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Page 3 • Friday, October 31, 2003
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By Kim Katopodis
THE BATTALION
Heath Hobbs says he is convinced ghosts
once lived in his house in Houston. The summer
before Hobbs’ freshman year in high school, a
man dressed like a soldier holding a musket
began appearing to him in his bedroom, he said.
“At first I would see him about twice a month
and he would just stand there for 15 to 20 sec
onds looking at me,” said Hobbs, a sophomore
wildlife and fishery sciences major. “Then my
sophomore year (of high school) I woke up and
saw a mother and child crying. They wouldn’t
stand where the musket man stood and then I
watched them walk through the wall.”
Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. They are
perfect for camping trips and scaring younger
brothers and sisters, but the question remains:
Are ghosts a figment of overactive imaginations
or do they really exist?
Legends of hauntings are plentiful in popular
culture. Even Texas A&M is said to have build
ings haunted by ghosts.
Dr. Bruce Wood, the pastor of Aldersgate
United Methodist Church in College Station and
Class of 1973, defines ghosts as disembodied
spirits. He says the Christian faith does not
allow for the concept of ghosts.
“There is this immediacy in Christianity that
the spirit of a person, when they die, doesn’t
float around on the Earth — it goes on to another
place,” Wood said.
Rabbi Peter Tarlow of the Hillel Foundation
said that in Hebrew scriptures, there is more of a
case for people coming back from the dead than
there is for ghostly spirits.
He said he believes “there is a distinction
between cultural Judaism and religious Judaism
and that ghosts fit better within the realm of
Cultural Judaism.”
“There is a concept of formless spirits in
Jewish culture but not in Judaism,” Tarlow said.
“Ghosts are part of the folk culture.”
Many students hold to the belief that dead rel
ative and friends watch over them and some
times intervene in their lives.
Megan McKenty, a sophomore education
major, said while she does not believe in ghosts,
that she does believe her deceased relatives can
see and watch over her.
“I think my grandmother and grandfather are
watching but I don’t feel like there are freaky,
spooky ghosts haunting me or anything,”
McKenty said.
Wood said there are only two kinds of spirits:
evil spirits and the Holy Spirit.
“It is hard to explain, but there are really only
evil spirits. These are from Satan, not God. The
only spirit that God lets on the earth is the Holy
Spirit,” Wood said.
McKenty said she is not sure if she believes
that evil ghosts roam around.
“I believe in Satan and that he can test people
and can use an evil spirit to do it,” McKenty
said. “But I don’t believe there are ghosts that
just haunt for fun.”
Hobbs said he also saw a dark figure dressed
in a straitjacket outside his window.
“I said ‘hey’ and he turned around toward me
and hovered over my bed,” he said. “I stuck my
hand out to touch him and my hand flew back.
I’ve never been so terrified in my life.”
Hobbs said the soldier ghost came around
almost every night after that.
Later, Hobbs said he was telling his aunt what
he had seen and she speculated that it may have
been his great-great-great-great grandfather,
Jabis Rockwell.
“He fought in the Revolutionary War with
George Washington, so the clothes and muskei
would fit,” Hobbs said. “The next time I saw
him, I decided to speak to him. I asked him if
he knew who I was and he grunted what sound
ed like ‘yes.’”
Hobbs’ ghosts have since disappeared but
who knows — maybe the ghosts will reappear
on this Halloween night.
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