One Dead Crow: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal

By Sandy Yoo

One Dead Crow, Personal Accounts of the Paranormal is part autobiography, part journalism, part mystery, part history and a peek into real-life supernatural events that occurred in the life of the author.
These stories occur within the span of about thirty years and has been written to share something the author feels is something we as a society do not often speak of and frown upon with one another. They are things that cannot be explained and perhaps avoided because it is not, at least in our daily experience, rare or unnoticed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandy Yoo
• Release date: Jul 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301478668

Sandy Yoo

Sandy Yoo is a New Yorker trying her best to survive in her new state of California. Although I am a designer, web and traditional, I have many interests such as painting, cooking, and writing. Peace.

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One Dead Crow

Personal Accounts of the Paranormal

by Sandy Yoo

Copyright Sandy Yoo 2013

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This book is dedicated to all the anonymous, living and dead,

who pass in and out of this world unnoticed.

Table of Contents

Introduction

My Grandfather

Drowning

Antietam

The Attic

The Seance

One Dead Crow

House on Long Island

Dream of the Black Dog

The Jumprope

The Death Shadow

The New House

Peace

Introduction

I’m not quite sure what I make of paranormal or supernatural occurrences. When I was younger, it seemed that these events were all part of the natural world and I thought everyone else had the same experiences. Then you realize when you speak about the things that have happened, you start getting that look. It’s a look of instant condemnation that immediately places you into the category of crazy people who believe in UFOs, Sasquatch, astrology, out of body experiences, chupacapras, conspiracy theories, et al. To be honest with you, I don’t rule anything out so maybe those people put me in the right category. I do know, so far, that I’m not alone. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to discover that friends have had the courage to admit that they too have had some strange things happen to them which could not be explained. Most of those friends are considered highly educated individuals with advanced degrees—doctors, lawyers, technology whizzes, mechanics and scientists.

It may seem to the regular person that I may have an active imagination and made myself predisposed to believing such things by reading about them and investigating them in depth by reading and getting into it in a sense but I grew up in a home where science trumped all. Everything could be explained, and if they couldn’t be explained, they were hammered like a square peg into a hole until it smashed in and stuck. See? That’s how. It works. It makes sense. However, if you really couldn’t prove it, perhaps it didn’t actually exist and it was only a figment of your imagination and it was never worth the time to prove. Science isn’t just about numbers, Greek symbols, beakers, bunsen burners, calibrated cylinders, explosions and lab coats. It’s also supposed to be about discovery, observation and the constant curiosity to see the world in a new way so that you could open your mind to break those boundaries of conventional thought. You’re supposed to question what has come before so as to not build further build wrong conclusions on it. We’ve made a huge circus out of theoretical constants such as the speed of light being the fastest speed acheivable in the cosmos but somehow even light cannot escape a black hole. Also, in the example of the force of gravity where the great oceans rise and fall from the pull of the moon, yet we stay planted firmly on the ground as this is happening. Yes, there has been explanations. There will always be explanations but truthfully, in your core, what do you think?

Oftentimes, especially in the modern school system, it is discouraged to question. It is more than acceptable that you become a sponge and memorize all that has come before you and accept it as proven fact—that these facts cannot be proven wrong—and get tested to make sure you were fully indoctrinated.

Most of society will not support anyone who swims against the current. If complete conclusions were drawn from an already faulty foundation, don’t you think everything built on it would crumble down around it? Ironically, I think we’ve become master architects of delusion. We have brainwashed people to only think a certain way and build complete illusions around it because it’s safe to surround yourself with the things you know and can control. It’s a form of hubris. Look at what happened to Galileo when he supported Copernicanism, which stated that we revolved around the Sun and not the other way around. He paid with