Spiders and Ghosts

For the Halloween season, the LA Museum of Natural History had a spider exhibit. Many places have enclosed gardens full of butterflies, but this one was full of free roaming spiders. I was a little afraid that one might land on me, but I was more afraid that I might accidentally step on one.
The weekend after Halloween I went to an exhibit of supposedly authentic Polaroid pictures of ghosts. These pictures were taken before photoshop or any other digital editing technology existed. When it comes the paranormal, I tend to have a pretty open mind, but a healthy amount of skepticism to go along with it. The physical photographs looked like normal polaroids, but the pictures were not what I expected. They weren't images of translucent people, but of what looked like extremely thick white smoke that often formed words. There was a book that showed the questions that had been asked of the ghost, along with the photographs of the answers. The ghost, who said his name was Wright, answered questions in Latin as well as English. Whether or not these were authentic or a hoax, I always enjoy any experience that reminds me of the great mysteries of life.