Bag of Bones: Chapter 22 (Pages 375-392)

Chapter 22 is mainly devoted to the town's growing dislike of Mike and Mattie. Terrible forces are at work in the town to hurt them or at least drive them away.
Mike awakens from his dream and doesn't know how to describe it. Visions? Time travel? He thinks someone is trying to send him a message, he just doesn't know what that message is supposed to be. Mike's psychic powers are developing too. He can tell when Mattie is going to call and what she's wearing, what her and Kyra are having for breakfast etc.
Mattie calls to tell him that she got her job back. Now that Devore is dead, the librarian doesn't fear his donations stopping. Mike thinks this is a ploy by the unseen spirit in the town to keep her on the TR. Mike is also getting closer to Kyra, Mattie's daughter and she says, "love you" to Mike on the phone. Mike is taken aback but responds in kind. The house wants Mike to help Mattie and says so with the magnets on the refrigerator.
Mike determines that he'll get to the bottom of what's going on in the town and drives to the florist where Kenny Auster's wife works (Mike has decided from the dreams that Kenny Auster is also trying to hurt Mattie). He can't find Kenny's wife and thinks that the whole town has a group unconscious that is trying to get at Kyra and her Mattie.
Next Mike heads to Bill Dean's house to confront him about what's going on. Bill no longer wants anything to do with Mike and tells him to leave town again. Mike says that he is just trying to help Mattie. Bill replies that he's just helping her so he can have sex with her. This weighs on Mike repeatedly after this and he wonders at times whether his motives are "pure."
Mike claims that the townspeople set the trap for Sara Tidwell's son and that's the big secret everyone has. Mike also claims that the town somehow killed his wife, even though she was in Derry, for digging up secrets about the town.
Mike next talks to his housekeeper, Brenda, for information about who Carla Dean was. Brenda tells him that Carla was Bill's twin sister who died in the 1930's from the fires Max Devore set when he left the town.
Mike comes up with the name Kito for the child who may have died in the lake or the one that got caught in the trap. I'm not sure the first time the name Kito cropped up in the book, I think it was one of the names that Mattie saw on her refrigerator. He notices that a lot of people whose names started with K or C have died and he knows that the spirits are planning to get Kyra next. Mike immediately thinks of leaving town, but knows now that Mattie has her job back she won't leave with him. As soon as the thought comes to him to leave the spirits in the house come alive and every noise-making device in the house comes on. The ghosts grab his hand and make him write HELP HER HELP HER. Mike is thus convinced he needs to stay.
Mike goes to get supper at the Village Cafe and gets an anonymous note telling him to leave town.
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The level of hostility and the forces at work are ratcheted up in this chapter. Now we enter the phase where it's almost entirely supernatural forces at work trying to hurt Mike and his people. He knows that right now things aren't strange enough to get Mattie to leave but he fears that it will be too late if they wait much longer. So we have the spirit in the house (we're not sure who's. It's Jo's mixed in with a few other spirits) trying to help Mike but the town itself and most of the townspeople in it (those whose families have been in the town since 1900 or so (the time of Sara Tidwell) are out to get them.