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[ghoststanning]

Hey, everyone, it's Ray Stantz here! You know, the guy who was freezing on Route 29 on Christmas Eve?

Don't worry, I'm more than safe now. :-)

Anyway, I do research on the supernatural (I specialize in ghosts and the hunting and containment of them, for those curious!) and I've been reading up on myths and legends in this dimension. It's pretty interesting stuff, but I would like to hear some first hand accounts of the strange and unusual sightings in this dimension! Whether it's encounters with Legendary Pokémon, normal Pokémon, or just strange occurrences you've noted in this dimension, I want to hear about it! I think it would help get me a better understanding of this dimension. And even if it doesn't, it would be fun to hear about!

Or heck, if you have any fun stories of strange encounters back in your home dimension I would love to hear that too; I'm not picky!

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[schachmeister]

Suicune stole my tea kettle.

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[ghoststanning]

[He already loves this.]

So this Suicune is a mischievous spirit then? [He really doesn't need to use the word "spirit"...] Was there a known reason why Suicune stole your kettle or was it unprompted?

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[shiro2hero]

[Hello Ray. Did you say "ghost"? Because there's one staring at the camera now. One who has swiped its trainer's 'gear.]

[Hey! At least it's smiling.]

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[ghoststanning]

[Aaa a purple guy!]

Hey little guy! I'm guessing you're a Gengar, right?

[He might have... read up a lot about the different types of ghost Pokemon.]

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[starry_forehead]

There was a prom in April and we all got attacked by giant pokemon that came out of a portal in the sky. That was pretty awesome.

Also my home dimension has Gravity Falls which is a town that's filled with weird things. I mean my sister and I spent a summer there with our grunkle (great uncle). And we ran into things like gnomes, ghosts, a demon, a shapeshifter. The 8½th President of the United States of America encased in peanut brittle.

Lots of stuff.

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[ghoststanning]

Really? By "giant Pokemon" do you mean Pokemon who are normally small being giant, or Pokemon who are normally giant falling through the portal.

Huh, I can't say I've ever heard of Gravity Falls. I'm assuming we're from similar dimensions if you mentioned the United States of America. Mind telling me what state that's in, if you are from the USA, that is.

I didn't know half presidents were a thing though! But I will admit, American history was never my strong suit in school.

[Or any history that didn't involve the supernatural.]

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[isleavepossible]

One of the super powerful pokemon gods gave us a scavenger hunt to do this summer. We even got prizes at the end of it.

And I'm not sure I'd call it "fun". But back home there's an island where if you mess around with a radio you can accidently open up a ....portal into a dimension with some ghosts that got stuck there when they died years ago. They like to try to possess people so they can escape.

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[ghoststanning]

Huh I never heard of gods giving scavenger hunts without a catch! I'm guessing there wasn't a catch, right?

[I'm sorry, Alex, when Ray reads "I'm not sure I'd call it 'fun'" in regards to the supernatural, he reads "Okay so here's this really cool thing involving the supernatural."]

That sounds so cool! :-D I've been to a couple of alternate ghost dimensions myself, but none that were activated by using a radio!

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[pkemeter]

[Egon's going to text Ray while he's sitting right next to him. He wants to contribute to his partner's knowledge of his universe.]

Well, I am unsure if you encountered anything similar in your line of work, but recently, back in my dimension, we discovered that there was an entire river of pink slime flowing under New York City. This slime was charged with the negative energy of the residents and had incredible psychokinetic potential.

Coincidentally, this incident also propelled us back into the limelight, and we were allowed to continue working as spirit capture and containment services.

[just ignoring the whole vigo thing, the slime was pretty cool]

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[ghoststanning]

Spengs you're sitting right next to me. :-\

[In case he wanted to keep that little tidbit a secret.]

Yeah I definitely haven't experienced anything like that, weird! But that would explain why New York has been going downhill lately.

Oh, did you ever figure out the source of the slime? I feel like negative energy slime isn't something that just appears out of nowhere.

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[cyan_maid]

[Huh! Thank goodness Jane knows absolutely zero about Ghostbusters, or else she'd actually ask more 4th wall-esque questions.]

Oh my!
First of all, I'm quite sorry to hear you were in such a position on Christmas Eve! I was kind of preoccupied, so I hadn't heard if anyone was in help...but I'm glad you're doing better!
Secondly, if it's the supernatural or strange you want, then hopefully you'll be here for one of the weekends where everything kind of gets screwy for everybody.
I think it's usually in springtime and late autumn, but there's two weekends out of the year where travel doesn't work like it should, you can literally walk out of your front door and end up all the way across the region, or deep in a cave...and for those of us who had weird quirks or powers back home, or who weren't even human, all that stuff comes back for those days!
It's an absolute mess of a time, but there's nothing more supernatural than that, in my opinion.
Oh, and if you like ghosts, this is mine! Her name is Ribbon.

[Attached is a snapshot of a Mimikyu with a dark blue ribbon barrette on one of its ears, casually reaching out from underneath its costume to get a leftover red and green Poffin from a festive Delibird plate.]

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[ghoststanning]

Don't worry, one of my partners was with me when I arrived so I wasn't in any real danger of freezing to death.

