The Ghost in the Mirror
October 27, 2008
Ready for more ghost stories? Leslie Rule's new book GHOST IN THE MIRROR reminded me of something that happened this weekend. I was staying at the Heathman Hotel in two different rooms that are reportedly haunted. I switched rooms on the suggestion of the night auditor who, at midnight Friday, suggested I change from 703 to 510. In the morning I did.
First, Leslie's story.
One of the best stories in Leslie's book is called Stranger in the Shower -- about a seven-year old girl who looked in the mirror and saw a girl standing behind her. Young Kya spun around -- and saw no one -- then she looked in the mirror again, and, sure enough, the girl was in the mirror. No one believed Kya, but the image stayed with Kya for years, it was so real to her. Leslie says children are more likely to see apparitions.
Leslie investigates these stories as deeply as possible. In the book, she interjects other experts. At the end of Kya's chapter, Leslie writes of Dr Raymond Moody, whose work on Near Death Experiences is pivotal. The term, Near Death Experience, by the way, was coined by him. In studies, Dr Moody found that about half his subjects -- similarly prepared with relaxation, light meals, no caffeine -- would look in his mirror and see apparitions. Half!
Now my story. I showered Saturday morning, just prior to moving from room 703 to room 510. The bathrooms don't have any device to dissipate the fog, and sometimes at home, I'll forget to run the blower, but I've never ever seen anything like this. I looked in the mirror, and two black eyes, superimposed over my own eyes, looked back. I stepped closer to the lightly-fogged mirror, and the circles around each of my eyes seemed like the round lens you would find on glasses. Even closer, and I see the black ring around my pupils about three times its normal size -- in fact both my eyes were about three times their normal size. The fog, by now, was dissipating, but my big black eyes remained. I don't know who the eyes were -- but the black eyes were not mine, and I sensed a male energy.
As I checked out of room 703, I felt this pulling on me -- like a "please don't leave." I checked out anyway, and moved to another haunted room, 510. Later that night, I showered again, stepping out of the tub in 510, facing foggy mirrors again.
I looked into the mirrors in this bathroom -- and saw the very same big black eyes.
Was it the Heathman chef who plunged to his death from the roof of the hotel in 1929? Whose big black eyes were they, superimposed over my own?
I wonder.
Ready for more ghost stories? Leslie Rule's new book GHOST IN THE MIRROR reminded me of something that happened this weekend. I was staying at the Heathman Hotel in two different rooms that are reportedly haunted. I switched rooms on the suggestion of the night auditor who, at midnight Friday, suggested I change from 703 to 510. In the morning I did.
First, Leslie's story.
One of the best stories in Leslie's book is called Stranger in the Shower -- about a seven-year old girl who looked in the mirror and saw a girl standing behind her. Young Kya spun around -- and saw no one -- then she looked in the mirror again, and, sure enough, the girl was in the mirror. No one believed Kya, but the image stayed with Kya for years, it was so real to her. Leslie says children are more likely to see apparitions.
Leslie investigates these stories as deeply as possible. In the book, she interjects other experts. At the end of Kya's chapter, Leslie writes of Dr Raymond Moody, whose work on Near Death Experiences is pivotal. The term, Near Death Experience, by the way, was coined by him. In studies, Dr Moody found that about half his subjects -- similarly prepared with relaxation, light meals, no caffeine -- would look in his mirror and see apparitions. Half!
Now my story. I showered Saturday morning, just prior to moving from room 703 to room 510. The bathrooms don't have any device to dissipate the fog, and sometimes at home, I'll forget to run the blower, but I've never ever seen anything like this. I looked in the mirror, and two black eyes, superimposed over my own eyes, looked back. I stepped closer to the lightly-fogged mirror, and the circles around each of my eyes seemed like the round lens you would find on glasses. Even closer, and I see the black ring around my pupils about three times its normal size -- in fact both my eyes were about three times their normal size. The fog, by now, was dissipating, but my big black eyes remained. I don't know who the eyes were -- but the black eyes were not mine, and I sensed a male energy.
As I checked out of room 703, I felt this pulling on me -- like a "please don't leave." I checked out anyway, and moved to another haunted room, 510. Later that night, I showered again, stepping out of the tub in 510, facing foggy mirrors again.
I looked into the mirrors in this bathroom -- and saw the very same big black eyes.
Was it the Heathman chef who plunged to his death from the roof of the hotel in 1929? Whose big black eyes were they, superimposed over my own?
I wonder.
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