Appeasement an angry apparition - Chinese Ghost Stories

This story I was told by my best friend, but it was happened a relative of his.

My friend’s relative was worried sick about his daughter. She had been crying non-stop for days, and he didn’t know what to do. It was then that someone suggested that he should seek the help of a psychic.

The next day, he set out to find the psychic. She lived in the next town over, but he was determined to get the answers he needed. When he arrived at her home, he was surprised to find that she was an elderly woman, dressed in traditional clothing and sitting cross-legged on the floor.

He explained his situation to her, and she listened carefully, nodding her head from time to time. When he finished, she closed her eyes and sat in silence for a few moments. Then, she opened her eyes and spoke.

“There is a spirit that haunts your home,” she said. “It is a restless spirit, and it is causing your daughter to cry. You must appease the spirit or it will continue to torment you and your family.”

The man was taken aback by her words. He had never believed in ghosts or spirits, but something about the way the psychic spoke made him believe that she was telling the truth.

“What can I do?” he asked.

“You must offer the spirit something of value,” she replied. “Something that will make it leave your home and your daughter alone.”

The man thought about this for a moment. He didn’t have much, but he knew he had to do something to help his daughter. Finally, he decided to offer the spirit his most prized possession – a gold watch that had been passed down through his family for generations.

He returned home and immediately set about preparing the offering. He placed the watch on a small altar in his daughter’s room and lit some incense. Then, he sat down and waited.

As the night wore on, he began to feel uneasy. The house was silent except for his daughter’s occasional cries. He wondered if he had made a mistake, if he had angered the spirit instead of appeasing it.

But then, something strange happened. He heard a faint whisper, like someone speaking in his ear. He turned around, but there was no one there. The whispering continued, growing louder and more insistent.

Suddenly, the room filled with a bright light. The man shielded his eyes and watched in amazement as the ghostly figure of a woman appeared before him. She was dressed in ancient clothing, and her face was contorted in a look of anger and pain.

The man trembled with fear as the spirit approached him. But then, he remembered the words of the psychic. He held out the gold watch and begged the spirit to take it as a peace offering.

To his surprise, the spirit stopped in front of him and looked at the watch. Then, she disappeared, leaving the room dark and silent once again.

The man breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t know if the spirit had truly been appeased, but he hoped that it had. And sure enough, the next morning, his daughter woke up happy and content for the first time in days. The crying had stopped, and the family was able to return to their normal routine.

Years later, the man would still tell the story of the haunted house and the ghostly apparition that had visited him in the middle of the night. He would always credit the psychic with helping him to understand the situation and find a way to appease the spirit.

And while he would never fully understand the mysterious workings of the supernatural world, he knew that it was important to respect and acknowledge its presence. For in doing so, he had been able to bring peace to his family and find a way to live in harmony with the spirits that surrounded him.