Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2013

f someone were to ask me what the

best part is about being a ghost, I’d say it’s

realizing that human beings actually do have in-

terests outside of themselves. People (live ones)

aren’t able to see what happened before the time

of their birth or understand what happens after

death. So their fascination with ghosts is, in my

opinion, interesting. It’s the best evidence of curiosity I

can think of.

My own venture into ghost-hood is quite the tale. I

won’t go into the grisly details of how I passed from one

world to the next – it wasn’t a

violent departure from the land of

the living, but aren’t all death stories rather grim? – but the

manner in which I realized I was still in the company of

humans was comical.

One day, I simply materialized in a brocade chair

at a party. Considering that the day before I’d been ly-

ing in my bed, feeling quite ill, I was surprised, as you

might imagine.

My, I thought to myself. As long as I’m here, I may as

well go for cocktail.

But when I got up out of the chair and approached the

well-dressed ladies and charming fellas (it was the 1940s,

when people had party manners), I noticed something

peculiar: no one was responding to me.

“Excuse me, but where is the wet bar?” I asked a guy

whose glass was brimming with bourbon and garnished

with a lemon wedge. He looked right through me – liter-

ally, as it turned out.

I wrote the man off as being rude and approached

another couple. They, too, refused to turn around. Dis-

gruntled, I reached out and tapped the woman lightly

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By Grace the Ghost

Editor’s note: We received this mysterious essay, signed by a character known as “Grace the Ghost,”

during the production of the September/October issue of Mount Pleasant Magazine. She claims to have

been watching managing editor Denise K. James during her research about East Cooper ghosts. Decide

for yourselves, readers, whether you think this is the real deal. We can’t say one way or the other.