Teti has told me some pretty incredible stories over the past years that we have been married. I know that if you really believe in something it can be very real. I have always had a sense that there was something strange about this country since my first visit. The people there care nothing about leaving the country permanently. The country is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is almost as if the whole country is controlled by some force that keeps it together even in the worst of times. They are happy even in these extreme levels of poverty based on US standards. Teti is from one of the richer families. Her dad was leader and professor for Islam. She has always lived near to the city. But even in the city you have the influence of customs from the older times. Teti has told me of a snake goddess that lives in one of the caves along the beaches. She has also told me of people that look like humans but are really cat people. I guess the first real slap in my face on reality was a picture I took. On one of my earlier visits Teti took me to this place where there was a pool of crystal clear water. Legend has it that the fish that live in this water are not real. They are the ancestors of people that have died. She told me that sometimes the fish are not even there. This is strange since the pool was about the size of an average swimming pool with no exits that I could see. It is a natural pool of water. I remember that the water was also very cold. This is strange since, as you know Indonesia sits directly straddling the equator. It is said that people that have eaten the fish have died. I took a picture of the fish through the water. I did not see anything unusual about the fish at that time. I left Indonesia a week later and had the pictures developed in the Singapore airport. To my surprise the picture showed ghostly images on the top of the water. The images were white and had mouths full of teeth. They were shaped like fish. I have been back since and took pictures but saw nothing. Teti has another picture of an area that is supposedly the home of the snake goddess. Across the picture there is a burn mark in the shape of a snake. The most recent events have started to make me worry about how far reaching this power is. I went there in January for vacation. I had a wonderful time just lounging around and we went to the beach for a week. Before I came home her adopted brother, David took us out into the jungles to a school where they teach Islam. While we were sitting on the couch talking to the headman a cat came in. It was just a small sweet little cat. Teti told me later that the cat could assume the form of a lion in the night. We ate dinner and talked some more. After a little while David said he wanted to go into town to visit some friends. Two of the students came with us. It was along way out of the road of rock to the highway. I drove for maybe ten minutes. There across the road was a tree that had not been there when we came in. It was kind of strange since it seemed to be a strong green tree and there had been no wind. We got out and tried to move it. The students said we should go another way. I knew from the looks of the road we were on that I did not want to take the second choice way. I convinced one of the students that we could cut the tree. He produced this huge machete. After maybe fifteen minutes of chopping we were able to pass to one side of the tree. We went on into town without further incidence. On the drive back the students said I had to blow the horn before I crossed the bridges. This was to let the evil spirits know we were approaching. I got back to the house. We sat around and talked for sometime. One of the students brought in some kind of tropical fruit. I could not bear to eat it since it had ants crawling all over the fruits skin. I hate ants, unless they are fried. We were given a small room where Teti and I slept. In the middle of the night I awoke to pitch-blackness. I tried to turn on the lights in the room but they would not come on. I got up and looked out of the window. There was a balcony off the side of our room. I saw what looked like a pair of large yellow glowing eyes. It appeared to jump from the balcony to the ground. It then went back and forth on the ground below our window. I awakened Teti and she saw it also. By this time it had entered one of the smaller houses next to the house where we were sleeping. We could see it going back and forth through the windows. I never actually saw a body of any sort. I only saw the glowing eyes moving through the darkness. The next morning we asked the headman. He said that no one else had seen anything. He also said that the lights were never turned off at night.