OTHERPLANE

A Money Ghost

... by MJBurton


4 years ago I saw a wasp on our living room curtain. When I came back with a news paper to kill it there were two more. I came back with some spray and now there were 5. After I killed them I looked inside and outside for a nest, holes or cracks from were they may have come from. I found none of the mentioned. Then our phone was turned off. A few month's later the people from whom we were renting the house from wanted to sell it and we had 30 day's to find somewhere to live.

We moved into the only place that we could find, an older house that was built in the 30's or 40's. We have 3 children. Two of them shared one bedroom. Only one of them had small pink dot's all over his body while we lived in that house and my daughter who shared the same room never had any. One morning I got up and walked barefoot to the kitchen and walked back the way I came and into the bathroom. As I was washing my hands I felt something fall onto my foot. I looked up at the ceiling and saw nothing. When I looked down there was a maggot on my foot. I looked down at the floor as I walked backed towards the kitchen and in the dining room there were maggot's all crawling all over the floor and when I looked in the kitchen the floor was covered with maggot's everywhere. They were falling out of the trash can and onto the floor. The 4th week the car dealership that my husband worked for didn't give out the paychecks when they were suppose to so we had to move again and we had no money.

My mother-in-law told us that we could live in a house that some missionary's live in and who were in Spain. They would be gone for a month and let people stay in the house while they are gone. After the first week when my husband gets his check it is only $300.00. It was suppose to be $1,000.00. Right before all of this stuff started to happen, before our first move, we bought a new van and had a nice house and always had money for food- We had to make a payment on the van and we were left with $20.00 to buy food for a month. James left the money on the table for me before he went to work and it dissapeared. I borrowed $100.00 from a friend and slept with it in my pocket and never told any one, not even my husband (because I thought he lied about putting the money on the table, after all, we have all heard the phrase that "money doesn't just disappear"). When I got up the next day and counted the money $20.00 was missing.

We moved from there into another house. While there thing's got worse. The car dealership started cheating my husband out of money that they owed him on his pay check's and then accused him of doing something that he didn't do so wouldn't give him his check. Then our van got repossed. We had to go on food stamp's. After handing our landlady rent into her hand she comes to the house 2 week's later and want's to know were is the rent money that we owed her. Plus call's to us saying that we still owe her rent from a few month's back. After paying our water bill in full they came out and turned it off. Some kind of insect that looked like baby millipedes were crawling all over the patio and on the house one day. One other time there were a few tarantula's walking around on the back patio and one was on the screen door where it stayed until the the next day. James had $300.00 missing that he was saving. Plus some day's it would be $10, $20,or a $5. Money was missing from my purse also. My sister-in-law started missing money also. We had some friend's stay over one night and never told them or anyone about the money ghost and when the got up and were on there way to the store the girl was missing $10.00 from her purse. Then James was doing really well with his new job and had a good career opportunity, on the day that he wasn't even at work they found $200.00 missing from the cash register. They accused him and didn't pay him his pay check and he even agreed and wanted to take a lie detector test to prove that he was innocent. The result's came back inconclusive. We started to do painting job's with someone that we knew that had his own business. Well, we had a small car that we had bought and was paid for back in 1987. On our way back from lunch a car ran a red light and totaled the car and we were hurt pretty bad. One week after that our landlady wanted us out of her house.

Last month we had to move from the house that we lived in for 2 years. The owner's wanted to sell it. We never had any money missing while in that house until January 1, 1999. I hid some money that we are trying to save so that we can buy a house. The money ghost or whatever it is found us again. It took $1,000.00. Then after that it started taking $5, $20 and so on. There is also something that keeps my husband from having a good career and he keep's loosing his job's by always being accused of doing something that he hasn't done. Or when he gets hired he is supposed to make a guaranteed amount of money and after he has been there for a month they change the pay plane. Also, before thing's start to get worse, something always happens to our phone. We cant make call's out or it has a lot of static and then the phone line just doesn't work. This has happened in all of the houses that I told you that we have been in for the past four year's.

I know that this all may sound crazy to you and that we look (by reading this letter) like we are not good people, but please believe me, this letter is the truth. We are good people. We do not lie, steal and take advantage of people. My husband and I have been together for 15 years. He loves me more than he loves anyone in this world. He is a good man and I can not bare to see him be hurt by a promise with a good job opportunity, and to have him go through the humiliation and to be accused of doing thing's that he has not done. We are staying at his sister's house right now. We are at rock bottom and have only one more week here. The car that we have need's to be fixed. My husband faxed his resume to a man that promised him a job and we have not heard from him since. All that we have is each other and our three kid's. This thing, money ghost, job destroyer, has finally got us really scared. We haven't told anyone what has been happening to us and I feel a little better that I told someone.



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