My best-friend at young age / kept in top dresser drawer / cornucopic treasures galore / of mind-shimmering charms impossible to gauge. / Knack-knicks, trinkets, polymathic captivating miscellany, ajumble: / Knocker, measuring cup, flashlight, graphite powder, spent cherrybomb, pocket watch, flint striker. / A veritable, bedazzlingly meritable, mish-mash stash of wonder, / with lifetime young to ponder. / That, mimed here, and more.

Curiosity gets you in; excellence keeps you. Welcome to an enigmatic elsewhere.

Following impromptu midnight escapade at an abandoned tuberculosis asylum in 2005 we found a trove of obscure, pertinent information on Beverly Litsinger's avant-garde Maryland Ghost and Spirit Association, by then beset and imprecated by sinister forces! Hooked but perplexed, at behest we recouped mirrored data. 19 years on, EastGhost steadfastly expands features, scope, inclusive intent.

"Surveys, such as the one conducted in 1996 by Gallup of a nationally representative sample of Americans, continue to show an high degree of belief, interest and involvement in a variety of paranormal and religious related phenomena among the general population. For example, 48% believed in the possibility of extra-sensory perception (ESP), 45% believe that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have already visited Earth, and 56% and 72% believed in the reality of the devil and angels, respectively (Gallup, 1997). In fact, these numbers have actually gone up since the surveys first started (Gallup and Newport, 1991) and other surveys amongst university and college students have yielded similar results (e.g. Messer and Griggs, 1989). Perhaps due to the widespread existence of such beliefs, the investigation of personality correlates of paranormal and particularly religious belief has received considerable attention in recent years, but little attention was given to both simultaneously." -- Chris Huntley, 2005 Ph.D. thesis, "Correlation of Paranormal Beliefs, Religious Beliefs and Personality"

"Wonder precedes wisdom." - Socrates