childhood ghost

  One of the earliest memories I can recall dates back to a time when I was so young that I still slept in my parents' room. One night, as I lay in bed, I heard a man's voice calling out my name from just outside their room. Intrigued, I got up and followed the sound, eventually finding myself standing in front of an old man seated in a chair in front of our family computer. Although he seemed familiar to me, I couldn't quite place where I had seen him before, if ever.

  The man beckoned me to come and sit on his lap, and without hesitation, I obliged. However, as soon as I settled onto his lap, I suddenly woke up in the very chair where the old man had been sitting in. The experience left a lasting impression on me, and I never forgot that peculiar night. It wasn't until about 15 years later that my older sister's friend, who happened to be a medium, came over to our house.

  To my surprise, the medium described the man she saw in her vision in such detail that it matched the old man from my childhood memory. Learning that the man was a previous resident of the house before my family moved in helped me make sense of the strange encounter, making me feel less crazy about what I had experienced. The incident, once dismissed as a bizarre dream, now held a deeper significance knowing the man's history in relation to our home.