What Made Me Believe

From: Robin Morgan (ib_robin@frontiernet.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Kingman, AZ
Source: Form Submission

There was a time I did not believe in ghosts. I always believed 'spirits' were evil until my experience at my girlfriend's house. Every year I would go visit my girlfriend & her husband in the summer for about a week.

One year when I went to visit, her and her husband hadn't been getting along. They had been arguing a lot. Well, one evening her husband went out to pick up some food and we (my girlfriend and I) were talking at the dining room table. She was telling me that she had a 'spirit' living with them in the house in her bedroom closet. I couldn't believe what she was telling me. She told me that at first when her and her husband were not getting along (about 2 yrs prior to this) at first this 'spirit' would turn the lights on and off during the arguments that they would have or when her husband was in the bathroom the "spirit" would turn the light off when he was in there. When they would have these 'interventions' during their arguments it was at night when the children were in bed sleeping at the other end of the house.

Well, she also told me of other kinds of interventions that occurred when they were arguing. But not once did she tell me what see saw or what this "spirit" looked like. I didn't believe what she was telling me.

Well, later that evening when her husband got back they started in arguing again. Her husband began to get really mean and started to get into my girlfriends face when I saw this image coming out from her bedroom into the kitchen where they were standing.

I couldn't believe my eyes! My girlfriend saw the look on my face and turned to see the spirit right behind her. The spirit actually went in between my girlfriend and her husband as if to protect her from harm. When the spirit did this, her husband backed off from my girlfriend and started cussing at this spirit to mind it's own business and such. I couldn't believe what was happening it was like a movie. The spirit started to get closer to my friend's husband and he made a smart comment to my girlfriend regarding her conjuring up this spirit and he went outside. As he was going out of the house, the spirit just turned around paused at my girlfriend for a moment and then went back into the bedroom.

I must have been white as a sheet because my girlfriend told me to sit down. She proceeded to tell me that this happened before except that the spirit really did protect her on a different occasion when her husband was about to hit her which explained why her husband backed off and went outside.

This was my first good experience with 'spirits.' I have to say, this spirit was quite pretty and female. She changed my view of 'spirits' forever. I no longer believe that all 'spirits' are evil.