I came home last night to hear iTunes playing from our computer and saw the visualizer (which creates colorful moving patterns of light in response to the music) on with it. "Bad night?" I said to my husband. "Has our friend been waking you up again?" "Yup," he replied.

 

Shortly after moving in six years ago, my husband (who is very sensitive to ghosts) and I began to feel presences and see things out of the corners of our eyes. What's more, occasionally we would have restless nights, feeling like someone was touching our shoulders or shaking the bed.

 

So, I went to a friend of mine who is able to sense and communicate with spirits, and asked her what she could tell me about our haunting. She discerned there were three ghosts: a Civil War soldier, a teenage boy and a little girl. The little girl was not causing us any trouble, but the other two had been physically shaking us and waking us up at night.

 

Ever open-minded, we asked her to convey to them we mean them no harm and have no problem with them being around, but asked what we could do to get them to leave us alone at night.

 

The Civil War soldier was upset because I had picked up a geode while in our woods one day, a rock, my friend said, he felt was "gold" and belonged to him. She described exactly where I had put the rock (she had never been to my house and didn't know anything about this rock) and said the soldier told her I was to leave it at the base of the tree at the corner of the shed (right again, there was a tree there). If I did this, the soldier would not bother us again. So I did. And he did not.

 

The young man, however, was a different story. He apparently had watched us composing music on our computer and using the visualizer. My friend told us, "He likes that sound and light thing you do with the computer (again, I had not told her anything about this), and he wants you to play that for him."

 

So we said okay, we would do that from time to time. He also agreed to leave us alone in return.

 

But when we forget to play the iTunes and visualizer for several months, the young man shakes us at night and we don't sleep so well.

 

iTunes .... visualizer ... high-tech teenage ghost ... jeesh!