What Is the Biggest Mind Blow You’ve Ever Had?

I want to share this strange and wrenching story. A mind blow if there ever was one.

A teenager whose father passed away when he was just six had pulled out an old Xbox game that he and his dad used to play together, only to discover a part of his father lived on in the game, as a ghost car. Strange and intriguing, isn’t it?

This is less strange than that sentence sounds. In racing video games, a ghost car is a representation of a previous player’s inputs and actions as they drove the track previously. In many of these types of games, the fastest laps are stored as ghost cars and then used by players to help them find the best line around a track. Or used as a competitor when there is only one player (as in a time-shifted way).

Here’s what the son said about the experience in the comments section of a YouTube video about gaming and spirituality:

Well, when I was 4, my dad bought a trusty Xbox. You know, the first, rugged, blocky one from 2001. We had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together — until he died when I was just 6.

I couldn’t touch that console for 10 years.

But once I did, I noticed something.

We used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. Actually pretty awesome for…