I was making all this noise about the Meta-Territory, and the truth of the girl in the basement earlier. It all seems too stupid now. The only thing I can do now is try and make up for my mistakes.
Since only I can enter the “Meta-School”, this is something only I can do.
Although I really can’t make up for what I did…well, this is just a way to make myself feel better…but what else can I do.
After discussing it over, I’ve come to a decision. Or you could say, I know what should be done now. When I return, I’ll report back about what happened to everyone.
I never would have thought that after all these days which have passed, I’ve only made a bit of headway in terms of mentally preparing. I’m so useless.
Maybe someday I’ll be able to talk about what happened during this period of time. Or it may be that I’ll never be able to say. Please wish me luck.
I have a friend. I guess you can say that she’s an expert in urban legend about “the girl in the basement.” I’ve also written about this urban legend before. Well, I won’t say too much more.
But did you all notice that before, in the Meta-School, I took a picture of the girl in the basement? Sure, many readers might not believe that all happened to me, I already know all that. Yet this won’t prevent me from continuing my research!
However, the girl in the basement’s situation is a bit strange. She’s a bit different from the other urban legends. This made me wonder. Why does the girl in the basement look so “indistinct”? For her to be visible to this extent and from so many angles in all the photos of her you see, there must be a “model” she is based on, but who is this? Why doesn’t this person do anything about it? Or maybe I should say, about this person whose photos were used, do they know about this, and, if so, why haven’t they had any public response to this?
After I began to become suspicious, I learned something…
After looking into it, I found that the girl in the basement was a real person! Forgive me for spoiling the climax, I want to report back with all the details once I’ve finally gotten to the bottom of all this.
Speaking of urban legends in Taiwan, the first thing which comes to mind is the “ghost ship.” It’s said that, after the Weierkang Fire in Taichung in 1995, a ghost ship began to appear in what was then the Taichung First Plaza, now called the ASEAN Plaza. The appearance of the ghost ship foretold unfortunate things.
One story went that the ship would only disappear after it was filled with one hundred people. Although many people died in the Weierkang Fire, that was still less than one hundred people, so the ship still wanders the earth….
But how does the ghost ship sail? According to the story, it sails in the direction of the Chinatown Building in Tainan. There also those who say it sails north, saying that they’ve seen it on bridges in Sanchong. These all indicate that the ghost ship has been seen before…this is what I’m most skeptical of.
If people have really seen a ghost ship before with their own eyes, it’s strange that after I tried searching online, I haven’t been able to see anyone describing what the ghost ship looks like with their own eyes.
Ships can differ in appearance quite a lot. Like the ghost ships from “Pirates of the Carribean.” You might think of those when you think of “ghost ships,” but it’s hard to imagine them appearing in the First Plaza in Taichung or by the Chinatown Building in Tainan.
What about if it were a more contemporary ships, like a steamboat or a ocean liner? That’d also be very strange. Of course, it couldn’t be a spaceship either. Or an ancient ship, like a Chinese junk? For that to appear in a public location would also be very strange. So if someone has seen this ship before, at least someone should be able to describe what kind of boat it is?
I still haven’t been able to answer these questions. If people hear anything about what kind of boat this is, please let me know. Thank you.
After I mentioned all this to some friends of mine in an urban legend investigation group, some people told me I was just making all this up. Although I knew that 80% of people would be like that, it’s still annoying. Though I even took photos, people say that I Photoshopped it, that it’s some kind of 3D model, or stuff like that. Though it’s hard to avoid this kind of skepticism, it feels a bit painful when it’s coming from friends.
Of course, I believe in myself. I still feel happy about all this happening.
Well, let’s leave that aside. I kept trying out different ways to enter the “Meta-School” and I finally figured out how! This confirms my hypothesis, that “schools” are linked to the “Meta-School”, and that they share the same urban legends. To be frank, I was able to meet urban legends in the “Meta-School”!
You must all think I’m making this up, right? If I really encountered urban legends, how did I live to tell the tale? I can’t blame you for thinking that. If this wasn’t my firsthand experience, I would have a hard time believing this as all as well!
As far as I’m concerned, though I was the one who raised the hypothesis of the “Meta-School”, but I never thought I’d be able to experience it myself. This means that there’s another aspect to this world beyond what we physically experience. I still can’t explain it well. Just I mean that there’s another structural dimension to this world, and for those of us that live in the material world, this is merely one dimension of it.
With my own eyes as proof, I can only believe that it’s true, that urban legends do have a real substantive existence. Since I saw them myself. But you must all wonder, are urban legends different than what you imagine?
