Growing up we often went to our summer house just a week or two after school let out and I was often allowed to bring a friend. I have many happy memories of these summers; how they seemed to stretch out forever like completely separate countries where all of the rules changed. Bedtimes were extended and desserts more indulgent. There were no school uniforms and few plans, except the ones my friends and I would make the previous night in whispers, forgetting almost all of them by morning.
Each day could be a new adventure there and often was. So go the memories of childhood.
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One summer was particularly eventful for me for two reasons: one I was given a task to accomplish over the summer (which I was none too pleased about) and two, I saw paranormal activity close to our summer home, which had before seemed an escape from anything of the kind.
The task was to continue practicing my piano lessons for an end of the summer event in which I was to perform. A piano had been brought in to the lower salon just for this purpose and I remember eyeing it with disdain. It seemed a dull and ridiculous thing in a place where freedom came in abundance and being lazy was almost a rule.
It was certainly not the first time music had been played in our home, I know the radio had been on during many warm evenings and my parents had hosted several small gatherings in my time which may have had musical accompaniment as well.
This was certainly the first time I had played anything in the house, being miserably unskilled at anything but the piano forte (and not much talented there either.) So it was that on the first evening when I sat down to practice that the strangeness began.
Now at this point in my life I had already experienced seeing ghosts a little, but that mainly consisted of animal spirits. The haunted locations we had lived at from time to time had never become active enough to be thought of as normal.
So there I was, relatively new to the world of ghosts in human form and frowning at the keys even as my hands swept over them.
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I was practicing Beethoven, the piece I was supposed to play. I liked it plenty when listening to it, but to actually play it made it lose its appeal. Each note was so familiar to me by then and yet I kept making mistake after mistake. I remember complaining aloud, especially because I was the only one in the room.
It was then that I noticed a piece of paper that had been laid on top the piano moving about. I glanced around me, but none of the windows were open and no fans were on in the room. I continued to play (badly) for another few minutes as I watched paper moved to and fro in time with the music. It seemed to be dancing.
In the shadowy room this moving paper took on an eerie quality that I don’t believe would have been so if it had been full daylight. I stopped all at once, bringing the notes to a harsh and abrupt ending. The paper fell immediately.
I waited for a time. Staring at the paper. When nothing happened I returned to my practicing and grumbling. The paper flew up again, twirling on only the edge of the sheet, spinning around and around and then sliding all of the way to the edge of the glossy wood.
I kept playing and watching. I knew the notes and keys well enough by then not to need the music entirely.
The paper floated from the piano and began whirling around the room. I kept playing.
As this continued for some time I began to see something around the paper and to notice that if one looked closely it did not appear as if the paper was dancing, but that something attached to it was.
After a while longer I could see the outline of a woman, holding the paper and dramatically spinning about the room. It was faint and difficult to see as the room became thick with shadows, but it was certainly there.
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I became aware after a few more minutes that I could hear someone, or something, humming the tune along with my playing and though I couldn’t be sure it was coming from the being dancing around the room, I guessed that it was.
In truth this all seemed like something out of a story book at the time. The shadowy room, the music, the whirling ghost. Only the paper in her hands kept making it real. You see it was a flyer, an advertisement that had been left by the moving company and the color was a shocking green that had no place in a story book ghost story.
Eventually I stopped playing. The ghost vanished and the paper fell to the floor.
I practiced again the following evening and the one after that. The being reappeared each time in the same way only varying her dance a little each time.
On the fifth night I asked my friend (who usually used my practice time to call home and check in with her own parents) to join me in the room. I should have warned her, but for some reason I thought it might not work if I did.
I played the song. The being whirled around the room with that same too bright green paper (I took it with me every night to keep it safe.) My friend was more than shocked, she ran from the room screaming. It took me a half an hour to find her and when I did she didn’t want to talk about it.
The next morning at breakfast my mother informed me that my friend had asked her if she could go home early and wanted to know if we had quarreled. I said we had not, but that perhaps it was too hot for her. This was easily accepted.
For the rest of the summer I practiced and the ghost would appear. I’m fairly certain it was a ghost, rather than some other sort of being. The way she seemed to remember the music made me feel as though she had once lived.
We never spoke and she never came at any other time of day. I practiced in the morning and as late at night as I was allowed, but it was only that late afternoon time of long shadows that would summon her to dancing, and the music that could keep her there.
This experience led to many more experiments with ghosts and other beings and their relationship to music. It is a fascinating thing that so many other worldly creatures seem greatly affected by it. I stopped playing piano after that year and I never saw the music ghost again, but she opened the door to a wonderful relationship between music and the paranormal that I would never forget.
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To read more fascinating stories of the paranormal being drawn to music and music-minded people I recommend taking a peek at Rock and Roll Ghost Stories. This book is a wonderful read, expertly edited by a friend of mine. It is full of real life hauntings that show more examples of just how much spirits can be drawn to the musical side of life. Look for it in stores October 2010.
Goodbye for now, another end.
Until a time we meet again.
-Seline
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