What are you grinning at, Ghost?
Apr 22 '05
The Bottom Line is not trying to get possessed for no towel. (Comic View)
While scanning the various Ghost Story categories in the Fiction section I've noticed one thing: everyone wants to know where the Nonfiction section is! Almost everyone who has written here makes no bones about it (forgive that rotten pun): their stories are real. I'm no different.
Now, I don't walk around seeing dead people as a daily rule. I just had one small scare (or two) and the spirit world is behind me. I hope. A little background: I love scary stuff, I can watch the Exorcist time and time again, the Amittyville Horror is pure joy to me. Supernatural things scare me, not Freddy, Jason or other slashers. And of course, I've always considered children spirits to be the spookiest.
My third year of college begins with a new apartment. Most folks will agree that living in a dorm isn't really like living on your own. It's never scary, always noisy and you are never alone, really. I considered my apartment my emancipation from childhood.
Bills began rolling in and I needed a job. I found one drawing blood at our local hospital for the day shift. It began for the lab techs at 5 am. Being a night owl, I despised it, but I needed cash and they were willing to work around my class schedule. However, I had to wake up for work at 3:30 am to get ready for my day and it is pitch black at that time. Am I setting this up for you?
Now, my roomie was a typical college girl and most days I was leaving to begin my day as she was coming home from the bars. I was alone most of the nights during this time and I'll admit that this added to the spooky atmosphere of the apartment. Also not helping matters was the graveyard that backed right up to our complex (yes, I saw Poltergeist).
That night while preparing for bed, my cat began to act funny. He seemed spooked by nothing in particular, occasionally even hopping straight up in the air like in a cartoon. At the time I thought it was hilarious, and began to pester him by goosing him to get him to jump. I fell asleep and for some reason, around 3:15 am, I woke up. I looked to the side and there stood a little girl in a blue dress standing beside my bed. I can't begin to describe the feeling of terror I felt, though she wasn't scary looking. I just knew no kids should be in my bedroom. I began to blink my eyes, trying to comprehend what I was seeing in the inky darkness when she just faded away, before my eyes. Of course, by this time my alarm clock starts shrieking to send my heart into another round of palpitations.
I leapt out of bed and hit the light switch as quick as I could. Nothing there. But I knew I hadn't imagined it. I was wide awake when it happened. I got ready as quickly as I could, and a shaken me left the apartment with every light blazing.
When I arrived at work my coworkers could tell I was shaken. I brushed it off for a while, but eventually confessed to what happened, even though I thought they'd think I was a loon. However, every person who heard it had their own story to tell. One woman lived in a haunted house, and knew the ghosts by name and interacted with them. Now, I know that sounds flaky, but before she told me that I thought she was a pretty down to earth girl. I never saw her ghost, but I liked her a lot and trusted her judgment.
My roommate thought this sighting was "Cool" and went to the apartment owner to find out if someone had died in our apartment. I begged her not to tell me because I knew I couldn't live there knowing this. To this day, I don't know. My husband (then boyfriend and sometime shacker) didn't believe it. I was so crushed; how could he think I was lying? He said "I don't think you are lying. I believe that you believe it." OK, so I'm crazy, that's better.
What I found out is that it's pretty common, or either everyone suffers from mass hysteria. And I found out that while I love scary stuff, I don't like it happening to me. At all. And I didn't tease the cat anymore, either.
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