More in Heaven and Earth II

I wanted to write about Halloween for you. Give you guys some kind of spooky story or sumthin' to make you guys question whether or not the things that go bump in the night are just the moans and groans of a house or if there really might be sumthin' lurkin' in the dark waitin' to grab you and suck you into that black void. Halloween is the appropriate time for such things.

I got nuthin.

Best I had to scare you with was a story about strange lights in the middle of the night witnessed by myself and my girlfriend. Red would've seen it had she not been passed out next to us. I'll tell you just to tell you but I feel it's not particularly worthy of you so I'll see if I can tell you sumthin' else of interest after.

One night, after we came to my girlfriend's house after a party or bar or sumthin' to that effect we went to lay down. She claims the place is haunted. I never really saw anything happen in there. Though it is the kinda place you get an eerie feelin' in the middle of the night about. Her sister had recently moved out of the room we all decided to stay in so all there was to sleep on were two mattresses side by side on the floor. Red had had a bit to drink and it was late anyway so she passed right out. June and I stayed up and talked for a while.

Just as we began to doze off we were reawakened by these strange blue lights. They came from nowhere. I checked our cellphones thinkin' maybe we got a call or the light from them was reflectin' off of sumthin' to create the lights. Mine was off and hers wasn't lit up. I looked to the window to see if light was comin' in from the street or some other source, no such luck. Not even any kind of reflective surface like a mirror left in the room to blame the lights on. My girlfriend was panicked. I wasn't doin' much better. I never left the mattress, worried I might somehow agitate the lights. I merely scanned the room for an answer. My girlfriend was frightened and lookin' for an answer. I told her not to worry, that it had to be an illusion. There had to be some reasonable explanation that I wasn't seein'. I never did find one and after what felt like ages the lights went away.

There may be a reasonable explanation for weird blue lights hovering above us and as bright as a cellphone in a dark room but I don't know it. My girlfriend went to sleep and so did I. We were fine the next mornin'. But creeped out more than I had been in a long while.

A better story my brother told me a while back was concernin' to members of his church. A man and his wife. They had had a discussion with a friend or heard in a sermon that there is a way to call a spirit to your home. You ask to know who the spirit is and it has to tell you. Some rule or guideline somewhere. I'm not positive of the details of exactly how one conjures a spirit/demon/devil to you home. Unless you call me and tell me there's gonna be beer.

Well the wife and the husband were in separate rooms, watchin' separate T.V.'s, and watchin' separate shows. The wife is bored so she calls out to the anything that's listenin' usin' a spiritual dog whistle of sorts. Well there's a small rumble through the house and the lights flicker a bit. The husband hears a knock at the front door near where he is and his hair begins to stand on end. He takes a peak through the door's spyglass and sees no one, so he's suspicious.

"Who's there?", the husband asks.

A gravely voice answers, "Let me in."

"Uh, no."

The voice with no body continues, "Someone's calling for me."

"Honey,..." The husband rushes to the back room where his wife is. He asks her if she did anything. She says no. "Are you sure?"

"I didn't do anything. Why?", the wife asks.

"'Cause some...thing is at the door."

"Oh.." She explains the foolish thing she did that she didn't think would work. Eventually, they called their Representative of Heaven or whatever you call a head of a Pentecostal church. He got into contact with some folks that cleanse houses of malicious spirits. The only thing that saved the couple, accordin' to those guys, is that the house had been cleansed and sealed through some sort of prayer when they moved in. Had there been a weak spot the two would've been in trouble.

The blue lights thing happened to me. I'll verify that I don't know what it was other than scary. The couple, I don't know 'em, my brother does, and he told me this story. He believed it. Good enough for me to think sumthin' odd happened to those people. Watch your asses boys and girls, maybe a mysterious light or voice or shadowy figure is waitin' for you.