Kamiak A14 was a unique apartment.  Upstairs, on the end, despite being numbered A14, which would usually indicate a downstairs unit.  It was a Washington State University Married Student Housing Unit, for the college impaired, budget minded student.  It wasn’t a low end student apartment but it wasn’t exactly high end apartment either…at $197 a month, furnished, for three rooms (Living Room/Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom), all utilities included, it was what one would expect, a place to live indoors while going to Wazzu, but it wasn’t a luxury apartment and it wasn’t ghetto fabulous either.  In 1981, it was, for me and Wife 1.0 perfect.  We shared it with Jack Daniels, a black and white television, a large Sherwood rack stereo and what we would discover was a jealous, female ghost. 

There happened to be many instances of contact with this female spirit, ranging from floating apparitions and her disrupting intimate contact by hurling paintings, medium sized potted plants, tower speakers and more, across the room and finally driving us out of the apartment by having intimate physical contact with me one night in such a manner that I, a man who is scared of nothing, who has almost died eleven times, had last rites eight times, been stabbed numerous times and so much more, was scared like never before and nothing since.  Please allow me to tell you one of my ghost stories, but perhaps, my most intimate ghost story, one in which a female spirit attached herself to me in a way that most men dream of, until it happens to them…

Being a newlywed couple, sex was a big part our relationship.  However, with every moment of intimacy there was a new moment of spirit interaction.  At first, it started as the feeling of being watched, then progressed to seeing a white mist out of the corner of my eye while in bed or in the bedroom.  Wife 1.0 would feel cold spots in the apartment, become frightened when in the apartment alone, get the feeling that she was being watched, sometimes feel like her hair was being pulled (No, it wasn’t me, as I was either at work, or on campus, in class) and the new Sherwood stereo would change from the music she preferred (Top 40) to the music I preferred (Rock and Metal).  When I was home alone, I never experienced any of this.  However, when we both were home, it was not uncommon for me to experience the sensation of someone being in the shower with me when no one was, someone standing behind me while I shaved, when no one was, or someone leaning over my shoulder while I studied at the dining room table while Wife 1.0 was asleep in the other room.  This was not the worse of the things that happened. 

We experienced poltergeist activity on a regular basis as time our passed.  Aside from hearing footsteps in the kitchen and living room while having sex in the bedroom, it was not uncommon for the stereo volume to change (the stereo as located in the living room and we would be in the bedroom) during intercourse, or things to move in the living room.  On multiple occasions a 36 x 48-inch framed lithograph that was framed and securely hung on the wall with molly’s and screws did not fall down but flew across the twelve-foot room and landed against the wall on the other side, resulting our having to not only clean up the broken glass, but replace the glass in the frame.  After the fifth or sixth time replacing this glass, we had to discard the lithograph, because the glass sliced the lithograph beyond repair. 

More to come….

Bill Turner, Leader – The Apparition Mission