Salem, of course, is far from the only place in the United States whose pavements are laid over the graves of indigenous people. There’s nowhere in this nation that wasn’t already inhabited before Europeans arrived, and there’s no town, no house, that doesn’t sit atop someone else’s former home. More often than not, we’ve chosen to deal with this fact through the language of ghosts.
Colin Dickey; Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
encountered this absolutely magnificent juniper tree in the Oregon Badlands Wilderness and I’m convinced an incredibly powerful spirit resides within it
