Things that go arrgghhhh in the night... I've never wanted to go to Thailand. I wasn't enough of a knob (hard to believe I know) and would look ridiculous with dreadlocks. That whole gap year trek through jungles bollocks just never appealed. Nip over to Flickr and find the photos of me in the middle of a Mexican jungle if you really want to see someone out of his element. Of course, now that the tourists are probably going to be very cautious in going back I really want to go. I haven't changed my mind about the types of people who go (wankers the lot of you) but Thailand never offered me ghosts before. Via the BBC: ...apparitions which have been reported include a foreign woman, whose screams echo through the night from the wreckage of a hotel that was particularly badly hit. A security guard on the site has already left his job because he could not bear it anymore. In Khao Lak, a local family say their telephone constantly rings through the day and night. When answered, the voices of friends and relatives cry out to be rescued from the flames of the crematorium. I hope the Pang brothers are taking note. It also sounds like a good place to watch an exorcism and bag some free takeaway: ...white robed monks from the Pu Ta Gong sect chanted prayers and offered sacrifices of food to the spirits. Special offerings of pizza were included for foreign 'spirits', and paper clothes and money were burned to help in the passage to the after world. I just don't know if I could sit on a plane with all those Leonardo DiCaprio BEACH types... Mike is writing to Bobby Conn