Sitting on the toilet in the back bathroom, I hear a sound at the door \u2014 as through someone pressed against it from the outside, maybe one of the cats?<\/p>\n
But the door has nearly an inch gap at the bottom. I can see nothing outside.<\/p>\n
A few minutes later I am jolted into a panic by the sight of something coming quickly towards me \u2014 it is as if it passed through the door.<\/p>\n
It is white and ragged, trailing fluttering strips of cloth. I have an impression of gray hair, a wrinkled face . . . an old woman who vanishes just before she reaches me.<\/p>\n
I am startled. I am scared. My hair is standing on end. The akin on my arms feels prickled and tight, almost sunburnt.<\/p>\n
This was not a vague impression or an easily explained corner-of-the-eye episode. I saw<\/em> something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sitting on the toilet in the back bathroom, I hear a sound at the door \u2014 as through someone pressed against it from the outside, maybe one of the cats? But the door has nearly an inch gap at the bottom. I can see nothing outside. A few minutes later I am jolted into a panic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[657,667,669,670,668,203,666,417],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghosts","category-hallucinations","tag-bathroom","tag-cloth","tag-disturbed","tag-frightened","tag-gray-hair","tag-old-woman","tag-ragged-clothes","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}