Exploring Paranoia in a Strange Town

But I mean , when I came over here,

I was, oh, God, I was in my, my, uh, mid-20s-

Right

... the first time I really came over here.

You know, I had a whole bunch of weird paranoid

suspicions

about what the hell was going on because there

was a lot of stuff I couldn't

understand.

Right.

Um, and nobody was really bothering to explain

it to me.

They don't.

And it, it...

And I formed a bunch of

opinions about the town

and about the people in it that were like,

"Surely that couldn't be,"

because

a whole place can't be like, you know, weird town.

You know, where the stranger wanders in and,

and all the people are in the bar, and

they all shut up when he looks at them.

Mm-hmm.

And

they tell you, "Don't go to the house on the hill."

And it's like that.

Mm-hmm.

And then you go away and you think, "No, that's- I was wrong.

I mean, that's insane thinking. I'm paranoid.

I imagined that stuff. That couldn't be the reason for

why so-and-so was acting like... Could it?"

Mm.

And then you find out later on the track that you were exactly on track-

Mm

... with a lot of this stuff. Not specifically on track-

No

... but that you could, uh, that some of your worst nightmares

were real at the time, and you think, "Oh-"