From: walrus@bessel.umd.edu (Grig Larson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: New ghost (Also response to my previous story)
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:39:57 GMT
Organization: Punkadyne Industries(tm)

Boy, after that story about the Rose Hill experience, I got a lot of mail!
 
I would like to address the questions I got so I can answer all of you
at once.
 
Q: You have a new ghost in Reston, do you think you attact them somehow?
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Yes. Boy a lot of you hit the nail on the head there! As a child, I saw
"things" that sometimes moved objects, but I was told I was silly/lying/
full of it by everyone. Later, I read they were called "polterghiests."

My theory of them is they usually happen around small to pre-teen kids.
I think they are either self-conscious entities, or a psychokinetic
reaction from the projector during troubled times. I had a very troubled
childhood, where pg's were only a small part of my problems. I was dealing
with more common forms of trouble: abuse, drunk parent, etc... Some of
my other friends who had bad lives also had "pkp" (PsychoKinetic Phenomena).

I told you guys about the Rose Hill story. One thing I am going to mention
is that my wife is VERY perceptive abut ghosts and such. She had seen them
as kids, seen severed heads in hallways and a lot of other stuff. Her mom
and some of her sisters also back this up, so I know it isn't a tall tale.
Also, my wife is as skeptical as I towards phenomena, so we try to be
unbiased. My wife has seen a LOT of stuff, much more than I. So I believe
she also attacts this sort of thing.

Why are ghosts attracted to people? I don't really know. Maybe my theory
of "Spirits who don't know they are dead" are looking for people who
"look like the light" or maybe can help them out of what would be total
boredom.




Q: Okay, what about that Ghost where you live now?
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I didn't mention it, since it was no big deal after the last experience.

When we moved here, there was a feeling of a different ghost. My freinds
who helped me move noticed it too. After Rose Hill, it was like, "Oh no.
Not again..."
 
When I put my dishes away in the cupboards, somehting tossed teacups at
me. Most of them didn't break, but the ones that did were all the ones
I didn't like from someone I hate. :) I did lose a mug, though, but I
think that was me.
 
I was told by the smae friend who tried to exorcise the last place "Something
is mad you put the cups in the wrong place..." So I moved them.
 
My wife saw "an older figure with messed up hair" in the bedroom who
promptly dissappeared. So I loudly made a pact:
 
"You are allowed to life here with us as long as you don't interfere with
us or play tricks. I will not banish you or speak badly about you."
 
Things have been peaceful ever since.
 
Later, I found out "an odd and eccentric loner of a lady" lived here. She
died in her garden out front. When we replanted the garden, it got real
windy. But I assure the winds that I would take good care of the garden and
I made sure not to kill her bulbs. The garden was very fruitful flower-wise
than we expected.
 
I have learned to accept and respect others, even if they are elsewhere :).
 

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