If you think about it, while urban legends are usually about them harming people, what reason do urban legends have for doing that? But even if they hurt people sometimes, they won’t do that to everyone, I imagine. To be frank, before writing all this, I already tried communicating with the urban legends, and I’ve found that quite a lot of urban legends are intelligent, that they are able to express themselves, and that urban legends have even said that they “welcomed” me.
Going back to my last post. Regarding what i said about it being impossible to confirm whether the Meta-Territory exists or not. I was wrong.
No, strictly speaking, this still isn’t proof!
That’s not right. There’s proof it exists. But for readers, I’m afraid it might be too hard to believe!
Wasn’t I investigating the urban legend about the talking demon earlier? Fo that reason, I went to many schools. They were all different schools. I hoped to collect different versions of the story about the talking demon. But I ended up discovering the Meta-School…
Yes. It’s the hypothesis about the Meta-Territory I was discussing earlier. Once I entered, it felt like my hair was standing on end. I thought it was just an abstract theory of mine, but it turned out it existed. Even a normal flesh-and-blood person could enter.
It’s very certain that this is the Meta-Territory! That there could be this kind of school…the track was full off graves, this must reflect the urban legends about schools being built on tracks and fields or on graves.
The Meta-Territory I described previously may be even more unimaginable than I thought…who would have thought that it would have a physical form!
This picture below counts as proof. What’s strange is that, although I can enter the Meta-School, my friends are unable to enter. Or people may think that this picture is Photoshop. Well, I know there’s no way around it.
Actually, I keep wanting to sketch out a theory of mine. No, I should say theory, maybe hypothesis is more appropriate here.
I brought up previously that urban legends are a category of folklore. The largest difference between urban legends and folklore stories circulated in the countryside originates from the rapid circulation of information, as this occurs in “urban” envirnonments. This is why there are quite a lot of schools, hospitals, libraries, and hotels in urban legends, since these are things which you have in every city.
You can see structural similarities regarding “urban cities,” in that sense, but what about regarding “legends”? Namely, with the increasing spread of information, whether through the media or the Internet, this leads to similar stories being grouped together.
Yet I should also point out, the “structural similarities” between cities is not only with regard to schools, hospitals, which are structures replicated and duplicated throughout urban environments, since you see many of them in cities. For example, you see police stations everywhere in cities as well, but there aren’t too many urban legends about them. What’s the difference there?
I cannot help but think, is t1here some kind of structure which makes it easier for urban legends to leave behind traces? Which is to say, although cities all have structural similarities, is it there is some kind of innate contradiction, disparity, or oddity which leads to the manifestation of urban legends? Where does that contradiction come from? Why is it easier for some places to leave behind urban legends and not others?
Is it that some contradictions aren’t simply contingent, but originate from “fundamental” contradictions? Which is to say that some structures are innately places in which urban legends may appear; that they are already inherently different than other places and this is what determines their being different.
That some places can become “territories” for urban legends and other places cannot.
Is this a possibility?
Of course, this is just wild speculation on my part, a crazy fantasy I have no way of proving. But if there really is this sort of fundamental, innate contradiction, it may be that before a “hospital” can become a “hospital” it already holds the possibility for it to contain urban legends related to hospitals. I believe that we can call this the “Meta-Hospital” Of course, it’s not just hospitals, there are also schools. So why don’t I just call this the “Meta-Territory”!
That is, the structure which comes to be built there must correspond to the Meta-Territory. A hospital contains a “Meta-Hospital,” a school contains a “Meta-School.” Before a school is even built, it is already linked to the “Meta-School”, leading to the manifestation of urban legends in that place. Whether urban legends will “adhere” to a school or not has nothing to do with time or location, it has to do with structure.
The “Meta-Territory” is what ensures that urban legends may come to reside in the same structure. Now, of course I’m not saying that it’s because the Meta-Territory exists that there come to be urban legends (then that would be like a Plato’s ideal world).
After all, if there was no physical substance to the world, we wouldn’t develop abstractions such as “structure” or “concept”. This is the origins of how humanity would give rise to a “Meta-Territory”. Yet this expresses that the Meta-Territory is a product of human intentionality. Fundamentally speaking, the Meta-Territory completely exceeds human understanding, and is something beyond human expectation. Or this may express that the Meta-Territory is even more unimaginable than my understanding of it, and exceeds even the parameters of this theory of mine.
Regardless of what the reality of it is, this is probably impossible to prove or disprove.
