I wrote the other day about “that ominous feeling” I have had on military battlefields. I started to include my one actual experience with a real dead ghost but that thread was too long as it was, so I didn’t do it.
So I will ask here, has anyone else ever encountered a real ghost? I mean where you actually saw the apparition, not just felt that something was there, or that something was going “bump in the night”.
I had been on Okinawa about a year when a friend of mine, that was married to an Okinawan, introduced me to a good (female) friend of his wife. We hit it off from day one and in less then a couple of months we started living together in a small three room, wooden, house not too far from my base. After we had been together about six months I had my first and only actual encounter with a ghost.
I have had a curvature of the spine since I was a young boy and because of it, I always sleep on my side and never on my back. So I was really uncomfortable when I woke up one morning about two O’clock, laying on my back, with my arms locked at my sides and unable to move. Uncomfort-able is an understatement, because when I opened my eyes I saw a young woman was sitting on my stomach, with her legs straddling my arms, and just looking at my face.
I knew my girlfriend was in the bed next to me, but I had no idea what was happening. All I knew was that a very pretty, young girl in a white Kimono was sitting on my stomach and studying my face. I called out, “Setsuko, Setsuko, get this woman off of me!” I yelled that a couple of times before my girlfriend woke up and wanted to know what I was yelling about. I told here there was a woman, in a white Kimono, sitting on my stomach and looking at me and to “get her off of me!”
Setsuko said she couldn’t see anything and she thought I was just having a nightmare. She got out of bed and tried pulling on my arm to get me to wake up, but my arm was pinned at my side and wouldn’t move. After a couple of tries, she realized that I really was awake and she figured out that there was a ghost sitting on my stomach.
She went into the kitchen and got a bag of salt. She came back to the bedroom and started throwing salt on me. When she did that the ghost, looked hurt and disappeared to never be seen again BY ME.
The next day, my girlfriend told the landlady about my experience and the landlady told her what had happened. The land were we were living was originally part of an estate owned by a wealthy feudal lord a couple hundred years ago. He had a wife and several concubines, one of which he had murdered for some unknown reason, but her ghost was still known to walk the land of the old estate. Over the years, she had appeared to many people, so the landlady knew exactly what had happened.
When I came home from work that evening, she asked me to describe the ghost and what I saw was the same as other people had seen before, including the hairdo and the Kimono, which was dressed “right over left” as is done for a dead person who is laid out prior to cremation. Orientals are very fastidious about their customs, one of which is that live people wear the Kimono dressed left over right and ONLY DEAD people are laid out with it right over left. This was an interesting point because, although I had been studying about Okinawan history, I had never been to a wake and had no knowledge of this custom.
I never saw the ghost again, but before I left Okinawa some three years later, I heard that she appeared to a couple more people. So, whether you believe it or not, that was my one encounter with a ghost.
I’ll bet you all will be glad when we can post about politics and I stop writing these long posts. So, I ask again, has anyone else seen an actual Ghost?
Grumpy
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Originally Posted by mhall
