happened and she said I was quiet the whole day, but she picked me up from a nap and I told her, 'she said to keep waving and you would come.'

My gra-méré lost one of her sons, Albert, to drowning.

💚

STOOOOOOP I’m crying and I have goosebumps 😭❤️❤️ I love that so fucking much. Gra-méré looking out for you from beyond the grave. That’s so sweet. Thank you so much for sharing ❤️

[whatsnewalycat]

⛺️ do you have a favorite story you’ve written?

I do!!! It’s Psychomanteum lol. I know it’s not finished yet but it’s still my favorite.

There are so many things I have loved about the research I put into it in addition to writing it. Learning about peoples’ near-death experiences, and peoples’ experiences with psychomanteums, has soothed some of my existential anxiety. I’ve ended up with a much different outlook on death than I did going into it. When I went into it, I thought it would be a chance to dabble in horror writing, and there are spooky elements, but it’s not at all how I initially thought it would be. Because death isn’t typically horrifying to those who die. Communicating with your dead loved ones in a psychomanteum is not the same terrifying experience as a ghost sighting. Both of these things are overwhelmingly reported as comforting and peaceful. And that discovery has been pretty fucking cool.

Also obviously I love their love. I love how they buoy each other out of the darkness, and their connection, and their imperfections. All that good good shit that makes love and life so significant.

Ok sorry I’m doing the thing where I ramble about things you didn’t ask for but TLDR Psychomanteum is my favorite 🥰

[whatsnewalycat]

🔥 lets get right to it - FMK Dieter, Frankie, Javi P

Oh my godddddd how dare you, this is impossible 😂❤️ literally sitting here arguing with myself about any possible answers.

On one hand, I could kill any of them to put them out of their misery. But, let’s be real, the kill has to go to either Frankie or Javi because of their crimes against humanity. I don’t know that I could live with someone as on-the-move as I imagine Javi P is, he would fucking hate being married to me 😂 Meanwhile living with dieter would be like a raccoon / possum cohabitation. I probably wouldn’t love being married to Frankie “yea I guess I’ll go to South America without talking to my girl” Morales.

Ok I have it:

Fuck Javi P, Marry Dieter, and Kill Frankie.

[whatsnewalycat]

Hi! I’m the worst and just now realized I never told you my ghost stories I promised you 👻

When I was 19, some friends and I went to a hair show in Long Beach. We thought it would be fun to stay on the Queen Mary, cause why not 🙃

My friend and I were underage, so we couldn’t got to the after parties with our other friends. So we stayed in our hotel room and just hung out. My fiends ended up passing out close to like 1 am, so I tried to do the same. At one point though, I could hear a man and a woman talking (I don’t remember what about) very clearly— like it wasn’t muffled through the walls like from another room or in the hallway. It was like they were right in the room, which was super tiny and somehow squeezed too twin beds into it.

I was getting freaked out and my friend is just snoring away.

I had tried texting my other friend who was staying in our room too, she was out at the party, but the cell service was kind of wonky being one floor below deck. I was literally hiding under the covers because the talking turned into more of an argument and out tv went out and was just a fuzzy screen.

It was close to 3 am when my friend text me they were at Dennys, which was a 10 min taxi ride from the ship.

I put shoes on and ran so fast out of our room, up the flight of stairs to the lobby, which was creepy in itself because no one was around but there was that eerie music playing.

Finally made it to the taxi and over to my friends. Ate some food and then went back to the hotel room. Our friend had woken up and said she had heard what sounded like a couple having a conversation in our bathroom. The rest of the night it sounded like someone was stomping around our room and banging on the walls.

We were so stoked to leave (my one friend and I went back and stayed 3 more times lol)

We did take pictures the entire time we browsed the ship. Hoping to capture something. There was one picture we took of the lobby. They have a baby grand piano next to an out of service elevator. When we looked at the photo closely, you could faintly see a man standing by the piano dressed in a black tuxedo. It was wild!! My friend went to download the photos to her computer the next day, all the photos were gone.

