When I was 32 years old, I was lucky to be able to visit Europe (England and Germany) for my business trip. Before my departure for England, my Japanese friends teased me by saying “have fun in a rendezvous with ghosts”. They told me that there are places that tourists can enjoy a rendezvous with ghosts in England. I just laughed with my friends. I didn’t take it seriously.
When I arrived at the Heathrow Airport in London, my coworker was waiting for me at the airport and gave me a ride to the hotel. Weird enough, before my coworker left from the hotel front desk, she told me the same thing as what my Japanese friend teased me; “have fun in a rendezvous with ghosts”
It was February. Very cold day. As soon as I entered the room, it was icy cold. I felt even colder in the room than outside. I turned on the heater. While unpacking my stuff, the heater didn’t work properly. It didn’t emit any warm air at all. I thought it might take a while for the heater to start warming up itself, so I decided to take a hot shower to warm myself. I turned on the hot water faucet, waited minutes, but nothing but icy cold water came out.
I went down to the front desk, told about the malfunction in the heater and the hot water. The front lady changed my room to another room.
When I went in another room, the heater and the hot water didn’t work. I went down to the front desk again and explained nothing worked to warm me up. The front lady arranged the maintenance man to my room. Weird enough, when he turned on the hot water faucet, hot water instantly came out. Then he turned on the heater, and the heater worked; emitting hot air right away.
The maintenance man looked at me mischievously and asked me “they are working now”. I got embarrassed. I apologized him for the trouble coming to my room. At the same time, I got relieved that I would be able to warm myself up finally.
….However…..
When I took off my clothes and stood under the shower, the hot water suddenly changed into icy water.
I know I sound like lying. But I am not lying. The hot water didn’t come out anymore. All I got was nothing but icy cold water. I even could not get rid of soupy water around my hair and body. I quickly got out from the shower, wiped myself off. I went to the heater, shivering, to get heat from it. Then, I noticed the heater was not working properly anymore. It was emitting nothing but cold air.
I was so exhausted and embarrassed that I didn’t feel like going down to the front desk anymore. I put on sweater, jacket, whatever warm clothing, layered. Then I went to bed and covered myself with a blanket.
It was still so cold. I felt as if I was outside. Sure enough, I could not sleep at all.
Then I finally noticed one thing. “I get it. Ghosts are playing with me.”
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I started talking out loud to the ghosts.
I am not having fun. I am not enjoying this. Seriously, stop. You need to stop teasing me. I need a heater and a hot shower to warm my body up. I am freezing.
I also talked to my family souls that I am not enjoying this at all and asked them to stop this.
I waited for around one hour. Then, I told everybody (ghosts and my family souls) out loud, “okay, I am going to try the hot water and the heater again. You better fix them by now!”
I turned on the heater. Thank god, it started working normally and my room started warming up. Then I went to the shower and turned on the hot water faucet. Several minutes later, finally hot water started coming up. Can you believe it? It was already after 3 am in the morning. I could finally warm myself up and slept for some hours.
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Next morning while I was having a breakfast at hotel restaurant, my coworker came to pick me up. She sat down in front of me and asked me “So, did you experience any ghosts?” Her face was full of curiosity like a little child exploring an unknown world.
I made my face as serious as I could, looked into her blue eyes directly, and said to her “I certainly did, and I don’t want any more ghost experience. Could you please change my hotel to the one without ghost?”
I mentioned my ghost experience of the previous night. While listening, her face was so brightened. I could tell she was so much enjoying listening to my ghost experience.
She did change my hotel, but on the day, every time she introduced me to her coworkers, she added my ghost experience story and everybody enjoyed listening it. Some of them told me I was lucky to run into the mischievous ghosts, but I don’t think so.
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