19)子供の頃に見た霊の思い出◆My memory of the spirit I saw when I was a child

10才位の時、部屋数がそれほどないアパートに住んでいて、畳の部屋に妹と二人で寝ていた。夜は比較的早く寝かされていたが、隣の部屋では母が時々TVを見ている音も小さく聞こえていたせいだろうか、結構妹と少し起きている事が多かった。

いつの頃からかは忘れたが、その隣の部屋とを仕切る障子に不思議な形の光がどこからか写るようになり、妹と私はその光に自分たちの指を使って影絵などを映して遊んだりしていた。

ところがある日、同じクラスの男子がある本を持って来て、その中にある写真が障子に写っている光とほとんど同じだったので、その夜以来怖くなってしまった。その本の題名は、「私は幽霊を見た」だった。

暫くしてから、母に自分たちの部屋による幽霊らしきものが出る事を話したが、母は信じてくれなかった。そこで、ほぼ毎晩のようにその光は現れるので、現れた時に部屋に入って見に来るように言った。夜，床に入り、いつものように部屋を暗くしたら障子にその光が写ったので、母に入るように言った。そうしたらびっくり！それまでは写っているところしか見なかったのだが、母が障子を開ける直前に、その光がパッと消えるのを見たのだ！

母が部屋に入り障子を閉めて部屋を再び暗い状態にした。先ほどの光は消えたのでその障子に写っていなかった。すぐ横に大きな窓があったので、そこから入って来る外の街灯の光なのでは、と母は言ったが、子供であっても、その角度は違う感じである事がわかるし、なぜわざわざ形がしっかりあるのかはわからなかった。母は暫く待っていたが、なかなか出て来ないので、「多分気のせいよ」と言って出て行った。

ところが又々ビックリ！何と、母が出て行ったらすぐに、その光は又パッと現れた。その光は実は、私たちと同じ位の背丈だった。そして母、つまり大人の前では現れないという事は、この幽霊は子供なのかな、と感じた。結局その霊は私たちに何かよくない事をするわけでもなく、ただ毎晩のように、暗くなるとそこに現れるだけだったので、確か暫くしたら、又前のように影絵をして遊んでいたと思う。

あれからもう何十年も経ったが、もう一つ不思議なのは、あれだけしょっちゅう現れていたのに、妹にこの間話したらその事はすっかり忘れていた事…。妹はその時は8才位、単純にまだ幼かったから忘れただけという事なのだろうか？

(この霊がどんな形であったか、英文のさらに下に参考の絵を入れておきます。マウスで描いたので上手ではありませんし、うろ覚えなので、だいたいの形です)

When I was about 10, we were living in a flat (apartment) where there wern't many rooms, and my younger sister and I were sleeping in the Japanese tatami room. Our mother put us to bed fairly early, and it could be because we could hear in a small volume our mother watching the TV in the room right next to ours, my sister and I often stayed awake for awhile.

I forgot from when, but a light coming from somewhere started to appear on the shoji door (Japanese paper door) dividing our room to the next, and my sister and I often played on that light making bunnies etc using our hands and fingers.

However, one day, a boy in my class at school brought a book, and one photo looked almost the same as the light which appeared in our bedroom shoji door, so I started to become very scared from that night. The title of that book was "I Saw A Ghost."

After a while, I told my mother that there was something which looked like a ghost appearing in our room, but she didn't believe my words. Since that light appeared almost everyday, I told her to come in and have a look when it appeared. That night, when we got to our bed and turned off the lights, that light appeared again on the shoji door, so I told my mother to enter our room. And what a surprise! I only saw that light always on the shoji, but it suddenly disappeared just before my mother opened the door!

My mother entered the room, closed the shoji door and made the room darker again. The light had disappeared so it was not to be seen on the shoji. Since there was a large window on the side, my mother said that the light may be coming in from the lamppost outside, but even as a child, I could tell that the angle of the light would be wrong and you couldn't explain why then this light on the shoji had a particular shape. My mother waited for awhile, but the "ghost" didn't seem to appear, so she left saying "it's probably just your imagination."

But again I had another big surprise! This light reappeard directly after my mother left the room! This light, apparently, was about the same height as us, and because it did not appear in front of my mother, in other words, an adult, it probably meant that this ghost was a child as well. Actually, this spirit didn't do anything bad on us, and it just appeared every night on the shoji door when the room was dark, so I think my sister and I started to play on that light making shadows with our hands and fingers again.

Several decades have passed since then, but another strange thing is that the spirit had been appearing on that shoji so many times, and yet my sister didn't remember about that when I mentioned about it the other day... My sister was about 8 at that time. Was it simply because she was too young to remember about that spirit light?

(Just to give you an idea, I have drawn the picture of this light we saw. Since I drew it with the mouse, and my memory is not that clear, it is just a rough shape of it.)

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19)子供の頃に見た霊の思い出◆My memory of the spirit I saw when I was a child