When Ghosts Speak - Mary Ann Winkowski [73]
In one disturbing case, a teenage girl who had attracted the earthbound spirit of a guy in his early twenties during a Ouija board session became so enamored with the idea of a spirit “boyfriend” that even after I sent the punk into the Light, it took several weeks for the girl to get over her “breakup” and return to her normal, upbeat personality.
Teenage boys aren’t as likely to play with Ouija boards, although the rise in popularity of movies and TV shows about the spirit world has encouraged teens of both sexes to experiment with magic and exploring the spirit world. The earthbound spirits of teenage boys act just as you’d expect teenage boys to act. They particularly tend to hang around at gyms or sports complexes, where there is a tremendous amount of energy both from the athletes and from the air of competition during games and meets.
As a result, these young spirits can have a lot of vitality. They may be able to manifest some physical actions that would be difficult or impossible for other types of spirits.
In one instance, the ghost of a teenage cross-county star took it upon himself to give his home team an advantage during a particularly grueling season. I had gotten a call from the wife of a coach at a high school in a nearby town. She told me that her husband had been complaining nonstop about problems in the gym: missing files in his office, unexplained computer glitches, and, most of all, weird occurrences out on the cross-country course. During races, it would appear that someone had moved the directional arrows or placed hazards such as rocks or tree branches in the middle of a previously cleared course. After hearing one of my talks at an Ohio venue, she had decided to call and see if I could tell her whether it was an earthbound spirit making her husband’s life so miserable.
Luckily her husband was at home at the time of the call. I was able to tell her that, yes, her husband did have a ghost attached to him—a gawky-looking teenage boy. Although her husband told her he thought she was flat-out nuts, he agreed to humor her by letting me come out to their house and see what I could learn from the ghost.
When I arrived, the coach, his wife, and an anxious-looking teenage ghost were waiting for me. Before I could start to ask any questions, the ghost stuttered, “Could you tell Coach that I’m . . . I’m really really sorry about what happened with the guy and the ravine.”
He did look pretty sheepish. So I immediately relayed the message. Now, this coach was a real don’t-mess-with-me type—the kind of guy who has no problem keeping fifteen or twenty teenagers in line. But when he heard what the ghost had said, he started to look a little edgy. “You’re not from around here,” he said to me. “And we made sure that particular incident didn’t get much press. How did you know?”
I sighed to myself and told him exactly what I tell everyone else who asks me that question: “The ghost who’s standing right here in your kitchen just told me.”
Meanwhile the ghost was really squirming. “I thought it would help the team if I switched some of the course signs around. Maybe get the other team disoriented. How was I supposed to know that some transfer student was going to be running for our team that day? Stupid doofus fell right off the cliff and broke his leg. Coach was pretty mad. I guess the kid