THREE GHOSTS

It was a vacation tour. I am with my girl friend Grace. She is also a journalist. I know that the ghosts will be there and I want to see some ghosts. I read so many ghost stories.

Miss Grace says that there are no ghosts. She is a strong believer that all the ghost stories are baseless and none is to believe as true one. I simply support her. 

 

PROLOGUE:

My friend James always says that there is a ghost in my room. Sometimes he spends his nights with me and sleeps before my computer. He will be watching something while I will be busy working on my laptop.

One such night I saw, he is sleeping after his limited whisky pegs. He is in sound sleep and yet I could not finish my work. I am typing when I heard James is saying something and looked like he is struggling.

I woke up him, gave a glass of water. He was cool now.

“I told you, there is ghost. You did not believe me. Ghost is female and she will be around twenty. I saw her, she is very beautiful. She sat on me and kissing me so savagely, I felt I am getting no breath. Just then you woke up.” James said.

I can’t believe him. I simply thought it is must be a dream. I said the same thing with certain confirmation.

“Joseph, you don’t know, someday she will kill you, try to swift to another room.”

I smiled and I could not answer. I don’t want to disturb him, so I said, “Okay, I do that.”

After that incident, Joseph did not come to my room. One night, I was sleeping just where Joseph was sleeping on that day. I don’t believe ghosts, but on that day, in my sleep a girl is on me and trying to kiss me. It is semi-unconscious state. I did not see her before in my life. I woke up and the scene is vanished.

But I cannot forget her. I mean, her face. She is very beautiful and I feel like I am seeing her every time I am sitting alone, thinking something to write.

 

TOUR IN ENGLAND:

It was a tour in England. My girl friend Grace is also a journalist. I know that Grace does not believe the ghosts and I am here in England where we can find some ghosts if we try.
It is small village and there is only one hotel to stay. By looking at the hotel, I smiled and asked the manager in the counter, “ARE there GHOSTS here?’

He looked at me with some scared looks and asked me if I see any ghosts her. I smiled and he smiled.

“Don’t ask me that sir. I am afraid of ghosts.” He said.

His name is peters and he is really very much scared at my question. We had our lunch in the restaurant and our supplier Bernard looked like a ghost. I am in happy mood as the place and the hotel are looking very friendly and pleasant.

“Bernard, where can we see ghosts in this place?” I asked him when Grace went for a wash in the Bath Room.

Bernard looked at me with curiosity and said, “Ghosts are common in this place sir. I know that a fry basket is levitating in the kitchen and I believe it is the task of a ghost. Some of my collegues also saw that cups and sometimes some food items also fly in the air as if ghosts are trying to scare us. We are sure ghosts are here sir, be careful.”

He went saying this and I am really scared to hear this. After Bernard has gone, Grace came. I did not leak this information to Grace though I know that she will not be scared even if I say this. I don’t want to tell this to her, I don’t know, this may make her scared.

We went in the historical village and noted the information, had the photographs and video clips shot for our future articles. We had our dinner in another place called Cosby restaurant.

“How did you feel this place?” Grace asked me.

“Ghostly.” I said with a smile.

“Don’t joke. The place is very nice. I feel like I spend a month if my job permits me to do so.” Grace said with great happiness.

“Yes, really it is a nice place. The climate is so good. The people are very friendly.” I said.

Grace is a girl with nice tastes. She reads so much and writes less. Whatever she writes, it will be worth reading.
“I want to find out if ghosts are here.” Grace said all of a sudden.
I wondered why she opened the subject of Ghosts all of a sudden.

Then she said that Miss Mary, the room cleaner said that she saw ghosts here in this hotel and she said that the ghosts here are not troubling ghosts. Mary believes that the ghosts are once the owners of this hotel, so they love the customers as their family members. She also advised Grace not to get perturbed or panic by seeing any ghost here, as there will be no harm by these ghosts.

I asked Grace to go to the room and sat before Peter.

GHOST IN WINDOW:

It was Peter who looked like frightened is looking at me. He understood that I want to know the fact, the fact about the ghosts and hotel.

“ARE there GHOSTS here SIR?’  I asked Peter again.

This time peter is silent. He is not looked like scared. He examined my looks and understood that I know something about the hotel and the ghosts here.

“Yes sir, There are three ghosts seen here. what you have heard outside about the ghosts in this hotel is right.” He confirmed with acceptance.

The previous hotel proprietor Robert is a young man and he was in love with a girl by name Elizabeth who is the daughter of a landlord. Elizabeth comes here for Robert and they love to see the hotel prosper. Robert and Elizabeth are seen every time in this hotel and the landlords is angry at her daughter. People say that the landlord William strangled Elizabeth when she did not obey him. Knowing this, the same night, Robert killed the landlord and he hanged himself in this hotel. For years this hotel is left as abandoned one. Ken, the present proprietor has purchased this building and he reconstructed it and made it a only hotel popular here.

