Been listening to old Art Bell
Coast to Coast shows
on YouTube lately
the Ghost to Ghost ones

on those shows
I often hear Art Bell say
red eyes worry him

makes me wonder
if Art ever saw an entity
with malevolent red eyes
and freaked out
I know I’d be freaked out
if ever I saw a red-eyed entity

Art often had concerns that
maybe ghosts that appeared
in houses and other locations
said it’s sobering to consider

were trapped on the earth plane
forever

instead of moving on to
somewhere else in the afterlife

these ghosts he’s referring to
are not the residuals
imprints of a person who
died from a suicide, a murder
or a tragic accident
like a movie scene
playing over and over
the deceased not there
gone somewhere else

Art means the interactive
ghosts

a chilling in the air, sounds,
voices, touches, visions,
objects missing or moving
a ghost that seems trapped
in a particular location

it does make one wonder
why these entities appear
stuck in those locations
instead of moving on

are they too attached to
the earth plane or for
inexplicable reasons afraid
to move on?

Are they at those locations
occasionally but residing elsewhere
in the great beyond
most of the time?

I can understand why Art sees
their earthbound situations
as terrible plights

and ghosts seemingly
trapped in haunted locations
are one of the many
mysteries in this world
I cannot figure out

but right or wrong
I believe when I die
all those mysteries
will be revealed to me

and I just realized I was
writing about Art Bell
mostly in the present tense,
as if he were still living
instead of passed on

in spite of that, I feel
absolutely certain
that though Art Bell has
left this world
he is somewhere wonderful
and not a trapped ghost.

Bob Boyd