Phone, Possessed?
My brush with the paranormal happened last June when I was at a history conference in St. Augustine, Florida. In case you didn’t know it, St. Augustine is the oldest European settlement in North America. The Spanish colonized the site in 1561 – it’s full of history and, more than likely, a few lingering spirits.
I was staying in a hotel with my friend, and fellow historian, Christian. All seemed well enough, but a little after 2 a.m. I woke up to the sound of my phone dialing and my dad's voicemail picking up.
Strange?
Yes. Especially since I was across the room in bed. My phone was sitting five feet away still on the chair where I'd plugged it in to charge overnight.
I got to the phone where my dad's voicemail message was still playing and then my phone rang. It was my husband.
"Andrea — what's going on?"
"What do you mean?" I was not only confused, but really tired.
"You've been calling me."
At this point my stomach pretty much dropped out of my body. I had no idea what was going on. I told him that my phone seemed to be calling numbers randomly and I was clueless as to why.
After we hung up, I looked at my call log. My phone had been calling random numbers for at least fifteen minutes.
Not knowing what to do and pretty much freaked out, I shut the phone down and went back to sleep.
This morning when I woke early for the conference, Christian said."You sent me the most random text at 2 a.m."
She showed me the text. It was a smiley face followed by a bunch of random letters.
I did not send that text.
So there were random calls, and texts, and now this morning I've discovered my Facebook was also full of weird nonsense. I have a Facebook app on my Droid.
My theories: 1) my phone went insane. I don't know why, but it did.
2) A ghost, which had never used a smartphone, decided it would be fun to try mine out. After all was in a very old city, St. Augustine and was staying in a very old hotel on the national register of historic places. If any place has a ghost, it would be there.
3) My Droid had become self aware and is attempting to communicate on its own.
So dear friends, if you got a call with no one on the other end of the line or a nonsense text from me in the middle of the night it was not me. I don't know what it was. It hasn’t happened again since I left the hotel.
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer Publisher: Philomel (October 19th, 2010) Reading Level: Young Adult Hardcover: 464 pages Series: Nightshade, book #1 Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything--including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?
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