Originally Posted by
Multigunner
Bought a milsurp rifle once, put some money into fixing it up into a very good shooter, but every time I held it I got a creepy feeling that something evil was attached to it. Perhaps some war crime or the lingering ghost of a soldier killed in battle.
Never felt that way about any other weapon of any kind.
Sold it back to the guy I got it from, he later told me had begun to get the same creepy feeling about it, like some thing was in the steel that was putting out some kind of force. He sold it off as well.
I've read of the Japanese testing a sword by putting the blade in a steam and letting a leave float against the edge. If the leaf floated past the blade it was good to go, if the edge sliced the leaf then the blade would end up killing its owner.
I've felt a similar feeling when looking over used cars and later found someone had died while driving it and the car had been rebuilt from a wreck.
I have noticed I can sometimes feel magnetic fields and sense metal objects in the dark. Apparently that runs in the family.
Maybe that rifle had a slight magnetic field in the steel.