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24 Are the Ghosts of Christmas Real?

Christmas, Paranormal

Belief and Krampus.

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Paranormal Christmas Superstitions

If you are born on Christmas, you can not die by
drowning or hanging. Lucky you!
If you are born on Christmas, you are
more prone to seeing the dead. Other versions
say the dead will never bother you if born on
this day. So I guess you’ll have to talk to
someone born on Christmas and get their
opinion on this one.
Think a few evil spirits are lurking
around your home? Open the doors of your
house on Christmas Eve at midnight and let
those wild spirits fly out into the night sky! Or
the first to open the door on Christmas needs to
yell “Welcome Father Christmas!” and then the
bad spirits will be let out. Are The Ghosts of under the impression that they are traveling
through time to his childhood, the spirit is most
Candle’s left to burn over night in the Christmas Real?
window or windows of a house ensured good likely manipulating Ebenezer’s thoughts so he
believes he is an independent observer of his
luck. If the candle is blown out in the
childhood memories.
morning…well…it’s just not good. Not good at by CNY Paranormal
all for you. The Ghost of Christmas Present is
similarly an intelligent haunting. He is
If you deny someone a kiss under the In popular culture, ghosts generally take on one
mistletoe, bad luck is sure to find you and don’t of two roles. They are either portrayed as a portrayed in a manner close to how Father
replace the mistletoe until next year with new figure of fear, as in horror movies; or are Christmas is portrayed. He represents the Spirit
mistletoe, or more bad luck will find you. portrayed as a moral compass, serving as a role of Christmas, and as such, provides Scrooge
While researching facts about the model, or a harbinger of things to come. This with images of joyful Christmases. He also
history of Christmas, I found the most second is usually found in Christmas movies, provides Scrooge with warnings about the path
awesome, Krampas. Krampas is terrifying and where ghosts appear to guide characters to a he is currently on, and the consequences of this
his main purpose is to punish bad children, better (and usually heartwarming) future. path. It seems that this Ghost is also
while St. Nicholas rewards them. It’s a classic The most famous example of this is a manipulating Scrooge’s thoughts to give him
God/Devil, Good/Evil, Dark/Light metaphor. Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. the idea that he is traveling to different
His popularity is mostly in European, Alpine This novella was then turned in to multitudes of locations.
towns. Some speculate Krampas is a pre- movies, and adapted to fit many scenarios, all The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is
Christian entity and this guy is totally his own which involve a character heading down a bad the final ghost Scrooge encounters. This spirit
Black Metal band, complete with goat horns, path and ‘ghosts’ (sometimes actual, and seems more like an entity. He has the physical
black body hair, cloven hooves, a long pointed sometimes metaphorical) helping them get back appearance of Death, and leads Scrooge around
tongue and chains he whips around. It doesn’t on the right path.Looking at the original, there soundlessly, refusing to answer any of his
get any more metal than that. are four ghosts that Ebenezer Scrooge questions. This Ghost shows Scrooge the future,
Krampas whips his chains around, stuffs encounters on his journey. These are the ghosts most importantly his own death, alone and
kids into bags to steal them away, eats kids if of Christmas past, present, and future, as well as unloved, and the untimely death of Tiny Tim
he’s hungry enough and has been known to beat his deceased partner Jacob Marley. Cratchett. It is these horrifying visions that
bad children with birth sticks like in the old 19th From the perspective of a paranormal cement Scrooge’s determination to become a
century postcard pictured above. investigator, the identities of these ghosts better person. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to
On December 5, 2015, many places in become clear. Come returns Scrooge to his home, where he
Europe hold Krampusnacht or “Krampas Night” Jacob Marley, the first ghost we wakes up on Christmas, determined to change
parades that are pretty amazing on the costume encounter, is someone that Scrooge is familiar his ways.
scale. with. He lived a life similar to Scrooge’s, and Looking at these ghosts deeper doesn't
Hopefully you’ve been slightly has come to warn him, and try and get him to change the ultimate point of the story, which is
enlightened now with some strange facts about change. Marley is the instigator of the entire to live life in a generous manner, and embrace
Christmas to share with the family this holiday. paranormal experience. It is believed that once the spirit of giving and kindness not just one day
Now go listen to that song by Journey “Don’t a person dies, they see their life, and the a year, but every day. We hope that all of our
Stop Believin,” and yell the chorus over the decisions they make in that life, more clearly. It readers have a happy holidays, filled with
rooftops. Because when we stop believing in is apparent that Marley, with the perspective kindness and giving.[]
things, this world becomes a pretty dull place to gained on the other side, regrets his choices, and
live in. [] puts Scrooge on the path to changing his life. This is Stephanie McConnell, Senior
Producer, wishing all the guests and
The Ghost of Christmas Past is
portrayed as an androgynous person, with a listeners of The ‘X’ Zone Radio & TV
flame-like light on its head. It’s purpose in the Show, and all the member of the world
story is to illuminate Scrooge’s past, to show wide ‘X’ Zone Nation, a Very Merry
him his past experiences, and what made him Christmas and Spirituality and Love
hate Christmas so much. This spirit falls into the filled New Year and every year here
intelligent haunting category. Spirits, because after.
they are made from energy, are able to
From my family, Ronnie,
manipulate the electrical field of the living,
Victoria, Brooklyn and Olivia, MERRY
giving them whatever mental images and
messages the spirit desires. While Ebenezer is CHRISTMAS everyone.