Demons in Disguise: The Dangers of Talking to the Dead by Steve Wohlberg

Author:Steve Wohlberg [Wohlberg, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0768424917
Amazon: 0768424917
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2007-08-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

VOICES FROM BEYOND

Ghosts cross every culture and continent, and the belief in their existence is on the rise.

— Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters 1

SCIENCEhas its limits, and life is permeated with the unexplainable.

Skeptics may scoff, yet history is full of people who have relayed convincing personal stories of meeting beyond-this-world visitors. In our 21st century, the number of these stories is increasing rapidly. You are about to read just a few of these unusual encounters. The first three were reported in that “They See Dead People” article in People magazine referred to previously. Face-to-face meetings with phantoms caused some to merely chuckle. Others were scared out of their wits.

FRANKLIN, TENN. Come Christmastime, Tom Murdic gets a

jolly visitor in his home. Not Santa, but an apparition that looks like a young black boy in a Civil War-era puffy shirt. The ghost turns on appliances and bangs on walls but is otherwise, says Murdic, a good kid. “He’s more of a curiosity,” than a terror. Murdic, 51, a county planning commissioner, explains, “But then I don’t scare easily.”

His wife and kids do, though, and they’re not crazy about the ghost that has turned up especially during winters every year since the Murdics bought their home—on land that was once a Confederate army encampment—in 1993. Tom’s daughter Cathy, 24, has felt him tap her on the head, and his wife, Deborah, heard voices in the garage but walked in to find only her agitated dog barking at no one. His son Nick, 30, was home alone when he heard a loud pounding on a wall.

“It freaked me out,” he says, “and I left.” Tom’s the only one to get a good look: He saw the boy walk across the kitchen and disappear into the dishwasher. As long as he doesn’t run up the electric bill, says Murdic, the little guy can stay. “He’s just one of those anomalies,” he says, “that we just don’t quite understand.”2

Who is this “little guy” who shows up each year around Christmastime and mysteriously switches on microwave ovens and bangs on walls? Is he really the ghost of “a young black boy” from Civil War days? You will discover the answer soon.

OXFORD, MICH. You’re 6 years old and lying in bed when a woman’s face—no body, just a face—materializes in your room. Um, who you gonna call? “It was just weird,” remembers Kirsten Jorgensen, 22, who says a ghost appeared to her in full body form on and off for 10 years in the 155-year-old house where she lived with her brother and parents. Another time “I saw her walking with a bird on her shoulder,” says Jorgensen. “I fainted.”

But then she grew fond of the ghost—and credits it with saving her life. One night when Jorgensen was 16, the ghost—whom she believes was Carrie Crawford, a veterinarian’s wife who died in Kirsten’s bedroom in the 1930’s—woke her up and led her to the hall.

There, claims Jorgenson, she saw smoke coming from under her brother Ian’s bedroom door—a candle had started a fire.

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