I got fucked by a ghost.
Yes, I know you all think I'm already crazy. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't lived through it. But I was fucked by a ghost. The ghost of a man who was murdered 10 years before I moved into his house.
It was more than 40 years ago and I can remember it like it was yesterday. I had just graduated from the University of Indianapolis with my degree in journalism. It was in the late 70s and the world spun a bit slower than it does today. I had accepted a job at the Martinsville Daily Gazette newspaper, about 30 minutes away from downtown Indianapolis. I was just going to rent an apartment or take up a room and board arrangement because I wasn't planning on staying there long. I wanted to get my feet wet writing for a local newspaper and make my way up to a bigger one, like the Indianapolis Star, or Chicago Tribune.
Luckily, I had the chance to buy this old run-down English Tutor on the far edge of town. The house was worn and needed some TLC, but it was modestly priced. It sat on almost 1/2 acre of land, was not too far from where I was working and was within my budget. The local kids must have used it for a party house because there were holes in the wall, spray-painted initials everywhere, and broken-out windows. But I didn't care, it was all cosmetic and I had the time, money, and resources to fix it.
After moving in and starting my new job, every time I told someone that I lived at the old Holecome place they would look at me funny; or changed the conversation topic. It was always like it was taboo to speak of the place like it was the devil's den. Remember back in those days there was no internet, no cell phones, only a few TV channels, and the only way you heard local gossip, was from the locals.
I slowly, but surely fixed up the place, adding new fixtures, painting, cleaning, replacing broken glass on the windows, and started to bring the old run-down house, back to life. But in that process, I must have brought the spirits that still lived in it back to life.
Odd things started occurring while there during my time there. The TV would change channels by itself after I'd leave the room. Lights would turn on and off by themselves, and floors would creek when I was lying in bed at night. At first, I chalked the activity up to an old electric system, a faulty TV shorted out by that failing electric system, settling of the house on those cool fall evenings. But nothing had prepared me for what happened next.
I awoke one morning, naked from the waist down. I was taken aback as I came through that I was lying in only a T-shirt. That my underwear was off, my crotch sticky and sweaty as if I had cum on myself. My sheets tossed and tangled, my ass feeling like I had been probed. It took me a while to come to my sense and just accept the fact that somewhere in the night, I must have had a weird dream, or a vivid sexual dream and had taken care of business by myself. But things got stranger.
About twice a month this would happen to me. I contemplated hard on what I was doing in my sleep. Was I missing having someone in my life, or being back home with family? Was I dreaming of a co-worker, a very early morning repetitive sexual fantasy? Was I sleepwalking? Was this house or this place too much? But no thought could answer the question. That is until I spoke with the old town librarian, Mrs. Byers.
I happen to be in the library one afternoon researching an article I was putting together when I started speaking with Mrs. Byers. She wasn't familiar with me, and she being one of the oldest residents of this town wondered who I was. I introduced myself to her.
"HI, I am Nathan Bingsley. The new editorial man for the paper." I spoke
"Oh yes." She replied. "I heard the paper hired a new writer. Welcome to town." She added.
"Where are you staying Mr. Bingsley?" She asked.
"I'm out at the old Holecome Place Ma'am." Was my reply.
"The old Holecome place." She gasped. As if I told her I was staying in a pig barn.
"Yes Ma'am," I replied.
"Oh, you know the rumors of that ole' Holecome place." She touted, as she looked down returning to her work.
"No, I don't know the old rumors of the Holecome place, Mrs. Byers. What rumors?" I asked.
"The murder!" She whispered out.
"The murder?" I inquired shockingly.