I received this letter from Hannah N., a Vietnamese reader residing in Sydney, Australia, asking if it was safe to bring home a dresser she had bought recently.
“Yesterday I bought an antique dresser for my room. I transported it to an antique refurnishing store near my house to have it painted white. So I haven’t brought it home yet.
“This morning I did some research about antique furniture and found your article in the Inquirer titled, ‘Why antiques can be haunted.’
“I find it scary and don’t want anything to happen to my life just because I brought something into my house. Can you see something by just looking at its picture? I attached the photo in this e-mail.
“Two things made me suspicious when I moved it to the antique store. First, the screws I put in one of the drawers disappeared. Second, we found two used shoulder patches on the floor near one leg of the dresser. We didn’t know where the patches came from, so they were just thrown into the bin.”
Negative energy
After looking at the picture of the dresser and its chair, I replied to Hannah:
“I don’t sense any negative spirit or energy in the antique dresser you bought. I think it’s safe to put it in your room. But don’t place the mirror facing your bed. If there’s a mirror facing your bed and your body can be reflected in the mirror when you sleep, cover it at night, if you can’t reposition it.”
Hannah thanked me for replying to her inquiry and said she “now felt better to bring the dresser home,” including the chair.
Wrong impression
My previous article Hannah read may have given the wrong impression to some readers. Not all antiques are negative, only those whose background or history you do not know should be of any concern to you.
If you know where the antiques came from—for instance, if it is handed down from your grandparents or ancestors and was not subjected to any unknown rituals—then it is quite safe to bring home. Otherwise, better leave it alone.
Strange happenings
A former bold movie star during the Marcos era called me up one day because of some strange happenings in her apartment where she lived alone.
Whenever she woke up in the morning, she found her blouse unbuttoned, even if she was the only one who slept in the room. She also found it hard to sleep even if she went home late and tired from filming, and whenever she brought a male friend to sleep in her room, they would end up quarreling and separating. Often she woke up with hematoma all over her body, though she never felt anybody touch her at night.
I asked her when such manifestations began, and she said a year ago before she called me. So I asked her to recall what she
did a year ago—anything she brought home around that time?
Invisible force
She thought for a moment and then she said she had bought a 100-year-old antique dresser from an antiques store. She asked if I could come and take a look. So I did.
I, at once, felt something strange in her room, and asked her if she felt anything different there. She said no.
When I sat on the stool of the dresser, some invisible force pushed it toward the wall and I almost bumped my head. I told her whoever owned that dresser didn’t want anybody else to own it. I then advised her to remove it from her room and return it to the store.
A week later, she called me up again and told me there were no more manifestations in her room. I asked her what she did with the dresser, and she said she took it out of her house.
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