Because Incorporeal is a ghost love story, I’ve invited my newsletter subscribers to submit their own ghost stories. I’ve received a few spine-tingling, and very believable, tales of the supernatural. C’mon subscribers - I want to hear more stories!
From author Sharon Buchbinder:
“When I was in college, I shared a duplex with four other women. The day I moved into my attic room, as I unpacked my boxes, I heard my roommate shout, “Sharon!” I ran downstairs, only to find Cindy in the shower. When she came out, I asked if there had been a problem. She smiled. “Oh, I forgot to tell you. We have a ghost.”
“This ghost moved things around, knocked things off shelves and mimicked other roommates’ and even boyfriends’ voices to get attention. She also paced a hallway that ran from the kitchen to the bedroom on the main floor.
“One night I pulled an all nighter for an Organic Chemistry exam (not my best subject!). I had a little dachshund, named Bisou, who went everywhere with me. That night I studied in the kitchen, drinking gallons of coffee, memorizing benzene rings. I decided to take a little nap. I cuddled on the couch with Bisou and closed my eyes. The doxie started shaking and whining and I heard the footsteps. They came closer and the dog became more agitated. The ghost was standing right next to the couch and the dog was in a frenzy. “Please,” I said, “I need to get some rest, this exam is really important to me. And you’re making my dog crazy. Could you please go away?” The ghost’s footsteps receded from the side of the couch, down the hall and then stopped. I aced the exam (a miracle).
“After I had been living in the haunted duplex in for a few months, I invited my sister-in-law and brother over for dinner to meet my new boyfriend, my roommates, and see the place. My room was in the attic, and at $25 a month for rent (5 women, $125 total!) I wasn’t complaining about my space. I was very happy to be there and grateful to have such a bargain. The ghost was almost an added value at that point. We had appetizers, did not really get to dinner, when my brother, a Vietnam vet and Green Beret who to this day keeps in touch with buddies from the 82nd Airborne, said, “Why don’t you show us the place?”
“My then boyfriend had already been repeating all the strange events (with embellishments) that I had told him about and was making Twilight Zone music. As I led my brother and sister-in-law up the stairs to my room in the attic, the now very annoying boyfriend said, “Ooooooo! Can yooooou feeeeeel the spiriiiiit?”
“Yes, I can,” my brother said. “She’s right next to me, has shoulder length brown hair, and is wearing a brown print dress. She’s very lonely.” My brother turned on his heel without even reaching the attic and raced down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairwell he said, “I have to go! She’s all over me. It’s like she’s so happy I can see her, she’s trying to get under my skin.”
“My brother and astonished sister-in-law ran out the door. The dinner party was over and so was my relationship with that idiot boyfriend.
“PostScript: Ever since that night, my brother literally “sees dead people.” I always thought it was interesting that I heard them. It’s as if each of us got one part of the psychic abilities, but not the whole package!”
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Definitely a believable story. Scary!
I don’t believe I could have stayed! Best of luck with your book.
Yes, Amber - very scary!
Zequeatta - I could not have stayed either!
I write nonfiction ghost books besides fiction. Also have personal experiences since I was a kid. Like the three days my father haunted our place after he died (I was in college then) and when he wss buried the hauntings stopped.
I also had personal experiences that are recorded in three books (third one releass July 28th!) and upcoming one for 2012.
That is such a great ghost story. Like most of the good ones, it is ambiguous - he could actually see the dead girl, or it could all be in his head. A good ghost story has to have that little bit of mystery all the way through.
Interesting, Pamela. Really interesting.
Aaron - the most intriguing stories, IMO, are the ambiguous stories.
What an awesome story. Thanks Sharon for sharing, and thanks Julia!
Thanks to both Julia and Sharon-that was a great story! I remember my mother and dad went to a notoriously haunted restaurant (formerly a house) in Texas. My mother had to use the restroom and she heard someone in the stall next to her, but she had not heard anyone open the bathroom door (it was an Victorian age house, and the floors and doors creaked). When she finished, there was still someone in the stall, but when she checked, the stall door swung open to reveal no one (alive) there. She immediately went back to my dad and said “we’re leaving.”
Oh Melissa, priceless! I would run out of a haunted bathroom too!
Christine - it is so interesting! You’re welcome.
Wow. That is so freaky I am not quite speechless. I think there is something in how mater of fact you are with the departed that probably helps with being sensitive. It’s not like you WANT to see them like someone at a seance in a movie with all the attendant drama.
Steph - creepy!
I’m not sure I could handle seeing ghosts. I’ve seen a couple, but I’m quite happy if they remain out of sight. I feel them though which is creepy enough for me. Really, I’d prefer not to have any of it. I find it too creepy.
Nina, I see them and I do not like it at all. Too much bad stuff flying around in the ether!