Friends: Wind of Spirit

Letting the cold air in

It happened one day while I was busy and had my head down looking under the couch for something. My three friends were sitting in the living room chatting away as I stumbled underneath the couch. One of my friends had came though the front door and I had asked him to lock it behind him. (I was always locking the door thinking it would keep the 'spirits' from flying though.) It was habit. I heard the door fly open and the gush of wind that was making the ceiling tile flutter. I knew they (the spirits) wouldn't shut the door until I hollered at them to acknowledge their presence. I did it without even thinking about the three friends sitting around the living room.

"Shut the dang door behind you. Your letting the cold air in. Mind your manners. I got company! Your embarrassing me."

I shook my head and heard the 'wind' reverse it's direction and fly backwards to slam the door. I still had my head down and shouted out my habitual shout.

"Stay away from the dang window -- and CLOSE that back door on your way out. Mind your manners!" I was shaking my head when I got up and sat back down on the couch. I looked at my friends and all three had their jaws hanging on the floor with their eyes wide open." We sat there in silence looking at one another for a long silent moment and then one said,

"What the HECK was that?"

I didn't want to address it and knew there was no easy explanation. I just said,

"Nevermind..... it was the... ummm .... the wind. The wind does that from time to time in this house. I haven't figured it out. It happens all the time and I just got used to talking to it when it does. It was just the wind."

They didn't buy into that. They could tell I was nervous and trying to hide something from them.

"I HAVE been in this world a long time. Not as long as some, but long enough to know - the wind don't stop and go backwards and in response to a human request. Hell NO! That was no wind that just blew though here. You know what it was -- so start talking. I ain't never been so freaked out by something as I just was by what I just saw and heard going on before my very eyes and hearing with my own ears. That is impossible."

One of my friends was up and checking out the door.

"Come here guys. Check this out. I thought I locked this door. Look at it. It is still locked. How does a wind blow open a locked door and then slam it shut. No sir. That was no wind. What was it?"

They wouldn't let up. I kept trying to play it off and change the subject. That just intensified their curiosity even more. I finally told them.

"If I tell you what I know of it - your not going to believe me. So just believe what your own eyes and ears heard. As far as figuring it out - you ain't going to do it."

They argued with me and finally told me,

"We thought you were our friend. Friends don't keep secrets from one another especially something as drastic as this."

I felt they were right. If they were my friends then they would accept it for what it is.

"It is ghost. I got three of them hanging around here from time to time. They are not just any old ghosts. You know I told you guys about my girlfriend. She is one of them. They are keeping me company and playing tricks from time to time to let me know they are around. This sort of thing usually means they are about to talk to me about something important. Usually they come to me while I am sleeping at night. It is not so hard on my mind that way. This is a way of them telling me to get ready for something more direct than in dreams during sleep. It is just a game we play with one another. I wasn't expecting them to make themselves KNOWN while I HAVE COMPANY in the HOUSE!"

I was shouting out like I was trying to make sure someone heard me.

"Don't let it freak you out but - a couple of them are probably listening in on our conversations. They have made comments a couple of times about things we have said together. Don't worry. Their dead so they can't go blabbing about it around town."

My friends freaked out. One was totally into it while one was totally against the idea of it. The other was sort of in between.

They were all 17 years old. They started arguing with themselves about the reality of it. One started looking for a logical explanation for what he had heard and seen. He started speculating that I had 'levers' and pulleys set up and that while I was looking under the couch - I had tripped some sort of trip wire. I challenged him to find it. He moved the couch and was looking through the ceiling for wires and pulleys.

Afterwards he said,

"Oh your good. Very good. You got that gadget so it is impossible to find."

I asked them,

"Well --for the record - let me ask you guys what you would have done if I hadn't been sitting her talking to it like it was the thing to do. What if I had been in the kitchen or bathroom or stepped out to the store leaving you alone to experience it as it happened. What would you have done."

One of them told me,

"Well - when you did get back in the living room - you would have found a hole right here in this wall."

I asked why.

He told me,

"Cause I would have been the first one to leave and I would have figured the other two fools here would have been heading in the opposite direction of where that wind was blowing. That means they both would have been heading for that front door. Now my mind would have been action on fear and that produces adrenaline - which has been known to speed up your thought process. So I would have been looking at two things. One - would be the two fools fighting each other to get out of the front door first and two - what if there was more waiting outside the front door -- so that would have lead me to my third thought which would be to make a door of my own. I am telling you I would have found the power in me to beat a hole in that wall and beat it out fast. I haven't been so scared in all my life. That was TOO unreal for me and my mind. I was freaking out."