The Shadow reporting. . .
COLUMBUS -- In a city as sleepy and boring (though not quite so boring as Delaware) as this, one wouldn’t expect that there were such literally otherworldly things as ghosts but, rest assured Columbusians, there are.
Having decided that the style of ghost hunting currently en vogue is insufficient, I have created my own style, and designed and built equipment suited to the task. Rather than stumbling through an allegedly haunted area for a single night with cameras and equipment bulging everywhere, I decided that a simpler, long-term study was the way to go.
Using the same method Elias Lonnröt and Tex Avery used to capture photos of the never before seen Pipsquack Bird (Avius pipsquackus torofœcesus) I built special sensors, designed to detect the presence of spirit activity, and connected them to some twenty dollar digital cameras, which I then set up all over the haunted two-bedroom of Chåteau Clintonville.
Were there ghosts? You never doubted that. And was I successful in capturing images of them? Does The Shadow ever fail? Nope.
I was able to capture several pics of a full-bodied apparition stalking le Chåteau. The following are some of the choicest captures.

Calisthenics for the Recently Deceased, part one -- tricep stretches.

Just standing there the way good photographic subjects do in totally non-fake pictures.

Chillin’ chillin’. The ghost is reading my wife’s (I swear it’s hers) People magazine, about that cow-fucker who’s drilling Nicole Kidman these days. Coincidence? You be the judge.
And the moral of the story is: when you apply yourself assiduously you can prove anything at all using “science.”
Next up (that is, within the calendar year, probably): Seance with the damned!

Comments (4)
Mon dieu! Les morts doivent être des idiots. Autrement, pourquoi ils seraient en Ohio?
Posted by Jean-Jacques Henri de Elysées du Mont | November 12, 2007 2:38 AM
Posted on November 12, 2007 02:38
With only these few pictures, I can’t come to any conclusions, but it does seem possible this discarnate entity... Hey wait... Is that my Tramp Stamped Booty Patrol #7 DVD on top of the TV in the first picture? I’ve been looking for that for months!
Posted by Decanus | November 12, 2007 3:38 PM
Posted on November 12, 2007 15:38
that is totally NOT my People magazine.
seriously. I only read magazines about guns and hunting and taxidermy.
Posted by Wifely | November 12, 2007 8:55 PM
Posted on November 12, 2007 20:55
Columbusians? Really? Shouldn't that be Columbi or Columbii? No wait, Columbecilli, yeah that's it. A bastardization of the vulgar latin Columbus combined with the plural of imbecillus? Ah, maybe not.
Posted by Pimples Malone | November 12, 2007 11:10 PM
Posted on November 12, 2007 23:10