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\"\"<\/a>The story so far<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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Usually I go to bed early, but given all the recent ghost activity in my house, I was getting a little spooked. So I was still up at eleven P.M.<\/small>, in bed and on the phone with my husband, Clancy. While we were talking, something black circled my bed twice, so fast I wasn\u2019t sure I saw it, and then flew into a storage area where I have been slowly setting up a shrine. I yelled out twice while it circled me, but somehow Clancy didn\u2019t hear me and continued talking.<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cThere\u2019s a bat or a bird in my apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it a bat or a bird?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. It may be a bird. I think it\u2019s a bat.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had flown through so quickly, now I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d seen it. I said, \u201cI think he\u2019s in my shrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got a broom and went to look. It was only my second experience with a bat, and I didn\u2019t know if he would get scared and come flying at me.<\/p>\n

On the far wall, hanging from a pipe, was a very small thing. It might have been a clump of dust, or a piece of metal pipe with a cap over it, or it might have been a very tiny bat, hanging upside down, wings folded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I see him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet a flashlight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a broom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you have a broom?\u201d<\/p>\n

I went and got the flashlight. I shined it on the bat, who was still swinging from his fast landing. I still wasn\u2019t sure if it was a pipe.<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cI\u2019m going to call my landlord.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, that\u2019s a good idea, baby. The last thing you want is to be bitten at\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

I was very scared, and I lost my temper. I may have yelled.<\/p>\n

I called my landlord\u2019s daughter twice. The first time she let it go to voice mail; the second time, she ignored it. I sent her a text: \u201cI have a bat in my apartment.\u201d I was close to adding, \u201cYou know the place is haunted, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

I called my landlord.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWell, the only thing you can do\u2014what I would do if I was there, but my daughter hates\u2014is kill it. But let me tell you, Amie, it\u2019s very difficult to kill a bat. They have this incredible sonar system. You can swing at them with a tennis racket and they\u2019ll just \u2026 The other thing you can do, I don\u2019t know when you\u2019re planning on turning in\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be up a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, then, is you can just leave your door open, and it\u2019ll make its way out. Believe me, the last thing he wants is to come after you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was reassured. As we were getting off the phone, he told me he\u2019d be around the following day, and the two of us could discuss removing the globe light from the ceiling fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh no,\u201d I said. \u201cI know more about this place now. I want that light!\u201d<\/p>\n

He laughed. He said, \u201cThat\u2019s funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

I took a Valium and called Clancy back. He was in Austin getting his eldest daughter set up at college. As it got later, he started to expose his own fears. It seemed he was having some worries that come from some complicated place inside him, a dangerous place. He revealed that he was worried that, living apart, I was going to cheat on him. I had a bat in one room and a ghost in the other, and I was not feeling very sensitive. I may have hung up on him after saying, \u201cYes, I\u2019m going to cheat on you. I\u2019m going to go do that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called at around four A.M.<\/small> It woke me out of a fog, only barely, so that I almost don\u2019t remember looking at the phone and deciding not to answer. In the morning, I read a few e-mails he had sent during the night. They were a bit panicked. We spoke the next day, resolved things, and he said, \u201cI think Sadie likes you a lot.\u201d Sadie was our ghost.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

He told me he\u2019d had a nightmare. He was in an abandoned warehouse or condo. The windows were made of mirrors, and they reflected angry wolves who were moments from attacking. A gaunt, narrow-shouldered girl with long hair looked him in the eye. She looked at him, Clancy said, like, \u201cIt is you<\/em>.\u201d She said, \u201cCome with me, babe,\u201d and led him out of the building.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI know what she looks like now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you see her again,\u201d I asked, \u201cwill you ask what she wants?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it was a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut \u2026 she wants \u2026 bread.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kind of bread?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHot, warm, white bread. I\u2019m sorry. I feel insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s okay. I just wish I could make a bigger fire. When you\u2019re here we\u2019ll make a big fire and burn fifty loaves. I feel like I can only burn enough to tease her.\u201d Burnt offerings seemed the way to approach ghosts.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe doesn\u2019t want fifty. She wants someone to be gentle with her. No one has been gentle with her in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Clancy came to town we made a big fire in the afternoons three times. We burned sugar, scotch, milk, apples, candy, salad, chips, peanut butter, and other things that ghosts are supposed to like. Later, at night, while I was doing Riwo Sangchod meditation in the scary little room where we felt Sadie most strongly, Clancy saw two figures. He was staring at the wall, and he said, \u201cThey were like dark shadows dangling from the ceiling. They wanted to scare me, and they wanted me to look at them. They were swinging by their heels.\u201d The second night, when I went to meditate, he saw them again, and then he turned and saw a thing about five feet around, black, with an empty space in its middle. It was not like an ordinary ghost. He said it felt like it wanted to eat up the room if it could. \u201cI couldn\u2019t tell if it was attracting the other ghosts or repelling them,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s what Sadie was scared of. Not us, like I thought at first, but that thing.\u201d (He only told me this later, after I\u2019d moved from the house\u2014he refused to tell me before, because he knew I was already too frightened.)<\/p>\n

The day after Clancy saw that thing, I got another message from my spiritual adviser, Rinpoche, communicated through his secretary. It said, \u201cMove.\u201d<\/p>\n

I moved out a couple days ago. By the time I left\u2014ever since I\u2019d read to her from Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/em>\u2014I\u2019d had the feeling Sadie was gone. It felt like too much to hope for: that reincarnation is real, and she\u2019d heard this book from me and made it out. It felt silly. Clancy said he didn\u2019t think she was gone\u2014just no longer frightened. He went to give her a little gift before we locked the door for the last time. When he came out he said, \u201cYou may be right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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