October 6, 2025 - October is the season of things that go bump in the night so it's fair to say that this is something of a companion to Greg Ruth's post last Friday on the subject of "Ghosts." Like many, I grew up loving ghost stories and monster movies. My dad used to tell us about his older brother, Price, who encountered the spirit of someone that had been killed by a train near their farmhouse; instead of running with the other boys, Price stood on the railroad tracks and threw rocks at the apparation until it disappeared. (He was braver than I would have been.) And, naturally, whenever I went on camping trips with the scouts we'd sit around the campfire at night and try to scare each other with yarns about phantom hitchikers or a spook…