Whose The Ghost?  

By:-  Vikas Haldar  

 I am restless. So many things seem to haunt me.

 The ghosts never seem to leave me alone. I am surrounded by them. And perceptions    are there to perceive. The others who see me, think of me as a loner. But the truth is I    am surrounded by ghosts.

 Ghosts are said to live in the past. The past haunting the present, the future is eerie. People just get plain scared of this haunting that they blame it all on innocent  phantoms of theirs, a figment of their imaginations.

 These ghosts haunt us mortal men in one form or the other. More often in the form  of questions unanswered, or a fear of the future and speculation in our human minds of  what lies in store for us. What we do not expect or anticipate, scares us the most. We  use another word for this type of haunting – 'surprise'. What we least expect to come our way, when it does, surprises us out of our wits.

   Demented, is one foretaken as one mentions 'Ghost'.   But it holds true, whatever people may say,  

 'There are ghosts in this world.'

  One form or another, but they exist. Phantom creatures with bloodless faces,     vampire teeths, figures floating in air may not be true, but ghosts despite all this exist, its a truth.   

Can one explain the eerie sensation when one knows something's in the air, but can't place it? Your hair may just prickle up or stand on an edge, because you felt something. But later on you couldn't place the sensation, what was it that you felt? You blame it on a ghost.    

Its all around and whats around is within. So it boils down to to, its all within us.

Something in your sleep disturbs you, from the past, something in the present and   sometimes it so happens that it hasn't happened as yet and that very incident which you   incensed occurs the very next moment.   

Visitations. Spirits visited you, and so it passes, without realizing what it really was.

There are exorcisms of the mind, the body and the soul. The evil is supposed to  end here and now and GOD will help fight all evil since ages unknown, now and forever. A person who is mentally sick, would well be branded as "desperately neeeding exorcism".Just another tool to make a belief firmer that "GOD exists". If evil does, so must GOD exist, it just falls into place. For there is a belief since the beggining of the polar differences; polarity; two extreme points of any view. And since it is a blind belief, we may say the "Dark Age" isn't over as yet.

I am a ghost hunter and I search around for people and places for ghosts. I had a  sense of nothingness, a sense which can only be described aptly with one word, as being  left 'numb'.

I don't think before I say something.

But why?

I know, the answer lies deeper within because it is not I who speaks, but someone  who speaks for me. Whether it is a manifestation from another world which takes hold of  me, I am not sure as to that.   In the past I have written reports for newspapers – investigative pieces mainly, I have had to dig for facts of course, on such occasions as they demand it. But how I get the premonition of what lies where, and how it all fits in even before anybody else comes to know? The answer best be left unanswered and those of the other world with their secrets. It's so easy, just blaming it on a ghost.  

 I been thanked later for bringing the 'dead mans plight' out in the light in various ways. Not as if I have seen anything or have had visitations, but on a more materialistic way been gifted with tokens on such occasions, with a raise in salary or a leave granted unasked for,etc., etc.. People may fend by saying,      

'After all you did work… the Editor liked it, so you got a few perks.'   

There are other relics to which only my memory can bear witness, because all     material evidence on such occasions has been destroyed, one way or another; by force,     willingly, accidentally. Choose from any one of the options. But inevitably, the evidence   gets destroyed. Till date my articles have been attached with the tag of "entertainment   value". News is no news for them in this case, who hold me as blasphemous a figure as the "people" I write about. And such news is disposed of as a "figment of the imagination".  

I go by various pseudonyms in different journals. Its odd as how I always come back to one notion of ghosts, I am a 'Ghost Writer' writing about ghosts. There is so much significance attached to just this one word – 'Ghost'.

Don't laugh! Ghosts may take offence. After all they too are a respectable lot,  who now rest finally in their graves after death in peace. It is us humans who keep    talking of bringing the dead back to life, the more hearty and adventurous of the lot.The rest are plain scared of the notion of the dead rising from their graves.   

Mummy's were mummified for the same reason, 'life after death' or reincarnation or the idea of a re-birth, in another world, to live in the under world to protect this mortal world from all evil of the nether world.   

Why do we associate night with spooks? 

The truth is we are surrounded by ghosts all the time. They are around, in the air. Wave your hands about in the air, you aren't going to encounter any ghosts, nor can one see them. They are just there, just as GOD was meant to be. This is the only world, this is the truth.                                        

The world beyond life is a mystery. The life before birth, conception is a mystery. So blame it all on high powers of the unknown, sitting somewhere up above our  heads, GOD's? Or blame it on the evil spirits from the underworld and Satan?

Satan, another interesting subject. Be it Hinduism, Islam or Christianity there will always exist the two, the heaven and the underworld, hell; the house of the Satan or Shaitan. 

But the moral of the story remains the same,   

'The victory of good over evil.'   

So will any harm, can any harm come to mankind as long as that one thought of the   supreme being as our saviour remains alive in our hearts?   

One can't be sure. There were men who took on mass destruction of humans before,in recent times and will continue to do so in the future and one day there'll be Armegeddon, mass ravishing, annihiliation of all living beings on this world, this universe. The question remains, will it be GOD or Satan who will unleash such a power to destroy everything that was once created?   

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. And thats that!