How old is Tongue Tonight, the nail has to go in clean, you understand?

Some people think that a ghost is the spirit of someone who has died.

Others think it's an echo of some past life or powerful event.

And there are plenty, of course, who think they are nothing at all.

I don't know that any of this is exactly right, or out as it may seem, exactly wrong.

Most are more than just echoes.

They can actually think and feel, and act according to some internal drive I don't claim to understand.

Those drives, and much of their overall nature, is so alien that I often feel like I'm

trying to grab smoke or estimate a void when I turn my mind to trying to guess why they

do what they do.

And what do ghosts do?

Well, often they seem much like an echo, and mindless repeating soundwave that slowly

fade as it travels through the rigors of time and space.

They frequently seem bound into actions or messages or other loops, but, given the inconsistency

of this trait and the lack of comprehension to their true goals in nature, who can really

say for sure.

What is easier to say is that every ghost is bound.

I can't speak as to other kinds of spirits or whatever else might lurk in the darker

corners of the world, but every ghost is tied to something by an ethereal leash that prescribes

the limits of the travels, and consequently, the sphere of their influence.

The common cliché, of course, is a haunted house, and, as with many things, a cliché

is a cliché for a reason.

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