Small Towns, Local Phenomenon? A Question for Masons.

( This phenomenon might not even be Masonic in nature, but I wanted to check with you guys first. )





Seven years ago I moved from the big city to a small town nestled in the Ozark Mountains.

Every so often, there are nights like tonight.

The air is crisp and clear, the stars shine brilliantly overhead and wink mischiviously, the streets are cold and silent.

The only real activity going on is at the local convienence store, from whence I just returned.

No cars passing by, no pedestrians on the way to or from.

"What's so odd about that?" you might be wondering...

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Well, for the past six years living here - every couple of months or so - I get horrible headaches and a strong inexplicable urge to leave the house and walk down to that self-same corner store in the middle of the night.

No real reason, sometimes I even force myself to buy something - a single piece of bubblegum or other low priced item.

The night clerks and I are on friendly terms, and sometimes I get caught up in strange conversations and the like in the early hours of the morning. Nothing worth posting, but still - the air always seems charged with a certain....something I can't put my finger on.

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What confuses me is every time I experience these headaches and this urge to go down there in the middle of the night - it feels, somehow, orchestrated.

Like I'm being prompted to "check in" with the local establishment.

Our small town is a highly Masonic town, leave no room for doubt on that.

I've met several of the local Masons over the course of my time here, and those I have encountered have been very kind - like extended family.


I know of the Order of the Eastern Star, but I'm fearful of Ladies Organizations due to my inability to bake kick ass cookies - in addition to a very tomboyish and somewhat cavalier attitude towards a lot of things - and I don't wish to take this overtly "rough around the edges" demeanor into a proper Ladies Circle.

(And, to be honest - I've pretty much got my hands full being a homemaker to devote to much outside of the home these days.)

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I posted tonight curious if any of the Masons here might be schooled on esoteric phenomena and be able to shed light on these early morning jaunts.

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I've been studying a variety of the mystery schools over the past 15 years, but in the long run, I work better independantly.

Still, I recognize I am part of a larger system - and while I don't have all the answers to Life's Great Mysteries and Meditations...I can't shake the feeling I may have inadvertantly attracted the attentions of some Local Order.

I have, over the years, been through a host of interesting experiences in this vein -both in the early hours and the waking daylight....but I'm hesitant to broach the subject with my newfound friends point blank - I have a tendancy to read to deeply into certain things and I don't wish to offend anyone.

In the city I previously inhabited everything was much more out in the open regarding these matters and I confess small town relations are not my forte.

I'm learning and doing my best, but I'm still not "local".

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I've also speculated whether it may be Illuminatus or possibly Wiccan in nature, seeing as how we have our sub-circles of those groups as well...but so far, everything keeps pointing me to the local Masonic Order.

I won't go into too many personal details in thread, but I will be more than happy to accept and send U2U's given the sensitive nature of the subject at hand.

If it's addressed in thread, I'll do my best to explain my experiences here.




Thanks for your time and attentions.

GE

could you put any similarities together? Is it always about the same time? Is it always clear? I am trying to go at it with a troubleshooting mind. What were you doing just before you felt the urge to leave? Is it the same every time?

BTW, you have one of the coolest screen names on ATS.

Weird - I had an urge to go outside last night as well, just to... uhm... inspect the snow Which i did at almost 3am.

Since you're on friendly terms with the clerk, why not strike up a conversation with him about it? Find out if a lot of people are making "silly" purchases on nights like that.

I would check for any fault lines and old sacred sites nearby as well, and pay attention to the local meteorological service as well.

I usually do have an urge to go outside at night. I usually ignore it, tune it out or turn it towards something productive, like cleaning my room

this is super fascinating to me. Your headaches, then urge to go out, the quartz underlying the area, all of it. You said you get the feeling that you are "checking in" or something like that. It would make sense actually, if some group or force or whatever is trying to keep track of everyone. In the city, you go to the stores and businesses and are generally out and about. In the sparsely populated areas if you keep to yourself you are not so easy to keep track of. I don't know, my thoughts here aren't fully formed I guess. Something about your post struck me though, and others have talked about the wierd urge to go outside for some odd reason. I have felt that too throughout my life and when i was younger, I acted on it. Now, I fear being outside in the dark by myself. I fear people in my community more than something supernatural or alien. Also, this may or may not be related, but I periodically get the feeling that something/someone is "out there" either watching me or beckoning me. Sometimes it unnerves me and other times it excites me. It comes suddenly and leaves just as quickly. I don't have a need to dwell on it. I live in a smaller city by the way. I don't know much about Freemasons though, so I can't address that part of your post. I wonder if it is something natural, like quartz I think is supposed to magnify energy, isn't it? Makes me want to look into that avenue more, personally.