I wasn't able to give them anything on Christmas Day though, that was sad. :-(

Oh dang, I hope I can see that sometime? Do you have any idea why that dimension does that? Is it like fourth dimensional travel through a tesseract?

[and OH MY GOD RAG DOLL POKEMON.]

She's adorable! I've read a tiny bit about them but just seeing a good picture of a Mimikyu in person just makes me love them more.

I've been reading conflicting things about them, actually. Do they idolize or have spite over the Pokemon they're trying to emulate?

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[a_sin_for_him]

The world broke, once.

Is that the sort of thing you'd like to hear about?

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[ghoststanning]

[With literally no hesitation:]

Yes!

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[icecastlemadonna]

Well, on Halloween, a Zorua disguised himself as a trick-or-treater and kept coming to my place to get extra candy. It turned out he was really just lonely, though, and now he's living with me.

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[ghoststanning]

Aww poor thing! I'm glad you're giving him a loving home now!

These guys seem to have quite a high level of sentience, don't they? I'm kind of curious what possibly happened on this planet where almost all the fauna have evolved to have a similar level of intelligence as human beings.

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[bertall]

Every so often there's a few days where things get a little... weird.

There've been a few times where I've had a close friend of mine appear in this world and disappear after the weekend passed, and I've ended up in completely different locations because of it. I don't know what causes it though.

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[ghoststanning]

Huh, that really is strange. Have any tests been performed on this dimension while it happens? Maybe some heightened supernatural activity is going on there!

And I really hope that means I can see Winston, Slimer, or Janine in this dimension sometime soon. I love this dimension but it's just not the same without them!

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[no_ufo_ending]

one time my friend's soul got ripped out of her body by a ghost bug

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[ghoststanning]

Alright

You can't say that and not give me the full story behind it. That sounds fascinating!

[Ray someone could have died.]

[neverstudied]

yeah my partner once summoned a god in the form of a 100ft tall marshmallow man

pretty wild

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[ghoststanning]

Pete that's not how it happened and you know it! >:-(

It could have happened to any of us! It's not like I was trying to think of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!

[plasticasshole]

I have a ghost pokemon who really likes Snorlax plushies. They have to specifically be Snorlax.

[And attached is an image of a Cofagrigus with Snorlax plushies in every hand, grinning.]

Oh, and my partner's shadow was once possessed by a ghost pokemon. It would move on its own.

[ghoststanning]

Oh my gosh I love them! My girl Jackie loves those little stuffed animals too, but she can't hold any of them :-(

And their shadow? Huh, you don't see that often! I'm guessing it was from a more benevolent spirit since it didn't bother possessing your actual partner.

[notvaljean]

legendaries are jackasses
avoid them if you can

[ghoststanning]

:-( Aww, they seem really neat from what I've heard!

And even if some of them are jerks, I'm sure I've dealt with worse! :-)

[tookashirototheknee]

There was the one time that there was a Minior Shower, which is like a meteor shower, but it was Minior pokemon instead.

The last day, we had all kinds of extraterrestrial pokemon appearing.

Also, I have a Mimikyu who prefers a Spheal disguise to a Pikachu one, but I don't think that counts.

[ghoststanning]

Oh, so Minior really do come space then?

Gee, I hope I get to see it myself in that case! I've been wanting to catch a Minior for myself that a full on shower of them would be even more beneficial to research!

[Well... research and to shove the Minior in Egon's dumb "aliens done exist" face]

That's adorable! Can I see a picture of them?

[styxiedust]

Good day, Mr.--err, or is it Dr.?--Stanz, it's Botan--glad to hear you're doing better!

[Overly cheerful nice lady returns!]

We get these yearly parties-slash-dances thrown for us, they're colloquially called "proms" though from my understanding they're far too lacking in teenage drama to really be called those.

One time we had one on the moon. It was when we met a very nice legendary that just wanted us to have fun.

Oh, then there was the time some of us got our DNA spliced with Pokemon around Halloween time? Bad things usually happen around Halloween, I would say that was one of the worst times besides the last "prom" bringing some screaming dimensional hellion jellies out of the sky.

Just you wait, there will be quite a lot of things to see.

[ghoststanning]

Dr. Stantz, but you can call me Ray! Feels less formal that way.

Oh yeah, I've heard about the proms! I'm glad they're only called proms in name only, however, I've never been able to get a date for proms back when I was in school :-(

And I've heard about the jellyfish! The DNA splicing is new information though. So did you guys start turning into human/Pokemon hybrids or was something else going on there?

[islandshore]

I got one that happened... geez, almost nine years ago?

So, anyway, it was around Halloween. The entire world turned pixelated. This weird, backwards music started playing everywhere. People started acting like lifeless A.I. with scripted dialogue. Even the Pokemon just followed basic commands.

But to top it all off, these weird, blocky abominations called Missingno. began popping up all over the place.

[ghoststanning]

Nine years?!

[The idea of people staying here for so long is still so baffling to him.

That's so neat though! It really brings to question the true nature of this dimension! It's a shame it happened so long ago, though. :-( And there's no evidence of this reoccurring after that time?