When Ghosts Speak - Mary Ann Winkowski [41]
Even after I shared all this information with the couple, I sensed that the wife still hadn’t fully let go of her conviction that her husband was having an affair. So I asked the ghost why he was terrorizing the wife instead of just enjoying his rides in the car with the husband.
“She was talking to a friend,” he said. “And she said she was sorry her husband had ever bought the car. She was going to make her husband choose: It was going to be either her or the car. And I knew her husband would choose her. So I figured she had to go.”
The woman’s mouth dropped open. “I did say that to my co-worker.” Then she turned to her husband. “Is he right?” she asked. “About what you’d choose?”
Her husband nodded and gave her a hug. When I asked if they were ready to release this spirit, they both nodded vigorously.
To tell you the truth, I expected that I would have some trouble convincing this ghost to cross over, especially after he admitted that he had, in fact, been the one opening the house and garage doors and setting off the alarms. That kind of interference with physical objects requires a tremendous amount of energy from an earthbound spirit. But I think he could see that despite his efforts, he hadn’t succeeded in pushing the couple apart. Once I made the Light, he went peacefully enough.
I heard from the couple a few weeks later. They’d had a heart-to-heart and the wife had agreed to see if she could learn to appreciate her husband’s fondness for the car. They’d just returned from a Corvette club rally and she admitted that she had really enjoyed the ride home—with just the two of them in the car!
Attachments to Places
Earthbound spirits may feel strongly about remaining in a particular place. And they can become very testy if “their” space isn’t maintained to their liking.
A woman once left a message telling me that she was being haunted by a bed. Intrigued, I called her back. I was lucky to catch her on her cell phone. She was an interior designer, she explained, and was out looking for some pieces for a client. I couldn’t sense an earthbound spirit with her at the time, but I was still curious to hear her story.
The woman explained that she had been looking for some antique furnishings for a client’s home when she spotted a beautiful mahogany four-poster bed with carved posts and an old fringed canopy. “I had to have that bed,” she explained. “Not for the client, but for me. And it’s totally not my style.”
After she’d brought the bed home and put it in her guest room, it became all she could think about. She’d be looking for wallpaper for a client, and realize that she was flipping through books thinking about what would look right with the bed.
Shortly after she bought the bed, she became obsessed with the fact that she’d left the matching dresser in the store. More and more convinced that the bedroom set needed to be complete, she returned to the antiques dealer, only to find the dresser had been sold. “I actually thought about tracking down the new owner,” she admitted. “But I didn’t want to feed this weird obsession I was developing.”
Instead, she wallpapered the bedroom in a delicate floral print that she never would have chosen for herself. She bought a braided throw rug and a rocker and put them in the room. Still, she couldn’t let go of the dresser. Several weeks later, she stopped by the antiques shop again—and there it was! The owner told her that the woman who’d bought it had been calling and complaining to him that it just didn’t work with her decor, and purchasing it had been a terrible mistake. “He couldn’t stand to listen to her complain anymore,” the decorator told me. “So he bought the dresser back. I was so excited, I took it out of there that day.
“But here’s where