How To Get Rid Of A Ghost Who Has Already Gotten Rid Of You
By Chrissy Stockton
I invited him over when he had already become a ghost because I wanted to see him in the light of day. I put my lips on him and smelled him and pressed my palm and fingertips against him.
He was solid. In the afternoon light he was just a man, he didn’t have the power to haunt me the way I thought he did.
I could see now that there was nothing here to miss. I could trace the edges of the mistake I had made, that same familiar shape. I had done the thing that girls with open minds and functioning hearts do. I had contemplated forever with this extraordinarily ordinary collection of molecules.
If you ask a ghost hunter, they will tell you there are distinct types of hauntings. Demonic hauntings are said to be the product of an evil spirit attempting to take over an individual’s body (possession). Poltergeists are noisy and mischievous pockets of energy that move things around, aimlessly. Intellectual hauntings are less troublesome, a hearty “go towards the light” and some sage can clear your problem right up.
A residual haunting is the saddest of all. There’s no ghost in the way we think of them, no brains of the operation. There’s just some assemblage of energy that’s stuck repeating the same thing over and over. Whatever…
