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Do people really eat roadkill?

Until recently, I thought the whole people-eat-road-kill-thing was some kind of a morbid joke. Something that was on par with the “my friend did Bloody Mary in the mirror 5 times and she got attacked…” legend that we all grew up with.

The thing is, though, some people really do eat road-kill. As I witnessed last week. Now is the time to turn away if you want to, and don’t say I didn’t warn you!

I was invited to the BBQ as one of those people who is a friend of a friend. Someone who can literally walk around for hours without actually speaking to anyone. So I knew I wouldn’t know anyone really, but it didn’t bother me: I’m a sucker for free food.

The only problem with the food this time was that…it was roadkill. I kid you not. Everyone there was eating some kind of animal that Steve, the host, had run-over the day before. There was a Jamie Oliver book opened up and when I saw it, I swear it said Jamie’s Roadkill BBQ Recipe!

It didn’t. It turned out that everyone there was quite London and hip and thought it was all quite cool. Me? I didn’t stick around long, and I stuck to the beefburgers. They seemed much safer.

I don’t care what anyone says: if it got run over by a car or any kind of road vehicle, I’m staying away from it (even if a girl I like, who is wearing designer silver jewellery , is tucking into it with a smile on her face. Ugh…).

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Lanzarote Haunting?

Whilst in a Travel Agents to book my holiday to Lanzarote I got talking with the branch manager Dawn about the many rumours and urban myths that exist around the world. She began telling me about something that had happened to several people who had been on holiday to Lanzarote that quite frankly terrified and excited me at the same time.

Whilst we were browsing through Lanzarote Villas, Dawn began to show me one villa that was apparently haunted. I found this ridiculous because the villa looked brand new and in fact was only built a decade ago by a private contractor. I soon learned that a building doesn’t have to be new to be haunted. Three couples and a group of friends that had stayed in the villa in the previous five years had all reported seeing a mysterious mist in the house at night. I laughed and told Sarah that it was probably their imagination and condensation from the cool air outside. She shook her head whilst smiling and told me she hadn’t finished her story yet.

Mist was reported in the house at night, but the really creepy thing was that each report detailed a dark figure at the centre of the mist each time. It had the shape of a person but no features to speak of. Two out of the three couples reported that it seemed more like a shadow of a human being, like something you would see in the distance through smoke.

Needless to say I laughed it off, but I decided to book the villa anyway. I’ve always wanted to have a paranormal encounter, or at the very least see what a misty house would look like at three in the morning.

I didn’t see anything whilst I was there but I did learn that a worker had died whilst building the villa. He was trapped in a small fire and choked to death on smoke that filled the villa when it was half built.

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