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10/29/2008
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Ghost Town
Author: Charles Cassady Jr Source: Cleveland Free Times (OH)
Title: GHOST TOWN
The following is excerpted from Cleveland Ghosts, by Charles Cassady Jr., from Schiffer Publishing, schifferbooks.com.
Though an appetite for horror films and pulp-gothic fiction has always been strong here, the paranormal and Cleveland would seem an unlikely pairing. This was a pragmatic manufacturing town. A city of shop floors and second shifts and third shifts. A city of trade-union-management negotiations, of forced busing and teacher walkouts, of pinning community pride on the wavering prowess of the sports teams, of trying to get by in diminished circumstances. Specters and shades did not seem to belong here.
There is a school of thought, however, that superstition and mysticism reemerges in uncertain or tumultuous times. Commentators on human nature claim that people losing their faith in government, military, banks and savings-and-loan companies are more likely to reorient themselves, in their panic and desperation, to the even-less-accountable institutions of fortune-tellers, UFO aliens, spirit guides, cults, the I Ching.
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