Sex with a Ghost 1&2

Aunt Uka fell heavily on the same couch I had sex with Philomena for the first time and began sobbing softly, regret and anguish present in her voice.

"I said that because when her problem had not started, I got an eyeful of all the signs and blow it off as nothing".

"You blow what off?" her husband challenged.

"One night, I slept off in Nono's room while comforting her. I'm a heavy sleeper but I tend to wake up several times and fall straight back to sleep after finding a better position. That night at about 1 am I woke up, slowly opened my eyes to see a little girl standing beside the bed.

She should be around eight or nine, I'm not sure. She was on a white nightgown. Her black long hair was packed together behind with a pink ribbon. She had pink socks to knee level with white stripes. She was staring straight into my eyes like a child would to a parent. There was sadness in her eyes, a hunger for love and attention.

I remember thinking that I was just seeing things and that it was a dress but I looked closer and blinked a couple of times and she didn't disappear or moved. This brought chills up my spine. Already shaken up with fear, I closed my eyes and made the sign of the cross. When I opened them she was no more. After a deep breath of relief, I fell back on the bed and slept blowing it off as seeing things.

"You blew it off as seeing things?" Pastor Silas asked surprise and wonder evident in his voice.

"Yes, that was a very big mistake. I now regret it as things got worse"

"How?" I asked.

"Three days later, I was sleeping in my room with my husband beside me. At about 2 am, I woke up to a loud screeching like a girl weeping and screaming at the same time. I looked at Philip, he was sleeping peacefully. Curious, I asked myself what was happening. It wasn't the voice of my baby girl but I had to go check. I was about getting out of bed when I heard the scream again, this time louder. I jumped out of the bed in freight and hurried to Nono's room to find her sleeping quietly.

Scared, I returned to our room and woke Philip up. Told him what I just experienced, he said I was hearing a thing and suggested I return to sleep and stop watching Nigerian movies. On the bed, I could not help but wonder if it was the same girl I saw in her room that was shrieking. The thought of it made a bale grow in my throat.

I remember a particular night I was sleeping alone. Suddenly, I felt someone climbing into the bed, gently dragging down the bed sheet. I sat upright and stared in dismay as one by one a new dent appeared on the mattress, coming closer and closer towards me like someone was crawling on the bed.

A shiver chased down my spine and my heart did a quick little flip. This was for only a few seconds and it disappeared when a dark shadow came into the room. I was too shocked and scared to move, I didn't even know what to do".

"That was when your prayers should have begun" Pastor Silas advised in almost an aggressive tune.

"I prayed" Aunt Uka lied.

"You didn't. If you did, we won't be here right now" Silas corrected.

She took a deep breath and continued "From that night on, weird things started happening all over the house and to my daughter. She would wake up some nights with a braid. Another morning, she would complain of a little girl pulling her hairs while singing a strange lullaby. A particular night she woke me up and the little was looking in her mirror and brushing her hair.

We would come down in the morning after being asleep all night to find our freezer door open. The fact that our daughter can't open the freezer only made it creepier. If we slept with the lights off, we would awake in the middle of the night with what sounded like footsteps going around our bed. Sometimes, the footstep goes around humming the same lullaby Nono claims to hear".

"How come am just hearing about all these?" her husband questioned her.

"On the contrary, that's not true," he stated calmly as he sank into his thought. "I once experienced something creepy in the room too" he began. "That very night, she woke up and came to my room and said some little girl wants to play hide and seek with her but she does not want to play. I laughed it off and…"

"That's your problem, always taking things for granted" his wife quarrelled.