“We are asked by management to keep the secret of ghosts are here as a rumor sir”

Peter explained this and he also confirmed that we have to see the ghosts just like other customers as they do not harm us.

Grace also heard this from Mary.

“This hotel is renovated ten years back. During renovation, my husband also worked here as the mansion. He told me that the utensils in their work vanish abruptly and the landlord ghost looks at the workers with anger. My husband was many times so much afraid that he may be thrown out from this building and he will break his neck or legs, but fortunately nothing like that happened” Mary said.

Grace was so much frightened by hearing all this that she asked me to move to nearby big city.

“Don’t be panic, grace. Nothing will happen. Let us see this, we must see the ghosts here and then only moving to another place.” I said with smile. There is no smile on Grace’s face.

We were busy with our work on our laptops and around midnight, we tried to sleep. There is pin drop silence in the hotel. It is raining and Grace went to the windows to close. She is shivering with fear seeing something outside. I ran to catch the same scene that made her frightened so much.

I saw something flying in the darkness outside the window, It was a ghost and two red bulbs like burning eyes looking at Grace with anger. It is frightening thing, as we are hearing so much about ghosts. Suddenly a cold wave came with force and touched us and we both are shivering with severe cold, as if we are in freezer. I closed the windows by force and dragged Grace near the fire place in the room. I gave her rug to control her shivering. There is tea in the flask. I poured two cups of tea and we are drinking tea. She could not forget what she saw there. Her face was pale like bloodless, so white and colorless.

“GRACE, come on, Forget what you have seen. Forget now” I repeatedly said to bring her to normality. I did not think that she will be so much frightened,

Those glowing red lights look exactly like the eyes of the angry man. This must be the ghost of landlord angry on his daughter Elizabeth and the hotel proprietor Robert. I know she clearly saw the ghost. It will take some time to say anything about what she saw.
I asked her to sleep. I helped her reach her bed and I covered the rug on her body. She is trying to sleep, I thought. I switched of the light in the room. Only dim red bed light is trying to spread faint light in the room.

SECOND GHOST:
Those glowing red lights are weak in spreading good light. I waited a long time on my bed and as I was sure that Grace is in sleep. Then I tried to sleep thinking that no more incident can be seen in the room.

It was around 2.30 when I feel something warm. A hand is touching my cheeks. I saw a girl who is sitting on me and trying to kiss me. It is semi-unconscious state.

I did not see her before in my life. I know that this girl is an English girl. Her lips are as red as blood. Her eyes are green. She is in her costly white gown. Her skin is like rose petals. I opened my eyes and looked at Grace’s bed. She is sleeping peacefully.

“Who are you?” I asked as whispering.

My words did not spell out from my mouth. Her mouth is locking my mouth and she is gently spreading on me like wild fire. I am feeling burn and as I have the doubt of ghost, I have the fear also.

“Elizabeth…” I said. I again said boldly. “Elizabeth..Elizabeth..”

Then I saw Grace came to me. As she patted on my face with her gentle touch of cold palm, I woke up and the scene is vanished.

“Why are you saying Elizabeth? Did you see something?” Grace asked me.

“No. Nothing I saw.”

She knew I am lying. So she is silent, she went to her bed. I could not sleep. I know that Grace is also so much frightened.

THIRD GHOST:

It was around 4 am that I heard somebody is patting our door. Grace too heard the sound, but we did not open the door. After few minutes again, someone is patting the door. As it is early in the morning, I thought this may be staff. So I opened the door.

There is no one. The corridor is empty with lights dimly spreading the light. I walked straight in the corridor till the manager’s counter where the manager is sleeping, putting his head on the wooden counter. I looked for something or someone who has patted our door. I found none.

I am returning to my room. All of a sudden I saw in the sofa near my room. There I saw a girl and a boy. The girl is looking at me from the shoulders of a boy. They are in love. I wondered for the girl is same one whom I saw on my bed.

I calmly passed from them to my room. I have locked the room.

“Who patted the door?” Grace asked me.

“I found no one. People are sleeping at the manager counter.” I said in a low tone.

Grace was in doubt. She understood that I saw something, but I did not say.

“Who are in the sofa? I saw those two people making love.”

I looked in to the eyes of Grace and said, “I did not see anyone there.”
We vacated the room. We came back. We did not share our experiences with anyone. I know, not saying is better, because once we say we have to show the reasons also to believe. I wondered that why people do not understand certain things. We cannot believe certain things, but we can experience only.

Until then, we have to say that these things are blind beliefs. Everything everyone can not experience. So blind beliefs are a must to exist.

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