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The House Call

The house call

*A story from Germany

This is another supernatural story of a spirit. The plot is set in Germany and the major characters in the story are Dr. Emil Braun and a little girl.

On a Christmas evening, a small girl of six or seven appeared at the doctor’s door to make s house call. She told the doctor’s wife with courtesy that her mother was seriously sick and needed immediate medical treatment.

In spite of being tired and hungry the doctor made up his mind to visit her mother on the late evening. The little girl walked ahead to show the way and the doctor followed her. The doctor had a desire to approach the girl to ask a few quotations about her mother but the girl walked faster and kept herself away from the doctor. Finally, the girl led the doctor to an old tall tenement house. They stood at the top of the building and the girl pointed at the dark doorway where her mother had been. The doctor had no idea when she disappeared. At the first glance the doctor recognized the women. She was his former staff in the hospital of Berlin.

Dr. Braun gave her some medicine of pneumonia and conducted a short conversation with her. In his conversation the doctor talked about her daughter who had come to make an appointment and fetch him. But the doctor’s story about her daughter surprised the women. Then she explained to the doctor that her daughter passed away three months before. The women, in proof showed the doctor her daughter’s shawl and shoes which she had kept for her daughter’s long term memory. When the doctor observed them, they are wet. Then doctor took his bag, and stepped out into the dark hallway, and closed the door.

Supernatural explanation of the story:

Possibly, there can be two explanations of the girl who came to make the doctor’s appointment. One possibly is that it is less convincing because according to the girl the woman was her mother. The more convincing explanation is that the girl must have been the spirit of the sick women’s daughter because her shawl and shoes were wet.

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