Chapter 17
It was like chasing a fly around, trying to get it to go out a window or get close enough to swat.
After leaving the diner, I’d stopped at the Gas & Go for another energy drink—I was becoming addicted—and then by the Shop-A-Teria for a box of pasta noodles.
Upon arriving home, I put the pasta on the counter to wait for time to cook dinner, and placed the energy drink in the fridge.
Then I set about finding and cornering the ghost from the cupboard.
Making one’s home ghost proof—or seemingly ghost proof—has one glaring disadvantage.
When a ghost finds a way around the “proof,” you’re out of practice when it comes to getting ghosts out of your house.
It had been so long since I’d actually found, lured, and captured a ghost that I could barely remember where to start.
Side note – the main key to finding and luring a ghost starts with knowing the ghost’s name.
You can easily stumble upon a ghost at any old time as a medium.
However, if you want to find a specific ghost, and command them to speak with you, you have to call them.
You can’t reliably call a ghost if you don’t know their name.
Running around my house like a chicken with my head cut off screaming, “Hey, you!” doesn’t have the desired effect.
The ghost hiding from me could simply think me insane.
Which would only make it want to hide better.
Ghosts also live in a different style of reality than alive people.
Saying something like, “Ghost hiding in my house! Come here!” will only confuse a ghost.
How do they know they’re the only ghost hiding in the house?
And why would they answer to such a rude command anyway?
They’d need some sort of motivation to reveal themselves instead of actively hiding.
A ghost needs to know you want to help them, deliver a message, take a message from them to deliver, and so forth.
It’s not necessarily true that all ghosts float around, waiting for someone to notice them and talk to them.
Some ghosts, like humans, prefer to be left alone.
The ones that hide—the ones that like being left alone—are usually the ones that had a traumatic death.
That’s my experience with them, anyway.
After spending an hour after work trying to find the ghost in the house, and only catching the occasional glimpse, I had to give up. Besides, there’s a lot more to dealing with a rogue ghost than simply locating it.