Melancholia: Fragments of a life - past and present

Life Preserve I've lost track of how long I've been here. Months? Maybe even years. I was expecting others to arrive by now but nothing has broken the monotony of my loneliness. The radio went out a few weeks ago. I think the batteries are dead. The nights are so long here in winter. The daylight...

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Time Traveling - Finding Ghosts in a Gold Mine

Gatekeeper At 5:30 a.m. I was leaving the town of Wasilla in Alaska, sipping coffee and driving towards Independence Mine State Park at the top of Hatcher Pass. During my research the previous evening, I learned that this old gold mine is haunted. There have been several accounts of ghost sightings....

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