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slowly. She pointed at one man in the back. “Why don’t you tell us
about yours, sir? What’s your name?”
“I’m Kyle,” he introduced himself. “I’m a doctor at the
hospital over in Reading. I always hear footsteps on the second floor
to my house, and whenever I go up to check, there’s never anyone
there. My wife is really scared and she wants to move, but I keep
telling her she doesn’t need to be. Whatever it is has never tried to
harm us.”
“Well, Kyle,” Richard said, “you bring up a good point. How
many people here are scared of ghosts?”
At first, I was still distracted by the fact that a doctor was
here to learn how to ghost hunt to hear the question. I mean, doctors
were all about science. But this guy, someone with a respectable,
logical career, who did not look at all out of his mind, was here
honestly telling us his story.
When the hands started to go up around the room, I realized
the question Richard had asked. Seeing that at least six other people
had raised their hands, I timidly lifted mine to about ear level. Kind
of a “me, too, but please don’t tell anyone” gesture.
“Let me be the first to tell you that there is no need to be.
The only reason that most of us fear ghosts is because we know next
to nothing about them. There’s not going to be any evil girl coming
out of your TV to kill you. This is the real world. Yes, there are some
spirits that would like to cause you harm, but we are going to teach
you just how to protect yourself from those. You are stronger than
them; you’re alive, they’re not. So you’re perfectly safe. And keep
in mind that the great majority of spirits are not out to scare you. I
promise.” When he said the final words, he looked right at me. For
some reason, although he wasn’t smiling, his gaze was somewhat
comforting. He had been doing this for twenty years and he could
tell me with confidence that nothing was going to hurt me.
Although my guard was still up, I actually found myself
interested in hearing more. What was the difference between the
ones that wanted to hurt us and the ones that didn’t? How could we
tell? And how could we protect ourselves from the bad ones?
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