The end!!

👻👻👻

HEIDIIIIIIIIIII i hope you don’t mind me saving this story for my campfire 🥹🖤 that’s so fucking spooky omg!!!

It’s unsettling enough to hear a couple arguing, let alone GHOST COUPLE ARGUMENTS. I wonder why they were stuck in that loop, if something followed this argument that imprinted their energy in the space. Thank you so much for sharing, I love it so much.

[whatsnewalycat]

dang !! lol okay how about 🔭+ frustration(ed)

Ooooo a winner 🥰 it’s your boy

A hot pang of frustration washes over him. Adrenaline pounds through his heart, urging him to lash out at her. He clenches his mouth and eyes closed and tries to take a deep breath, tries to remember the little girl sitting next to him enjoying her birthday cake.

[whatsnewalycat]

Oh oh I have a campfire story! My partner saw a chupacabra once. He lives in rural southern AZ about an hour away from the nearest city, at the very end of a long unpaved road in the middle of nowhere. He’s also an experienced outdoorsman - passingly familiar with hunting, been all over the Southwest looking for ghost towns, hiker, all that good stuff. He’s also a pretty hardcore skeptic.

Anyway he was driving home late one night and was about halfway down the unpaved road when this thing about as tall as the headlights on his car bounded across the road right in front of him. It was grey-white and moving fast and had a long snout and a strange ridge on its back, but weirdest of all it was leaping rather than walking or running, like all four of its legs were coming off the ground at once rather than bounding along. It came out of the darkness on on side, flashed thru the light of his headlights, then went into the darkness again on the other side of the road. Scared the hell out of him.

I’ve shown him pictures of bears with mange since, and he says that it maybe could have been something like that, but we’re pretty far from the mountains and it was definitely too big to be a coyote. And neither bears nor coyotes move like that. So 🤷‍♀️

FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU FOR SHARING!

AHHHHH CHUPACABRA!!!! That’s so scary. It’s funny how we can just be minding our business and weird shit like that happens.

You know, I’ve actually seen something similar to that while driving around on dirt roads at night here in Minnesota. I think I’ve talked about it here before but ima do it again. It was in a ditch, and it kind of looked like a Canine, but it was huge, way too big to be a coyote or dog, and we don’t have wolves in this part of the state. It looked gray but it was also flooded by headlights so idk. Glowing red eyes, a really weird snout, MUSCULAR??? huge shoulders with a tall ridge between them. My friend saw it, too, and we were both like WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT????

I started googling stuff when I got home bc I couldn’t get it out of my head, and I came across stuff about hellhounds, and I found pictures, and I shit you not it looked exactly like this:

It’s said that they’re often found around cemeteries, and if you see a hellhound 3 times you’ll be dragged to hell.

About a year after we saw this thing, I was in a cemetery after dark with my bff and husband (bf at the time), just, you know… because we would do that sometimes 😂 It was a huge cemetery and we were far away from the road, hidden behind hills and stuff, no flashlight on or anything so nobody would see us and call the cops. Anyway I saw two glowing red eyes, which is potentially my second hellhound sighting, so I might be on strike three at this time lol.

[whatsnewalycat]

🔭 + dream(s)

NOTHIN. roll again? 👀

[whatsnewalycat]

Campfire story -My best friends in college were "Stella" and "John", and they both claimed to have visions/senses of the divine. However, that also left them more sensitive to possibly malignant presences as well. John and I were out and about one night, and he suddenly took my hand and we *power-walked* back to my dorm, where he borrowed my roommate's rosary and started praying. He swore he'd felt a demonic presence. I'm Catholic, but I was more scared *FOR* him than anything else.

AHHHHHH!!! Fuck that. No demons allowed lol thank you so much for sharing!!!

[whatsnewalycat]

🔭 "raid"

No dice, sorry!!! Try again? 🥰