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A Visit from Beyond
A Visit from Beyond
Popular Justice of the Peace and regular contributor to the letter pages, W.P.George, passed away last Thursday at the age of 70. About three weeks ago, Mr. George sent me an interesting story after reading my Murder and Mystery column story ‘House of Spiders’ about two women who said they had paranormal experiences in a West Bank Demerara house. Mr. George said that the main character in this story was a close relative and he was certain that the events in this little ‘ghost story’ are true. (Michael Jordan)
By W.P. George
Teena would listen every afternoon at about 4:30 P.M. for the whistle of the train and when she heard it she will hurry to the train station.
By the time she walked the half mile the train would have long put off its passengers and left. There, Teena would meet her husband, Lenny, and hand in hand they would walk to their West Coast Demerara home.
Teena and Lenny were just nineteen when they got married. In those days the adult pay was fifteen dollars a week, so the girl’s parents prepared an apartment in their home for the young couple to live so they could save to later rent or build their own house.
For two years the married couple lived quite happy. Then Teena became pregnant. It was a pregnancy marred with complications. She was eventually taken to a city hospital where she and her unborn child died.
Lenny was devastated. On the day of the funeral he collapsed repeatedly. By the time he recovered his wife was already buried and the mourners had returned home.
Lenny lost all desire to live. He stopped going to work, ate only when forced to, and lived on black brewed coffee. His in laws felt he would attempt suicide but he assured them he hadn’t the courage to do so. So they relaxed their vigilance.
Four weeks after his wife’s death, Lenny found himself going to the small village cemetery where his wife was buried. He had no clue where her grave was located, yet something kept urging him on. He found himself heading to a far corner of the ground, and then he realised that he was not alone.
A woman was sitting on a mound, and as he got closer he recognized her. She was wearing the wedding dress that she had been buried in, and the woman was his wife.
Feeling not a trace of dread, Lenny sat beside his dead wife. She smelled of her favorite perfume. Then she spoke.
“Listen, Len; I don’t belong to you anymore. I am in a different world and I am happy there. You are quite young; go on with your life, find a young woman and get married. Don’t grieve for me….. this is what I call you to tell you…now please go!”
Lenny was somewhat hesitant so she insisted : “Just go!!”
After walking ten steps he looked back and there was no one there only the daisy and black sage he saw on the mound.
When lenny in laws and friends found him missing,they became frantic they feared the worse, then they learned he was seen heading to the graveyard, they got there in time to see him coming out but a strange thing happened : the man who went in the cemetery minutes earlier was not the same one who came out.
Lenny went in god’s little acre with stooped shoulders sunken cheeks an sunken eyes and full of hopelessness, the man who came out had erect shoulders and a smiling face full of hope, when asked where he went he said he went to Teena’s grave.
‘But… but you don’t know where she was buried.!’
‘I found it though, now I want a haircut and a shave and lam very hungry’!.
Later in the evening after his haircut and shave and a hearty meal the widower remarked: ‘l have to find another wife’! So he did.
Lenny and his new wife lived long enough to see their grand children and one great grand.
If you have any information about this or any other unusual case, please contact Kaieteur News by letter or telephone at our Lot 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown offices. Our numbers are 22-58465, 22-58473 and 22-58458. You need not disclose your identity.
You can also contact Michael Jordan at his email address [email protected].
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