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When it grows too large to take for walks, I suppose she could always ride it...

Actually if there's any truth to the story of elephants being afraid of mice, the elephant won't want her to ride him.

I really enjoy cryptozoology myself. I don't think there is anything to it, but I would really love for it to be. How lovely would it be if Nessie was real and was a sea serpent or a remaining plesiosaurus? Or the abominable snowman was something out of the last ice age? Or neanderthals still were about deep within the woods of eastern Europe/Ex-Soviet (as some believers claim). Or that African tale of a still-existing dinosaur, I can't recall what they called it.
I don't buy any of it, but it would be so amazing if it was any truth to it at all. (Especially sea serpents. I do have an affinity for them, having grown up with children's stories about a sea serpent named Ruffen.) I very much enjoy the tales of those claiming to have seen any of those.

I also really love timeslip stories. Same deal as before; don't believe it, but would love for it to be possible. They are such wonderful imaginings.
I heard a story on Åndenes makt, the Norwegian version of A Haunting. It was about a family of 3, a woman with two children, whereof the son lived on his own and the daughter was young adult. One day the son had bought some candles for his mother and called her and said he would come by with them. Yes, no problem, they were home. The mother and daughter sat in the living room with their dogs (I think they had 2). They waited for him to come, but he didn't. His version was this: he came there, locked himself in when no one answered. It was all dark inside, but the dogs came to greet him. He called for his mother and sister, but realized he was the only human there, and put the bag with the candles down by the door and left. The candles were never seen again.
Now imagine for a few seconds that something like that could happen. You come home to your family but they aren't there. How creepy would that be? It's just such a fantastically exciting story IMO that if it was told in an actual movie it would make it too far-fetched.

On the same show there was a similar story about a woman who was driving home. When she came to her son's house she saw that the light was on and he was sitting there watching TV. She stopped the car and walked to the door. The house was dark and no one answered the door. She called him on the cell phone, and he said he wasn't in. (Yeah, I know, sounds like a douche son who ditched his mom, but let's just entertain the possibility that it happened the way they said and enjoy the goosebumps of a nice little horror story.

I really like those two stories. They're extremely entertaining, and could tie in with theories of time slips and possibility of there being ways to go from one alternate reality to another. I wish I was able to write a really good story about such things. Or even read one. I would love for there to be a different reality where the choices not made play out. (There even might be).

You'd enjoy the paranormal tales sent in by readers of the Paranormal section on about.com. Some, at least, seem quite creepy and genuinely mystifying. (I don't currently have a link for you but they send me an email every now and then).

There are authors who write about alternative history. And I'm always fascinated by time slips though I've never encountered such a thing myself to the best of my knowledge.

Historically, an interesting time-slip occurrence is the so called Moberly–Jourdain incident which took place in Petit Trianon, Versailles, in 1901. I only have the Wikipedia link, but I'm sure it is in YouTube, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moberly%E ... n_incident

Hi Krabo; thanks: I'm quite familiar with the story of the two schoolmistresses and their visit to Versailles from one of my books about the paranormal: it remains one of the most intriguing of them, although there have been quite a few more recent ones documented.

Yes, it is a famous case. I first read about it in Reader's Digest years ago. What makes it remarkable is that those two ladies were, like you said, academics.

In fact if I recall correctly they were headmistresses of their respective schools. Certainly not the type to make up You Tube sensationalist type stories in 1901!

Timeslip link:

http://paranormal.about.com/od/timeandd ... 2306_3.htm

Thank you, Enviro.

I'll read that link after breakfast.

Skilpadde, one of my favourite books when I was little was called Charlotte Sometimes. I might need to look it up at the library, but it was about a girl who kept slipping through time. I loved that story.

Sleep is a time machine to breakfast.

Krabo, that image is amazing! I wonder what Skilpadde's reaction will be when she sees it.

(I've lost the link to the dancing for joy emoticons you produce from time to time...)

http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys-happy-002.php

I think this link is what you had in mind -- line 4 from top.

Thanks!

Will take a look later this afternoon. Just want to pop off to the supermarket and see why they charged me R21.99 for a packet of olives that should have been R9.99.

Lovely in a Greek salad with Feta cheese, cucumber, lettuce, tomato and onion.