Ghost Killer Collection

Chapter 12

Please don"t think that while I was out stabbing ghosts with unsharpened pencils I was ignoring the larger problem; I assure you, I wasn"t. But you have to understand, this newly discovered talent was addicting, like a d**g. I lived and breathed it. For several weeks it was all I thought about; everywhere I went I looked for them. I wanted to find them, but like any addict, I wasn"t ready to face the root of my problem, I just wanted to enjoy the high. However, now that my livelihood was in jeopardy, it was time to find out why this was happening to me. So, with my uninvited but welcomed free time, I started to hunt for that reason.

The amount of information online about ghosts was overwhelming, but I was having a hard time finding information on ghost killers, because that"s what I had begun to think of myself as: a ghost killer. I found quite a bit about exorcisms and several ghost killing video games, not to mention books, articles, and stories, but none of those addressed my specific problem. Several sites did point out a conundrum that had been scratching at the edges of my mind: you could not kill a ghost because they were already dead. Of course, that made a lot of sense, and I had no idea where these things went after my pencil met them, but acknowledging that something that was already dead couldn"t be killed didn"t help much either, because I was killing them, wasn"t I?

wasOne thing did catch my eye: a ghost tour of Pacific Heights, held four days a week for tourists and paranormal aficionados alike. Now, I know what you"re thinking—ghost tours had always been on the same level as Halloween haunted houses, purely for entertainment of the frightening kind. However, I knew the city was rife with ghosts…I saw them all the time, so it stood to reason that maybe there was something to this, and just maybe the tour guide knew some things that could help me out. According to his website, his name was Phil James, a self-proclaimed local authority on ghosts with an impressive resume in the literary and “real” world of the paranormal.