Absence of Light . Top Story - December 2024.
It is said in the folklore of vampires that they cannot cross running water. Last night I learned, while reading the book Haunted America by James Willis, J.K. Kelley, and Love Belvin, that ghosts are said likewise to be repelled by bodies of water. The authors, though, assured the reader that this is, in fact, not the case. While vampires are said not to be able to cross the running water that must symbolize purity, baptism, and the salvation of the Majestic Christ, ghosts, not manifestly damned in the same way as vampires, are attracted to the currents of water, according to the authors, because the human body, the "mortal coil" they have shuffled off, is made largely of water, the electromagnetic energy conductor that generates the spark by which the discorporate entity can manifest in our world.
