The ghost hunters sat in the dark sure that if they yelled such insulting things as "hey spirit, you're too scared to come out," whatever was floating about from the "other side" would be forced to show its hand and reveal itself.

"You know when you cut yourself really badly, there's that moment before there's any blood or pain, but you know it's coming?" Shane asked, "well that's how I feel all the time."

The rise and fall of the waves mirrored her emotions as they stood hand-in-hand and he confessed a long list of past sins while the sun slowly sank behind the darkening blue.

His first night in the field he drank bathtub gin and vomited in his sleeping bag and for the rest of the war he was reminded of that night every time he tried to get some shut-eye.

C woke up feeling like the world was somehow off and when she turned on the television that morning she found that there was indeed something terribly wrong—on Good Morning America Cecil B. DeMille, appearing as he did in the 1930s, was being interviewed by Johnny Carson, circa 1970.

Frank would get teary-eyed whenever he heard a song from the 40s, appearing to reminisce about an era he hadn't lived through.

Vanessa thought of her life as an airplane endlessly circling the airport.