{"id":6198,"date":"2011-06-14T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T19:26:27","slug":"ghost-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6198","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauntedpittsburghtours.com\/\">Haunted Pittsburgh Ghost Tours<\/a>, there&#8217;s a library donated by Carnegie that was built over a mass grave.  The library is, of course, haunted, notably by the image of a young boy.  The ghost has been identified with a boy who died many decades ago, whose headstone was on display.<\/p>\n<p>BRAIN: you ever notice how all the paranormal investigations emulate a &#8220;scientific&#8221; approach rather than an &#8220;engineering&#8221; one?<br \/>\nKIRBY: how is that?<br \/>\nBRAIN: I mean usually there&#8217;s these guys running around with sensors and recording equipment&#8230; trying to quantify the ghost, or an effect or something.  And it never works.<br \/>\nKIRBY:  Definitely<br \/>\nBRAIN: But in engineering, you&#8217;re not so concerned with the &#8220;why&#8221; of it &#8211; you just take a known effect and employ it to get a desired outcome.  So what if instead of trying to research the mechanism of ghosts, you just use what you know&#8230;<br \/>\nKIRBY: with the boy&#8217;s headstone?<br \/>\nBRAIN: yeah, like if one headstone on display makes the library kinda haunted&#8230; I bet fifty headstones would make it much MORE haunted.  Two hundred even.<br \/>\nKIRBY: You could put the headstones in certain patterns, and make a &#8220;ghost gun.&#8221;<br \/>\nBRAIN: &#8230;what would a &#8220;ghost gun&#8221; even do?<br \/>\nKIRBY: I don&#8217;t know, but it would be awesome!<\/p>\n<p><i>Well I hope  you&#8217;re happy boys, this library is completely unusable now<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Haunted Pittsburgh Ghost Tours, there&#8217;s a library donated by Carnegie that was built over a mass grave. The library is, of course, haunted, notably by the image of a young boy. The ghost has been identified with a boy who died many decades ago, whose headstone was on display. BRAIN: you ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}