Soap Opera Digest
February 24, 2004
Crossing Over

So, let’s move on to OLTL’s Catherine Hickland (Lindsay), who has a stunning ghost story to tell. It happened back in the ‘80’s just after she split from David Hasselhoff and moved into a two-story home of her own in the San Fernando Valley. “I got the house at an unbelievable price and there was a good reason for that,” says Catherine, who quickly discovered that she was rooming with poltergeists. “I’d hear footsteps going up and down the stairs at night. I’d leave the house with all the doors closed and locked, and return to find them unlocked and open. It was incessant.

And then things got really weird. One day, an acquaintance of her mother’s showed up unexpectedly at Catherine’s door and asked to rent a room. “I didn’t know this guy – he owned the lab in Florida where my mom was a dental ceramist – but as we talked he started disparaging his own mother in this bitter, rageful way. I knew there was something really wrong with him.” So, apparently, did the poltergeists. When Catherine refused the man’s request, he got furious and left, only to keep returning over the next few days.

“He left a threatening note on my door, and the angrier he became, the weirder things got at home,” she says. “Winds would sweep through my house for no reason at all, winds so freezing cold I couldn’t remain there, so I went to stay with a friend. During the days I was away, the guy got on a plane, flew back to Florida, went to his mother’s apartment and murdered her while she was talking on the phone.” Adds Catherine after a long silence: “I really believe the spirits in my house saved my life by driving me away.” But is this possible? And doesn’t the concept of poltergeists – beings somehow stuck between heaven and Earth –suggest that there is a flaw in God’s plan? You’ll get John’s surprising response next month.