Ghost

It is time of the year again. Chinese Lunar 7th month.

This is the month, Chinese believe that the Gate of Hell open for all the spirits to wonder free on Earth. It is like a one month vacation for them and their holiday destination is our dimension.

My daughter told me the other day that children can see them - "ghost". She said some girls from her class saw it in the school's toilet... but we all know that story. It has been around for the last 80 years.. my mother's time, my time, now my daughter's time.  I remembered when I was in primary one, one of my classmate ran out of the loo screaming, claiming that she saw a hand waving at her. I dash into the toilet immediately, but what I saw was a hand print on the wall.

During my secondary school days, there were talk about a ghost girl crying by the well, the teachers' room was haunted, the sewing room was haunted, the toilets were too... I wondered around hoping that I too could have a story to tell but all to no avail.

Years later, my youngest sister told me a spooky story. You see, they built a new secondary school and when it was ready, all the secondary students walked, two by two, from their old school to the new school on the first day of the opening.

All was well, the opening ceremony was good, the students explored the school, checked out their classrooms and allocated seats for themselves.

A week went by without any hitch. The students were joking about how the ghost, if there were any, were left behind in the old school.

Lo and behold! The next week, there were cries of the new school being haunted. My sister's classmate, who usually reached school pretty early in the morning saw one!  She saw a "girl" in the classroom sobbing.

We asked around and were told that when the students all walked to the new school, the "girl" may have followed, but "she" could find her way back to the old school.

Anyway, how much do we believe?  I don't know. Some people claimed that they can see cos they have the "third" eye. Well, in my case, I am glad I can't see "them"!