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by MTAR_Archive
I wish my story telling skills were that good.
I am not making any of this up. Not one bit, none of it. I made a police report regarding the first two burner incidents, and the third the cops just said "I don't know what to tell you".
I am generally pretty skeptical about ghosts. It's not that I don't believe that they exist, it's just that I need substantial proof that they do. This third incedent is enough proof for me. It is completely unexplainable.
Big John, your story about your cat turing on the stove makes sense... but these knobs could not be turned by a cat's foot. I have stood in front of this motherfucker trying to get the knobs to turn by "replicating" how one of my cats would bump it. I 've even used great force to try to get them to budge. They are really stiff. Even if it happened once, there is no way it could happen three times in 2.5 weeks.
So to make a long story longer (and I know after this everyone's going to claim I am making this up, but I swear on my family, friends and my business that i am not), a colleague and friend of mine referred me to a medium. I know this sounds totally bizarre, and I refused to call her until I was convinced that it probably wasn't a person turning on my stove. The incedent from yesterday morning in addition to some other details, which I first thought were totally unrelated have made me believe, against my own skeptical intuition, that there is a spirit in my home. I felt I really had no choice but to get in touch with the medium and at least see what she had to say.
BTW, One of the other details is that I have been intermittently noticing the smell of rotting flesh in my home. This is the same smell I noticed when I first moved in, but the first time it never went away and got got worse as time went by. It turned out to be a nest of dead mice behind the shower. But this time it just comes and goes. It only hangs around for a couple minutes. The last time I smelled it was yesterday morning about 15 mintues before the stove was turned on.
Back to the medium: this is her livelyhood; she makes a living off of this and travels all over the country doing this kind of work (communicating with spirits).
So I contacted her via email at first and explained that I think I might have some sort of supernatural activity in my home. I also told her that I do not want to tell her exactly what's going on in my home, because I want her to have a fresh perspective, but I did tell her that what was happening was very real, and was putting myself and my posessions in danger. I assumed she would say that she could not do anything without knowing what was going on, but I was wrong.
She emailed me back and told me she sensed a "fiery anger", and I could call her to talk about her services and arrange a meeting if I wanted to. I'm not really angry though, it's just a silly name. So I called her. Let me tell you now that going into this call I was anticipating total BS.
She was very pleasant on the phone, and she just asked me some basic questions. I explained to her that what was occuring could have been done by a human being.. that it was physical, and that it happened on three seperate occasions in two and a half weeks. Then she told me she knew that something was going on in the kitchen. At this point my heart starting racing, but I also knew that it was pretty easy to infer that if something physical was happening that is putting me and my belongings in danger, it's probably taking place in the kitchen... duh. But then she told me that there are all kinds various things and objects scattered around the kitchen. My roomate is in the process of moving in, and there are about 30 boxes, bags, and other shit laying all over the kitchen/living room area (it's all one big room). Then she asked me if I noticed anty unusual smells (at this point I was not aware that there was any connection between the rotting smell and supernatural activity). I explained to her that I had been noticing the smell of rotting, and then she asked me to hold on because she was getting nauseous. I know this sounds melodramatic now, but I can honestly tell you that this was one of the most intense telephone conversations I have ever had. My heart was about to fly out of my chest and I was literally shaking. I can say that it is not easy fro me to believe this kind of stuff, I'm still having a hard time with it, but I can tell you that at that moment I was really freaking out. I forced myself to calm down and get a fucking grip.
I did end up telling her everything that was going on. She wasn't really interested in the details though, which I found to be interesting. She also didn't tell me "yeah, you have a ghost, I should come out immediately", which is what I was anticipating. If I do believe that there is a spirit in my house, I am supposed to try to communicate with it, and talk to it as if it were a person. This is very, very hard to do without feeling like a fucking idiot. She told me to try it and see what happens in the next several days and call her back on Monday, at which point I can schedule a time for her to come visit my home.
This is all true, although I would be really proud of myself if I could make this all up.
mike
Michael Gregory Bridavsky
Russian Recording
Push-Pull
