“Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there!

He wasn’t there again today,

Oh, how I wish he’d go away!” - Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns

You’ve probably heard these lines before - whispered in a film, included in a book of ghost poems, or even whispered as harmless childhood nonsense..

But there’s something about them - something sticky.

Sixteen lines, no real story, and yet it clings.

Because it names something we all know, but rarely say aloud:

the feeling of not being alone when you should be.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mysterious-haunting-antigonish-county-macdonald-farm-1.6631829
• https://jayvelosobatista.com/whats-a-vardoger/
• (Used as a recital throughout the episode) I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (Antigonish by Hughes Mearns)
• https://orionphilosophy.com/the-shadow-carl-jung/

C O N T A C T:

https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine

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