DocAndersen
Journey with me now, to an event no one recalls. It comes at a time known, because the metadata of the pictures put the time of the event in July 2015. The people that mill about are known but unknown, and we are lost in the twilight zone.
In all honesty, this was a meeting that my wife took pictures of, but she doesn’t recall a lot about the meeting, and I know even less, Being that today is the 2nd of October and 59 years after the first airing of the twilight zone on television it felt like the perfect pictures to share today. Or it feels like these were the pictures that needed to be share.d
There was a time when I only watched the Twilight Zone when it aired during the afternoon. I spent the night at a friends house when I was 9 or so. We stayed up and watched the late night movies on Channel 4. Sammy Terry was the host. He would introduce the movies. He wasn’t scary, and the movies were usually not scary as well. But when the movies were over around midnight, there were two syndicated shows the played. The Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone. We watched those, I don’t recall the specific episodes, I’ve watched both since then, and they didn’t scare me as much now as they did that night. But I found myself at 4 in the morning unable to sleep. I never told my friend or my mother and father why I was so tired the next day. I suspect my mother knew something was wrong, but she didn’t push, and I never shared.
I lay alone in the darkness pondering the reality the Rod Serling had just narrated, the journey he had taken us on. The moral of the story resonating with a 9-year-olds brain for a long time.
I miss watching The Twilight Zone.
I always knew that the TZ was older than me. I didn’t realize it wasn’t that much older than me (just a couple of years older). Funny. It was the show I love to be scared of for many years.
Hmmm… you have stirred up old memories, a time when we learn to be afraid of stories…
Its funny, they call Twilight Zone horror of the mind. Not, horror of a chainsaw but showing us things to be scared of that were real enough we actually could be scared.
Yep. It shows that we can be afraid of “ordinary” things in everyday life.
Truly 🙂 it still scares me (well some of them scare me) now.
Sometimes such fears have its own preoccupations.
very true, very true 🙂 sometimes we need the freedom to be afraid.