Originally posted by Lexxica
It would make sense actually, if some group or force or whatever is trying to keep track of everyone. In the city, you go to the stores and businesses and are generally out and about. In the sparsely populated areas if you keep to yourself you are not so easy to keep track of.

That actually does makes sense.

In the city I was out and about from 8am to 2am, almost every day.

Here there isn't much to do on a limited budget, so I've been staying at home a lot more often.

Interesting you bring that up, it hadn't really crossed my mind.

I wonder if it is something natural, like quartz I think is supposed to magnify energy, isn't it?

That's what I've heard, but for the life of me I don't understand the exact science of it yet.

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(please forgive my quick responses - family is coming over soon and I have to put a few final things in order....I'll check back in and add thoughts as soon as I'm able.)

Thanks for your replies so far!

GE

Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
Small Towns, Local Phenomenon? A Question for Masons.
Well, for the past six years living here - every couple of months or so - I get horrible headaches and a strong inexplicable urge to leave the house and walk down to that self-same corner store in the middle of the night.
...
What confuses me is every time I experience these headaches and this urge to go down there in the middle of the night - it feels, somehow, orchestrated.
...
I posted tonight curious if any of the Masons here might be schooled on esoteric phenomena and be able to shed light on these early morning jaunts.
...
I've also speculated whether it may be Illuminatus or possibly Wiccan in nature, seeing as how we have our sub-circles of those groups as well...but so far, everything keeps pointing me to the local Masonic Order.

I wonder if there's a causality that's being overlooked? To me, the urge to go outside seems like your body's way of dealing with the headache. You haven't mentioned yet, does the headache get better after and/or during the walk? I don't think that its so much that you are being driven to go out on the town, so much as your subconscious is telling you, "hey, brain hurts. You know what works for that? Getting some fresh air!" And being in a small town with only one thing open at that hour, the shop is where you naturally gravitate so that you feel like you are walking with a purpose.

Then it becomes a matter of identifying why you're getting the headaches. I can tell you from personal experience that its highly unlikely that anything Masonically organized would be happening that late at night. 8:30 or 9 is a late night for many of our older members. Also the periodicity of it doesn't match with Masonic practice. Masons generally meet monthly, so if the experience is every 2 or 3 months (it would be good to know if there's a more concrete pattern you could nail down) then it's even more unlikely.

Similarly, from the Wiccan standpoint I'm not aware of any particular ritual or ceremony that would require that time or that period of repetition, and I have quite a few friends in varying practices of magickal arts, so it seems like something I would have at least heard of.

Now, if there were a lunar element, and it were somehow coinciding with ley lines and the quartz you've mentioned, it's possible the whole thing is natural. What you've described to us so far makes me skeptical of any human intent (though I'm not dismissing your experiences nor their results). I just think that from the people side of things, orchestrated ritual every 2 or 3 months at 2 or 3 in the morning doesn't match any patterns that I'm aware of from either Masonic nor magickal schools of practice.

Again, I'd look to the headaches, and perhaps keep a journal so that you can pinpoint any pattern to their regularity.

Hope that helps.

[edit on 12/26/2009 by JoshNorton]

There were some reports a while back about several people in Missouri getting headaches and near-psychosis from living too close to a wind turbine.

I know it sounds silly but the constant low-frequency hum and 24 hour a day background noise from the turbine was causing loss of sleep, irritability and headaches.

There might be something to the geo-magnetic aspect of the Ozark area too.

My family and I are staying in Branson overnight on the way to TX to see my family. This place always creeps me out. I'm not sure how far you are from here but it has a weird energy.

A few years back my wife and I stayed at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs and it was *unbelievably* haunted. The springs in that area seem to carry a weird energy too.

Well, it has been a while since this thread was started but I will put in my two cents on what it is.

I think it is ole Jed firing up the still up in them there hills every so often when he gets an order for some 'shine.

The chemicals may be wiffing down to where you live and waking you up.Smell anything funny when you are out for your stroll?

I think i may have an idea of what is going on here. You get head aches and then you feel like you have to go to the store and that helps the headache. Let me ask you, if you do not go to the store do your headaches get worse?